The BIG Football Thread

[emigre]

2310: Confirmed: Chelsea have signed Raul Meireles. And Arsenal have signed Mikel Arteta and let Nicklas Bendtner join Sunderland on loan. Phew.

 

[luke_c]

-snip-
ninja'd

 

[emigre]

Cheers for the info Luke.

 

[Satangel]

2310: Confirmed: Chelsea have signed Raul Meireles. And Arsenal have signed Mikel Arteta and let Nicklas Bendtner join Sunderland on loan. Phew.

Arsenal sure are buying after that shattering defeat. At least something positive about that night, they have finally realized they can't win the title with these kind of players. Arteta is a cool signing, hopefully he's as good as they hope he can be.
Mertesacker for sure, international experience in one of the best country teams in the world and not injury prone, good one. Bad for my fellow countrymen Vermaelen though.

Arsenal still have over 70 million pounds they can spend, but I doubt they will spend much more this transfer period.

 

[emigre]

Replacing Nasi and Fabregas with Arterta and Benayoun is significant step down though. Don't see how Mertesacker is bad for Tommy V, he finally gets a decent defensive partner. They wouldn't concede eight to Man Utd.

 

[Shinigami357]

No Sneijder... Cleverly-Anderson it is... Always the mid-season transfer window, if Fergie changes his mind...

Also... Arsenal signing defenders and players on the verge of 30??? WTF??? Mr Manager, who are you and what did you do to the real Arsene Wenger???

Hargreaves signs with City... Apparently Mancini watches Youtube, then?


PS
So... Apparently, someone here has decided to fully embrace the fact that he is a colossal, inconsiderate dickface... Good for him.

 

[emigre]

No Sneijder... Cleverly-Anderson it is... Always the mid-season transfer window, if Fergie changes his mind...

Also... Arsenal signing defenders and players on the verge of 30??? WTF??? Mr Manager, who are you and what did you do to the real Arsene Wenger???

Hargreaves signs with City... Apparently Mancini watches Youtube, then?


PS
So... Apparently, someone here has decided to fully embrace the fact that he is a colossal, inconsiderate dickface... Good for him.

I presuming you're talk about Hargreaves there?

 

[BlueStar]

And Newcastle still haven't managed to buy the striker we've needed for the past four transfer windows... Sigh.

 

[emigre]

But Newcastle have Leo Bessi! They don't need another striker when they have him.

 

[rockstar99]

Best move on deadline day was Raul to Chelsea.Bargain.

 

[Satangel]

Best move on deadline day was Raul to Chelsea.Bargain.

Uh what? Raul (the Madrid legend) is still playing in Schalke 04, no?

 

[emigre]

He means Raul Merieles(sp?). Personally I think Mertesacker as he joined on a reasonable price, he has significant experience, relatively young and he's clearly going to improve Arsenal.

 

[ThatDudeWithTheFood]

Hulk to Anzhi almost happened Porto agreed to 87 million at first then wanted to raise the price to 90 million and thats when Anzhi stopped the talks.Hulk agreed to 10.5 Million in salary but wow Anzhi almost pulled two big fish.

 

[rockstar99]

netherlands 11-0 san marino

Insane.


Best signing of the summer is Fabregas or Mata.

 

[Satangel]

He means Raul Merieles(sp?). Personally I think Mertesacker as he joined on a reasonable price, he has significant experience, relatively young and he's clearly going to improve Arsenal.
Oh okay. Yeah, +1 for Mertesacker too, don't know Mereiles but I doubt Mertesacker is worse.

Hulk to Anzhi almost happened Porto agreed to 87 million at first then wanted to raise the price to 90 million and thats when Anzhi stopped the talks.Hulk agreed to 10.5 Million in salary but wow Anzhi almost pulled two big fish.
Glad they didn't succeed. Fucking shitteam.

QUOTE(Rockstar @ Sep 3 2011, 04:11 PM)

netherlands 11-0 san marino

Insane.

Best signing of the summer is Fabregas or Mata.

Yeah pretty much. Although Young is really on a roll atm too

And I bet there are a ton of other players we just don't know that are also performing well.

 

[rockstar99]

bump

 

[emigre]

bump

Epic way to revitalise the thread...

Its international week.

Ah fuck it , I care very little about international football. Club>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Country. Does anyone else feel like this?

 

[Satangel]

bump

Epic way to revitalise the thread...

Its international week.

Ah fuck it , I care very little about international football. Club>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Country. Does anyone else feel like this?

Well not really actually. Somehow I support my country at least as much as my club team. I just get so passionate and chauvinistic when I think about them. They really suck though, but I still like them a lot. I don't have any problem watching a game of them, even the worst games they play still entertain me endlessly.

 

[emigre]

Personally I find international football completely disruptive. I don't care about England vs Wales, I just want to watch my beloved Swansealona.

 

[Shinigami357]

Personally, one would have to drug me before I even consider denouncing our Philippine Nat'l Men's Football team, regardless of how low-ranked we might be. And I stayed up until late into 4-5AM for 30 days last year to watch the World Cup, so overall, I'd say I enjoy watching international football matches very much [though for the most part, these matches don't get much coverage in our country].

I think it's something to see players playing for their country [with the possible exception of France last year; God, was that a farce or what?]. Enemies become allies, allies become enemies, etc. And in a lot of countries, this stuff means a lot. If the love of football can united and help a country even in a small way, I say go ahead [case in point, when Japan's women's team won the women's world cup, they celebrated as though a couple earthquakes/tsunami didn't hit them].


PS
What's with the whole "-lona" thing? I'm a proud Red Devil, and would never consider adding something else to our team's name. It'll be Manchester United FC forever and a day for me, no more, no less [unless they changed the name... which would be a disgrace].