Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

rafa just isn't going to play three attacking midfielders. Oscar rip.

Sturridge is prob shit, Rafa is Rafa, Ismael's implication that this Chelsea squad is a sow's ear is mental, Wenger out, morning guys

otm but wenger

Who exactly does Walcott think his next club is going to be anyway? Do City or Chelsea or whoever even look particularly arsed about signing him?

a lot of clubs looking for a pacey centre forward who can't play on either wing i guess

http://www.thefootballramble.com/images/blog/Duffparkingspacecrop.jpg

idk, i mean stats suggest he's not shit but you'd assume managers see beyond that

Obviously planted, but one of the Sundays was reporting that Utd and somebody else, it would've been one of the big clubs but I can't remember who, they're all much of a muchness to me atm; still, it'll've been City or Chelsea - or maybe Derby, could it've been Derby? - anyway two big guns were now officially in the chase to sssign the Arsszzenal zzztri

Preferred Harriet Wheeler when she was writing songs than sports news

tom ince is v good and worth the punt, kinda like a nippier adam johnson. not the finished article but as near as you'll get coming from the champo

studge... idk he wouldnt be an bad buy but if you've only got so much money and brendan isnt going to play with the system i'd question the wisdom

otoh i'm not really sure who would be the right forward signing for pool ideally. backup to suarez? studge doesnt put the same work in, will get mardy on the bench. backup to suarez who can also play deeper? def not studge, got borini coming back anyway. move suarez deeper? eh dunno

I know. I mentioned di Natale a while back and still can't be any more sensible than that. Sturridge not bad probably, though seems like a dick.

need a big cf presence to take advantage of suarez's movement imo, kevin davies type player

Studge will find himself shunted out wide again probably, moving Suarez from centre forward is lunacy given how he's been playing. But the likelihood of Liverpool cashing in on Suarez in the summer is pretty high and Sturridge will be useful to have in the squad until then. Especially if Suarez gets injured/contrives to pick up a massive suspension.

xp only if he's playing two up top, which he won't, so suarez goes inside wing forward, which would be a shame

studge most looked the part at bolton next to davies. said this before but he doesnt look like a modern striker to me, more like a 1994 kind of guy

if 12m's lying around then is llorente really so out of the question?

not sure what happened to the demba ba talk, personally i'd like us to sign someone who is currently scoring goals.

rory forgethisname from the times seems to reckon ince and studge are both done deals, anyway.

jordan rhodes

collosus of

more likely to sign someone actually called kolososov imo

still not sure why we let ince go in the first place.

tbf he wasn't gonna renew his contract iirc

ah well, while we're at it can we re-sign maxi and dirk please.

this Warnock gripe about Rafa is totally ludicrous. like, did he really expect another manager to field a full team a few days before a Champions League final? and does he actually think the whole season hinged on the last two games, or something?

Yeah, and he's normally such a reasonable level-headed guy, Warnock

even for him this seems too much.

did he really expect another manager to field a full team a few days before a Champions League final?

Pretty sure you're obliged to pick at least 11 players, no matter when the game is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWowfBqTNY

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raheem signs. what a relief.

ikr, now his 17 kids won't go hungry

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/19/article-0-1686E00B000005DC-487_468x327.jpg

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2251339/Chico-Flores-opens-Swansea-Pep-Guardiola-exclusive-interview.html

He started making his mark on his new team during their pre-season tour of America. After the other new arrivals sang initiation songs into their dining spoons, he picked up a steak knife and belted out We Are The Champions.

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/citytv/City-Recommends/2012/December/2012-Advent-Calendar?index=5

cockles warmed

a one whore's open sleigh

MERRYE //;- COWUBRANGO

what's that YouTube of?

lmao

'I have many gay friends who I deeply respects. The hand gesture I made is directed at the referee caving in to the pressure of the home fans.

'That hand gesture was to tell him he was scared. Look at my hairstyle, what I wear, I'm not a prejudice person, my hand gesture was in no way, shape or form a homophobic one

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2251485/Raul-Meireles-banned-11-matches-spitting-referee-says-reports.html

i love Meireles and believe everything he says tbh

I'd fully support his rights to insults anyone he wants in whatever manner he chooses, in any event

I'm selling Meireles t-shirts for people to wear in solidarity.

is jack wilshere's tongue the worst thing in the english prem

I can't place it tbh, it's not like Jamie Oliver's or anything. Unless he's gone and had it forked; has he gone and had it forked?

it's just ever-present

like some weird control he uses to gracefully shift his freakishly low centre of gravity

Top three! Blitw.

World's 85th-best player Emmanuel Mayuka finally forces his way into Southampton's starting line-up.

Are we done here?

By jingo. I should disapprove of City pulling that off, but these are dark times.

whoever that defender was made Gareth Barry look like Michael Jordan