Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

He doesn't know that Hansen's on £1.5m a year for motd. In fact he doesn't even know it's a tv show - he thinks Gary just likes having him round on a Saturday night to watch the footy.

Just idly wondering, do Remy and M'Vila have the same agent?

google says no

it does say willie mckay had a hand in the remy deal though, quelle surprise

LOIC REMY snubbed the chance to see what Newcastle United had to offer – in favour of a lie-in.

The 26-year-old France international, who completed his move to Queens Park Rangers yesterday, had been offered a full-works tour of St James’ Park and the city as well as a look around the training facilities at the club’s Benton base on Tuesday.

But, rather than take a flight to Tyneside, the Chronicle understands he opted to stay in bed until lunchtime before taking in the sights of the capital.

These are golden opportunities for agents though - whack your player into a probably-soon-to-be-relegated club for ridiculous wages, hope they impress in the Premiership and then pocket the change as they transfer to another Premiership team for even madder wages. It's like Tevez and Mascherano without the ownership fannydangle.

seeing as how Matt Jarvis has got an England cap the least they can do is give Puncheon a couple

"The other day a ball hit my hand with no intention at all and everybody criticised me because I kissed my wrist. Suárez sells."

love that

Maybe something's lost in the translation, but he didn't see to make a very coherent argument. IIRC it was something like "it's not fair, they call me a cheat and say I dive, like that time at Stoke, except I did dive there because we were drawing and I wanted us to win, but anyway it's not fair."

Hmmmmmm.....Reacting to the remarks, Rodgers said Suárez had expressed "unacceptable" views, and the situation would be "dealt with internally … Diving is not something we advocate. Our ethics are correct."

I don't know if you're trying to suggest some inconsistency here, but as I saw it reported, he's being disciplined for admitting to diving, not for diving itself.

No, I think it's fair enough for Rodgers to say that, I was more wondering what the paranoid RAWK-types would make of that announcement.

hmmm

It's bullshit for the club to punish him for admitting to something they'd already known he'd done.

Talking about it and removing all public doubt* is pretty dumb, what are Liverpool supposed to do, just go "aah we'll let you get away with it"?

*Yeah I know...

Had a quick look at RAWK and there are arguments raging there between the two sides, but I liked this post best:
Can't wait 'til Suarez scores and dives in front of Rodgers.

tbf to the lad he's still lying about the handball v Mansfield so he's at least partially on-message

non-story really.

It might well be unacceptable Brendan, but so is hanging one of your players out to dry, before even the authorities have been asked to deal with it.

At this point Brendan, and after all of the shite Luis has had to put up with this last year, if those quotes are actually genuine and from you, this is the point that you are dead to me.

must be shite having to put up with being a diving racist

harsh

i can cite precedent

OK, it must be mildly annoying having to put up with being a diving racist

"Cavani is a player that I like," said Wenger. "Will he cost a lot of money? That's for sure. Nobody would deny that. Our banker lives just next to me at the moment and he is ready if we find the right player."

not sure i approve of a banker liking the same players i do

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/queens-park-rangers/9810084/Shaun-Derrys-hunger-gives-Queens-Park-Rangers-a-fighting-chance-of-Premier-League-survival.html

“My son’s 5½ and at the academy at Palace. He made his first training session after Christmas and he didn’t try. It hurt me so much. I came home and said to my wife Jolene: 'Look at us, we’re in a nice house, he’s got an iPad, DS, holidays abroad, trampoline outside.’ I just had a football as a kid. We lived on a council estate and there would be 20 kids on the patch of grass kicking a ball around – five year-olds to 19 year-olds. No prisoners. The strongest survived.

“I said to Jo: 'I find it staggering I’m talking about a five year-old and questioning his desire but I want to see it. It’s a challenge for us. How am I going to get my work ethic ingrained in that boy who has everything?’ In south London, there are a lot of underprivileged kids and they have a desire, even at five. I’ve tried to explain that to him. He’ll have to earn the iPad, the DS. He’s got to prove it to me.”

kinda lol but mostly dad

what the fuck is a 5 year-old gonna do with a i-Pad?

My son’s 5½ and at the academy at Palace. He made his first training session after Christmas and he didn’t try. It hurt me so much. I came home and kicked him in the bollocks.

Needs to get Uncle Clint round to really put him through his paces.

Thanks be to god Roy Keane only felt fatherly towards his dog.

My dog’s 5½ and at the sheepdog academy at Palace. He made his first training session after Christmas and he didn’t try. It hurt me so much. I came home and had his bollocks snipped.

“I said to Teresa: 'I find it staggering I’m talking about a 12-year-old dog with a heart condition and three legs and questioning his desire but I want to see it. It’s a challenge for us. How am I going to get my work ethic ingrained in that dog who has seen everything?’ In Manchester, there are a lot of injured and suffering dogs and they have a desire, even at 15 they would rip the bollocks off you for a rumour of an open can of Pal. I’ve tried to explain that to him. He’ll have to earn the squeaky toy, the nicely padded basket, the daily 100-mile walks when I'm fired from a club that's even worse than the last one I was fired from and Ian Harte won't answer my calls.'

english football can only wonder how many more talented toddler pros must be lost to 5-19 no holes barred council estate deathmatches

http://instagram.com/p/PrfFboREsD/

keano's all talk, loves his dog, what has he got for show for it

i can see a five yr old doin more useful with an ipad than they'll do at a formal training session in january ffs

RIP Nigel
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2012/11/15/1353004021740/Nigel-Adkins-Southampton-001.jpg

no fucking way

That is insane. Stupid fucking league, god I hate it.

wt actual fuck

oh wow

that is desperately sad

pocchetino ????

I suppose we don't know the whole story yet, but if it's a straightforward sacking then fuck you Southanpton, hope you end up in the Conference

who's the briatore here, is it cortese or a higher power

Adkins can move on to a better club now anyway, so well done Nigel!

cortese runs the show. and until today i've been a fan. but fuck him forever for this.

shocking decision

which premiership clubs aren't a total joke nowadays? i guess in some perverse way, total-onrunning-joke-club newcastle united have actually shown the most tolerance towards their own vulnerability, the least hard-nosed romanceless fucking greed. saying that, soon as ashley can stump up pards' severance they'll probably tap up del bosque

Wigan

Everton, WBA