NAMING RIGHTS THREAD: Liverpool really won't win the Premiership 2010-2011

Jesus why are they in for Milner when they could just go for Gourcuff or van der Vaart or someone.

I'd forgotten about Milner upthread, he might make a difference. Gourcuff probably exactly the wrong sort of player for Man City right now, massively talented but inconsistent, prone to going missing and with no experience of playing in the Premiership. VDV could do it though.

But yeah, there won't be many teams beating City this season - not many managed it last season and they're likely to be much more solid this year. If I were Man City I'd just play 4-3-3 with as much firepower upfront as possible - play Tevez, Adebayor and Balotelli all at once and watch teams shit themselves.

I've been working on the basis that Robinho isn't coming back - any reason to suspect different?

craig bellamy thread just reminded me of something I'd cast from my memory: juninho at celtic

robinho on way to fenerbahce apparently

Now that doesn't makes sense for anyone concerned.

if that's the criteria then i'm completely lost.

Taking advantage of Young Boys: Champions League & Europa League 2010/11

guardian's rumour mill has robinho potentially off to schalke, to link up again with Raul.

i've always thought he was over-rated, but that's still quite a comedown for a guy his age in just a few years.

Should probably have had an insurance policy in my Chamakh bet that it's void if Cattermole or some Wolves player breaks his leg.

― Sgt. Biscuits, Monday, 16 August 2010 12:07 (4 hours ago)

I've got an eye on this guy, reckon he might be One Of Those

Sick of being typecast as the brutish thugs of the Prem tbh

going by rumour and reputation, I've been assuming Balotelli is going to be a monster, but there was a highlights reel on somewhere at the weekend and it was all tap-ins and rebounds. He could be the new Inzaghi

Sick of being typecast as the brutish thugs of the Prem tbh

Well, some of us are sick of seeing promising careers derailed by hulking oafs from industrial towns!

Unexpected stat of the day xp - Inzaghi's only reached 20 goals in all competitions in five out of eighteen full seasons

been out of the loop so far this season but can i just say Barton's 'tache.

'TOV!

Darren Fletcher! I am glad I turned this on, it's been all quite end-to-end so far.

yeah was hmm at first, but since utd first goal seems to have become a better match

Well, some of us are sick of seeing promising careers derailed by hulking oafs from industrial towns!

I don't know whose sock this is but c'mon you can't parody that which is beyond parody.

been out of the loop so far this season

Dude, it only started on Saturday.

I missed the start of the match - sounds like I've come to it at the right time. Also, aye, Joey Barton's moustache is awes.

http://www.jimius.com/baconbible/Assets/volunteers/cbrothers.jpg

oh scholes, never change <3

Right, come on, who is it that Joey Barton really reminds me of?

ESPN pundits saying Timothy Dalton.

tim mcinnery (as darling)

ESPN pundits are wrong (this is never not true).

I think it might just be some generic 80s everyman, tbh.

nono I said who it was, seriously

maybe a young david niven too

Our Hannah has got a little crush on Darren Fletcher. Kinda lol but mostly o_O

20% tim dalton, 80% begbie imo

Midge Ure

xxp lol wut.

does she not like andy carroll? i quite like andy carroll :/

Is it the jazz guitarist Sean Penn played in that Woody Allen film?

really, LJ, it's not. Midge Ure best shout so far, but that's not it.

Darren Fletcher's not so bad (when he's not being utterly invisibly crap for Scotland). Imagine it was like John Terry or someone.

barney ronay is doing the minute by minute for the guardian and he seems a bit in love with andy carroll

I'm going to wake up about four in the morning haunted by Joey Barton's stupid facial hair and going to realise I'm thinking of someone my dad used to hang out with when I was 9 or something.

ah yeah well there you go, me and ronay are like THAT. (forceful finger x thing.)

i just checked and tbf you always think the fletch is uglier than he really is. apologies.

Nah he's pretty rough really.

Maybe Barton looks like Paul Franz Ferdinand when he has a 'tache?

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mummy.jpg
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/darren_fletcher_1109289c.jpg

A++++++++++++++++++

Is that one of those mummies from Xinjiang? Don't recognise the dude on the top tho.

just this once, i won't take credit for something off a blog. it was one of those "crap lookalikes" i dimly remembered.

still chewing over a bad mummy, nani, bebe dadjoek.

o my

that's spoty sewn up again

martin tyler pondering the health and safety hazards of advertising hoardings. this game is boring.

ooh look goal giggzzzzzzzz.

Seriously, though, that was excellent. Twenty seasons in a row, is it?

Twenty-one seasons in a row

Some hybrid of Midge Ure and Ian Rush, I think. I'm not giving this any more thought.

The Mad Twatter from Skins if he sticks to his "not shaving till we win a game" thing.

STOP TALKING ABOUT PAUL SCHOLES