Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

found a decent one. i have sky so i haven't used a torrent in a while, i'm seldom in on sat afternoons.

Torrentstream broke my shit iirc

is suarez now better than torres was at his peak? he's certainly looking like he'll score more this year than the latter's highest tally.

Idk is he as deadly, they're different enough types of player. He's as important to a worse liverpool team, but tough to say how it works out.

Like, i'm not sure that bale in current form beats peak berbatov or modric at what they did iykwim

yeah i seem to have fonder memories of torres in his lethal heyday but suarez has the better all round game and is more central to team play

samba a donkey

yeah, a big, stubborn, shall-not-be-moved donkey. there was no bleeding getting past him this afternoon.

Aw, hell:

The world’s biggest ever bid for a football club, dwarfing the £800 million paid by the Glazers for Manchester United, will be backed by funds from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

The group do not want their identities made public yet but a bid source told Telegraph Sport the intention is to buy out Arsenal’s American owner, Stan Kroenke, whose perceived weak stewardship of the club has also been called into question by frustrated supporter groups.

The cash offer, which is more than twice the amount at which Arsenal were valued two years ago, will be for 100 per cent of the club, and if successful would wipe out debts that stand at around £250 million according to the last full year’s financial results.

here go hell come

lol yes give wenger billions to not spend

smh ynahtid fans purring at these remedial kagawa finishes

I'm sceptical about this xp. Would the ultrarich really trail their bid like this, especially when what this would be is a private deal with basically two guys? I hope it's just some blowhard, I like clubs that aren't like other clubs. We don't need a respectable Man City. Also, I've got a kind of future emotional stake in a postapocalypse Arsenal bestriding the rump epl wasteland whenever it finally goes tits up; justice demands it.

On the other hand, could there be any clearer signal of the end of the boom than a stupidly inflated bid for Arsenal, of all clubs? It'd be the Empire State Building of takeovers.

"when did you ever stop thinking Arsenal were the last of the big clubs" etc

Wouldn't be surprised if Usmanov was involved in some way. Sold $500m of tech shares yesterday and knows Kroenke is reluctant to sell to him directly.

That has the ring of plausibility to it

is suarez now better than torres was at his peak? he's certainly looking like he'll score more this year than the latter's highest tally.

Racism and cuntishness aside, I would take this season's Suarez over Torres at his peak. Torres was terrifying in his best seasons at Liverpool but Suarez just has so much more to his game, which might also give him more longevity.

How many times have Fulham worn that kit with the brown and white diagonal stripes? That's lovely.

suarez is like nothing i've ever seen at anfield. genuinely believe he'd enhance any side in the world.

Even Barca would be improved with Suarez in the team.

Delicious pass-agg-off between Pulis and Allardyce there.

He's got skills on the ball like nobody else in the epl, lets not go fuckin crazy tho.

Pulis or Allardyce?

yeah i seem to have fonder memories of torres in his lethal heyday but suarez has the better all round game and is more central to team play

Yeah this is why I asked really. Suarez's "work rate" tho deserves a better term. He fights harder than Torres ever did, tho Torres's magic seemed to come in two or three touches and from nowhere.

Suarez's involvement in games is just way higher. It'll be a miracle if he's still at Liverpool next season.

somebody on the radio yesterday said that Torres conversion rate this season is 1 goal per 7 chances and Suarez's is 1 in 8. if that's true it just goes to show what bollocks bare stats can be.

smh ynahtid fans purring at these remedial kagawa finishes

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shut up

if you can't enjoy that second goal then i don't even know

:D allow him his giddy chutzpah, qpr just amassed 1/8 of the points they'll gain all season

mind you I agree with him - in all three cases I'd rank the assist above the finish

Nah first assist and finish likely both scuffs imo, tied

second assist and finish vvg

third assist and first touch were each heavy, dece defence dont concede

looking at run in, pessimist calls spurs finishing on 62 points.

somebody on the radio yesterday said that Torres conversion rate this season is 1 goal per 7 chances and Suarez's is 1 in 8. if that's true it just goes to show what bollocks bare stats can be

That might well be true, Suarez does seem to miss a lot but crucially he also creates a lot more for himself than Torres does. Torres at his best was all about pace, movement and getting himself in the right places to collect the final pass and none of that has really been coming together for him for ages. If that stat is true it's probably because the chances just aren't coming/he isn't getting in the right places for them.

But it's probably bollocks.

i unequivocally hate united but that 2nd finish ws butter.

chelsea is where strikers go to die, sacrificed at the feet of their midfield gods.

I can believe it; there was also that stat about Liverpool having more shots than any other club in the top five leagues. 1 in 8 puts him on 168 shots in 28 games - that's feasible, he's that active.

my boy Santi talking about the BLITW

Compared to Spain, the football here is less tactical, but more fun to watch and play. There’s too much technique in Spain and they are held back by it. This makes the match more boring. There’s a better pace in England. There’s also more space, especially for footballers like me, and more time to think. Teams always want to attack and score goals in England. In Spain they are locked down by tactics. And the atmosphere here is just amazing.

The only stats you need to know about suarez vs torres are the no. of goals and the midfields the play in front of

Spain certainly give the impression of a country whose football is being held back by stifling technique.

yeah, boring isn't it?

Interesting how better pace translates into more space and more time to think

Also Chelsea's (central) midfield is completely unbalanced and dysfunctional and has been for a couple of years now, it's one of the main reasons why they aren't title contenders. It looked better when Rafa moved David Luiz into midfield but obviously he couldn't continue that and keep Terry festering in purgatory at the same time.

If anything Rodgers is doing a reasonable job with considerably more limited midfield players.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fury-baby-blacked-up-ex-manchester-1740367

http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1516158.ece/ALTERNATES/s298/Diouf%20and%20child-1516158

why always northerners

Parenting expert Sue Atkins, the author of Parenting Made Easy: How To Raise Happy Children, joined the condemnation.

“Using a baby to make a point about football is just totally inappropriate. This child has no say in this. It is just wrong.”

Perhaps the point about football might have been made clearer if there'd been another better baby made up as Aguero next to him?

Tottenham: Lloris; Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Assou-Ekotto; Dembele, Parker; Lennon, Sigurdsson, Bale; Adebayor

Arsenal: Szczesny, Jenkinson, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Monreal, Arteta, Wilshere, Ramsey, Cazorla, Walcott, Giroud.

Lloris Walker Vertonghen Vermaelen Monreal Dembele Arteta Wilshere Cazorla Bale Adebayor

Giroud surely

ekotto def

monreal is a better player

piers morgan on my stream

god bless us all. see youse in two hours.

lol?