Author Topic: Official FOOTBALL Thread (Read 302807 times)

18seconds · « **Reply #220 on:** August 09, 2006, 06:21:00 PM »

I don't think it will be too long. The other teams are playing catch up but money can only buy you so much. Eventually they will catch them - not this season and probably not the next. I don't have my crystal ball on me but I don't expect to see Chel$ki dominate as they have done in the 2008/09 season.

Tuffty · « **Reply #221 on:** August 10, 2006, 12:05:48 PM »

lol I'm sure Ashley Cole isn't too pleased. Chelsea have given up going after him and the Arsenal chairman has stated that he'll never play in the club again, and with 2 years still left on his contract, he may be twiddling his thumbs for some time. Just as well, I don't like him anyway

18seconds · « **Reply #222 on:** August 10, 2006, 07:51:32 PM »

That's what he deserves for putting money before loyalty in my opinion.

Manchester City (my team) keeper David James is looking for a move to Portsmouth because he's got a girlfriend down there.. leaves us a bit stuck. If he does go soon I can see us having a keeper crisis throughout the season.

Ruffy · « **Reply #223 on:** August 10, 2006, 11:21:32 PM »

Quote from: 18seconds

Manchester City (my team) keeper David James is looking for a move to Portsmouth because he's got a girlfriend down there.. leaves us a bit stuck. If he does go soon I can see us having a keeper crisis throughout the season.

I don't think there will be a big problem since they seem to sign Andreas Isaksson from Rennes. He's a great keeper and hasn't disappointed yet in the swedish national team or in the teams he's played in up till now.

daigong · « **Reply #224 on:** August 11, 2006, 01:33:26 AM »

This still has to my favorite line of the year:

Zidane's mother has declared she wants Materazzi's "balls on a platter" after he allegedly called Zidane the "son of a terrorist whore" in the World Cup final.

Ruffy · « **Reply #225 on:** August 11, 2006, 04:11:49 PM »

yeah, that line is already a classic daigong

she was sick in the hospital just some days before that and like the first thing she says is that she wants materazzi's balls on a platter xD

huggumwuggums · « **Reply #226 on:** August 12, 2006, 01:57:22 AM »

Charity Shield baaaabyyyy! Chelsea's going down! Without Cech in between the posts, Liverpool's chances are looking bright. That is if Benitez doesn't use the dreaded 4-5-1...We need more people in the box dammit.

kazitakato · « **Reply #227 on:** August 12, 2006, 03:48:01 AM »

Big Anti-Chelsea Fan. Cech was never a good keeper. If it weren't for John Terry, R.Carvalho and all of Chelsea playing defence, he wouldn't have such a reputation. Don't believe me? World Cup performance tells all!!!

Wonder how Bellamy is going to change the front? Hopefully he's got the goal scoring touches Liverpool needs. As for Cisse, got milk?

huggumwuggums · « **Reply #228 on:** August 12, 2006, 05:54:10 AM »

Quote from: kazitakato

Big Anti-Chelsea Fan. Cech was never a good keeper. If it weren't for John Terry, R.Carvalho and all of Chelsea playing defence, he wouldn't have such a reputation. Don't believe me? World Cup performance tells all!!!

Wonder how Bellamy is going to change the front? Hopefully he's got the goal scoring touches Liverpool needs. As for Cisse, got milk?

From what I've seen during the friendlies and the latest game againts Maccabi Haifa, he's injecting a lot of pace to Liverpool's game, I mean Cisse was fast, but Bellamy makes more intelligent (fast) runs while Cisse gets caught offside far too often for my tastes.

Can't wait till Fowler gets fit because I think that Bellamy and Fowler could make a deadly combination up front.

ew0923 · « **Reply #229 on:** August 12, 2006, 04:55:32 PM »

I'm a huge Chelsea hater, but I don't Cech is that bad. In my view, the most over-rated player in Chelsea is Lampard, I mean he's only good on paper because Makelele does all the crappy stuff and Drogba creates so much chances for him. I'm looking forward for Chelsea to crumble in the premiership this year.

Ruffy · « **Reply #230 on:** August 12, 2006, 05:46:07 PM »

from my point of view cech is one of the 3 best keepers in the world (based on last season). that he didn't perfrom well in the world cup is also becuase the tjech team wasn't as good as people expected them to be. their defence wasn't too good.

och bellamy has never been a great scorer. he's incredibly fast and when he's on fir ehe can score a lot but I've often seen him miss open chances. but I'm sure he can contribute to liverpools team this year. crouch as target and bellamy running around will cause problems for the opponent defence

and with 30 minutes left of the game they can put in old fowler and let him score some easy goals

and Inter bought both Crespo and Ibrahimovic..damn..I wanted Ibra to join milan

now my milan has to continue the searc hfor a world class striker. hope the rumores of them wanting fatso Ronaldo isn't true T_T

huggumwuggums · « **Reply #231 on:** August 13, 2006, 06:01:27 PM »

Shevchenko is a man to be feared in the premiership.

Ruffy · « **Reply #232 on:** August 13, 2006, 10:32:55 PM »

yeah, as a milan fan I know how good sheva is and heäll surly score lots of goals also in england.
but I was surprised that liverpool won the charity shield game today..and even uglyboy crouch scored a goal

huggumwuggums · « **Reply #233 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:37:09 AM »

Anyone who was in position could've scored the goal as It was a free header and it was mostly Bellamy's work. Crouch's still a waste of money IMO.

Tuffty · « **Reply #234 on:** August 14, 2006, 12:17:15 PM »

Quote from: huggumwuggums

Anyone who was in position could've scored the goal as It was a free header and it was mostly Bellamy's work.

Being around 13 feet tall also helps! As much as I hate Liverpool, I am glad to see Chelsea get off to a bad start and have another trophy scalped away from them.

idiotboy · « **Reply #235 on:** August 14, 2006, 01:18:36 PM »

Quote from: huggumwuggums

I mean Cisse was fast, but Bellamy makes more intelligent (fast) runs while Cisse gets caught offside far too often for my tastes.

Can't wait till Fowler gets fit because I think that Bellamy and Fowler could make a deadly combination up front.

Cisse also has an appalling first touch for a player of his stature. true, he was cursed with bad luck whilst with our lot (ie, the Reds), and he plays better in a 4-4-2 (which he never had much opportunity to do )and he was bought by Houllier after a very long chase, and i have the strong impression Rafa held that against him, but still: his first touch was so often poor it's just not funny. he'd sprint past a defender to run onto a thru ball and then... knock the ball out for a goal kick :tumble:

i can't say i'm hugely pleased about Rafa's purchases - Bellamy and Pennant have more than a little form, y'know - but if the result is that we play 4-4-2 with two wingers more frequently this season, i won't care.

boykun · « **Reply #236 on:** August 17, 2006, 10:39:18 AM »

English Premier League starts in 2 days.. go Arsenal!

huggumwuggums · « **Reply #237 on:** August 17, 2006, 08:27:43 PM »

Liverpool's agreed to the fee of Dirk FUCKING Kuyt!!

Tuffty · « **Reply #238 on:** August 19, 2006, 05:04:31 PM »

Not a good start to my fantasy football team.

Not that I'm doing bad, but Fowler's penalty put a few rivals ahead of me. What I'm surprised at is how many people thought Fowler was actually first team worthy!

Tuffty · « **Reply #239 on:** August 24, 2006, 04:18:12 PM »

I hear people are saying it's early days, but at the end of the day, 3 points can make all the difference. United are doing brilliantly so far. I hope this talk of signing Tevez still comes through though. I only hope Fergie hasn't seen the performances of Saha and Solskjaer last night and thought we could do without a forward. I'm happy with them sure, but my mind will be more at ease if we do get another forward to rely on. Champions League draw at 5 tonight!

Plus Roy Keane is named new manager of Sunderland. I think my face was something like this when I heard the news

P.P.S. in a rather unexpected turnaround, I'm now top of the league table! I brought Berbatov to the team, and his goal and assist to a goal on Tuesday night did the world of good!

*EDIT*

The Champions League draw:

Group A
Barcelona
Chelsea
Werder Bremen
Levski Sofia

Group B
Inter Milan
Bayern Munich
Sporting Lisbon
Spartak Moscow

Group C
Liverpool
PSV Eindhoven
Bordeaux
Galatasaray

Group D
Valencia
Roma
Olympiakos
Shakhtar Donetsk

Group E
REal Madrid
Lyon
Steaua Bucharest
Dynamo Kiev

Group F
Manchester United
Celtic
Benfica
FC Copenhagen

Group G
Arsenal
Porto
CSKA Moscow
Hamburg

Group H
AC Milan
Lille
AEK Athens
Anderlecht