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

it wasn't really that good

yeah improvised comedy has its place but I tend not to equate it with gripping football drama

rooting for Downing though. One game left for a perfect season

EBJT is working on his falls. Will he fall in Euro 2012?

His next target is staying upright enough to elbow Lampard aside and lift the European Cup

dont say shit like that

Noodle must be praying that McLeish stays at Villa;he's interested in signing Karl Henry.

not just that either- he'd no doubt be considered for the wolves job.

pandemic, as the spotter's badge winner over papa cisse, who should spurs be looking at for the areas of lb, cb, cf and rw?

That Blackburn dude's been sacked. No, not that one.

Tony Blackburn?

who should spurs be looking at for the areas of lb, cb, cf and rw?

Celtic only need to be better than Motherwell next season so I heartily recommend:

lb SPL Player of the Year 2010/11: Emilio Izaguirre - £6m
lb/cb SPL Player of the Year 2011/12: Charlie Mulgrew - £5m
cf SPL Top Scorer 2011/12: Gary Hooper - £8m
rw SPL Young Player of the Year 2011/12: James Forrest - £8m

you're welcome

vertonghen, hoilett, huntelaar?

plus 'ave a little go for elia/affelay/sahin/a.johnson

darragh, the bundesliga is the only league i've really seen a lot of this season (in serie a i've only really seen milan + juve multiple times).

Therefore these suggestions are all Bundesliga based

RW - As a rotational option to Lennon I think Ashkan Dejagah (Wolfsburg) is worth a look. He's in the mold of Lennon in that he can play as a true winger (ie run down the line and cross). He has 7 or so assists this season I think. He's more physically imposing than Lennon, but a shade slower.I'd quite like someone like him at LFC tbh, a lesser Antonio Valencia if you will.

Or there's Martin Harnik (Stuttgart), lots of goals lots of assists but he's more of a 4-3-3 winger than a 4-4-2 one ie he won't get chalk on his boots.

I'll have a think about the other positions.

ooh good shout from r/t/c on elia there. After a horror season at Juve he might be available cut price and will have something to prove. Then again too long on yet another bench may just about finish him off.

Also there's the chance that Conte had a very good reason for not playing him more.

sow, doumbia, lacina traore for the new papiss punts

arent those two young greek defender lads in the bundesliga quite good

shawcross tbh

Also there's the chance that Conte had a very good reason for not playing him more.

― pandemic, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 12:43 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

team built around carrying the piano for pirlo?

xp
papadopoulos at schalke is a beast of a CB yeah. Still a teenager I think but v physically imposing, good in the air. Will pick up a lot of bookings though, and not cheap ones, liable to cut people in half. Still quite raw so not sure if Darragh is happy to endure his learning curve or if he wants the finished article already. Played a little at DM as well and was okay.

Also at Schalke, Christian Fuchs is a good attacking LB. Lots of assists, not a liability defensively. Puts in such a good ball tho that Redknapp may be convinced that Spurs don't need Bale on the left to provide and will let him have his 'free role'

xp
Kinda. Also once Juve went to 3 at the back Elia was never in with a chance of getting a wide role in that system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokratis_Papastathopoulos

xp and this one?

He's done okay in not ideal circumstances. No settled defensive partner, played at RB occasionally. Part of a team, Bremen, that has a pretty relaxed view of defending in general, especially away from home in the first half of the season. Mertesacker was probably glad to escape to the relative calm of the Arsenal back four!

Don't think he's as good as Schalke guy.

Can't think of any 'under the radar' CF's available for good value. LaSogga(Hertha Berlin) has the raw materials but I don't think he's good enough for Spurs. Didavi(Nuremberg) has had an excellent 2nd half of the season but he plays behind the main striker and isn't in Van der Vaart class.

So yeah, throw money at Huntelaar.

Of course Pekhart scored 7 goals this season ;) Maybe not.

messi must be available on the cheap now after single-handedly given away a place in the CL final?

ha cheers, content delivered

hoilett as rw, btw? all his best work i've seen is cutting in from left tbh.

Pandemic corrdect in that what i'd want is a v wide playing winger as cover/competition for lennon.

Onimo- i'll file under 'good to know'......

pekhart/barnard strikeforce ftw obv

'under the radar' CFs - maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burak_Yilmaz?

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RW - As a rotational option to Lennon I think Ashkan Dejagah (Wolfsburg) is worth a look.....

― pandemic, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 12:41 PM (1 hour ago)

uhm

In October 2007, Dejagah refused to play an under-21 international match of Germany against Israel, citing “very personal reasons” and saying “everybody knows I am half Iranian”.

anybody watch greek football? Kevin Mirallas is in rich goal scoring form for Olympiacos. (btw have there always been Belgian/ French people named Kevin?)

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thats big kev mirallas

idk what that 'look' is called but it looks a lot like the platonic ideal of a european footballer in 2007, which is to say 2012

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hHdPPPV9wTE/T6oI0ee3HII/AAAAAAAAAqs/5_S1BxOda4w/s400/Essien-Tackle.gif

jesus

if paul scholes did these it'd have only been down to him being not very good at tackling.

ah, it's a gif. That's why my phone burnt up when i clicked on it.

thought it was p weird that ppl were losing their shit about the L'pool penalty incident and Suarez getting a bit arm-swingy and not seeming too fussed about something that could've been yr actual career-ruiner

i was unaware of this game tbh

That tackle looks so weird, are we sure it's not a completely separate incident superimposed on some stock 'hapless Carroll' footage?

holy crap that looks bad. he's nowhere near the ball and just double footed drop kicking carroll's planted leg. carroll is v. lucky. shawx himself couldn't have made it more blatent and horrible.

It looks bad but it looks less bad from the other angle where you see him actually get the ball.

thought it was p weird that ppl were losing their shit about the L'pool penalty incident and Suarez getting a bit arm-swingy and not seeming too fussed about something that could've been yr actual career-ruiner

I tuned in late and did not see the incident </wenger>

Earlier, Wayne Rooney's first experience as an racehorse owner ended in disappointment when Pippy was last.

The two-year-old colt - owned by the Manchester United and England footballer and his wife Coleen, both of whom were among the spectators - was always towards the rear after a slow start in the Manor House Stables Lily Agnes Stakes.

Shrek Sold a Donkey: Roo Fool!

fwiw, according to Rafa Honigstein dortmund is looking at the following players to replace Barrios:
Nicklas Helenius (Aalborg BK), John Guidetti (ManCity/Feyenoord), Bas Dost (Heerenveen) and Luuk de Jong (Twente)

Maybe Helenius the only one that qualifies as under the radar.

yeah, he's the only one I haven't previously read about.