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

also former ynahtid also-ran richard eckersley

2009–2012 	Burnley 	0 	(0)
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2011–2012 	→ Toronto (loan) 	23 	(0)
2012– 	Toronto 	0 	(0)
2012– 	→ Burnley (loan) 	0 	(0)

winter coaches at toronto, that team is beyond basket-case status and has been for years

n'kufo was waived by seattle hours before their opening day match last season, iirc he didn't contribute very much there

How's John Rooney getting on?

gone

Noooooo! Still he got a trip to New York out of it, that's a success of sorts.

is freddie still there

japan

huh

hasn't been in the MLS in ages though has he?

anyway sorry for the derail, just think that if Gallas wants a last payday he'd be better off in Qatar than flying coach 2000mi cross-country to play against hungry Colombian 20somethings who have been getting poached from the top clubs down there left and right

xp yeah he left after 2010 and went to celtic

oh wait i thought you were talking about Adu, who i see returned recently

just presumed he went there to play parttime/retire and never followed up on his career. (sorry dan)

celtic? well i'm less inclined to pay attention to scottish football than mls, which is saying something.

np, he played half a season in Chicago, scored a few goals and hit up the clubs with Nery Castillo, then said so long and thanks for all the $

nery castillo has scored five club goals since he joined shakhtar for €20m four and a half years ago

Claudio Caniggia turned 45 yesterday. If wikipedia is to be believed, he scored 122 goals in a 20-year club & international career. That's, um, not very impressive. Still, happy birthday Claudio!

probably still end up better value than Carroll etc

i can even remember ppl opining that was money well spent when castillo scored vs brazil in the copa america that year

i dont think there has ever been a fall as abrupt as that, even denilson had a couple of good years

Wrong thread, I suppose (is there a right one?), but tune into Sky Sports 1 for the poor man's El Classico right now.

Crystal Palace v Cardiff (in an all-white change strip)

the greek exchequer's el classico

today is making me sad only 4 people voted in my best playa ever poll. two of which were darragh.

You want to do the 90s one? The iron is hot.

mine was pretty much all 90s players anyway

there are probably like 20 ppl in the world who have seen a broad enough array of matches from 1955-present in order to make a thorough judgement

well yeah it was p much suggested at the time to be best players of our lifetimes

I've only just realised it's the Milk Cup semi-final, not a Championship game

Pretty sure I voted for Mathias Sindelaar

looking back i actually got 7 votes (2 by darragh). and you didnt ismael, but you did vote for a player who currently plays for newcastle.

iirc i used the methodology of 'sure enough about from what i've seen, no frontin'

can't remember votin 2x

I've been proved right about Newcastle so far this season

http://i.imgur.com/Ved7u.png

his ability hexagon is shaped like wayne rooney's head

carroll to newcastle, £15mil

ba to PSG

yeah???

it just gets overlooked beneath the rather too obvious messi/ronaldo top tier, which isn't actually a top tier so much as messi deciding when he wants to take his feet off c-ron's fingertips and watch him fall away

I share the general feeling that Messi and Ronaldo *shouldn't* be as clos as they appear to be - but in what areas do you expect Messi to improve?

(Thought the Swansea diss immediately following the above post was funny, and true enough as well.)

carroll to newcastle, £15mil

And Real Madrid are preparing a £30mn bid for Suarez. It's like Rafa never jacked it in to become a blogger.

make it so
http://football-talk.co.uk/55339/cristiano-ronaldo-set-sensational-return-man-utd/

carroll to newcastle, £15mil

wishful thinking

If the latter post qualifies as wishful thinking, how to describe the former?

Torres back to Liverpool for £10m and the circle is complete.

Torres to Atletico Madrid for €100,000

Carroll back to Newcastle would have to rely on Newcastle having not squandered the £35million, or that fat Ashley didn't nick it all. Definitely wishful thinking.

Also, Carroll is a scumbag - Newcastle are a much more likeable team now they got rid of all the idiots like Bramble, Woodgate, Carroll, Barton, etc, etc. They'd be better off without him.

They'd be better off with Ba

Barton went off at Matty Holland on twitter last night. For some reason.

let me guess, is it because Barton's a cunt?

Joey7Barton Joseph Barton
I have worked out that I probably love about 12 people in the world, I like about 35, I don't mind about 100, the rest of u, well can jog on

the EPL is more interesting than a few yrs ago cuz there are five high-level teams who play good football (citeh, tottenham, arsenal), intermittently play good football (ynahtid) or provide some sort of intrigue (chelsea)

in 2k7 or so chelsea and liverpool were both relentlessly dull relentless attritional crap and none of the lower-mid table 'can play a bit' sides could actually play like swansea are right now

While this is all true I sort of think the overall quality of the top teams is lower than in previous years. City obviously can score at will but can't actually defend that well, in fact no one can defend that well, there isn't an obvious Champions League finalist among the top teams, etc etc. But this doesn't actually matter as it's making for a MUCH more exciting league.

The quality of positions 5-10 or so is probably better than in previous years. I don't even think the relegation threatened clubs are that bad in relation to previous years - Blackburn look like they could stay up with a better manager in place, even Wigan don't appear to be a completely lost cause.

There's no way Sam Allardyce's Bolton would get a sustained run in the top four or five nowadays.