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

fao deems

mcgeady >>>>>>>>>>>> doyle

Doyle was good at one time. McGeady has never been good

in soviet russia, mcgeady is good

Doyle just seems to have had enough this season, I still think he's capable of a lot more in a better team

very clever nakh

doyle is alright

37 in 155 epl games

maybe his indirect productivity like running the channels, chasing lost causes, stretching defences is a bit overvalued, cuz he does do a lot of work but idk if it outweighs the poor scoring record

this season he has the look of a guy who's not gonna roll that giant boulder up the hill just to watch it roll down the other side again anymore

and if he was playing in a team capable of capitalising on all that work you cd see the value more clearly

he's definitely looked like his heart's not in it the last while for Ireland. McGeady is as frustrating as ever

mcgeady is fairly good, tho i do probably overvalue any uk/ireland player with nice technique

crap record for ireland but he doesnt fit the team at all

Dunphy championed him for a long time cos he was the only Irish player with any technical ability but even he's not bothering any more

there are a few with reasonable technique but mcgeady probably a smidgen above them

what happened to the scottish kid at wigan? was he playing tonight

james mccarthy i think is his name but i always spell mac/mc/mcc wrong

Both McCarthy and McArthur were both excellent for Wigan tonight. McCarthy's nascent Ireland career is already a long and tedious saga

fao nakh- doyle at everton will one in two it, his heart's not been in it for ireland since trap bizarrely attacked him last year and nv otm about wolves

90% of Ireland-based football conversations now revolve around Trappatoni's text-messaging habits

id fancy irelands chances better with jimmy m in a 433, not that it would be hugely incisive but even just to manage a bit of possession so the phrase heroic rearguard action isnt used before halftime

kinda want to do a "your mum likes a heroic rearguard action" joke here just because it's structurally pleasing

Go for it

your mum is clive tyldesley?

ITS FINISHED says Mancini...ok didnt expect him to say that

Hansen says Utd should have had two penalties. CONSPIRACY

Martin Keown has a terrifying neck

City need to start Tevez every match now

"there was contact, a touch, a coming together, a tangle of legs"

jesus stfu pearce

madness upthread, mcgeady is shit

and he doesn't have good technique either, all he can do is an occasional barnstorming dribble... can't pass, can't shoot, can't cross.

piecemeal empiricism at its worst

mcgeady is shit

forgot to say, he lacks personality to the extent he makes mcshane look like keano

I'm still making my mind up with Aiden. It's weird having the most skilful player in the country yet being kind of pleased someone took an expensive punt on him. I think he'd make a great Valencia but tries too hard to be a Jinky.

A frustrating talent, but not as frustrating as Georgios Samaras.

The stadium managers sought to reinforce that message as before kick-off Loftus Road's giant screen showed Al Pacino's famous motivational speech from the film Any Given Sunday.

thing is man city didn't win it, united imploded

snap

mcgeady is shit btw. a gap in the team, unless one of his curiously ballooned crosses is dropped by an albanian postal clerk or w/e

commolli leaves lfc

if this means Dalglish pushing for more control of the football side of things then this can only mean lols or heartbreak, depending on which shirt you wear

surely surely this is dalglish's dying swing.

The theory behind DOF is sound, but there are no coaches in english football, only managers.

I'd rather they kept Commoli and hired Unai Emery (if Valencia's fans run him out of town)

Taking the fall for the Andy Carroll signing.

Except that Dalglish explicitly stated this morning that he himself identified every single player Commolli signed.

DOF is a great idea, it is just Commolli sucks. He has, what, two successes to his name? (finding us kolo toure when he was a shitty right midfielder and i guess berbatov to spurs?).

Suarez is a good footballer.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3326/3274342549_2105bd78c5.jpg

Yeah but its not exactly a successful signing for Liverpool. Guy who spends half the season not playing and bringing down the reputation of the club.

definitive list of commolli signings is tough to compile, tbh.

If g bale was loaned out to forest two years ago he'd be a commolli failure too by now, non?

thats hardly his fault, at any other team suarez would have been told to do a mea culpa statement, the press would be briefed that he was unaware of local decorum and he might have got a two or three game ban, the decision to introduce a race war element to the liverpool persecution complex wasnt exactly comolli's

comolli was probably decisive in signing bale and modric and for that all his minor failures can be forgiven

darren bent was sold at or near the price paid

i think it's pretty clear that dalglish was the biggest determinant of last summer's transfer policy

be interesting to see if fsg appoint another dof and what happens structurally

couple of tweets appear to be suggesting there may be more news today