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

when you're aiming to consolidate in the top 8 then you've no business paying over 50k so i guess they'll be ok

― modric conservative (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:31 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbh any club in the country shouldn't be looking to pay more than straight 50k per player (before performance related bonuses), bar the captain and top two names. but you know

tbh spurs may be even better pound-for-pound. although i guess the carroll money skews the outcome a bit.

tbh need to stop saying tbh tbh

I wonder if any other clubs were in for him.

p sure there are no super quality strikers on the market atm

/wenger

"What's so special about Arsenal is the family atmosphere and the warmth," Van Persie said. "When you come in here, you're always welcomed like a brother. Mikel Arteta (the summer signing from Everton) played against us for years but he walks into the dressing-room and he's one of us.

"The kit men, Vic and Paul Akers, have worked at the club for years. They love the club and they do everything for us; outfits, shoes, balls but, also, when I want to go to Disney on Ice, they arrange it. They represent the true Arsenal feeling and we've got some more like these men."

We're fucked.

hahaha

hahaha

another MLS goalscorer from the past couple of years is trialing with a struggling prem side -- sebastien le toux to bolton?

I'll take whatever we can get tbh.

so not baller

Red Bulls defender (for now at least) Tim Ream was at Old Trafford on Saturday to take in Bolton’s Premier League match against Manchester United, a 3-0 victory for the Red Devils.

Reached by text message Saturday morning and asked if he was in the stands Ream responded, “No, in a box.”

When the U.S. national team defender was asked if he could handle a phone call later Saturday he wrote, “Yah, when I get a new international number so I’m not paying an arm and a leg.”

Ream, 23, probably will not have to worry about those expenses much longer. He is expected to be introduced by Bolton early this week in a deal that will substantially increase his modest M.L.S. salary from last season, which was listed as $62,625.

definitely talent to be had on the cheap here -- le toux had a so-so 2011 w/ 11 goals in 34 games, but in 2010 he had 14 in 28, plus 11 assists. his salary for last year is listed at $179k.

It's just nice to be able to aspire to footballer wages for once.

real value in ireland still imo

http://www.arshavin.eu/en/news.php?id=746

http://info.citroen.co.uk/assets/images/editorial/CitroenDS5ArsenalCinemagraphHeader.gif

http://info.citroen.co.uk/our-news/editorial/stylish-football-cinemagraphs-from-citroen/

lfc appear to have gotten a good kit deal, i don't understand there being a story here tbh

The adidas ones have been mostly rubbish. Too much going on. I hope the new guys revert to classic simplicity.

hmm.

Shanghai Shenhua claim they were in talks to sign striker Didier Drogba just a month after landing his Chelsea team-mate Nicolas Anelka. Shenhua owner Zhu Jun said: "It's like flirting with a girl. Perhaps she will resist you at first, but if you continue to ask her out, it always ends well. Never give up.

Zhu Jun sounds like a rapey character.

Yes he does. a bit too rapey for my liking

you can chase a girl w/out raping her fyi guys

Funny I was just reading an article last week (was it in the New Statesman?) about how the Chinese are shite at football

yes but you can also be taught no means no

i dunno, maybe chinese ppl are different being disgusting savages and all

it was prob this Tom D? http://www.economist.com/node/21541716

good read imo.

The Economist! Right!

Looks like Onuoha to QPR is a thing. Decent signing I think?

always liked onouha, maybe not as a top 4 player but as 4th best english right back. kinda like warnock.

he's never 4th best!

warnock or onouha?

warnock was prob 3rd best lb option for a while, but i meant onouha at rb

Smalling, richards, johnson, walker and i'm not even stretching, kelly at liverpool, naughton, phil nev maybe, gnev maybe,

I applaud the Herculean levels of restraint it must have taken for you not to put Rooney in there.

^^^^^^^this

Also Onouha's a centre-back really? Ditto Smalling.

So the JTW has been p dead... Cahill happened...

Blimey FFP is going to be boring until clubs start going under.

Yeah! Die, Darlington, Die!

definitely the overreaction i am having.

i'm off the rooney rb trip, pour one out for my homie suedey ;_;

Yeah jan's been dead, it's a problematic window historically tbf

Drogba and Malouda are on their way.

In fact, without meaning to prejudice a trial, think about why Drogba and Malouda want out of EBJT's Chelsea.

pfft this time last year i think suarez was about to sign which in turn made the lols to end all lols begin

So the JTW has been p dead

Didn't the whole Torres/Carroll madness happen on the very last day?

last ten mins

we'd had suarez and dzeko by now

Liverpool signing w/ Warrior is kinda lol for some reason, I had no idea they did anything but hockey gear

don't think they did till recently when they got a deal with the red sox.

QPR getting Taiwo from Milan, that seems like a good signing.

he was one of the last next big things

heard kranjcar and pav too, i'll support them myself if that happens

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jan/19/manchester-united-david-de-gea-eye-surgery