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

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.

that's a worry, yeah.

Is this crouch/palacios stoke deal a goer i wonder?

And can we really not get rid of bentley jenas or keane at any price?

Don't understand it frankly. Can see why no one would want Keane or Bentley but players like Jenas can do a job and would improve several sides in the Premiership. Presumably Levy's pricing them out of the market, either that or our famously spartan wage structure isn't as stingy as it's made out to be.

Oh, looks like Jol wants Jenas at Fulham. Maybe he'll sign Reto Ziegler and Razsiak as well.

is palacios really beyond the "good kick up the hole" remedy...seems sad to see a guy who was so great dwindle and end up at stoke. wasn't he being linked to man u halfway through spurs cl-qualifying season?

is palacios really beyond the "good kick up the hole" remedy

I don't think so. It's not like we're overwhelmed with defensive midfield options anyway and I'd like us to hang onto him - he was a first choice midfielder throughout the CL qualifying season. Maybe Redknapp and Levy think we'll actually get decent cash for him but I'm sure he can do better than Stoke. Hell, he'd probably improve Arsenal or Liverpool's squads.

at top level he'd be perfect for arsenal, pool have lots of midfielders but i'd take him for sure, not loads of dmcs.

i dunno. When he got bad he stayed bad and it was really bad

Yeah maybe not first choice at Liverpool but, I dunno, if Lucas gets injured do you have anyone who can protect the back four? Your midfield options seem very attack heavy.

yeah agreed. tho i think a centre back is next priority.

It's a little bit of an effort to think of players who wouldn't improve Arsenal, in a way. I bet that list would look really like Arsene's 'top targets' list though.

Arsene's list is lacking that extra two per cent of sharpness at the moment but it is fully committed and has enough quality to deal with the situation.

If lucas gets injured we've got Christian Poulsen!! No worries.

oh, and if david pleat is to be believed, gerrard is a defensive midfielder.

surprised it's taking liverpool this long to get round to a cb given how they er, swooped for henderson. why risk a bidding war for cahill/dann by waiting til after arsenal greenlight some spending?

p bored of the stoke bashing btw, give me them over wigan any day.

Football fans in preferring well-meaning uselessness to comedy cynicism and thuggery shocker.

I love Stoke, personally. Consistently hilarious.

i dunno. When he got bad he stayed bad and it was really bad

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normally i'd defend a player from fickle spurs damnation but in this one case the drop in form was bewildering enough to justify. completely appalling whenever i saw him.

xp you know what tho, when i think of thuggery i think of the useless excess of it, your michael browns & ben thatchers. ok the shawcross thing happened that time but otherwise stoke are just direct, effective and competently building every year. have some respect.

(the only black mark against them might be how much its actually costing them to get this far but that seems to be an unknown.)

also, and contrary to some slander i see on here, jon walters is a good player fuiud

I find Stoke almost entirely ignorable tbh. Them bringing the laughs/rage on here is their highest purpose for me.

while they have shawx they will forever be #1 evil

Will always hate Stoke discussion on ILX for when Pennant signed for them and everyone ignored my "Pennant is coming for a bowl of lobby and he loikes it very much, duck" line.

I thought Stoke were building reasonably cheaply and financially sensibly? Although breaking the bank on Palacios and Crouch may change that. Pennant might be on faintly stupid wages as well I suppose.

i know theyre being bankrolled by coates to a large extent even despite the strong support, but outside of transfer fees opinion seems to differ on what kind of wages they're doling out - if dean whitehead is on like 50k a week then it's not so great

does strike me i need to stfu before fate arranges them breaking adel

http://i.imgur.com/fgHi9.png

..says Frank "Frankie 'Fat Frank' Lamps" Lampard.

It's not actually him though is it

Yeah, it appears not. That would have been very sad were it him.

stoke are ok are stokie

Pulis clumsily trying to build a siege mentality around them is prob their most objectionable characteristic. Your boys are big boys tony they can take a little stick

pulis' hat fucking annoys me. looks like he's in the NRA or going fishing constantly.

Steampunk Stoke are great, love em.

Jose Enrique insists his £6million switch from Newcastle to Liverpool is all about glory - not cash.

Weird thing to have to say. Why would anyone in their right mind stay at Newcastle when they could move to Liverpool?

hang on what year is it?

he was in contract negotiations with newcastle so presumably he could be accused of leaving purely cos they didn't offer him enough or whatever.

well, dunno if he actually began negotiations but nufc wanted to.

Just for the record: I have nothing against Stoke, either.

I thought Stoke were a brave side last season

It's useful to have a pool of sides you don't much care about, in the event of close relegation scraps and such, so for that reason I vaguely approve of them.

Bolton's new signing Chris Eagles has questioned the wisdom of going ahead with Saturday's Premier League opener at QPR.

'If you're playing you never know what might happen. They could ransack the pitch.

'You don't know what they're capable of. We want to be safe. If a fire blows up you could get caught in the middle of it.'

That's the Bolton spirit!

Chris Eagles o_O

Didn't know he was EPL worthy (still).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nhcv6Ho3ic

We're 4-4-2 with Fletcher and Doyle up front. And Maierhofer on the bench! Maybe I'm still pished from last night. Maybe we shd've tried to get a left back during the close.

Looking at the Liverpool and Sunderland teams, this must be a pretty exciting moment to be a fan of either - such different looking lineups to last season. Gonna watch this game I think - intrigued by nu-Liverpool.

YES FOOTBALL IS BACK YAY

That had to be a red card. First reaction was a dive though.

LOLs Suarez

Aw jeez. Going to be a long season.