they might have to accept just modric and bale for £90m
― The Green Path of Hope is formed (nakhchivan), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
defoe to qpr tbs tbs
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
They could try Arsenal perhaps?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:23 (7 minutes ago)
...
― GOIT BUZZ TOYS (a hoy hoy), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
would be a success imo
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
at this stage i'd be half interested in a mass auction of bale vdv modric et al just to see krancjar pienaar and thudd again
Yeah i know they're injured
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
i always forget pienaar is one of yours now
― pandemic, Friday, 11 November 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
ya, tho i can't decide is he cover on left, right or for parker tbh.
Second string, in my head, reads l-r
krancjar, thudd, pienaar, nobody
Would quite like a backup rm obv
Sandro fit should be 1st xi but not for parker in current form so i dunno
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
is bentley still technically yours or did you get rid? re back up RM, or should that be back up to the back up RM?Maybe Harry will do a Bale with Walker and shunt him forward?
― pandemic, Friday, 11 November 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
true for walker, tho tbfttl he's actually doing ok at the df side of his job this past while. Still love corluka though.
Yeah bentley i suppose. Pity about that twat, worse than losing a talent through injury.
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
wait shouldn't pienaar be where nobody is and that would mean the space in the middle is sandro? normal back-up w/ potential to push dudes in the first xi imo.
― GOIT BUZZ TOYS (a hoy hoy), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
Think everyone big will stay in the transfer window but by the summer it's Champions League or the break-up of this team.
― Matt DC, Friday, 11 November 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
modric will probably go whatever happens, maybe bale too
― The Green Path of Hope is formed (nakhchivan), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
We totally should try and Sol Modders, whatever the price.
― GOIT BUZZ TOYS (a hoy hoy), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
ya i think so, but this summer was good, chelsea will bid big and early and hopefully the other big boys took note too.
I don't think pienaar, vdv nor krancjar are up to scratch on the right tbh, not as first choice cover, certainly
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
I keep thinking I've accidentally clicked the same thread twice with this and the Bale thread.
― grandpa aaron knows how to live (onimo), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
walker surely xp
― The Green Path of Hope is formed (nakhchivan), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
this will have been the bale thread surely
lolimo
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
bale to barca could work
guardiola is difficult to predict tho, last yr's third choice left back adriano was playing in some sort of roving attacking midfield role the other day
― The Green Path of Hope is formed (nakhchivan), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
still uncertain why they havent made replacing puyol the #1 priority but whatever
― GOIT BUZZ TOYS (a hoy hoy), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
I think Guardiola's position there is something like "it doesn't matter if we've got the ball."
― grandpa aaron knows how to live (onimo), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
they wanted to buy thiago silva but weren't prepared to pay what you have to pay to buy probably the best central defender in the world from silvio berlusconi
― The Green Path of Hope is formed (nakhchivan), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
Is Thiago Silva really the best in the world right now? Doesn't seem right.
― boxall, Friday, 11 November 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
i'd think so
it's not a crowded field atm now the lúcio/nesta/ferdinand/samuel generation are on the way out
― The Green Path of Hope is formed (nakhchivan), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
he hardly ever gets booked, so he's either really really good, or he just doesn't tackle anyone.
― pandemic, Friday, 11 November 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Mertesacker hardly ever gets booked ...
― boxall, Friday, 11 November 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
he is the third category of player who is too slow to get near enough to opponents to actually foul them
― pandemic, Friday, 11 November 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
motherfuckers be bitchin bout bale talk in other threads just sayin
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Pique/Silva would be a beast. Vidic a bit too old to invest in maybe. Pepe plays for the other guys. So... yeah, Thiago Silva I guess. Sahko? Hummels? One of these young upandcomers mayb be worth looking at. Either way, 'we have the ball a lot' and hoping puyol never retires is a tactic that will eventually get found out imo.
― GOIT BUZZ TOYS (a hoy hoy), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
the latter part, sure
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
feel that bassong could rly do a job at barca tbrr
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
thiago silva is beautiful
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 11 November 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
I think Rami and Badstuber are better than Sakho and Hummels but it's probably too early to say.
One thing is certain, Gareth Bale is not among the world's elite central defenders.
― boxall, Friday, 11 November 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah but Barca are playing Mascherano there at the moment. They clearly don't care
― Number None, Friday, 11 November 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
I think he's been excellent at CB, was much better than Pique against Athletic Bilbao last weekend.
― boxall, Friday, 11 November 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't think he was that great tbh but i only had half an eye one the game. Also i hate him
― Number None, Friday, 11 November 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
id guess he needs to improve his instinct for finding space before playing as a goalscoring attacking mid/support striker 'on the reg' cuz it gets so much more congested playing there
but there aren't many players who have played that position in that way.....someone like julio baptista maybe...kaká had both the full-throttle athleticism and more classical #10 playmaking/dribbling skills
yaya touré can be played there quite effectively for 60-70mins before he stops being able to run
i thought ménez could be developed into that role but he seems to be more of a winger now
― The Triumph of the Will High (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
i hope it doesnt happen. but if it does, what happens to vdv? or are they going to play w/ 2 #10s?
― I am Newgod (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure the "fluidity" of the 3 in Tottenham's current 4-2-3-1 is Redknapp trying to circumvent a VDV hissy-fit about being played on the right.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
idk but everything changes pretty quickly, just thinking in the longer term
the chances of him playing in a tottenham team managed by redknapp with rafael van der vaart in 2013 = ???
― The Triumph of the Will High (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
5%
vdv, bale, lennon and modders will all still be there tho imo
― I am Newgod (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
not even lennon tbh
― DeLonge and Winding Refn (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
sayin
― i'd love to but i'm on break (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
that he's the best british player since scholes?
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
when you say 'since'
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
since, in time
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
cuz scholes died in july 2011
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
if you play "outstanding" backwards it says 'paul is dead i killed him'
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
was trying to think of an epl player that deserved european xi acknowledgement- and i'm not necessarily saying bale does- came up with vidic, imo, and van persie if it's a calendar year thing.
that it?
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
dont think id include any
vidic maybe
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link