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Football Thread |OT10| A Street Ass Named Premier

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Yen

Member
RVP totally goes for Williams' junk when he gets up.
On an unrelated note, my autocorrect suggested "RVP tosser" instead of "RVP totally". Very apt.
 
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Timurid

Member
Empty said:
no-one outside the club is putting pressure on the team for two dropped points and a closer race, they're all talking about the stupid comment. he knows exactly what's he's doing.
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lol the old man is a clown for making a comment like that.
 
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dc89

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Just writing my gf's Christmas card. I notice it has no envelope in the sealed cellophane packet it came in...

So I wrapped it up! xD
 
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Linius

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I'm hoping for a good deal on the 28th with The Walking Dead Game on XBLA. I'd lick to pick it up :D

Also, I'm almost eight hours in to Red Dead Demption and scored four achievements so far. Rockstar being cheap with achievements :p
 
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Milchmonster

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Bild says Wolfsburg wants to buy Perisic for 7m in January.

I wouldn't mind, actually. That's more than we paid for him and it might be the time to say he's a good player but it didn't work at Dortmund. We could offer Bittencourt/Hofmann a chance to break through until summer and if that doesn't work, we might look around for a new winger. Still a bit risky if Reus, Götze or Kuba get injured but on the other side, Perisic didn't really offer much, anyway.

Also, last year I wanted Reus at BVB for Christmas and it worked extremely well. I should use that power to get Messi sign for us :D
 
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Wilbur

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Back on my own account. Swear on my life this computer is fucking peak, no idea why it keeps doing that.

Anyway, typical Guardian hyperbole and lols. Wooden will be happy with this though:

If Michael Laudrup carries on like this, he will find himself among the candidates for Sir Alex Ferguson's job. Since his arrival in English football during the summer the 48-year-old Dane has hardly put a foot wrong and on Sunday his team deservedly held the league leaders to a draw in a match full of incident and excitement.

Laudrup had been informed that last season, as newcomers to the top flight, Swansea showed too much respect when Manchester United arrived at the Liberty Stadium and left with a 1-0 win. There was no such danger this time, when the home team took on Ferguson's side as equals. Despite spending the best years of his playing career in Serie A and La Liga, Laudrup has taken to the Premier League with ease. His linguistic fluency must surely be a help, and perhaps the Danish and English football temperaments are not so far apart. Or maybe Brendan Rodgers, his predecessor, bequeathed him the essentials of a team who play the sort of thoughtful, intelligent football that would attract any coach with progressive ideas.

But, as we saw in Sunday's pulsating contest, Laudrup not only grasped the salient points of Rodgers's blueprint but made significant improvements to it, his additions to the squad demonstrating a wonderfully keen eye for quality at bargain prices. Michu at one end and Chico Flores at the other were outstanding as Swansea went toe-to-toe with United, while Jonathan de Guzmán looked a cut above every other midfield player on the pitch. Michu and Flores costa mere £2m apiece, while De Guzmán is on a season's loan from Villarreal.

Laudrup prepared for the match by making good choices and sending the team out full of self-belief and enthusiasm. Even in the opening 20 minutes, when United held the initiative and enjoyed a near-monopoly of possession before taking the lead, Swansea found a way to create discomfort among their opponents' rearguard. Whenever Agustien directed a long diagonal pass into the path of Michu, this was anything but a mindless Route One approach. It was a carefully calculated and perfectly legitimate tactic executed by a team that normally specialises in a short-passing game – and one that, when executed with co-ordination, good timing and panache, is as attractive as any amount of tiki-taka. It might have given the home side the lead in the ninth minute had Michu not slashed a left-footed shot wide after using his pace to embarrass Vidic.

All this spoke extremely well for Laudrup. But then why would a man whose playing career encompassed 60 league appearances for Lazio, 102 for Juventus, 167 for Barcelona and 62 for Real Madrid, as well as 104 caps for his country, be remotely overawed by the Premier League? He has triumphed over pressure at the highest levels of the game but clearly does not feel that his reputation confers an automatic entitlement in his new role. It may turn to be a blessing for him that his managerial apprenticeship has not been without its setbacks. He knows his own mind and appears to have found, in Swansea City, a club whose ambitions match those he has for himself at this stage of his career.

After only four and a half months in English football he has many trials to face. No one, however, could fail to be impressed by the way he has met the early challenges or to see in Swansea's ability to reverse United's apparently irresistible first-half momentum anything other than the influence of a man who knows what he is about.
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Broder Salsa

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Wilbury said:
Back on my own account. Swear on my life this computer is fucking peak, no idea why it keeps doing that.

Anyway, typical Guardian hyperbole and lols. Wooden will be happy with this though:
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Meh, I liked him as a player but as a manager he's kind of shit. Always starts out well like this, just for him to after a years time have completely alienated his team who starts putting in shittier and shittier performances because they don't like him.
 
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Gareth Bale

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Laudrup was manager of Getafe when I was at the Lane and they beat us (and Martin Jol got sacked during the game). They played some very good stuff that night. He's one of the only great footballers I can think of that has gone on to be a good manager (apart from Cruyff).

Edit: yes Guardiola was good but nowhere near their level.
 
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Wilbur

Banned
Gareth Bale said:
Laudrup was manager of Getafe when I was at the Lane and they beat us (and Martin Jol got sacked during the game). They played some very good stuff that night. He's one of the only good footballers I can think of that has gone on to be a good manager.
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Give dc some time
 
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Tc91

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Had my Juve shirt on today after the glorious Cunte-time victory. Reppin Marchisio.

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Intermerda.

Am I doing it right Juve gaf?
 
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dc89

Member
Kyoufu said:
Hopefully Krul punches RVP in the face on boxing day.
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I can't condone violence but... yeah me too.

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90 - Matija Nastasic has played 90 minutes in 6 of the 7 Premier League games in which #MCFC have kept a clean sheet this season. Solid.
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18 - No MCFC player has made more successful headed clearances than Matija Nastasic (18) this season in the Premier League. Settled.
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From OptaCity. Yup, Nastasic is quality for a 19 year old. That's the future.
 
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dc89

Member
Wilbury said:
If only you hadn't bought Jo a few years ago, you would have had the extra £18m to spend on van Persie. Instead, you spent £6m on Sinclair.
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You have so much to thank #basedMarwood for. But at the same time, so many reasons to hate him.

Scum said:
van Persie at Man City? D:
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If only.

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I want some new boots. I don't know if I can pull off the nawty pink on these bad boys.

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Or I could pull a Dzeko and go all out.

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