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

ah, but the question is- how good is redknapp's dutch?

He should have a schat with Schteve

Redknapp told the Sun: "Rafa is a terrific footballer. He has great skill. But if you're in the team and asked to do a job, really, you should just do it.

"It does seem to be a problem. Rafa can't run back and chase the full-back. Against the better teams it is a problem. His best position is in the middle, playing just behind the front man. The only problem is that Jermain Defoe plays there too and Jermain is playing very, very well at the moment.

"So, I guess I have got a decision to make, haven't I? I suppose it's now between Rafa and Jermain over who plays in the team."

O RLY?

Had never considered that vdv and defoe play the same position tbh

with adebayor, they kind of do though.

arry otm in his response, tho. flippant but what else do you say to someone who says 'i don't like tracking back'

I see this thread has reverted to being a Tottenham Hotspurs thread

is it ever not a spurs thread tbh?

when we're not in the epl i guess????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

so what do you guys think about newcastle?

got rid of barton
ba is p much the best striker not named aguero
coloccini and jonas have long stopped being crap

think that not posting the recent 'rodwellgate' into the clusterfuck thread was an opportunity missed btw

Even Pardew can't seem to scupper them

(xp)

cabaye and tiote is a v good midfield pairing. pardew manager of the yar so far. still think they're liable to go on a 6 match losing streak at some point tho

newcastle fans complaining about not having a striker after they'd signed ba had me smdh

in 6 mths they've lost their best 4 players? nolan, carroll, enrique, barton. p amazing really. Is the guy who broke his leg last season back yet? er... ben arfa?

Ben Arfa is fit but i don't think he's first choice yet

ba is p much the best striker not named aguero

wait really?

Ben Arfa played against Forest in the Carling Cup, came on against Blackburn, and was an unused sub at Wolves.

ba is p much the best striker not named aguero

wait really?

― mizzell, Thursday, October 6, 2011 3:07 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

no, he forgot andy johnson

ba is p fuckin good, good epl standard anyway

a 'ticking time bomb' acc to Pulis iirc

pulis feels that way about all strikers, hence standing orders for his midfielders to deliver the ball from a safe distance of min. 40 yards

Demba looks really good and prolific and all that but he's no Suarez or whatever. He and Best together could be great, still feel like Newcastle themselves could take a couple of big beatings and then implode for a while, but they'll be top half I reckon.

Alan Pardew is a fuckwit though. I remember after the first Newcastle game of the season he said he took Ba off because he wasn't getting a pass. Had he seriously not worked out how to get his players to pass to their expensive and prolific new striker by then? And then he left him on the bench for several games.

maybe it was a veiled hint to the player to do more to get on the end of it?

I'm not sure that pardew is all that bad, tbph.

wonder if one or both of Sow and Cisse will move to England and how they compare to Ba (Sengal are stacked with 26 year old strikers)

ok yeah aguero > suarez > ba > rvp > dzeko > chicarito

Think Cisse is better than Ba tbh. I rate him v highly, perhaps too highly.

a lol lol

Moussa Sow impressed me v much the 3-4 times I saw Lille play last season, always much more than Gervinho, though their roles were different.

forgot Robson's glorious Man U career during the 80s that saw them 4 times division 1 winners and a couple of European Cup wins too

Impeccable logic. By the same token I assume that (off the top of my head) Fabregas, Gerrard, Le Tissier and Shearer are/were a bag of shite, whereas David May is one of the all-time greats.

Robson's United career for the first half of the 80s largely consisted of him more or less single-handedly keeping the team in contention, then inevitably getting injured (again) and watching the team collapse without him (again).

makes you wonder how ppl will remember van persie

as the fourth best premier league striker of his era

behind Drogba, Torres, one of Tevez/CRon/Rooney?

as the man who brought the title to Man City?

not behind torres!

Alan Pardew is a fuckwit though. I remember after the first Newcastle game of the season he said he took Ba off because he wasn't getting a pass. Had he seriously not worked out how to get his players to pass to their expensive and prolific new striker by then? And then he left him on the bench for several games.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:29 (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

iirc fuckwit pardew was also blaming ba's form on ramadan even though a/ it finished like a month earlier and b/ it hadnt seemed to bother edin dzeko much

i was referring to a hoy hoy's ranking above

nor fukn rooney neither

He's behind drogba, alright. Injuries taken into account, though, he's sadly not near fourth.

lol rtc dzeko is white you merked urself

Robson's United career for the first half of the 80s largely consisted of him more or less single-handedly keeping the team in contention, then inevitably getting injured (again) and watching the team collapse without him (again).

ok fair point, i'll concede Robson was perhaps one of those players who is well short of international class but a talismanic figure for their club. like Gerrard, Lampard etc.

that was a 'on todays form' ranking and is why i didnt include drogs.

And yet you didn't include the premier league's top scorer? Hmmmm

on today's form it's adebayor, vdv, defoe, rvp

premierships top goalscorer is a plucky right back tho?

so sick of the pro-rooney bias around here

lol

Describing his transfer on Deadline Day, he said: "It was very stressful. At 6pm, they said everything had broken down. Then, at 8.30pm, everything started again. But there wasn't time to have a medical. I went to the offices of the club (Everton) and from there I told Arsenal to trust me and that if some medical problem was found it would be my responsibility."

Such was the interest in the little Peruvian that his first appearance in a black and white shirt for Newcastle reserves resulted in the kick off being delayed to accommodate the large crowd, many of whom had been delayed after a lorry had shed its load blocking one of the major routes into the city. Solano justified the turnout with a goal.

While the most objectionable people at Chelsea used to be kept in the stands, with John Terry they broke onto the pitch. JT, the white man who had a fruity discussion with the black Ledley King during a sending off, he’s their icon. Their Cantona, the man with the intrinsic emotional bond between player and supporters. A humble man who considered a fitting tribute to Guus Hiddink to be, ‘he kept in touch with me – which shows the measure of the man,’ without irony. This is their icon, who abused his position as club and England captain – no apology yet. Mr Chelsea, who supposedly put the knife in Mourinho’s back. Like Chelsea overall, he carries the unearned air of knowledge and civility, only to out himself as charmless and self-regarding. There are two types of cunt in this world, everyone else, and those who are John Terry.