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

btw 'Arry in the Guardian this morning reckons Modric is staying fer sure and that's the end of that. AVB on Sky said the difference btw Chelsea's offer and what Spurs will accept was too wide for the deal to happen.

Ginola? I was thinking Steffen Freund.

he made my top 22 ballot for that thing sam never did

Harry's been smacked down good & proper there. Professing self delighted, no mention of the stronger team he was planning to build, etc.

Is that the end of that then?

It's probably not the end of that. Hope Modric actually picks himself up and doesn't piss and whine and play like shit for an entire season.

Adebayor signing on its own should make a massive difference. Anyone know anything about Iago Falque?

Delighted that Levy's ad a word. Took too long tbh.

Modric will play and will be fine.

Adebayor-Crouch switch worth minimum twelve league goals between scored and play around the box.

Fourth.

Only fourth? You ought to be better off than the time you did get fourth.

City and United both better than that season though, and I don't like our chances of finshing about Chelsea.

I mean City and Liverpool. United are irrelevant to how well we do, especially as they always beat us whatever happens.

we're ahead of lfc now imo, but it's close.

Not a hope in hell spurs finish 4th.

I get the feeling it's not a very happy ship at the moment, the look on Kranjcar's face last night just screamed "can I be bothered?"

I don't think that players like Kranjcar and Defoe (ie good enough to play a part if not first XI) are likely to be effectively motivated by an entire summer's worth of "We consider you to be deadwood and are trying to move you on" stories. That's before you consider what the Modric saga must be doing.

Kranjcar looked like Ashton Kutcher yesterday.

9th, and and an FA Cup qf this season I think, good old days :(

I think there'll be three fighting for 1st (City, Utd, Chelsea) and three fighting for 4th (Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal). Anyone's guess how each of those groups pans out.

Seems accurate.

idk there's a diffidence to chelsea and a cuntyness to liverpool that makes me think the latter will finish higher

This Charmless Man

Asked about his England contingent, Ferguson said: "It is fantastic. The FA may realise who has produced more players for their country than any club in the world.

"Maybe they will get some joy from it and realise how important we are to England instead of treating us like s***.

re: iago - i believe he is the spiritual successor to quaresma in that he had oodles of talent but his mentality is so warped that he'll never have a good run of games. or so has been the word on him for a while now.

Asked about his England contingent, Ferguson said: "It is fantastic. The FA may realise who has produced more players for their country than any club in the world.

"Maybe they will get some joy from it and realise how important we are to England instead of treating us like s***.

fergie is west ham boss?

the real motivator for most of these guys, once transfer window shuts, is to be picked when they merit it. Can understand krancjar and pavlyuchenko being unhapoy, less so defoe or crouch. Modric dissatisfied for different reasons, but though i love him v much i have to say that a couple more goals/kilkers through balls against the limited opposition we faltered against last year might have had him still playing in a cl team.

Talk of offering him a new contract is nonsense. He doesn't want to ad won't be here in two years, so wtf give him a pay rise in the interim?

This is based on the premise that i don't think not moving will affect his performances over the season.

actually

Club providing the most England internationals in total [42]
Aston Villa, 72 (as of 9 February 2011)

from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_national_football_team_records

West Ham aren't in the top ten as far as I recall

trained youths or what?

Since when?

Most appearances without ever playing at the European Championship finals [22]
Rio Ferdinand, 81, 15 November 1997 – 4 June 2011

blimey

I think it's "first capped while playing for that club."

Since ever.

No fewer than 21 of Villa's 72 England internationals played just once for the national team during their time at the club, and 13 of these had only a single cap in their careers. In these statistical records, Scott Carson in 2007 also goes on to the record of Aston Villa players who have turned out for England, despite being on loan from Liverpool at the time.

hands off Carson

that's how he appears in the records too

I find it slightly amusing that everyone on here rates Rooney again.

hands off Carson

Not sure how you can claim him for Arsenal

everyone?

Well, give it another couple of months

no....

I don't expect miracles

he has a team of multimillion pound footballers set up around him, and when he's not fat and wants to play he's effective.

He's more often fat and off form, tbh

Grim news

Lovely stuff from purple nose there, what an asset to the game.

Bruce ups bid to 12m after Gibson injury

Gibson's move to Sunderland broke down cos of his wage demands, which boggles my mind frankly

Bruce warns Ferguson he won't be drawn into a cut price deal for 20m rated Gibson, adding that if a bidding war for the injured Subbuteo accessory begins he will blow all rivals out of the water.

extremely punchable face, has gibson

The fact that he's called DarrON has always been the thing that's irritated me most. That, and the whole being terrible at football aspect.

great cunter tho

http://rudsoccers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ddd2.jpg

Can't even remember the last time he proper cunted one, though he was good in the second leg against Schalke

http://www.infamouskidd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/the-shining-jack-maze.jpg

pig nose is the most irritating thing, i feel.

I get the feeling it's not a very happy ship at the moment, the look on Kranjcar's face last night just screamed "can I be bothered?"
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 August 2011 10:56 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

playing in a game that's already 5-0 up on aggregate?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/aug/26/samir-nasri-manchester-city-cringe/print

pretty good

Have recently finished dreaming that Villa go one up in the first minute and Wolves are 4-1 up by half time