[Tiste Simeon]

caladanbrood+;333231 said:

Mmmm, ok

Don't get me wrong, it's possible he might stay, if United simply refuse to sell him, but he wants to go.

It was on the BBC website I think. If I can be bothered I will try and find it...

[Thelomen Toblerone]

caladanbrood;331524 said:

Fixtures just announced today! Spurs have got a rather nice start really... playing the likes of Boro... piece of piss;)

Yep, piece of piss it was indeed for Boro, 2-1, outplayed you, and had a perfectly legitimate goal ruled out too. And your goal, despite the £25m+ rated Berbatov and £16.5mil Bent, came not from you but from an own goal. Superb start.

[HoosierDaddy]

Hull? You lost to Hull? Oh good god. Down goes Fulham to the Championship.

[tiam]

Liverpool just got bullied by sunderland and won 1 nil.

Boo Ya

[caladanbrood]

Thelomen Toblerone;370402 said:

Yep, piece of piss it was indeed for Boro, 2-1, outplayed you, and had a perfectly legitimate goal ruled out too. And your goal, despite the £25m+ rated Berbatov and £16.5mil Bent, came not from you but from an own goal. Superb start.

In fairness, that was before we sold one of our strikers and have almost sold the other... I don't see where the goals are coming from now

[Thelomen Toblerone]

tiam;370425 said:

Liverpool just got bullied by sunderland and won 1 nil.

Boo Ya

An injury to Torres and Liverpool's season is finished. Him aside, Liverpool look short on ideas, and they're still too one-dimensional. Although to be fair, Babel spices things up, so when he's back fromt he Olympics they might come good. The Keane Torres partnership didnt look up to much, certainly not worth £45mil! That's nearly one and a half Shevchenkos.

As for Arsenal, if we keep more than 5 clean sheets this season I'll be amazed. Plus with Rosicky and Eduardo out til Xmas, Diaby out for a month, Cesc out for at least a week more, Toure not back to full fitness, Van Persie being as injury prone as your common Anderton, and Gallas being unreliable, any bad run of injuries could (once again) ruin our hopes for the season.

And this season my hopes are less anyway. It'll be a scrap for 3rd/4th at best for us this season, we're relying on Liverpool, Villa, Citeh, the Spuds, Evrton and Pompey all slipping up often, and everyone staying fit, which just never happens for us. A new signing is a MUST. Well, ideally 3 (CM, CB, GK), but it wont happen.

[Bhurnae]

caladanbrood;370460 said:

In fairness, that was before we sold one of our strikers and have almost sold the other... I don't see where the goals are coming from now

from the other teams..............................

[Fist Gamet]

On Liverpool, I did hear the interesting stat that when you add up all the cash Rafa has spent on strikers and divide it by the total number of PL goals they scored then each goal cost about £770,000!!!!

Villa for a top five finish! You heard it here first (unless someone else said it before me)

[Dancer+]

Me! Villa are class, especially with Barry who they should retain. I'm seriously considering Villa for a top four finish but only if they play well against the top teams. Villa in the top four would be fantastic.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

They'll displace Arsenal at this rate. MON's done a great job bringing in good players to fill positions he needed them for. The one thing that looks suspect to me is that their best CB cover is Davies, but he's no worse than Djourou so they're ok. 5th at worst this year, I concur.

[HoosierDaddy]

Who do y'all have going down? West Brom looks like they could stay, and I've heard things about Sunderland as well.

[tiam]

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An injury to Torres and Liverpool's season is finished. Him aside, Liverpool look short on ideas, and they're still too one-dimensional. Although to be fair, Babel spices things up, so when he's back fromt he Olympics they might come good. The Keane Torres partnership didnt look up to much, certainly not worth £45mil! That's nearly one and a half Shevchenkos.

Babel cuts inside far to much for a left sided right footed midfielder. Why we dont play Benayoun there and effectively use babel on the right i dont know,
As for the Torres injury theory youd actually be surprised how many results we can scrape out. I mean weve had crap strikers for years now. Now we have a 2 good tried and tested goal scorers.

Also after 60 minutes into a season its bit early to rule out a Torres- Keane connection. They got in each others way which was quite funny ( and of course mind numbingly frustrating) but come on even you Arsenal, we only have players that shave once a month, fans must admit it looks good on paper and Robbie Keane just needs confidence.

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On Liverpool, I did hear the interesting stat that when you add up all the cash Rafa has spent on strikers and divide it by the total number of PL goals they scored then each goal cost about £770,000!!!!

Yeh that makes sense. Dirk Kuyt cost 11 mil and although god loves a tryer he has no ball control, technical skill, pace, useful strength etc that a striker needs.

Edit

HD- I guarantee Sunderland will stay up. Unlik Tottenham and Arsenal theyve actually strengthened there squad

[Thelomen Toblerone]

I refuse to admit anything possibly good about Robbie Keane, at least until he redeems himself by scoring the winner against the scum.

And when we sign Alonso you'll see! You'll all see!!!

*shakes fist*

HD: Stoke DEFINITELY down, 85% Hull too, and then between West Brom, Fulham, Bolton and Sunderland, but most likely Fulham or WBA.

[HoosierDaddy]

Poor Fulham. They need McBride back. Now they only have 2 Americans. They'll never stay up at that rate.

[tiam]

Yeh i love the way Mcbride comes out in full padding and a helmet ' you said thered be footba... oh soccer right right right. Gee Wizz you British are crazy'

Also TT good luck on the Alonso deal. We want 10 mil atleast. Why by Alonso when you could buy, oh i dunno, 3 maybe even 4 injury prone kids.

Also why did you let flamini go for free. Hes atleast 10 mil

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Bosman. His contract expired and he didnt want to sign a new one. After we'd played him out of position, barely played him, and refused to offer him a new contract until that last year where he came good, he was pretty justified in moving and we all wish him well. Milan offered him silly wages we cant match too.

Alonso for £10mil's a bargain I say, and both sides should be happy at that, what with you lot desperate for money and us tighter than a scotsman.

[HoosierDaddy]

Brian McBride used his robotronic face as padding. Guy had steel all the way through it. There were few players who played as hard as McBride did, and that always brings out intangibles.

[caladanbrood]

He did have adamantium grafter to his skull, after all, Wolverine McBride.

[caladanbrood]

Bloody hell. Crazy football at the moment.

Not enjoying the scores really, either

[Bhurnae]

caladanbrood;373657 said:

Bloody hell. Crazy football at the moment.

Not enjoying the scores really, either

Stoke................:shocked: