Football 2010-2011

[sifi]

None of them are fit to lace Peter Butler's boots.

[funkymp]

by the sounds of it - neymar to chelsea is happening this makes me happy.

Edited August 12, 2010 by funkymp

[Steve P]

Alonso was a huge loss for them, granted.

But he scored barely any goals, and Lucas who was used mostly as his replacement was clearly being mis-used in some way by Rafa most of the time, because on occasions he showed himself to be an awful lot better than how he mostly played.

But with Cole in squad now, Gerrard is likely to slot back into one of the central midfield roles (with Lucas as his backup I'd guess), which is supposedly where Gerrard prefers to play. So it should be as good a team as with Alonso, providing Cole can make an impact at the front comparable to Gerrard's.

[Steve P]

Dear f#cking god let this be bullcrap

LINK

[The Nal]

Dear f#cking god let this be bullcrap

LINK

[pink_triangle]

Cant believe all the hype about capello dumping beckham. Listening to some media people you would think he was one of the greatest england internationals of all time. In my opinion he was never more than average in an international tournament and generally worse. When you look past the hype he is nowhere near the class of scholes and giggs from the same generation. He is loved by the media which means every good thing he has done for england ove rrecent years has been greatky exagerated. I dont see what beckham has to offer england now other than schmoozing influential people. He was extremely greedy in going to MLS and only has himself to blame that his career has been going downhill in recent years. To be fair to him he obviously has chosen good advisors who have made him very rich.

[Cardboard Box City]

Dear f#cking god let this be bullcrap

LINK

[RABun]

[Steve P]

Get yourself in there lad.

I dont mind holding up my end of deal - I'll drive him to either Liverpool or London.

A rather cynical point that has been raised a few times locally is that Jones actually counts as a homegrown player given how long he has been in country for.

Edited August 13, 2010 by Steve P

[oafc0000]

[Cardboard Box City]

The homegrown thing isn't a problem for us anyway so that won't be the reason we'd be going for him. Can't see how on earth he's an improvement on Almunia. STill hoping it's all just paper talk. That said if we really want to win the league then we've go tto sign a new keeper from somewhere.

[TheGayTent]

I heard Arsenal had an interest in the great at howlers Mark Schwarzer

[Cardboard Box City]

The ones I can remember in 11 years are in the single figures.

Edited August 13, 2010 by Cardboard Box City

[Steve P]

I heard Arsenal had an interest in the great Mark Schwarzer

[TheGayTent]

The ones I can remember in 11 years are in the single fingers.

[Cardboard Box City]

Glasses must be covered in smog...he's renowned for his howlers - not least the one he got away with in your cup final.

[TheGayTent]

He also made at least 4 top class saves after that that won us the game

[Steve P]

That's not the point though is it. The point is he fairly regularly makes blunders like that. Not so bad when you're playing the bolton's of this world and can score a couple - when you do it against the better teams, a blunder is going to cost you at least a point and more often than not all three. Like his blunder against Man Utd last season (or was it the season before?).

[TheGayTent]

How is that glass house by the way?

[ampersand]

Let's be honest, there's at least 10 better keepers in the PL than Schwarzer, so why is a club that wants to be Champions and at very minimum stay in the top 4, doing going after one of the weaker keepers?

[Cardboard Box City]

there's at least 10 better keepers in the PL than Schwarzer

[ampersand]

Name them.

[The Nal]

edwin van der sar

peter cech

brad friedel

tim howard

pepe reina

shay given

thomas sorensen

craig gordon

hilario gomes

carlo cudicini

[pink_triangle]

edwin van der sar

peter cech

brad friedel

tim howard

pepe reina

shay given

thomas sorensen

craig gordon

hilario gomes

carlo cudicini

[TheGayTent]

Name them.