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The 2013-2014 Football Thread
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Is the ice lolly for Mascherano?
Lord Blackadder,
Evra; it also makes football sense - 2 years at a slower pace. Re footballers' other halves; the job is known, a player is lucky to play to 35, let them have their day - hopefully there is a long, happy life together after the end of the career.
Imagine Ozil if Giroud and Wilshere take the ball.
Cheers,
OW
The home shirt's not bad at all; much nicer than the recent Nikes. It's a shame the away shirt isn't to an identical pattern, and hopefully we won't have to resort to blue (ugh) too often.
I also hope that potential buyers of a 'player specification' shirt will be forced to undergo a body fat assessment first.
The Citeh kit is nice too, as it should be. It takes some effort to mess up that lovely sky blue.
The Big Ö, Pod, and soon-to-be Arsenal players Khedira and Boateng celebrating the arrival of Sanchez...
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Adios, Luis. You are a crazy man but gave us some spectacular goals. I feel relieved that the saga is over.
The money's right. Replacing him will be all but impossible, but that may not prove necessary if Rogers can improve the squad as a whole - maybe we'll end up with a better balanced squad.
Sterling and Sturridge will shoulder a greater burden now.
He banged in a few decent goals for Liverpool - then left and didn't do anything for the rest of his career...I hope for Suarez's sake that history doesn't repeat itself there...It would be for the cooling/numbing effect - if the report is true, ouch!
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Suarez - Liverpool high figure, Barcelona low; with add-ons/without add-ons? Likely GBP 65m in the end? Same Champions League group would be fun.
Cheers,
OW
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Suarez - Liverpool high figure, Barcelona low; with add-ons/without add-ons? Likely GBP 65m in the end? Same Champions League group would be fun.
Cheers,
OW
Sometimes these fees are never truly confirmed/explained, at least not to the public. All of the numbers being quoted, from £58m-£80m, represent a good profit for Liverpool though.
Lets hope the money is spent more wisely than Spurs did after selling Bale.
So much for the transfer ban on Barca (comical at this point)
Since Eto'o i fail to recollect any striker being notably successfull there. You're pushed out wide and forced to feed the ball to Messi.
If the fee was £70-£75m then LFC got their money's worth. Now will they spend it wisely or will they pull a Spurs or Dalglish.
But in the meantime, Ivanovic can now sleep at night.
Since Eto'o i fail to recollect any striker being notably successfull there. You're pushed out wide and forced to feed the ball to Messi.
If the fee was £70-£75m then LFC got their money's worth. Now will they spend it wisely or will they pull a Spurs or Dalglish.
But in the meantime, Ivanovic can now sleep at night.
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Giving nothing away as to whether they'll be wearing white or black shorts for the final, the sneaky beggers...
Have the kits been announced yet?
Looking back, in 1986 the West Germans played in a borrowed Irish kit, and in 1990 the Argentinians wore a French strip.
Whichever team gets to wear black shorts will win.
Looking back, in 1986 the West Germans played in a borrowed Irish kit, and in 1990 the Argentinians wore a French strip.
Whichever team gets to wear black shorts will win.
So...
UEFA find PSG 'guilty' of FFP violation, they respond by spending £50m on a player
FIFA impose a transfer ban on Barca, and in the same breath, put it 'on hold' freeing Barca to go and buy the 3rd most expensive player in football history, a midfielder and a keeper. With more also incoming.
Football's governing bodies never fail to deliver on the comically absurd.
But i'm not one to talk.
I think its a good deal for 'Pool. They needed to strengthen in various positions and now they have £70m to do it. They've also rid themselves of what was becoming perpetual embarrassment. The Cost:Benefit ratio of 'Pool having Suarez was starting to become questionable.
Meanwhile, LVG is moaning about something again.
UEFA find PSG 'guilty' of FFP violation, they respond by spending £50m on a player
FIFA impose a transfer ban on Barca, and in the same breath, put it 'on hold' freeing Barca to go and buy the 3rd most expensive player in football history, a midfielder and a keeper. With more also incoming.
Football's governing bodies never fail to deliver on the comically absurd.
But i'm not one to talk.
I think its a good deal for 'Pool. They needed to strengthen in various positions and now they have £70m to do it. They've also rid themselves of what was becoming perpetual embarrassment. The Cost:Benefit ratio of 'Pool having Suarez was starting to become questionable.
Meanwhile, LVG is moaning about something again.
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That's the picture I had in my mind.
He's making a point (or several points) where there is no point in what he says.
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gossip news:
in a ranking show in the 2nd German state television Beckenbauer got upped from rank 31 to 9. They manipulated the numbers (that were collected by a well-known agency that does election forecasts) to being able to better invite the guests to the show. (Beckenbauer was even more "unloved" than some politicians, the minister of finance under them, and a news presenters from trashy private tv channel.).
Intersting, that they think when people vote him number 31, that people want to see him on the show. (Huh, they seem to have forgotten the FIFA corruption stuff he was involved...)
As a newspresenter of that same channel said "idiots!" Right, he is.
in a ranking show in the 2nd German state television Beckenbauer got upped from rank 31 to 9. They manipulated the numbers (that were collected by a well-known agency that does election forecasts) to being able to better invite the guests to the show. (Beckenbauer was even more "unloved" than some politicians, the minister of finance under them, and a news presenters from trashy private tv channel.).
Intersting, that they think when people vote him number 31, that people want to see him on the show. (Huh, they seem to have forgotten the FIFA corruption stuff he was involved...)
As a newspresenter of that same channel said "idiots!" Right, he is.
My point being; He spent £105m If only 2 of those players turned out to not be flops then its still not a good record overall.
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