They're both 11th in their respective divisions, in fairness.
An impressive 22 red cards across the top 4 division of Italy yesterday.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B61UvF1IQAETglc.jpg
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
nbd tho i'm sure lfc will kill it w/ milner & delph
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
are we rly selling Lennon wtf
― local eire man (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
suso off for free to milan as well
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Lionel Messi is only at Barcelona because he promised Tito Vilanova on his deathbed that he would stay, says Henk ten Cate
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Giovinco to Spurs appears to be gathering some pace here, thus bolstering our imposing forward line.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 January 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
awww that'd be nice
― London's Left-Wing Utopian Non-League Ultras Are Reclaiming Football (imago), Friday, 9 January 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
"Everyone is available in every shape and form and there's no difference about that," said Pulis, who insisted he did not want to sell Berahino.
― r|t|c, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
Sissoko told French TV show Telefoot: “The transfer market is open, so things can happen any day, but I am focused on Newcastle.
“If anything should happen, it will. I hope I’ll leave for a bigger club one day. England is my priority. If Arsene Wenger calls, I’ll have a man-to-man discussion with him and then we’ll see."
― r|t|c, Monday, 12 January 2015 10:06 (nine years ago) link
Ravel Morrison to Lazio would be interesting.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 08:22 (nine years ago) link
jozy altidore for jermain defoe trade lololol
― dan m, Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Giovinco to Toronto?????
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Monday, 19 January 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
http://screamer.deadspin.com/mls-is-putting-the-fix-in-for-toronto-fc-right-before-1680428108
― dan m, Monday, 19 January 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
Not that this is any real secret, but it deserves to be said as often as possible: MLS is rigged. The league jointly owns each individual team, centrally controls all major decisions, and has a rule book as regularly erased and written over as a chalk board. With yesterday's reported news that Juventus forward Sebastian Giovinco will sign a contract with the league to join Toronto FC, we have even further evidence of MLS's shameless central planning.
― dan m, Monday, 19 January 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
all leagues are riggedit's still a difficult league to excel in as a team. take the top 8 yoy and it's more various than mosttfc will still find a way to fuck this up
― elouise (anky), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
I want to agree on your third point but I figure they will hit on one of their insane buying/staffing schemes eventually.
― dan m, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 02:22 (nine years ago) link
Naughton out, Konoplyanka in would be suspiciously good news.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 22 January 2015 12:47 (nine years ago) link
Monk described Naughton as a 'great person and good player'
― mizzell, Thursday, 22 January 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jan/22/the-view-from-the-epl-how-shaun-maloney-would-benefit-chicago-fire-and-mls
guardedly optimistic about this signing, even though other teams are getting giovinco and ...gerrard?
― dan m, Thursday, 22 January 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
They see a lot in me and how dedicated I am and how I want to push on. They're delighted to keep someone like me here.
― Blandford Forum, Monday, 26 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
not the best oracle
― r|t|c, Monday, 26 January 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
gabriel has a bit of the keown about his skullform although hes not particularly feral as a defender, more of a koscielny type now the real one has chronic tendinitis
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
the real keown is getting more and more vacant looking soon he will be in a catatonic state broken by hourly epiphanies into relative lucidity when he looks up from the floor and tracks the progress of insects across a windowsill
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
beetled eyebrows
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
the "scouting reports" i've read on gabriel all seem to differ from one another so i've just decided he'll be a disappointingly meek bozo who over his five year career who will garner muted flurries of hype in between regular dinner dates with his london club compatriots
i liked villareal presenting him with a valedictory plastic submarine, maybe he can have a battle with cazorla's at bathtime
― r|t|c, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
hes relatively quick and technically competent, idk if his distribution is any good because musacchio does most of villarreal or whether he will be reprising stephane m'bia's traumatized affront at discovering the existence of andy carroll
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
mbia may be returning to either palace or everton they say
after being persistently linked with those redoubtable warriors osvaldo and m'vila in his alleged efforts to haul us of the mire thus far i can hardly see redknapp resisting a newly out of contract cassano
― r|t|c, Monday, 26 January 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
i have fairly arbitrarily decided that franck tabanou is brilliant, or brill indeed
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 10:08 (nine years ago) link
He's p good actually, although St Etienne are a p defensive team since Aubameyang and Payet left so he doesn't get much chance to shine.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 10:45 (nine years ago) link
think i vaguely recalled him as a good winger from old ffw lists i perused when qpr and newcastle were in the french market. does he play left back too?
