Football 2010-2011

[TheGayTent]

Why would Citeh want him anyway? He's not fit to lace Carlitos' boots - and that's before you consider his off the field antics.

[ampersand]

Why would Citeh want him anyway? He's not fit to lace Carlitos' boots - and that's before you consider his off the field antics.

[The Nal]

Utd and Arsenal are the only clubs in the prem with a wages/turnover ratio less than 50% (Utd on 46%, Arsenal 49.7%), but it's still £132m a year for us; think wages have precluded us from making serious investment when considering that Giggs was still on £80k a week or £4.1m per annum last year (and Scholes has to be on at least £60-70k).

[ralph250]

Why would Citeh want him anyway? He's not fit to lace Carlitos' boots - and that's before you consider his off the field antics.

[eFestivals]

It gets worse for Liverpool....

I've just read on Sky Sports Letters that Aqualani scored in yesterday's 4-0 win, and got man-of-the-match too.

For those who rather ridiculously say that Liverpool are always lucky, I guess they can say their luck has now run out completely.

[Steve P]

Mancini likely to want to offload Jo & Santa cruz, possibly Adebayor ...strike options of Tevez, Rooney and Balotelli would be pretty strong.

[Steve P]

It gets worse for Liverpool....

I've just read on Sky Sports Letters that Aqualani scored in yesterday's 4-0 win, and got man-of-the-match too.

For those who rather ridiculously say that Liverpool are always lucky, I guess they can say their luck has now run out completely.

[TheGayTent]

Also Tevez clearly has issues with Mancini and living in England in general (still no real effort to learn the language after 5 years).

[eFestivals]

Also Tevez clearly has issues with Mancini and living in England in general (still no real effort to learn the language after 5 years).

Adebayor has far bigger issues with Mancini.

After all, no player wants to know that his manager thinks he's shit.

[ralph250]

Never knew that. Finally Ralph, some detail in your posts!!

[The Nal]

One swallow doesn't make a summer.

[eFestivals]

One swallow doesn't make a summer.

Oh, I know.

But it is rather amusing that the one player who might have the finger pointed at him as the reason for why it's all gone wrong and who's been shipped out to any club that'd take him is doing the business for that club while Liverpool continue sliding.

[TheGayTent]

Man City's ratio is 107% or £133m on 09/10 results so probably before adding Yaya, Silva, Boeteng, Kolarov!

http://swissramble.blogspot.com/ (very good financial blog, does financial analysis on loads of European clubs).

I'd expect Chelseas to be a bit lower now that Ballack, Deco etc have moved on. Ballack was on about £120k.

[ralph250]

It gets worse for Liverpool....

I've just read on Sky Sports Letters that Aqualani scored in yesterday's 4-0 win, and got man-of-the-match too.

For those who rather ridiculously say that Liverpool are always lucky, I guess they can say their luck has now run out completely.

Edited October 18, 2010 by ralph250

[ampersand]

scrap that, ralph has answered

Edited October 18, 2010 by ampersand

[eFestivals]

i was wondering what the hell you were on about. where's he at?

Juve

[ralph250]

i was wondering what the hell you were on about. where's he at?

Edited October 18, 2010 by ralph250

[ralph250]

In regards to the reinvestment argument above, Scholes is the main one. Nani's pretty much replaced Giggs now, or at least a decent replacement. He's better on the right, but we're missing Valencia a fair bit at the moment in that pretty much only playing with one winger.

Needs to cut out the playacting but he's got 8 goals and 20 assists in his last 28 games, which is pretty bloody impressive.

Assists

1. Rooney vs Hull

2. Rooney vs Arsenal

3. Vanden Borre own goal vs Pompey

4. Giggs vs Villa

5. Rooney vs Milan

6. Rooney vs Fulham

7. Berbatov vs Bolton

8. Gibson vs Bolton

9. Rooney vs Bayern

10. Macheda vs Chelsea

11. won the second pen for Giggsy vs Spurs

12. Giggs vs Stoke

13. Berbatov vs Chelsea

14. Hangeland own goal vs Fulham

15. Berbatov vs West Ham

16. Fletch vs Everton

17. Vidic vs Everton

18. Berbatov vs Liverpool

19. Owen vs Bolton

20. West Brom, Freekick rebounded to Hernandez

Goals

1. The run and chip against Arsenal

2. Bayern heel flick

3. Bayern blaster

4. Spurs chip

5. Sunderland finish

6. West Ham rocket

7. Bolton run and finish

8. West Brom one-two with Berbatov

Edited October 18, 2010 by ralph250

[The Nal]

Needs to cut out the playacting but he's got 8 goals and 20 assists in his last 28 games, which is pretty bloody impressive.

[ralph250]

Impressive stats yeah, particularly on the assist. Compare that to Glen "Great going forward" Johnson with his 1 goal and 2 assists last season.

Yet again, Fergie has bags of cash because Nani cost 15m.

The playacting mind you, is a total disgrace and he deserves to be slapped like a bitch for it.

[The Nal]

Got to remember he's still only 22 and has had to recover from a broken leg and a cruciate already in his career. Pretty significant setbacks.

[eFestivals]

Strachan has quit.

[5co77ie]

Strachan has quit.

[ampersand]

Strachan has quit.

[ralph250]

Another thing regarding Rooney, Everton possibly get a cut aswell.

The England striker moved from Goodison Park to Old Trafford in the summer of 2004 for an initial fee of £20m but the terms of the deal include bonus payments of up to £7m. Some £23m has now been paid to the Merseyside club even though none of the clauses relating to the securing of honours has as yet been activated.

That could change in the next few weeks as United attempt to secure their first Premiership title since 2003 and meet Chelsea in the FA Cup final at Wembley next month. Those honours would earn Everton £500,000 and £150,000 respectively, with another £1m due should Sir Alex Ferguson's side edge beyond Milan in the Champions League semi-finals and go on to lift the trophy in Athens against either Liverpool or Chelsea on May 23. Should United lose in Greece, Everton would still benefit by £500,000.

The total could rise to £7m depending on events up until 2009.

Everton will receive £3m even if none of these events occurs provided Rooney, 21, remains registered with United until June 30 2007, and if United sell him Everton will receive 25% of any sum received by the Old Trafford club in excess of all amounts paid under this agreement

What Everton gets

Champions League

Winners £1m, runners-up £0.5m

Premiership

Winners £0.5m, runners-up £0.25m

FA Cup

Winners £0.15m

Contract extension

£1.5m

England

20 caps £0.5m; further 20 caps £0.5m

Payable until 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2007/apr/19/newsstory.sport