Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

the Hulk fee is the most absurd though. He simply isn't that good. At least Anderson was 19 when he signed so Utd were gambling on potential. Hulk is 26, he's not really going to get any better

the hulk fee is not the eyebrow raising business porto did this week tbph

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That table is magnificent

Did hulk go this summer? Where? I've heard nothing about it. Shitty stepover to inter is the best thing they did on that list. (wish we'd hirer their levy.)

Zenit.

It only happened yesterday or Monday, Zenit dropped €32m each on Hulk and Witsel

Florent Malouda
‏@realflorentm
This is where I'll train for my last season with the blues !!!

https://p.twimg.com/A2BmzD5CMAA2zPR.jpg

looking at the official 25 man squad lists am delighted to see that 20% of LFC's squad are goalkeepers. Leaving us with 16 outfield players.(okay not counting under 21's) Thus our goalkeeping contingent is at a higher percentage than Spurs'.

haha xp

he didn't make the CL squad, but he was in the Prem squad

Fletcher made the Utd squad

Porto got that money for 85% of Hulk as it were cos the other 15% was retained by the 3rd party investor.

Bebe in the Utd squad too!!

God, and Bentley in Tottenham's

Actually God didn't make the Spurs squad, fell out with AVB

Bebe actually looked like something approaching a footballer in pre-season

What kind of thing approaching a footballer?

a homeless person, for change

dempsey by position

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A1-dT_JCMAAvpqz.png

5 in 5 at cf. alright he's gotta be better than defoe alone. finally gets to reclaim his beloved number 2 also.

http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/clint-dempsey-cunt.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A2C-qQlCQAA12sm.jpg:large

sigh

ive said it before, i'll say it again and it'll always sound or read stupid coming from me but

i fucking hate arsenal fans

rapey van lolsie

― a hoy hoy, Sunday, September 2, 2012 11:29 AM (3 days ago)

oh come on, i've been calling him that for years

And it just keeps getting wittier.

ive said it before, i'll say it again and it'll always sound or read stupid coming from me but

i fucking hate arsenal fans

― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, September 5, 2012 7:48 PM (8 minutes ago)

otm

its not about wit, its just his name. jeez. typing it as rapey van injury is just second nature, like fat ronaldo or something.

rapey van injury

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Did you mean: robin van injury

fourth result is an a hoy hoy post!

lol

eh dude fucked off to utd after years of being paid to be injured, choose yr battles here imo

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2199439/Samba-Diakite-fighting-depression.html

https://twitter.com/NOnuoha/status/224889700089999360

Burnley's former chief executive has revealed that the club turned down an application from Andre Villas-Boas in January 2010 to become their new manager.

With former boss Owen Coyle having just departed for Bolton, the Clarets were looking to make a swift appointment to help the club's fight for Premier League survival.

Tottenham boss Villas-Boas - then manager of Academica in his Portuguese homeland - was among those who applied for the vacant post, but Paul Fletcher reveals in his soon to be released book that Villas-Boas' application was 'too complicated'.

The Clarets opted for Brian Laws and were relegated just a couple of weeks before Villas-Boas was appointed Porto manager after a successful debut season in management.

'He sent a very detailed and lengthy application for the job. His CV and Powerpoint presentation were amazing. Even by today’s standards there was some complicated stuff in it, with some things that I didn’t understand.

'Tommy Docherty used to say he never said anything to his players his milkman wouldn’t understand. I don’t think any milkman would fathom the meaning of a lot of Andre’s presentation.

'The language and jargon of football gets worse by the day. Villas-Boas uses a lot of it. Would Burnley players have ever understood what he wanted if he’d told them to "solidificate" or some of his other terms?

'It’s a fascinating thought, one of the many "ifs" in football. If Andre Villas-Boas had been manager of Burnley’s Premiership team; would he have saved the season? With hindsight, we might have appointed him, but at the time it would just have been too big a risk.'

hope they replied with "tldr"

Solidificate is mixture, which is obtained by adding grained quicklime to the wasted oil material for waste removal

i'm none the wiser

solidificate is obviously some super technical term rather than someone trying to make up english words as they go along

It clearly means 'stop being flaky twats and actually defend'.

'Tommy Docherty used to say he never said anything to his players his milkman wouldn’t understand. I don’t think any milkman would fathom the meaning of a lot of Andre’s presentation.

interesting transfer scouting policy of buying and playing only milkmen burnley have.

Just realised I haven't seen a milkman in years. Is that where they've gone?

andre villas boas would like to lactificate from the milkman's wife tits

yeah alan pardew would have been the outstanding candidate on milkman criteria surely

imagine Tommy Docherty took most of his philosophies in life from milkmen tbh

Leeds changed their strip in the 50s as a tribute to milkmen

A Villas-Boas / Clarke Carlisle meeting of the minds could have led Burnley 2010 if not to safety then to total domination of inter-club Countdown tournaments.

i heard moorius lactatus wanted the job if he could have a midfield of javier pasteure, shaun dairy and hamit goldtintop

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Dirk Cowt, Tore Andre Float and Zlatan Ibraskimovic up front

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He added cryptically: "We have a saying in Spanish: 'White liquid in a bottle has to be milk."

Pressed further on the matter, Benitez would only say: "White liquid in a bottle. If I see John the milkman in the Wirral, where I was living, with this bottle, I'd say, 'It's milk, sure'."