Haha so lucky I bet everyone was going crazy. Let's see if he carries on this form, the early signs are really good.

Apparently there was a medical booked on Friday, and Tony Barrett says Alberto to have a medical by the end of the week.

Guess he could be our 3rd singing.

Another of my worries is that he could be "21"

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Is Bemba Da on here :D

Baines

Richards or Walker or Johnson

Higuain, jovetic, llorente and tevez would be an amazing strikeforce, I'd put them up there with bayern and barca for the CL next season with these 4.

I'd love it if he works in references during his uni exams

Still no text back


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Lool how can you mention zaha, welbeck and Alex oxlade chainberlain in the same sentence as neymar. You high?


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Be nice to give the Forest, Leicester and Derby fans here something to worry about

16 20 22 30 38 43.

So Jesus (Navas) has signed for Manchester City. I always thought God was a gooner myself, though Man City fans certainly have known about suffering followed by a resurrection.

Signed Balde. No idea how good he'll be, but he sounds eager. And £1.8m is a pretty decent fee if he turns out well.

the only stats that can really define players is the number of goals scored by a striker

Football over the last 5 years has generally been going downhill.
I'd say football peaked around 2003/2004, with the likes of Fat Ronaldo, Zidane, Figo, Raul, Henry in the
mix.
It's becoming more and more about money now, just look at Cashley Cole, Nasri and the fellow traitors.

With the under 20 world cup approaching In 12 days, I'm just wondering how far England will get
Just looking at the squad, I really don't see how England are going progress through the tournament and for times to come

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England..._football_team

Is there any hope, because for me personally, I see that squad getting trounced

In geography today we were discussing football... (dont ask why!!!) and then i suddenly thought of the olympics when they put the north korean flag up instead of the south korean flag i started laughing my head off!! One word.....NUKE's!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha anybody else remember is

Bolton were sponsored by a betting firm for years, how is that any different? I'm willing to bet (pun not intended) that a fair amount of people using such services are doing so because of gambling.

Betting is never profitable in the long term.

Exciting? What about the clubs who arent 'lucky' enough to be bankrolled by a billionaire? They have no hope of competing with Monaco, Chelsea etc no matter how well they are run, how many fans they have, how many class young players they develop, how tactically superior they are etc. So football becomes a game where the team with the richest owner wins. This is perverse and should offend anyone with a sense of fair-play.

Unless something changes, football is destined to decline as fans will simply lose interest watching this farce. ***** like Abramovic are sucking out what was beautiful about football and its in everyone's interest to put an end to there bull****.

Its not all about goals scored, Bales assists last season were poor for a midfielder. Even Suarez and RVP had assisted more.

Then there wouldn't even be a need for a thread :D

If you choose your own definition of a word then sure you can say whatever you want. If I choose to define world class as the single best in the world (the one who I would put into the world starting XI, then it's easy to say how there's only 1 or 2 world class strikers in the world. Alternatively if I choose a definition that encompasses all international players, I can say that even the worst are world class. Silly thread.

I'm hoping the fixtures will be kind so I'll be able to make the away trip to see your new ground. Is it nearly completed yet?

Once saw myself in the Ellerslie Road at QPR :ninja: Home end :$ Spurs were playing obv.

:D

You've gone to a lot of trouble to do this to your credit.

The last sentence of your first post is exactly what I was thinking when I got about halfway through the post so I'm glad you said it.

Falcao is a prick with no ambition.

Moving to a club that's average crowd's are less than Luton. Suppose just like PSG, Man City and Malaga, he's 'always dreamed of playing there'...

Why did Northampton release him? I swear he scored 15+ goals last season

How did the German sides do in the Europa League?

We had three teams in the quarter-finals.

And is it really that easy to just jib it at wembely??

That was a pretty decent england team

Yea I'd go with the 4-1-2-2-1 then.

Your DM will anchor against their AMC to nulify their attack and isolate their striker. Your 2x MCs should completely dominate their sole midfield player and their DM is now redundant since you have no one attacking that space.

You need good attacking wingers, whether you play with pacey wingers or with inside forwards.

That's a very strangely set up team. I'd go back to the very old fashioned formation of 3-2-2-3 with two defensive midfielders and two attacking midfielders (an inside right and an inside left). That gives you two on each wing that they have to get past and allows four in the middle to box off the narrow spine of the team and stop the ball being passed out wide. Then the right and left wingers provide the attacking threat as well as being the first line of defense if he tries to play the ball down the sides.

---------------GK-------------
------CB------CB-------CB---
-----------HB-----HB---------
--------IR-------------IL------
---OR---------CF----------OL-

^positional diagram.

When comparing him to other world class players like xavi and iniesta he falls short
of being world class

I think this table is proof that Liverpool will be challenging for 2nd next season.

I think what could work would be relegation play-offs. 17th and 18th playing a 2 legged tie to see who stays in the league. That could be epic.

James McCarthy at Wigan. Has had a great season and should be able to break into the starting XIs of most Premier League teams.