Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

thrown your hat in the ring yet NV?

my Football Manager stats are more impressive than most of the candidates it's true, but i fear an early dismissal after I hoof Karl Henry in the balls on day 1

oh man that wd be so worth it

should give the job to christian purslow.

http://i.imgur.com/JN7Zp.jpg

he looks a bit like an effigy of hitler fashioned from spam

uncannily accurate

Terry Connor it is, for Wolves

Brighton Legend!

"This is a decisive step, which creates certainty, and the players are fully behind it.

Decisive? Really? Let's appoint the guy who as assistant to the guy who we think failed probably wasn't offering any new insight into why we were failing at the time.

what a fuckin mess

Steve Bruce must be feeling right chipper today

well they interviewed him friday and kept interviewing all week, no surprise to him.

i mean, their mistake, amongst many, was to interview steve bruce to begin with.

Torres not called up by Del Bosque for next weeks friendly btw.

It had to happen. I remember being a little surprised he was still getting called up in his last period at Liverpool.

Agreed.

Holy fucking shit at the Spanish midfield though:

Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Xavi, Cesc Fábregas, Sergio Busquets, Andrés Iniesta, Thiago Alcántara (all Barcelona), Juan Mata (Chelsea), Santi Cazorla (Málaga), David Silva (Manchester City), Jesús Navas (Sevilla)

I would find the decline of Torres genuinely heartbreaking if he wasn't at Chelsea.

yeah that midfield really needs more of a defensive element lbi.

think the defensive element is that the opposition never get the ball

it is heartbreaking, tbf, but there is an element of 'return to norm' about it- not that his norm was ever 'pure shite' but his year or two as the focal point of lfc was over and above the rest of his career statistically

going to chelsea is an elemental part in the poor nando story. it is p much the most depressing place it could have happened in such a style, bar real madrid.

Would he be revived, I wonder, by signing for a team with no other forwards? i.e. there might be worse things for Arsenal to spend the van Persie money on

modric, look and beware u lil cunt

we can but reminisce the good days..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5baKpYWZ1U

Would he be revived, I wonder, by signing for a team with no other forwards? i.e. there might be worse things for Arsenal to spend the van Persie money on

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 24 February 2012 12:32 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah, not even taking torres in a swap deal with walcott, apparently

arsenal not v much a torres team, imo- he was quintessentially the counterattacking point man, not yr 'get involved' passing forward.

He'd do damage at utd, everton

henry was a counterattacking point man though?

maybe as ade's replacement at spurs. if they could get him for 5m and half the wages.

henry was a counter-attacking point man with, tbh, a bit more to his overall game than torres, playing in a team with a lot more to their game than current arsenal

He should probably just go back to La Liga.

inter, mebbe

the only club who could afford the risk wd be malaga

anchelotti at psg might try again

it is heartbreaking, tbf, but there is an element of 'return to norm' about it- not that his norm was ever 'pure shite' but his year or two as the focal point of lfc was over and above the rest of his career statistically

I've seen a few people say this but it's nonsense. He may not have been quite as prolific at Atletico but he was still class. He's a shell now

yeah at atletico he was more of an intelligent defence stretching nuisance like anelka

his conversion ratio was ordinary but he was still a v good player and nothing like his current incarnation

i've not seen enough of him at chelsea lately to comment on his general play, thought consensus was that his performance was improving

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How willing is Torres to admit what would seem to be the screamingly obvious, that he is undergoing a crisis of confidence? Not very, judging from what both his agent and a close friend of his told me. At best, there appears to be some ambiguity on the matter. His friend, who preferred not to be identified in print, said he had seen him recently in Madrid with his family and he had looked “neither torn nor pained”. “He is tranquilo. He accepts what’s happening as something normal in football and believes it has to do with Chelsea’s style of play,” the friend said. Besides, the friend added, he had been playing really well since the start of the new year and hit the bar with a fantastic overhead kick that, had it gone in, “would have been goal of the season”. Nevertheless, the friend did seem to suggest the possibility of something going on in Torres’ mind too when he proposed that perhaps Liverpool had “laid the evil eye on him”. “It’s tough, sure. He spent eight games as a substitute at the end of last year. That had never happened to him, not even as a child.”

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/e7c80640-5788-11e1-869b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1mkh59fGM

lol. stung by the FT

has he done any interviews in the past year? or even an obvious post-match (that wasn't like 'well you played well and just didnt get the goal' and actually asked him about ti)

does anyone else think 'alan partridge' when they watch that torres clip or is it just me

never seen him play tbh

Still not quite sure if it's a real ad or a Nike Spain viral.

Arshavin to Zenit. On loan, according to SSN. Arsenal don't sell their dodgy players any more do they? Just ship them out on loan.

eboue?

Ha, I think of Eboue as one of their good players. But point taken.

never saw a shit player get so good so fast as eboue once gooners realised djourou was next in line at rb

Chris Samba has gone to Anzhi. Do transfer windows and all that they mean not matter to the super rich?

Russian transfer window closes later.

Yeah, tonight iirc

End of the tax year probably has something to do with too.

Given that Scott Dann has knacker problems and Samba looked like he wanted to be anywhere other that at Ewood Park, letting Ryan Nelsen go looks like a really stupid move, even if he basically has no legs left.