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

Not Sturridge if he wants out so he can play up front somewhere else. xpost

AVB may well be too vain and too aloof and too downright odd to turn that club around but the job still needs doing and i feel for him in terms of the unnecessary friction he's got to overcome.

Judging by Luiz' not even token effort in closing down an Everton shot after a poor Ashley Cole pass that they highlighted on MOTD I'm not sure he's on AVB's side. Or he's just crap.

Incidentally I have only just caught up with last weekends MOTD and Pienaar looked like the 3rd best player in the world!!

Yeah, pretty sure Luis is shit.

I'm really just hoping the "turmoil" continues for the rest of the season. A Tevez-esque walkout from Lamps/Terry/Cashley might go down well but I suppose it's unlikely.

Napoli game will be fascinating

So Chelsea need, in the summer:

- A new goalkeeper
- At least two central defenders
- A proper creative midfielder
- Another winger/wide forward
- At least one reliable goal-machine who can lead the line

That's a long long way off a title/CL-winning team. It's the fault of flawed recruitment/squad building policies for years really. Sacking AVB and reinstating the old guard is just repeating the mistake.

Which really, is what I hope they do, but not before the summer. Suspect that installing Hiddink at this stage might give the players someone they want to play for which could be the difference between 4th and total ignominy.

I'd be quite happy with AVB at Anfield if he gets the boot tbh. It won't happen obviously.

So, Hiddink is cashing in, he's off to Anzhi

hmmph, leaves only capello, mourinho and mccarthy for spurs

is Clark taken already?

I think Harry will do the Euros parttime then go back to Spurs

arry will do the euros part time and then afterwards somebody will find out that there is several million missing from the england budget and glen johnson is owned by a consortium of Kazakh taxi drivers and arry will return to spurs none the wiser

It's an unenviable time to be managing the worst England squad in years on a part-time basis. I reckon it's possible that England may yet do so badly in the Euros with Harry in charge that the shine may come off the prospect altogether.

Wasn't Capello going to leave after the Euro's anyway? So presumably the FA have someone lined up to replace Capello anyway and the discussion was always going to be who would be England manager short-term, right?

I think you are giving the FA rather too much credit there.

Yes, was thinking that, but I'm sure they were planning for Redknapp to take over

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AVB for England. Proven cup comp ability! Definitely wants to be a dude who can ship off and old guard and start again and he'd have more opportunity doing that to Terry et al at England than at Chelsea.

Then Harry to Chelsea for transfer LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLs.

It's an unenviable time to be managing the worst England squad in years on a part-time basis

On any basis tbh. But at least if you're part-time you're responsible for what happened before the tourney or what happens after. You just have to 'ave a go while you're there.

I reckon it's possible that England may yet do so badly in the Euros with Harry in charge that the shine may come off the prospect altogether

Yes, on both sides. Meaning it can be wrapped up in an honourable conclusion (insofar as possible with England) and noöne losing face (ditto).

Part-time then give it up is definitely what I'd do - you get to fulfil your ambition in a way that plays to your strengths (motivation, being popular, the short-term) and avoid the drudge of the part of the job that doesn't.

yes !!

BAE always gives great quotes

"When I think about it now, I wonder what I was doing so far up the pitch in the fourth minute but that is what Harry has got us doing. That is what makes him so special.

"He encourages us to play football and to express ourselves. He even lets me play with my afro, although I must confess that is more down to my laziness and unwillingness to go out in the cold to get my hair done."

I was going to say there's no way he used that quote but if it was translated literally from French he might well have done.

so the AEG takeover of Spurs is a story again (at least I think it was before). Anchutz is a conservative christian dick but will this at least be good for Spurs football-wise?

Aren't they already owned by a billionaire?

He owns the Dome as well, so looking forward to the Naming Rights Stadium becoming the O2 Stadium. Classy.

both billionaires but anscgutz is worth twice what lewis is, and there is a least the suggestion that aeg would spend more.

Hadn't heard about AEG for Spurs before. They did own most of MLS at one point.

Anschutz is a definite UGH.

Yay

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Manchester-United-exclusive-Nemanja-Vidic-poised-to-return-this-season-after-knee-surgery-article866620.html

'worst england squad in years'

Dunno.

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pleased to see McClean's been called up!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17097694

I was in Dublin on Saturday and got chatting briefly to an old bloke in a pub - he claimed to know nothing about football, yet McClean was the second thing he talked about (property market was first)

well you don't have to know much to think that ignoring someone who's in form like he is now is completely daft like.

I know a bit about footy and the bloke's barely crossed my radar tbh

Anyway 'twas a short trip, the chat served well as a state-of-the-nation primer I thought

ik if you keep ignoring me in dublin i'll be put out tbph

I trekked up & down Grafton St and round St Stephen's Green twice, wtf were you?

out of his mind on pints of harp

i was there, but was in and out of accesorise and next tbf

Gah, that's twice now iirc. I ventured into hmv and that Butler's cafe thing at the bottom but that was it, never thought to try the haute couture places or yer boutiques.

I support bringing Brian McDermott to the EPL.

On the other hand faced with Bruce as favourite I'd be happy if Osama bin Laden turned up alive and available for interview.

wolves of the steppes

as a southampton fan, i also support wolves taking mcdermott to the EPL

Scott Dann has described rupturing his testicle as 'more painful than it sounds'.

tbf I'm not sure how much noise rupturing a testicle makes

I'd guess it would go "splorch"

THEO WALCOTT has emerged as a shock target for Chelsea.

And the Arsenal and England winger could even be in line for a shock swap with Stamford Bridge striker Daniel Sturridge.

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which club has the better clash of deckchairs tho?

I mean it's clearly bollocks, even AVB isn't deluded enough to believe that shipping out top scorer Sturridge in favour of Theo Walcott is the way to rejoin Europe's elite.