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

hey we have 6m to spend on a keeper, how about asenjo or eneymea - oh wait how about some guy no-one rates or cares about

hey we will only get value in the market, and we have about 9m to spend on an attacking midfielder - hey boss we could get baptista and pienaar for that and still have some left over. yes but do they compare to a homeless guy?

Utd fans ok with this Kuszcak, Rafael and Gibson worthy replacements? How is Smalling doing btw?

Kuszcak is on the way out. Gibson is shite, but inexplicably still gets played every now and then - I assume this is to push up his sell-on value. Rafael looks very good. Smalling looks like he might be good in the future, but isn't quite ready yet.

Of the old guard, G Neville is clearly not good enough any more and he knows it. According to one of the fanzines he was seen out in a pub on a Friday night late last year and a fan asked him why he was drinking the night before a match. He said it was because he wasn't picked and he was asked why. His reply "because I used to be good, but now I'm shit."

Giggs is still playing really well. Scholes is hit and miss. Ferguson seems to have something against Wes Brown and just won't play him.

Peter Schmeichel has always struck me as a massive twat, Utd legend and all that he is.

I've heard this, too.

Surely Lindegaard is just a new sub keeper to replace Kuszcak, who wants to leave if he can't play regularly? You can tell he is actually, because he's talking about wanting to establish himself as United #1, which clearly isn't in the club's plan.

Charlie Adam's inevitable mediocre career following an ill-advised move to Birmingham is going to be heartbreaking.

Dunno about that, Ratboy Ferguson has done quite well there under Big Eck

Of the old guard, G Neville is clearly not good enough any more and he knows it. According to one of the fanzines he was seen out in a pub on a Friday night late last year and a fan asked him why he was drinking the night before a match. He said it was because he wasn't picked and he was asked why. His reply "because I used to be good, but now I'm shit."

Ha, this is great

Well ever since Ronaldo left I've looked at that Utd team and thought there's a weakness here, there's a weakness there, Giggs won't be good this year etc etc Yet they still seem to carry on regardless. The performances in the first half of the season felt like the inevitable slow downward spiral but they've improved since then, Berbatov has become the only serious contender to Nasri for footballer of the year, and even though I think they'll still come unstuck in Europe, they'll still win the League with games in hand I reckon.

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/premier-league/pfa-player-of-the-year

gareth bale, honorary englishman

Berbatov has become the only serious contender to Nasri for footballer of the year

vdv and tevez?

think Charlie Adam might be a dece outsider too

16 Jan 2011 ... Bishopville Red says: Poor kid. He was MOTM up until then. Tough task for a tiny guy but he put big Gareth Bale in his back pocket. ...
therepublikofmancunia.com/video-rafaels-red-card-against-tottenham/

that's the first recorded 'BGB' ref of all time

Poor forgotten Nani. Either creates or scores most of United's goals but will always be a shit CRonaldo.

CRonaldo will always be Not As Good As Messi so there's a trickle-down involved.

Bebe: A shit Nani: A shit Cronaldo: A shit Messi: Still not Maradona

Needs a bigger gap between the first two, maybe some random wingers from local school teams or something.

onimo: the bébékiller

the good news is that when he becomes wigan's reserve right back and shirks challenges from andrei arshavin and ashley young he will be known as BIG BÉBÉ

I'm too harsh on the lad, I forgot about his great accidental goal against whoever it was.

Midfielder is United’s Bébé-sitter
By Brian Lofrumento | 24th January 2011
anderson
Midfielder is United's Bébé-sitter | read this item

Manchester United’s Brazilian midfielder Anderson has revealed that for the past few months he’s been functioning as the club’s babysitter for new signing Bébé. Bébé joined the club from Portuguese football’s lower divisions, and to help ease his transition to England he’s been staying with Anderson.

“He stayed with me for two months,” Anderson said. “I can tell you, he eats a lot. He ate all my food! He was a good guest, though. He’s a nice guy and funny. When I came to England, Cristiano Ronaldo helped me adjust, so I wanted to do the same with Bébé.”

from twitter:
ianprior ian prior
by Zonal_Marking
Major - and boy do I mean it - football exclusive coming up on guardian.co.uk sometime around 5.30.

just posted that over on ilf...

i am so irrationally excited by this.

Utd being bought by Qatar?
Gray/Keys suicide pact?
LFC buy Shawcross?

Fergie resigning at the end of the season. Or United sold to Qatar. Or some guff about the Olympic stadium.

figured man united qatar the most likely. seen some rumours of it being fergie retiring...

hoping it's martin jol named as gray successor.

If it's what I've heard it is, then it's nothing to do with United. And not terribly interesting.

media exaggerating a scoop? gonna carve out my eyes brb

It's probably something phonetap/litigation related...

That's not what I've heard, but I could have heard wrong.

Though what I have heard would be more interesting to you than to me.

Guff about the Olympic stadium it is then...

rip leyton orient

Is there a reason you're holding back what you heard NB&S - not wanting to scoop a Guardian scoop?

maybe west ham have appointed mourinho, lol

I'm not really supposed to say, but if what I've heard is true it's a bit underwhelming and not worth the wait. Which suggests that maybe it's not the real story. What I've heard is nothing to do with stadiums or managers or club ownership. Just a bid for a player.

Diame marries Wigan's prize pig

FOOTBALL:

Blackpool fined £25,000 in relation to team fielded against Aston Villa on 10 November

rip ian holloway, rip dreams

at least he will have a share of charlie adam's £12m transfer fee to help him get over it ;)

The big surprise is the Americans backing Kenny with cash.

He only needs four or five more players iirc.

says a big transfer story and not man u getting sold.

on his twitter now

someone link this when it happens because i don't care enough about refreshing the grauniad website

oh wait lol that is breaking news? that inter may make a bid for a player? YAWN

oh ffs, inter to make 40m bid for bale

WOW

haha, was just coming to yawn about that. Club want to spend money on player who is quite good.

let the abuse of ian prior commence

hmm, from the time i clicked on it to the time i accidentally clicked back it went from "will make bid" to "are making spectacular raid".

if maicon wasn't walking wounded when spurs played inter presumably bale would only be worth 15m

Wow, that manages to be both boring AND annoying at the same time.