Yeah, I don't feel like we'll drop points to the so called 'lesser' sides like WBA, Sunderland or Manchester United.
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Football Thread 2013/14 |OT5| Levy to Woodward "You're nobody. Pass me the ball"
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Sturridge and Splenda injured. Moses looked like he'd rather be masturbating in a cloakroom. The wrath of Hodgson incurred.
The only way is down, Arnold. Prepare for it.
Sleeplessnights
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That was, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most creatively bankrupt performances I have ever seen United put it, no game has more emphasised a need for creating talent to be brought in. Unfortunately the people in charge of bring in our talent are amateurs. Giggs is a player coach and if he was solely a coach and was coaching himself under another name I cannot imagine he would be happy playing him, Cleverly can only pass sideways, Jones offers no threat going forward and is easily run out by pacier players, Wellbeck has so few natural instincts to shoot and Young, no words.
And no players coming in :
And no players coming in :
United were just as creative as Liverpool were in that game and yep Liverpool fans are a good source of humourAh I guess you have to find humour somewhere after losing without looking remotely likely to get anything out of the game
Great hyperbolic article, good read.
This has just reminded me of the "Hodgson incident" again :lol
Laughable that it's even considered worthy of committing words to paper on a day where there were two derbies in the league and less than 2 days left in the transfer window.
You could be the most creative side on the planet but you didn't win.United were just as creative as Liverpool were in that game and yep Liverpool fans are a good source of humour
Creative losing, is that what you prefer now? How times have changed, the United I remember wanted to win things.Milchmonster
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Agreed with the price. It's clear that Arsenal isn't able to sign the top top talents in Europe in the last few years. Wenger wanted Götze really bad, so I guess he went in with all he had on Özil. Way too much, though, someone at Madrid is laughing his ass off while paying twice as much for Bale :lol
Nah, Liverpool - Arsenal fights are much better. Ours is mostly concerned with 'United are better than Liverpool' and 'not too long until Liverpool are better than United'.
Arsepool arguments revolve around which team is shitter, and its hilarious.
Sleeplessnights
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It's cos both sides have the thickest of skins, not like those twitchy Madrid fans. Once you make fun of their club they get banned.
Can't believe RVP missed that chance in the last few minutes ;_;
I read the Guardian article and didn't even understand what he was pissed off about. He was refused in because he didn't have the right ticket, so he went to sit in the spot that all England managers sit in and moaned about it?
Fucking berk. God I hope we get tonked in Kiev and it ushers in a golden age of Welbeck clones.
Seems like you're getting Viviano so I'd rule Cesar out.
My hopes:
In
Herrera
Fellaini
Di Maria
Out
Young
Giggs
both to a slaughterhouse would be nice
My predictions:
In
Fellaini
Out
my soul
I read the Guardian article and didn't even understand what he was pissed off about. He was refused in because he didn't have the right ticket, so he went to sit in the spot that all England managers sit in and moaned about it?
Fucking berk. God I hope we get tonked in Kiev and it ushers in a golden age of Welbeck clones.
Seems like you're getting Viviano so I'd rule Cesar out.
My hopes:
In
Herrera
Fellaini
Di Maria
Out
Young
Giggs
both to a slaughterhouse would be nice
My predictions:
In
Fellaini
Out
my soul
Milchmonster
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2 years ago, that rumored fee would have been absolutely justifiable for Özil. But at this point, it doesn't look like he can improve on his inconsistency. And thus, he's not in the same league as Hazard, Götze (lol), etc anymore, to me at least.
I wouldn't care if we turned in 38 of the shittest performances I've seen over 90 minutes if we won every game. The result is all that matters, yes winning by a few goals or with attractive football is preferable but the table is based on points from results and those are what counts.
The difference is last season we'd have thrown away these leads and let teams back into the game, so far this season we haven't done that, and that's fine by me.
EPL fans in general trolling each other is fun to watch for neutrals. I can sympathize with most of your clubs tbh.
Poor Plug
Serie A's where its at now bro.
To be honest, a fair few of the games I've watched have had some quality passages of play but I think the level of defending's raised a tad and the quality of a lot of the mid table sides have all improved so their games become stalemates. Players like Lovren and Bassong were very good yesterday, the four centre backs in the Liverpool - United game were pretty faultless, its only Garcia and Lescott (and the newcastle back four opening day lol) that have been utterly embarrassed so far.
Like a lot of us say though we don't have the best quality, but we're generally the most entertaining. This week was an anomaly #believe.
Serie A tho trust. It's gonna be great this year
MrPing1000
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We're utterly fucked if Carrick gets injured.
Ozil, Di Maria, Ba (or Hernandez, just a fucking striker please) and a CB. Really would like to see Ginter come in or someone like Kurt Zouma. Young CB who can do us good but doesn't need to play every game. Really think we'll be fucked if we don't. We have terrible luck keeping our defense fit.
I can see:
* Arsenal going loco, making a few big bids and bringing in two or three 8-10m players that improve the squad
* United doing nothing until half 8 at night when Fellaini's confirmed
* Newcastle bringing in an eleven year old French left back
* West Ham bringing in an aging eastern European striker
* Sunderland signing thirteen impoverished youths to provide cover for Colback
no they arent they support man shitty lol xoxo
* Arsenal going loco, making a few big bids and bringing in two or three 8-10m players that improve the squad
* United doing nothing until half 8 at night when Fellaini's confirmed
* Newcastle bringing in an eleven year old French left back
* West Ham bringing in an aging eastern European striker
* Sunderland signing thirteen impoverished youths to provide cover for Colback
no they arent they support man shitty lol xoxo
Say what you like about Liverpool fans, they had that clown pegged.
More Gerrard loveliness:
I'm dreading Vermaelen becoming fit because then we'll have to play him sometimes. Sagna as a makeshift CB frightens me.
ringwaldhaze
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Real Madrid are pretty low on clubs I like to watch so I don't see much of Ozil. I've read some incredible statistics (something like 81 assists in 151 appearances for Madrid) which will likely be lowered since he'll be playing it into Walcott and not Ronaldo now.
I'm a bit of an Wenger-apologist and it wouldn't surprise me to see him reach his peak over the next years before another big move when he's 27/28. The market by this point will no doubt be even more messed up. If it was up to me, I'd prefer to see the money spent on Draxler who could play on the left while Cazorla continues to play down the middle.
More Gerrard loveliness:
So fucking good. He's been immense defensively.
FootballFan
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Serie A is awesome but even that is also a 1 horse race, don't know if race is the right word since you can't race yourself but you get what I mean.
Something crazy would have to happen for one of the other teams to win.
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Still doesn't change the fact that there are many many entertaining matches.
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I love those. Emanuelson used to these kind of slidings for us back in the day.
Harry_Tequila
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#MoyesOut
Draxler has turned down City and Madrid. You'd be wasting your time if you bid for him.
No, I search for replies since GAF got rid of that feature. You guys just happen to trigger it
Oh yeah I agree, but there's a good quality of teams around in it. Fiorentina, Milan, Napoli and Roma are almost always worth watching. Inter will be stronger this year, Lazio and Udinese are always about as well.
I think in the PL you get the 6 teams that are considered the best ones but then you have Swansea, Everton, Southampton; teams that are pretty good to watch also.
All the leagues have around 8-10 teams worth watching on a consistent basis really; personally I prefer PL and Serie A, but even so La Liga has the big two, Atleti, Bilbao, Sociedad, Valencia, Sevilla, Malaga. And Bundes has Bayern, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Hannover, Schalke, Hamburg who are always good for a laugh...
All the leagues are simultaneously under and overrated.
Sleeplessnights
Banned
I love me some dc, but just because I don't like City doesn't mean I hate the duders.
I'd totally drink Orange juice with them.
Yeah, but I just feel bad for hating their club. It's easier to trash talk if the City fans were shit posters
FootballFan
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You missed my edit! But I agree with everything you said, you just forgot Stuttgart, you won't forget them when Marco 'Kiwi Messi' Rojas is back from his injury.
Sleeplessnights
Banned
Hnnng, fuck me sideways.
I thought that was a PS Home picture.
Cazorla can play out wide. We need him.
FootballFan
Member
It...isn't??
Sleeplessnights
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Yeah, but I just feel bad for hating their club. It's easier to trash talk if the City fans were shit posters
I just try to make it about the players and less about the fans.
I get what you mean though, if I say some shit talk about Barca I'd be a but worried if you, FF or Messi get annoyed or take it personally.
ringwaldhaze
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It's more of a dream signing than anything. After Klopp, Draxler would be my most wanted German at the club.
The original Twitter rumours today were actually a £40m bid for Draxler, with some quotes from him about if Schalke wanted to sell him he'd be prepared to leave.
I think he's vastly better in the middle, though. Similarly, I prefer seeing Wilshire playing deeper/as more of a box-to-box player than a no. 10 like everyone seems to want.
Sleeplessnights
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That's Olivia [Slim] Wilde. She really needs to eat.
I'm talking about why the result happened, not what the result is. See you at the end of the season when United have either won the league or at least come close whilst Liverpool fail miserably to even make the top 4 again.You could be the most creative side on the planet but you didn't win.
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