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

It'd be pretty low of Wilshere to leave just as he's returning to fitness

"It will be as difficult as when they lost Fabregas or Nasri," said Vieira. "Then you knew that Robin was behind. If they lose Robin, who is behind? Of course it is going to be difficult to keep or to convince Robin.

"It was a shock for them to lose Nasri and Fabregas and if they lose Van Persie, it will be a drama. If Robin decides to leave, that means maybe next year it will be Walcott and the next year maybe it will be Wilshere. It will be difficult for Arsenal to keep all their top players. But if they keep Robin, they will send out a positive message to all the clubs around them."

With that in mind, Vieira, a former Arsenal captain, is surprised that his old club have not already resolved Van Persie's future. Last summer, Arsenal's plans in the transfer market were disrupted by holding on to Fabregas and Nasri for as long as possible, which played a major part in their shambolic start to the season.

"I think that is something they should have closed a long time ago but Arsenal don't need me to tell them that," Vieira added. "It is really difficult to find a player with the quality of Van Persie with one year left on his contract, so it is difficult to understand."

Telling Arsenal what they don't need to be told

no closure of this thread til spurs get closure on cl spot.

Sutton at norwich would make england team? Then why not current norwich form striker?

If Robin decides to leave, that means maybe next year it will be Walcott and the next year maybe it will be Wilshere.

Can't see City wanting all of them.

no closure of this thread til spurs get closure on cl spot.

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac),

just can't believe he'd put a dampener on the third place celebrations like that

wenger doesnt seem to get due respect from his ex-players sometimes

the 90s defender cunts are the same

never understood them, tho? wanted the headers, the scrappers, the tacklers out and never replaced them like-for-like

why not Sutton on Celtic form? He was pretty damn great then.

Last year he was signing his book in Hamilton town centre. When i walked pass him there was a fair old queue.

mmmm yeah he replaced them with cole, touré, campbell, lauren

who were just as scrappy etc but more athletic

campbell was also way better than adams ever was but he isnt white or an ex alkie or a failed manager or a bantuh ledge or any of the other categories that endear the press to former players

also a manky cunt, also don't recall adams leaving on a free to us at his peak nor asking to be taken off during a mare (a pubby?)

so apparently the only player in the Wolves squad without a relegation pay-cut clause is...Roger Johnson. kudos.

roger johnson has passion tho

and he abhors nonsense

Nice work Rog, you've made my Rotter Of The Year list.

why would critical former players respect wenger if the values of the winning teams they played for are not the values of the current losing incarnations

in any case they rarely go so far as to say they want him out, it's always "wenger's still the best but..."

campbell's also been known to put the boot in fyi

vieira isnt offering unsolicited advice about actual football, he is telling a club run for profit how to negotiate its contracts from the perspective of a club which makes huge losses

like a. cole puts the phone in?

was reading 'soccernomics' at work this morning, they posit that's it's stupid to run a football club for profit.

also intrigued to hear that sol campbell might not be whiter than white

still, he was good at football

nsfw or anything else

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vieira isnt offering unsolicited advice about actual football, he is telling a club run for profit how to negotiate its contracts from the perspective of a club which makes huge losses

― navihchkan (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 May 2012 13:39 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

well pat's got a job to do now hasnt he

you might even say he's approaching it with an indulged mercilessness befitting wenger's best sides

i more meant campbell putting the media boot into wenger rather than his on-pitch fun btw

that will have been understood

martin samuel is literally unplayable today btw

Shane Warne was unplayable; Muttiah Muralitharan was unplayable; the West Indies fast bowling attack of the Seventies was unplayable. One man, armed only with a cricket bat, could not repel them. A football team have 11 on the pitch, however, and no equivalent of a terror track or sticky wicket. There are ways and means of stopping even the greatest talent. Man-for-man marking, doubling up, cutting the supply line; particularly in the Champions League this season, Chelsea's defence have proved that even the greatest can be frustrated by a combination of raw determination, doggedness and good tactical thought. Yet Drogba is different.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2146013/Didier-Drogba-The-Chelsea-striker-unplayable.html

Well considering he's likely to be up against a midfielder 'cos Bayern have run out of CBs, he might be right.

Mad Jens reckons the Drog would have struggled against Badstuber cos he hates playing against left footed CBs

Having seen Badstuber's performance last Saturday I'm not so sure.

what is lehmann's reasoning exactly?

I believe he thinks that Drogba is only really happy going to his right. It wasn't really any more nuanced than that tbh.

that only works if the defender is facing him, rather in badstuber's case chasing after him because he misjudged another chelsea long ball

Drogba's got this unquestioned reputation as a big game player, which isn't entirely undeserved but all I can remember is him sulking off at the last Champions League final, and then hilariously shanking his penalty at the ACN

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Anyone else eagerly anticipating the ferocious bidding war for Theo Walcott?

Lol, was gonna say.

oh yeah, i did mean to say the arsenal pecking order is prob rvp ----------------------------------------------- injury prone vermaelen --------------- song cant wont tackle ---------------ah fuckit take the rest

Chris Sutton in his Norwich or Blackburn days probably wouldn't have much trouble either.

He was twice as good at Celtic, fwiw

GRANT HOLT HAS PUT IN A TRANSFER REQUEST

http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/images/2009/07/22/grad_pulis_470x315.jpg

HE'S READY.

lol the fat deluded cunt

once you put a hat on him, tony pulis will be happy

Where does he think he is gonna go? Is this Spurs' replacement for Ade?

Rangers put in a bid for him last year *stifles giggles*

Haha, 24 hours ago he's hard done by not struttin' with the European elite; now this. How quickly the worm turns.

Ah, Norwich have rejected his transfer request. Are we sure LFc haven't approached him for a player-manager role?