ringwaldhaze
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Football Thread 2013/2014 |OT1| Moyes, Master of Muppets
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Fergie factor vs. Mancini disaster.
Bid for Baines rejected, in any case, Evra is staying.
Long pursuit of Thiago (in the same team as Fabregas) gatecrashed by Bayern.
Bid for Fabregas rejected, in any case, Vilanova says he wants to stay.
Rumours for months have linked us with a CB we don't need who is represented by an extremely dodgy agent.
PL rivals are getting business done.
What on earth is going on? Fergie might have been able to get away with keeping the club winning on a reduced budget, but it's not just the Glazers crippling and siphoning money out of the club any more, but it's the bizarre and reckless transfer policy (even under Fergie). Three bids for three different players made public and rejected in as many weeks. Good grief.
Moyes needs to chill and the club really needs to wise the fuck up regarding transfers and cunty agents, which should have already happened after last summer.
I suppose the one good thing out of this is the realisation from the manager that we desperately need to strengthen our midfield. One or two decent signings is all it takes and we will be in prime position for the PL and going deeper in the CL than the previous few years.
If there truly is no transfer budget, Dave, and you want to significantly strengthen our midfield with a young, proven playmaker, then throw £40m at Dortmund for Gundogan and see where that gets us, don't be low-balling Barcelona for two of their midfielders, and Everton for a LB which we don't even need. Jesus...
Long pursuit of Thiago (in the same team as Fabregas) gatecrashed by Bayern.
Bid for Fabregas rejected, in any case, Vilanova says he wants to stay.
Rumours for months have linked us with a CB we don't need who is represented by an extremely dodgy agent.
PL rivals are getting business done.
What on earth is going on? Fergie might have been able to get away with keeping the club winning on a reduced budget, but it's not just the Glazers crippling and siphoning money out of the club any more, but it's the bizarre and reckless transfer policy (even under Fergie). Three bids for three different players made public and rejected in as many weeks. Good grief.
Moyes needs to chill and the club really needs to wise the fuck up regarding transfers and cunty agents, which should have already happened after last summer.
I suppose the one good thing out of this is the realisation from the manager that we desperately need to strengthen our midfield. One or two decent signings is all it takes and we will be in prime position for the PL and going deeper in the CL than the previous few years.
If there truly is no transfer budget, Dave, and you want to significantly strengthen our midfield with a young, proven playmaker, then throw £40m at Dortmund for Gundogan and see where that gets us, don't be low-balling Barcelona for two of their midfielders, and Everton for a LB which we don't even need. Jesus...
Vivalaraza
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Ok lads, top 3 favourite players ever for your club. Go!
Mine:
Christophe Dugarry. Voted our greatest ever player after only one and a half seasons. Tells you everything :lol But he really was our most technical player in a team full of shit cloggers
Stan Lazaridis. Stan the man! Not the most gifted player, but he was quick as fuck and worked his ass off. Apparently he does crack now, idk
Geoff Horsfield. Feed the horse and he will score. He was slow, couldn't dribble, couldn't pass, couldn't beat a man. Typical English player, but he scored some really important goals for us and he always turned up for the Villa games. I met him too when he wasn't pissed
Mine:
Christophe Dugarry. Voted our greatest ever player after only one and a half seasons. Tells you everything :lol But he really was our most technical player in a team full of shit cloggers
Stan Lazaridis. Stan the man! Not the most gifted player, but he was quick as fuck and worked his ass off. Apparently he does crack now, idk
Geoff Horsfield. Feed the horse and he will score. He was slow, couldn't dribble, couldn't pass, couldn't beat a man. Typical English player, but he scored some really important goals for us and he always turned up for the Villa games. I met him too when he wasn't pissed
Broder Salsa
Banned
Well Zenden is still at the club for whatever reason I think, but doesn't seem like he's part of the plans. So not really.
No real indication of that. He left Porto and Inter at the highest possible points and his departure from Chelsea was down to off the field bullshit, Chelsea remained a top team with the same spine until 2010. Madrid is the only club he managed where that happened, one season isn;t enough to draw conclusions.
fadetoblack
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Sleeplessnights
Banned
1. Igor Gluscevic
A static striker but man could he score !
Also one of the most sympathetic guys at the club ever.
2. Jean-Paul de Jong
Mr FC Utrecht, played 370 matches for the club.
Wasn't the most talented player but in EVERY game he gave 110%, also got 83 yellow cards in his entire careed which iirc is still a record in The Netherlands.
