"My client can kick a ball into a skip from quite far away" - English football off-season and transfer speculation thread 2009

The kit Valenica wore when playing United the other day is as bad as the worst Premiership kits (Bolton/Chelsea) imo.

what a disaster for Bolton
everton v-neck is a horror as well
kind of dig man city's 3rd kit. nice stripe

I cant be the only one who kind of likes Everton's old man cardigan kit, surely?

both Everton kits are pretty fuckin ghastly imo.

City's sash is impressive, particularly for confining the sponsor to just underneath the badge. Burnley's still my favourite.

Did quite like the United keeper kit, til I realised that was due to it being the same as Airdrie United's.

Former Tottenham target Dani Jarque, captain of Espanyol, has died of a heart attack at 26.

Watching the friendly between Arsenal and Valencia and as far as I can tell from this stream David Villa is having an absolutely lol shocking game, missing absolute sitters, ballooning free kicks nowhere near the goal and missing a penalty (that was rewarded for a shocking dive).

They did just score though.

xp I think they did a tribute to him at the start of the second half of this match, had just got home and was a bit confused

Have you got a link for the Valencia match, Suedey?

http://vstreams.net/

There's only about 6 minutes left, mind.

I found it on ustream but the commentary's in el foreign.

Haha, and of course Villa scores

COVENTRY City have agreed an undisclosed fee with Portsmouth for defender Martin Cranie
http://www.ccfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10269~1752076,00.html

It's like a new signing:

Arsenal centre forward Nicklas Bendtner has changed his squad number for the new season.

The Dane caught up with Arsenal.com to explain why he decided on the switch and give a personal offer to fans who had bought his shirt through Club outlets this summer.

“The new season’s almost here, and along with the rest of the players I’m really excited and believe it can be a really special one for everyone associated with the Club." said Bendtner.

"Before it starts I wanted to change my squad number from 26 which I’ve obviously had for a number of seasons now. I chose to move to 52 because it’s a special number to me personally, and I hope that it brings me good luck for the new season.

"I appreciate that a good number of fans have bought their kits for 2009/10 already with names and numbers printed up so I’d like to personally cover the cost of replacing anyone’s shirt that has my previous number. It means a lot to see supporters wearing your name and number, and I want to ensure people aren’t inconvenienced by the change."

dobule the number double the goal tally this season, i am calling it

Maybe it stands for how many millions of pounds Citeh will pay for him next summer.

Why is 52 so special I wonder? Is it like 1952, the year Denmark declared independence from Norway or something like that?

The year Denmark won two Olympic gold medals in canoeing?

It is the age Nicklas plans on living until.

http://arsenal.theoffside.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/bendtner.jpg

52 - the number of goals he wants to score in his professional career.

52 - the number of weeks rosicky will be out injured in the year 2009

52 - Nicklas' memories of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy aren't as good as he thought they were.

52 - Combined age of the Arsenal first team.

# August 29 1952 – John Cage's 4' 33" premieres in Woodstock, New York.

Maybe 'bentner52' is his Facebook password and he keeps forgetting it.

Also: Arsenal's Denilson to sue the BBC.

Ho ho, they changed the photo.

we need a fitting image to close this thread upon

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/nechronical/apr2009/6/0/alan-shearer-and-michael-owen-20062602.jpg

More like "Northern Cock" amirite?

"My client can crash his car into a lamp post with quite a lot of alcohol in his bloodstream" more like.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8200015.stm

http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/137/england/2009/08/13/1438786/i-can-manage-newcastle-united-david-ginola

Steven "cheating bastard" Taylor to Everton?

Damien "deflection" Duff to Wolves or Fulham?

This is from Holy Moly but still...

I started a fake football website this week where I've written fictional news articles ala The Onion. Anyway I wrote a clearly fake article about Nicolas Anelka's upcoming autobiography 'It's not me. It's everyone else' which has gone down a storm. So much so that 5,000 people read it on my website today.

Anyway a lot of people have read it and reproduced it around the web. It spread particularly on African and Scandanavian websites. Anyway tonight someone sent me a link to the Charity Shield today where a Finnish commentator, believing my article was real, tells people on live TV that Anelka left Arsenal because he claims in his autobiography (which I flipping wrote) that Vieira struck him round the face with his penis after Arsenal played Fulham.

My Finnish friend Vix translated:-

"The commentator says how in an autobiography that Anelka wrote he told of a time when him and Vieira didn't get on. There was some goal that Anelka missed and Vieira took the piss. After the game Viera hit Anelka with his bits down below! Apparently this is all exclusive from his tell-all autobiography..."

People are idiots.

Hahaha!

Finland, eh?

Reminds me, we're going to have a FAPWAF when Tuomas is in London, right?

FAPWAF?

Fancy A Penis Wave At Face

That or Fancy A Pint With A Finn

same diff.

Guys I think he meant it to stand for "fancy a pint with a finn".

xp doh!!!

Sturridge has gone to Chelsea

doh!!!

Nice image, Onimo! xps ffs

Anybody acually remember whether Tuomas has any interest in football, at all?
;)

Football too bourgeois for him

Until McCarthy gets replaced by Paul Ince sometime mid-October

now that someone has said this, i really can't see how it can't happen.

― darragh✧✧✧@nebbm✧✧✧.c✧✧ (darraghmac), 01 July 2009 11:01 (3 months ago) Bookmark

yet another failed prediction ;_;

does this still work? transfer talk on the other thread seems to be frowned upon.

got tickets for Wolves at Hull, it'll be so sweet if we've signed Hunt the week before