agüero vs rooney

U-diaeresis

Several languages use diaeresis over the letter U to show that the letter is pronounced in its regular way, without dropping out, building diphthongs with neighbours etc.

In Spanish it is used to distinguish between "gue"/"güe" and "gui"/"güi": antigüedad (antiquity), pingüino (penguin). This is also the case for the Nicaraguan demonym, Nicaragüense. Similarly in Catalan language,

"gue~güe" are [ɡe]~[ɡwe],
"gui~güi" are [ɡi]~[ɡwi],
"que~qüe" [ke]~[kwe],
"qui~qüi" [ki]~[kwi],

as in aigües, pingüins, qüestió, adeqüi. Also ü is used to mark that vowel pairs that normally would form a diphthong must be pronounced as separate syllables, examples: Raül, diürn.

That's me learned

guti also otm

― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:33 PM (8 minutes ago)

obv

Guti really should have played in the Prem at some point. I know it was mooted

bolton and blackburn were in for him, and us a few years before that

otm

think we know the real answer to this now eh?

lol

i think both of these players are kind of disappointing given they were the best teenage players (messi excepted) ive seen

twp we know abt but aguero has developed as a predatory forward without quite becoming the allround player suggested by his destruction of barcelona in 2008

hes still pretty great tho and he could get there

twp is still prone to patchy form but now he at least converts chances during times when his general play is lacking

I wonder how Aguero'd look in a tactically looser side, where he could be the fulcrum of the attack. Like Spurs this season, in the role VDV tries to play or a little higher, with Adebayor and Bale pulling defenders wide. I expect he could be individually great like that.

If he were something other than Argentine he might get to try it at int'l level. But at least he and Messi seem to combine well.

think we know the real answer to this now eh?

― Number None, Sunday, 11 March 2012 18:45 (1 month ago) Bookmark

twp vs ska

I was thinking about this thread at 4:45 yesterday as it looked like TWP's goal would secure the title, then again 5 minutes later :)

otm xxp

twp, tbfttfl, put in a great shift yesterday

to be fair to the fucker like
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he missed about 4 tap ins if he had put them away (and then others magic another 3 goals) maybe their team could have won on goal difference.

xp fat lad

Pig Foetus had a surprisingly good season but not voting for Aguero here would be such disgusting savagery.

He took that goal extraordinarily well yesterday, it kind of got lost in amongst everything.

his mediocrities are lauded as brilliance, so tbh it's fair

yr thoughts

it's been a week for the twp debate.

there are those will point to his status as the main/consistent goal threat for the champions/runners up for the past how long, but i mean the alternative view could ask whether that omnipresence as focal point is not typical ferguson fuckyousery and that omnipresence explains the stats rather more than his performance explains the omnipresence. So it is, and has been, since maybe 2005ish.

That he has declined dreadfully in technical derringdo and competence is, we hope, not in question, nor that he has perhaps consciously (word loosely utilised tbh) reined in street striker wayne in order to bulk up the stats already referred to. benefit of doubt accrues to twp here, but it feels like the subjugation of a leviathan talent in the service of an unworthy cause, darth vader or w/e, rooney's comfort eating, opponent mangling and contract wrangles are akin to the fallen anakin's mindchoking of deathstar planning officials, a manifestation of protest from a trapped and frustrated former prodigy freak beast genius.

Moot as fuck, of course. Nobody would pay what utd would have to charge.

In the meantime, berbatov slinks off towards fulham and the sinister bearhug of a jol previously wronged. What smooth beast slouches toward futhlaham to be born? Strange days.

Anyway, aguero.

of course this is how you announce your return

anyway you're right, no one's going to pay the required price at the moment so there's probably going to be at least another couple of seasons of under performance

welcome back though!

i wasnt holdin that in i promise u, it is a topic atm

My thoughts on spurs upheaval are not sufficient collected is all

And fuck contributin to the fat thread

Tho there's obv an overlap there now i say it

we need to get him fatter, that's the only option now

or perhaps a swap deal with Carroll?

carroll in same boat in that no feasible deal can be worked out btwn what any suitor would bid vs politically acceptable to club hierarchy

doesn't help that his manager has basically repeatedly been saying he's shit

weeellll, tbf, not just his manager

15m back to newkie really is the best solution there tbh

so twp hasnt played every game cos he's scored and assisted loads, he's scored and assisted loads cos he's played every game

you never know how much you miss someone until etc

street striker stuff bang otm tho

inner joe coles in a mourinho reality the story of pro football if not life itself

'stats don't lie' is a fair position to take, a safe position

'i've been watchin the cunt ten years and he's been shite most of that'

is the other, more daring stance

fyi i voted politically in this poll

fyi i voted politically in this poll

^ technical glitch just gave me twp's new sobriquet, 'the two roonies'

wayne rooney's gash

otm x 3

i like how twp tried to use twitter to pish-posh the rumours about him leaving, even though this time the paper talk was of ferguson getting shot of HIM rather than the other way round

don't really see it happening unless rvp properly bosses the #9, kagawa the #10 and ferguson wants to stay with a 4-3-3 & prefers welbeck in reserve/waiting

i'm sure he'd love to get shot of twp after the contract blackmail but he's too valuable atm

Dreaming longingly of the day that Fernandes and Hughes turn up at Carrington in matching sheepskin coats with big smiles and a shoulder-bag of used notes on the backseat. If only. I would love to see the kind of transfer policy those guys would pursue if they were a few rungs higher on the spending-power / prestige ladder.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2196938/Alex-Ferguson-warns-Wayne-Rooney-faces-career-long-battle-weight.html

'As a striker I need to work hard all the time. I need to be sharp, which means my fitness has to be right to play well. If it isn't, it shows,' he said in an extract of his new book 'Wayne Rooney: My decade in the Premier League' in the Mirror, who are serialising his latest autobiography.

'It would probably be different if I were a full-back. I could hide a bit, make fewer runs into the opposition half and get away with it.'

oh god, he's played right into your hands

"Early July: The first day back at pre-season training.

I’m like most blokes, I put on a few pounds after a holiday.

Even if I don’t train for a week, I put on two or three, but when I get back to Carrington for the first day of work, I’m in for a shock.

The scales in the club gym tell me I’ve put on a few more pounds than expected – seven. Seven!

Then I remember – I drank a few bevvies while I was away."

Extracted from My Decade in the Premier League by Wayne Rooney with a foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson. To be published by HarperSport on 13th Sept @ £20 ©Wayne Rooney 2012.

i do particularly like the Guardian sub-headlines

• Manchester United striker blames 'summer holiday bevvies'
• 'I struggle to walk for first half an hour the day after games'

which make it sound like he may be drunk the morning after games.

"When I’m out injured I know I can’t train or help the lads prepare for the next match so, typically, I get grumpy, a bit like someone would when they have to give up smoking or coffee, I’d imagine."

I'd imagine

he's not quitting his fags so he wouldn't know.

Have the guardian quoted the entire serialisation in their piece btw?