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

Debut v Real on Sunday then, or will he still be injured?

just watching an attenborough where a wasp injects its larvae into a caterpillar, which then feeds them out of its own resources before they eat their way out and leave it a dead husk.

As it happens.

hahahaha

Eto'o hasn't gone and gone there, has he?!

770k pw says he has

*gosh*

what a waste

et to'o, samu

!

£770k a week a reasonable wage to endure constant racist abuse while sleepwalking past a load of shit defenders into the goal.

+ buy a nice coat for the winter

@danroan Fabregas is indeed on verge of leaving Arsenal for Barca. Board member I spoke to expects it done by w'end and adamant all funds reinvested

Maybe the Highbury condos need refurbishing already.

Not a fan of pre season friendlies as a rule, but the first half of Germany vs Brazil has been good. First start for Gotze.

mustn't. do. goatse. joke.

i hear he's partic good at stretching play and pulling the rearguard out of position

i hear he's got an incredibly stretchy arsehole

Can't imagine any joke of this sort could be as entertaining as watching Gotze play. (He scored against Brazil as I was typing that.)

Guess this shouldn't really be in the Premier League thread though.

hope he moves to wolves

http://www.offthepost.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/mick-mccarthy.gif

moratti calling the eto'o offer "intelligent, interesting, and fair" is more entertaining than either gotze or goatse imo tbf

Has Scott Parker gone anywhere? LOL Player of the Year.

priced out of a move

Wenger could learn from that tbh

Player of the Year's been a poisioned chalice for Parker I think - West Ham have priced him out of a move but c'mon the guy's on the other side of 30 and is probably at his peak now. He's not going to get considerably better and there isn't that much of a career in front of him.

Denilson loan watch: has now been sent off twice in three games in Brazil.

Bring him home.

i know that everyone is sick to death of the debacle, but why the fuck would arsenal accept 27m for their whinging baby of a captain?

you really don't understand the art of negotiation, do you?

B: £35m
A: £40m
B: £30m
A: £35m
B: £27m
A: Done.

i know that everyone is sick to death of the debacle, but why the fuck would arsenal accept 27m for their whinging baby of a captain?

Because increased brinksmanship might get them more money, but it'll also mean the saga goes on until transfer deadline day with no opportunity to buy a replacement who isn't some lame panic option. The Berbatov Condundrum in other words.

i maybe don't at that, tbh. I know landlords in mayo utilise the same tactic but maybe the standards are just higher at my job than at arsenal's transfer dept

my response: ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH

There's also a problem in that big-name transfers from England to Europe are going to be lower at the moment than transfers between English clubs because the pound is now piss-weak compared to the Euro.

yeah which makes me doubt that Utd can get Sneijder. Already on more money than Utd's top earner and will probably want Euro's as well.

the continued ushing of the schnoyjider deal is really confusing

how the fuck are utd spending so much btw? like lol add another 100m of debt to the billion

looks like we will buy scott dann, to which i respond... meh. i guess at 24 he can v. much improve but he isn't better than anyone we already have. better 4th choice pick than squiggle. good but not good enough to make a noticable difference. REALLY not the signing we need to be making the week CF+SN leave.

Maybe Wenger's had some kind of ideological Melanie Phillips moment and is going to turn you into Stoke?

Next few signings - Scott Dann, Lee Cattermole, Niall Quinn.

Well Spurs haven't finalised the Palacios/Crouch deal yet. Maybe Wenger decided to act quickly lest they slip out of his clutches?

scott dann isn't as bad as a lot of last season's arsenal cb's, tbh.

There are different types of centre half, y'know. I don't know who you have like him. No doubt i'm about to find out.

Think this could be my favourite Fabregas moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsQtL-6c00Q

Wenger was pretty succesful in the past with *galumphing English carthorses at centre half, maybe he's just woken up to that fact

(*slightly perjorative)

how the fuck are utd spending so much btw? like lol add another 100m of debt to the billion

Using up the Ronaldo cash that was still sitting in the bank. The real question is how the fuck did the Glazers pay off the PIK debt?

My big bro bought Cesc an orange juice when he first came to England. So he says. Think the story was that Cesc was out in Liverpool with some of his mates, who somehow knew a couple of my bro's Spanish mates. Yes.

According to French publication L’Equipe, representatives of Shakhtar Donetsk playmaker Jadson have travelled to London today to discuss a potential move to Arsenal.

The 27-year-old Brazilian international, who took part in this summer’s Copa America, has spent the last six years plying his trade in the Ukraine having moved to Eastern Europe in 2005 from homeland side Clube Atletico Paranaense.

An experienced operator, who can play either in the centre or on the right side of midfield, Jadson has garnered considerable success in Donetsk winning 5 league titles and helping the Donbass Arena outfit to the 2009 UEFA Cup title.

It is understood that Jadson is under contract until December 2014, but an offer between €8m and €10m could be enough to lure him to pastures new and still afford Arsenal the chance to make further manoeuvres in the transfer market.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpr9uGM7sto

at 00:15 is that portuguese for taxi?

Wenger: "At the moment we have too big a squad. We are not in a position where we are short of players"

we all dream of a team of kieron gibbs

What do you mean? Gibbs has the super quality this side has been lacking.

that's pretty much exactly what i mean, yeah

Wenger is on some self-destructive shit lately

We're going to end up with a situation where squad size rules lead everyone to panic and sell of their actual good players because they can't offload their Bentleys and Velas and whoever.