recent twitter mentions suggest he has an occasional propensity for violence
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 11:09 (nine years ago) link
nice to see u round here again lately btw pandz, i have often this season thought of your sage counsel that lfc should have bought calhanoglu
this latent lfc connection had in fact led me to wilfully mentally mispronounce his name like ian callaghan-ogloo, even though the actual challanoloo already kinda meets the scouse reference requirements via dave challinor
i'm really bored today
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 11:15 (nine years ago) link
nice to see u round here again lately btw pandz
quite
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 11:28 (nine years ago) link
sightings of localgarda too, as if everyone is realizing that at least once this season sterling will play behind sturridge and balotelli and they will briefly look amazing again
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 11:30 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Nztfo0I.jpg
Eltham?
just getting into the groove for next season's real push for the title.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:17 (nine years ago) link
xp def
v a la mode rn, lucas digne has one that says sidcup
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:21 (nine years ago) link
sidcup would be a great first name for a frenchman come to think of it
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:23 (nine years ago) link
now that garda's back on the scene i feel it's okay to wonder aloud of the whereabouts of flanno lad i miss him :(
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:26 (nine years ago) link
he was sitting beside gerrard during a game recently. maybe bolton at the weekend.
would have him back if it meant johnson fucked off for good.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:31 (nine years ago) link
that clichy-sous-bois neck tattoo wasn't good optics for the city game
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
xxxp
Thanks r|t|c and Nakh. Also great to see Garda back, reckon it was the nostalgia brought forth by seeing Heskey and Spearing at Anfield again that summoned him back ;)
― pandemic, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:52 (nine years ago) link
Read somewhere that Johnson would be offered a new deal in order to play right-sided CB in a back 3!!?? Thought our 3 at the back was a no Sturridge stopgap tbh. Although should probably plan for 1/3 of each season being a no-Sturridge zone. Tottenham away still the highlight performance of the season so far although 2nd half vs Chelsea wasn't bad.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:55 (nine years ago) link
how is can doing
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 13:26 (nine years ago) link
i'd say good with ball at his feet, not great positionally. probably cos he's a midfielder not a defender.
he looked extremely fat at the start, like neil ruddock fat - but i think he's gaining fitness too. prob needs to just play in midfield.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
id rather he played higher up the pitch in midfield although he played well against chelsea last week despite getting sonned by hazard for the penalty.
― Stig of the sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdump (Michael B), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link
He's been fine, decent distributor from the back. Made a mistake in the Chelsea game, well 2 really, but otherwise has been steady albeit against v limited opposition. Find it hard to believe that Rodgers purchased him as a CB though. Not sure he's ever gonna have enough goals in him to be a productive midfielder given that I don't see him in a shielding role. Probably end up being Phil Neville circa his Utd years.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
jesus michael i just remembered for the first time in probably two decades that i had a copy of that book which was last seen circa the age of 6 when my mother gave it to the mother of some other childi hardly remember anything about the kid but i remember his mother (voluble slightly deranged eastenders type) who had hair like alan smith in the late ridsdale erashe was supposed to have picked up dogshit left in her front garden and thrown it at the culprit's owner
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 13:53 (nine years ago) link
admittedly i've only had a good look at can during the awful early season form (and yeah he was quite possibly overweight) but he didnt really strike me as anything other than adequate in cm. as a mobile, technical cb he makes a lot of sense imo - certainly the rarer and more necessary asset there
plus he was playing lb in germany, dunno to what standard but
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
just in relation to his predecessor phil neville, clearly it's been said enough what a thick resentful cunt he is but i'd just like to transcribe his words imagining what his son would say about rosicky
that guy's got skill he's a baller and all these sayings that the young lads are saying now
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
lol
― pandemic, Monday, 2 February 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Swansea City manager Garry Monk has likened the January transfer window to a cattle market.
"Everyone's selling all their cows, overpricing their cows. Some of them are bad."
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
i don't see what he's getting at there. metaphor too complicated.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 February 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
he does have the face of an unscrupulous abattoir technician tbf
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 15:10 (nine years ago) link
There's a face he has on him after a particularly galling Swansea defeat where you can just see him standing there, staring furiously into the distance, covered in blood.
― Matt DC, Monday, 2 February 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
I have decided to stay With Swansea. I wanted to share this With you before the end of the transferts Windows. It's the best choice for me.
— Bafétimbi Gomis (@BafGomis) February 2, 2015
Even if i was sad before Because i didn't play a lot. Now everything is différent.I believe in this team and his project.
I have spoken With the coach and I have his confident and he have mine. I am lucky to play and live to Swansea.