3. Johan de Kock
Probably the best defender we ever had while we bought him as a striker...
He was also so fast that if he made a mistake and got outplayed he was fast enough to get to the attacker a second time.
brokenbeans
Banned
So Cesc doesn't wanna leave.
Well that was a waste of time.
Next...
Well that was a waste of time.
Next...
Me too
From the Juve official site:
"One of the protagonists of the last two Serie A titles left Juventus. Emanuele Giaccherini has been sold outright to the British of Sunderland, against a consideration of 7.5 million payable in three years."
So £6.5m. Canny price too!
All the cunts on twitter I was arguing with saying we won't get him, can now piss off.
hahaha.
How many games do we have left?
I was completely baffled by these rumours. Cesc went to Barca a couple of years ago to be a long term replacement for Xavi and to win trophies.
Xavi is now visibly on the wane and Barca's midfield options are looking a bit shallower...so Cesc to United? Wut?
The Champions League will be crazy this year. CRAAAAZY!
Joel Was Right
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Was this posted yet?
A Vietnamese fan keeps chasing the Arsenal coach with the players cheering him on, chanting "sign him up, sign him up". Eventually, the coach stops and they invite him on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7xK_5CpPLhw
A Vietnamese fan keeps chasing the Arsenal coach with the players cheering him on, chanting "sign him up, sign him up". Eventually, the coach stops and they invite him on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7xK_5CpPLhw
Lambda Pie
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i want City and PSV on Benfica's group. easy 12 points.
that's how they sign all their players.
fadetoblack
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Me too
From the Juve official site:
"One of the protagonists of the last two Serie A titles left Juventus. Emanuele Giaccherini has been sold outright to the British of Sunderland, against a consideration of 7.5 million payable in three years."
So £6.5m. Canny price too!
LOL three years. Marry being Marry even in a sale.
Wouldn't say we did amazing on the sale, but its a reasonable price for the player and we can probably use it for an upgrade. Where is he going to play in your system?
Hoping Kolarov. Apparently Pelligrini wants him as a backup to Clichy, but doesn't sound like that's what Kolarov wants.
LabouredSubterfuge
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City and Spurs may be in for Benfica's Salvio according to A Bola.
Maybe the time measurement doesn't follow the same standards so compairisons might be biased but this is impressive nonetheless:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPY1GFFMZ4
Aubameyang covers the 30 m distance 0.08 seconds faster than Bolt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPY1GFFMZ4
Aubameyang covers the 30 m distance 0.08 seconds faster than Bolt.
Likely on the wing, which isn't ideal for him. :/
Me and Yurt have analized our options, fade. We've come to the scientific conclusion that Zuniga is way better than Kolarov.
Vivalaraza
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Looks so hot.
Might buy that shirt.
Freewheelin'
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1:
Thierry Henry
Don't think I've seen a better striker since he left for Barcelona. Absolute genius and possibly my favourite player ever. Changed the way I view football.
2:
Patrick Vieira
Absolute beast of a midfielder, inspirational captain and all-round nice guy too. Would love him to come back to Arsenal one day.
My next one is a tie :lol
Robert Pires
Lovely, lovely player to watch galloping down the wings. Clever, direct and always up for a goal! Dat goal against Liverpool hnnnngh
Dennis Bergkamp
Another genius. What more can be said about this legend?
Thierry Henry
Don't think I've seen a better striker since he left for Barcelona. Absolute genius and possibly my favourite player ever. Changed the way I view football.
2:
Patrick Vieira
Absolute beast of a midfielder, inspirational captain and all-round nice guy too. Would love him to come back to Arsenal one day.
My next one is a tie :lol
Robert Pires
Lovely, lovely player to watch galloping down the wings. Clever, direct and always up for a goal! Dat goal against Liverpool hnnnngh
Dennis Bergkamp
Another genius. What more can be said about this legend?
I really hope your wrong since the story is where I'm putting my hopes on. Gameplay so far is nothing to write home about, though I'm only 3 hours in.
He should stay at Newcastle for the rest of his life, picking up paychecks when he's 91 and only playing twice a season against Sunderland.
fadetoblack
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3 favourite players? Easy.
Freewheelin'
Member
Is that Jesus, fade? :lol
that they were all scared shitless of Roy Keane
It looks like he glides. :lol
Broder Salsa
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Yes Martin Keown was a great player.
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