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

I think Parker is overrated, myself. He was the best thing in a very lacklustre West Ham team last season, but I went to see them a few times and couldn't quite see why he was getting the rave notices. He looked like he cared in a team of apathetics, but that's not enough on its own. His passing was often not the best - it was the box-to-boxness that made him stand out, but that's not the crucial thing in a team that wants to play a quick passing game. Doesn't surprise me that no one's come in for him at the reputed £8m - for a 29yo who'll want four years on big wages, with no prior record of tearing up trees.

wouldnt tempt fate if i were you, just in case spurs dont seal the deal

bentley and bent were ok, not great value, at approx 16m each, but the wages were joke figures. We did well to get bent sold, we'll never shift bentley at his current level. Loan out to showcase him was a solid idea but he wasn't great iirc

meant to say at blackburn up thread...before spurs signed him i meant.

xpost Would take him at Loftus Road, but out ambitions are lower than Spurs'. Not sure we need him now we've got Mad Joey though.

Giovani dos Santos Ramírez[1] (born 11 May 1989) is a Mexican footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.

Use him! Could play in VDV's position, on the right instead of Lennon ... Or sell him already, so I can watch him somewhere.

xp did you see that paul smudge from the mirror tweeting about us being in for bellamy btw? just imagine.

      
                        pav
  dos santos
Krancjar                bentley
         thudd   pienaar

Xpost Yeah, I saw that. Bollocks, I'm sure. He seems to be revered by QPR fans for not getting the FA hearing as wrong as a load of other pundits, but when I worked in the football press I didn't have a high opinion of him. Smudge, not Bellamy.

xposts. Didn't realise dos Santos is still actually at Spurs. Thought his loan to Santander had become permanent weeks ago.

I did a news search as well as checking Wikipedia, saw a recent link to Espanyol and persistent links to Sevilla (where Santander's coach left for), but apparently it hasn't happened yet.

Look, it's an interview with Robbie Keane, complete with photo of that horrible goal celebration.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/leaving-for-la-robbies-revenge-2860332.html

Not particularly mind-blowing tbh.

is there a more reliable alternative to livesportontv these days?

Man it was annoying that ESPN's game this week was the boring Aston Villa/Wolves match, when there so many other exciting ones I would have rather watched. I think I need to pony up for Fox Soccer Network.

they don't have much choice in that tbf. and yeah, you should get FSC. you get the excitement of having Piers Morgan come on their Sunday post-game/weekend-roundup.

just upgraded my TV to get ESPN/eurosport and TiVo. do I plump for sky sports? on one hand streams suck, otoh my money would be going to sky

Well I know they don't have much choice, I was just moaning about how it ended up this weekend. Piers Morgan? Thats a big strike against them, tbh.

fwiw i'd go round to rupert murdoch's house twice a year to suck him off for the range of football coverage i get, so the extra few quid a month instead doesn't bother me

Forlan has gone to Inter

Warren Barton and the other two recreate plays on their little mini-pitch in the studio at half-time. It is sad/lolzy. xpost

Yossi/Meireles swap, says Twitter.

plus cash, right?

Huh?! Everything's wrong with that picture, except that I like Yossi.

you get the excitement of having Piers Morgan come on their Sunday post-game/weekend-roundup.

I didn't stick around for the GOS show after ManU vs Arsenal but I kind of wish I could have; they were saying that he's a Gunners fan.

no mention of cash dmac.

Morgan's twitter primarily consists of invective directed at Michael Owen/Wayne Rooney/Ferdinand and hysterical claims for Wenger to be sacked.

I 8 - 2 to say it but...

- Cesc just won his second trophy at Barcelona in a matter of days

- Nasri got three assists for Man City

At least Raul will get a well-deserved pay rise. I'm going to have to face facts and actually like Chelsea now the remodelling is largely through

Yossi/Raul thing aint concrete, but the guy it's come from usually knows what's going on. Could simply be AVB giving KD a quick call to sound him out, or vice versa. Or they're swapping football stickers.

cant see a straight swap deal tbh.

How is Yossi even still playing in England? Is he really still that good or is he just part of your league now and people think he's a nice guy?

Well maybe Comolli and Henry will give the nice Mr Abromovitch some money as well. xpost to Darra

It shouldn't be, but the club clearly don't rate him like we do. That said, it's hard to see Yossi as first choice.

Frimpong stripped Piers Morgan of his Arsenal supporter status on Twitter, earned his salary by that act alone imo.

Giving Chelsea a better player than the one we get back? Dud. Having said that if they take Joe Cole's wages off our hands as well I might be persuaded. Oh wait...no I won't. Raul and Suarez will be good together I think.

It's not going to happen though; I think

   Suarez
      Gerrard
 Downing  Adam
Henderson  Lucas

if yossi goes for meireles i'll cut off my hand and post a pic of the bloody stump on this thread. not a hope...

Letting Mereiles go would be outright insane. Great player.

if yossi goes for meireles i'll cut off my hand and post a pic of the bloody stump on this thread. not a hope...

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yeah got this bookmarked.

Didn't realise Meireles was so highly rated. Assume he's a back-up option in case Modric falls through. Moutinho and Pereira also being discussed and Arsenal in for Benayoun apparently.

Don't know if you guys wanna move the transfer speculation to the "My client became a Youtube sensation" thread for these last couple of days of the *Transfer Window*, but "my sources tell me" (lol) that Chelsea bid £8m + Yossi for Meireles tonight. LFC rejected the bid, Chelsea are planning to improve it. LFC don't particularly want Yossi, but Yossi would like to return.

we don't need yossi back and if we take 10m or 12m for meireles someone has lost their mind.

Can't wait for Wednesday night.

we don't need yossi back and if we take 10m or 12m for meireles someone has lost their mind.

Otm. Yossi's not bad but Meireles fits better. Not sure about the price.

idk raul meireles seems to be white but his attempts at carrying off the combat 18 aesthetic are a bit fey

Agreed. On the other hand, I do want to see him get a game (Yossi too) and for whatever reason it looks like that won't be here.

xps

Can't wait for Wednesday night.

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shit yeah. was planning on going to see planet of the apes but might try to convince my mate to just watch ssn with some beers.

http://i.imgur.com/7uojx.jpg

Sir Alex Ferguson's impact at Old Trafford has intensified the allure the club has held for generations. The craving of businesses to be associated with United verged on self-parody when DHL chose to sponsor the training kit for £10m a year.

wtf?