Gaffer is standing behind Me with meat Cleaver. please Help
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
― r|t|c, Monday, February 2, 2015 4:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Posts w/ striking imagery. Love this quote immensely.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iPh7X7X6So
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 00:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.stenhousemuirfc.com/images/uploads/tekkers002.jpg
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 00:52 (nine years ago) link
N'Doye's pretty good but idk if he'll keep Hull up.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 08:39 (nine years ago) link
Hull aren't great but their recent form is better than that of several other teams, Sunderland and Villa in particular are tanking it right now. Then again Leicester and Burnley are better than quite a few relegation favourites from previous years, and Rangers are, well, Rangers, so who the fuck knows.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 09:52 (nine years ago) link
sunderland lost two away and one home game vs top six teams by one goal margins then beat burnley
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 11:52 (nine years ago) link
There's an element of wishful thinking there admittedly, I would dearly love Sunderland to go down by this point.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
Leicester have the worst form over the last ten games but only picked up two points less than Everton. The form table for the same period has a gap of four points between 11th and 20th.
Hull looked absolutely abysmal vs Newcastle.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:08 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B86T_XQCMAE1id3.jpg
the romance of the cup
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:10 (nine years ago) link
sooo, Andy Kellett joining Man U on loan from Bolton. That's a strange one isn't it? I'm guessing they realised they were short of u21 players at the last minute or smthg?
― ʎɐpunsunɾɐɔ (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:17 (nine years ago) link
this is the best squad hull have ever had, not that that is saying much but fine work by steve bruce nonetheless
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 08:39 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
n'doyency aid
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
fine work by steve bruce nonetheless
Do you mean for assembling it in the first place or for getting it to underperform on a weekly basis for so long?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
the latter, the few good players he has cost plenty of for a team like hull so not like he deserves much credit for that, and they are playing shit anyway
£8m for livermore
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
Diame – who was also hunted by Crystal Palace – eventually opted for the Tigers and ClaretandHugh claims a Hammers source told it: “With a year left we weren’t going to stand in his way – that wouldn’t have been right.
“With what we were doing in the market, the deal for Diame fitted our situation and my understanding is that he got a hefty increase from Hull of around £10k.”
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
The players he has are EPL average to just-below-average in almost every position, their upper level is probably roughly where Stoke are now. Probably below that given Stoke have had more talent at their disposal this season.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
probably a bit below stoke but enough for 13th/15th sort of levelhe's spent a fuck of a lot more money than hughes has though
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Hatem Ben Arfa has denied he plans to retire from football at the age of 27 after he was refused international clearance to play for Nice.
Ben Arfa signed an 18-month deal with the French club after Newcastle terminated his contract but was denied clearance having already appeared in competitive games for two teams – Newcastle and Hull – this season.
Nice contested the ruling on the basis that Ben Arfa had only represented Newcastle’s reserve team – but Fifa regulations regard “under-21 professional development league” matches as competitive fixtures.
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Chelsea have sold Thorgan Hazard to Borussia Monchengladbach for a staggering mark-up of 1500 per cent on the fee they paid for him two-and-half-years ago, according to reports.
Hazard, the 21-year-old younger brother of Blues star Eden, moved to the Bundesliga side at the start of the season on loan but with his Chelsea deal expiring in the summer, he will now stay until 2020.
Reports suggest Monchengladbach have paid €8m to make his move permanent. That's an incredible 1500 per cent increase on the €500,000 fee they paid in July 2012. The increase is all the more remarkable due to the fact Hazard spent just 37 days at Stamford Bridge, never played for the senior team and played just once for the Under-21s.
Gladbach's sporting director Max Eberl said: "Thorgan has shown what a great talent he is over the past few months. We are delighted we have managed to sign him, and that he has decided to play for Borussia over the next few years."
A Chelsea statement read: "Thorgan Hazard has today signed for Borussia Monchengladbach, with Chelsea having the right to exercise a future buy-back option.
"Chelsea Football Club wishes Thorgan well for the future and will continue to monitor his progress."
― r|t|c, Monday, 23 February 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
thorgan donation is a viable option for russians with liquidity problems
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Monday, 23 February 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
this is obviously abramovich just giving them bags of cash to pay back to Chelsea for kids to dupe ffp rite
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 23 February 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
schalke exercise option to buy nastasic
― Space.Cowboys.2000.1080p.HDDVD.x264-hV (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
city transfers look poor on their own terms (£40m for mangala, £30m for bony) especially given ffp and how much better chelsea are managing that
and even more so given the begiristan strategy of trying to harmonize an ersatz barcelona style and to stop looking so provincial and inept in europe
― Space.Cowboys.2000.1080p.HDDVD.x264-hV (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link