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

Killed the prem thread. Soz.

― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's cool, I'm just glad the season's over tbh.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

i can't tell what yr sayin there n1ck? ABU or not?

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

the blackburn squad is better than wolves, wigan, bolton, qpr (averaging their squad pre/post jan), norwich, probably west brom too

yakubu is way better than any striker relegated in recent years, 16 gd goals
hoilett who they will now lose on a free is pretty damn good
nzonzi will probably be picked up for £7m or so, there aren't many better midfielders of his age around
pedersen is a useful epl winger who provides excellent setpiece delivery for a team like west brom
solid midtablish players like dunn, givet, olsson, vukcevic
dann and pobinson but they are probably on £30/40k a week for being terrible, they spent £6.5m on the former

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol /for a team like BLACKBURN/

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

they also got the best part of £30m for jones and samba

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

fyi there are loads of better midfielders than nzonzi who are of similar age, dude's not 16

― pandemic, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

there's loads worse weren't relegated

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

no there aren't, he's 23, there is hardly anyone outside of a top club already....rodwell, james mccarthy

obv im referring to the epl here, and its specific requirements that mean an athletic 6'4 allround midfielder with decent skills

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

-is always going to attract interest

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

arsenal need him already

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

eh those epl specific requirements still arent all that rare if you bother to look hard enough and take a period of acclimatisation into account i reckon

nancy seemed fairly happy to let samba diakite go and he'll easily be twice the player nzonzi is once we figure out the right cocktail of tranquilisers to give him

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

diakite is just a hack, n'zonzi actually has a bit of composure and passing range

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

this isn't to say he is all that good but he is certainly better than shite like pratley, henry, derry etc

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

i agree nzonzi is pretty good but only in the prem goldfish bowl would his performances to date mark him out as a £7m big deal

u rong about diakite though - exceptional talent on the ball going off on devastating mad slalom runs, exceptionally violent even as a hack

bit like a not-pointless abou diaby i spose

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

i will defer to your greater wisdom and await his emergence as the abel ferrara of west ham's europe leage chasing 12/13 midfield

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, Diakité's no hack. Exceptional with the ball - not just running with it, but great at creating space for himself, too. He can tackle, I think, and is gradually learning that it's not a good idea to remove your opponent's leg just below the knee.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

more conventially speaking west brom's mulumbu i'd rate higher than the zonz fwiw

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

epl goldfish bowl is def a thing -- but so many managers like pulis, allardyce, o'neill etc will pay for epl acclimatized and proven n'zonzi over say someone out of serie a who has the potential to be twenty times better but might not enjoy the full fiddy worshipping, hollyoaks extra roasting, acl rupturing epl experience

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Speaking of which, I'm guessing Aquilani's absence from the Milan derby means he's heading back to Liverpool next year?

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, he's 6 or so appearances short of triggering the automatic buy clause i think

― pandemic, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

He was actually really good first half of the season until he got injured (again)

― pandemic, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

He might well see out his five-year contract with Liverpool.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

'with'

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

lolll did a blackburn fan really run on the pitch yesterday during the last home game of the season with relegation p much a formality and throw his season ticket at kean? classic

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

even better he threw it at the wrong dugout according to 5live

― zappi, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

with that info i wonder if it wasn't formica tbh

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

missed a call from newstalk to win tickets to a euro2012 discussion in temple bar tomorrow night with houghton, bonner et al. the mrs wouldn't answer it cos she didn't know the number i may beat her savagely

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

dang, suarez, worked em for an og

― toandos, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

JT having a proper mare

― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yes yes yes, otm

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol john terry

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hahaha. Fucking John Terry!

― CraigG, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

wow

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

enjoying this

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

who let avb back?

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

hahaha I popped out for three minutes, shd do that more often

― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

is Terry kindly putting himself out of contention for a Euro 2012 place to save any awkwardness?

― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

i don't think i've ever been as frustrated and annoyed at being 3-0 up in the first half hour v chelsea before.

― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

carroll is destroying terry tonight. Not something I thought i'd ever say

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

oof, Torres

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

this games getting silly now, downing just hit the bar

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

wouldn't have had a big problem w/ Essien walking for that tackle

― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

me neither

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

One of the more enjoyable halves of the season imo.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

ohh penalty

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

downings taking it

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol so my stream is like 90 secs behond whatever you're watching

― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

knew he'd miss

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

Even so.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink