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One step forward four steps back!!
Words starting with the letter 'D' say it all.
Depressing.
Diabolical.
Doh.
Dire.
Disenchanting.
Dejected.
Damn.
Defective.
Deflated.
The list goes on in reference to the Dismal Display today. The Defence is like a sieve with its holes getting bigger with erosion.
Why Keegan did not play Viduka will remain a mystery until we find out the reason.
Why he did not start Enrique rather than Carr is another mystery.
Mysteries galore today, why wasn't Emre brought on sooner, why didn't Faye feature at all, why didn't Enrique feature at all??
In all honesty, even after Owen's early goal I don't think we ever looked like we could win, the improvement shown in our last two games looked to have Disappeard doon the netty.
Keegan out.
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Nah we won't get relegated... just won't be doing anything much either for the rest of the season.
I don't think we will either, but with Pompey, both Dippers, Spurs and Liverpool all to come away from home, and the likes of Blackburn, Manchester United and Chelsea to come to SJP, i'm struggling to see many winnable games left.
As well as Blackburn are doing, I still think this should be considered a winnable game. Mackems, Fulham and Reading are must win games at home. At least 9 points out of these games are essential with picking up the odd point in the other games as at Birmingham and Pompey.
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I bumped into a wife's car a couple of months ago at no more than 5 mph and she's claiming whiplash and personal/feelings injuries ffs!!
Did you show her a picture of your cock by any chance?
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Doesn't mention Krul as one of the keepers. Unbelievable.
He's only been back a couple of days and he's out for 3 months
He was talking about the players for the future though, that's why he mentioned Fraser and the new Swedish guy.
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Doesn't mention Krul as one of the keepers. Unbelievable.
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Thanks for the reminder, totally forgot about it.
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Oh and Wolfgang (as I can see you're reading this), Moore actually looked like a footballer for 65 minutes last night.
Maybe someone could put him on their wish list!
He is on my "Players I don't want to get not injured" wishlist.
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Those Battenburgs make exceedingly good cakes apparently.
Battenberg is close to where I come from, never knew about the cake stuff. Originally the Battenbergs died out in the 14th century, the name was only reused early in the 19th century.
Anyway, I support Poland...
... just in their group game against Austria.
Battenburg is a type of cake you get over here. The 'exceedingly good' bit is pinched from a Mr. Kipling advert (cake manufacturer). It's even more hilarious now I've explained it, don't you think?
As any German will tell you, a joke can only be funnier once it's been dissected and analysed in order to conclusively establish that "zis is ticking your laughbone, yes?".
Vorsprung durch Technik.
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IN: Scott Carson (Liverpool - £6m), Darijo Srna (Shakhtar Donetsk - £4m), Daniel Van Buyten (Bayern Munich - £3m), Arthur Boka (Stuttgart - £5m), David Bentley (Blackburn - £12m), Michael Carrick (Man United - £12m), Forward 1 (£9m), Forward 2 (£14m)
First XI
GK: Scott Carson
DR: Darijo Srna
DC: Habib Beye
DC: Daniel Van Buyten
DL: Arthur Boka
MR: David Bentley
MC: Michael Carrick
MC: Abdoulaye Faye
ML: Charles N’Zogbia
FW1: Asamoah Gyan (Udinese - £9m)/ Nicklas Bendtner (Arsenal - £9m)/ Dirk Kuyt (Liverpool - £9m)/ Danny Koevermans (PSV - £9m)
FW2: Klaas Jan Huntelaar (Ajax Amsterdam - £12-14m) / Diego Milito (Real Zaragoza - £12-14m)
+ Squad:
GK: Krul, Harper
DC: Cacapa, Taylor, Edgar
DL: Enrique
MR/ML: Milner, Duff
MC: Emre, Barton, Lua-Lua, Butt
FW: Viduka, Carroll
OUT: Martins - £10-12m, Owen - £6-8m, Smith - £4m, Geremi - £2m, Given - £6-8m, Rozehnal - £2m, Ameobi - £2-3m
Total (transfers in (£60-65m) - transfers out (£35-40m)): £25-30m
Geremi £2m???
Apparently he is doing ok at the ANC
Doing really well for Cameroon. His set pieces have been surprisingly good throughout the whole tournament.
As for players: For centre half I would like us to go for Mertesacker. Imbo (the b stands for biased before anyone is asking) the probably most underrated centre half in Europe at the moment. Tall, good reading of the game and always tries do build up the game from the back.
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Those Battenburgs make exceedingly good cakes apparently.
Battenberg is close to where I come from, never knew about the cake stuff. Originally the Battenbergs died out in the 14th century, the name was only reused early in the 19th century.
Anyway, I support Poland...
... just in their group game against Austria.
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I've more hope in Owen finding his form than in Martins finding a brain surgeon, Viduka the way out of the Fatfighter convention and Ameobi his alleged talent.
Plus, it won't be that easy to sell Owen anyway. At the moment he is only living from his reputation ... and his huge wages which no buying club will want to match.
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Gol is seething.
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch.
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I want Chayton back.
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Have there ever been many decent Italians in the PL apart from Zola and Ravanelli?
Yeah, the majority of them.
Y'know I'm guessing the majority of them haven't been, hence why there have only been about 5 suggested, unless there hasn't been any more than 9 Italians in the PL.
There haven't been that many, no. It's also really ridiculous to say 'this guy's <nationality> ergo he's shit because I can't personally remember very many good players of <nationality> in the Premier League.' Let's forget for a second that you were wrong about the Italian success rate. How many dutchmen have been successful in the Premiership? I'd still have taken Bergkamp in his prime. Portuguese? Few successful ones, but I'd take Ronaldo. Argentines? Often unsuccessful. Tevez, though? Yes please. Etc.
It's still difficult to foresee when you get the exception and when the rule...
I agree totally that the nationality of a player should never put you off when you think the player is right. But I do also think that the likeliness to adapt to English football is connected to the football culture and way of life where players come from. So yes, I do think that players from southern European leagues or South America find it generally more difficult to be successful in the Premierleague than (less talented) Scandinavians for example. Signing them is a bigger risk than signing others imho.
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Something we should look into oneday.
Whenever the German system is mentioned it gets totally romanticised. The legal structures have changed in the last decade very much and are much more similar to the English system now. Most clubs here are in fact public or private limited companies where "members" have little to say, but decisions are made on by governing bodies.
What's the difference between a members club and a private company with fan shareholders? Do the german clubs have specific limitaions against the amassing of share blocks?
There are loads of differences, a major one is that in a member club every member has one vote among shareholders his votes reflect the quota of his shares. Most professional clubs in Germany now have the structure that the football department is spun off into a separate private limited company where the member club holds a minimum of 50% of the shares. Members basically don't elect presidents, chairmen etc. as well which is done by supervising boards (who are at best elected by members). In the end the members of the "clubs" have nothing to say. And rightly so.
So the member club, made up of one man one vote shareholders, only has a veto power on the management decisions of the commercial shareholders of the football company, and no say in the actual decisions made by the company? Don't they even get to ratify progress plans? Where is the benefit in coughing up to become a member fan?
You get free pens at AGMs .
...as well as preferential rights regarding tickets etc., but your power to influence is very limited to non-existent.
Tell me they at least get a dividend of some sort?
No. A member club is an idealistic not an economical corporation.
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Something we should look into oneday.
Whenever the German system is mentioned it gets totally romanticised. The legal structures have changed in the last decade very much and are much more similar to the English system now. Most clubs here are in fact public or private limited companies where "members" have little to say, but decisions are made on by governing bodies.
What's the difference between a members club and a private company with fan shareholders? Do the german clubs have specific limitaions against the amassing of share blocks?
There are loads of differences, a major one is that in a member club every member has one vote among shareholders his votes reflect the quota of his shares. Most professional clubs in Germany now have the structure that the football department is spun off into a separate private limited company where the member club holds a minimum of 50% of the shares. Members basically don't elect presidents, chairmen etc. as well which is done by supervising boards (who are at best elected by members). In the end the members of the "clubs" have nothing to say. And rightly so.
So the member club, made up of one man one vote shareholders, only has a veto power on the management decisions of the commercial shareholders of the football company, and no say in the actual decisions made by the company? Don't they even get to ratify progress plans? Where is the benefit in coughing up to become a member fan?
You get free pens at AGMs .
...as well as preferential rights regarding tickets etc., but your power to influence is very limited to non-existent.
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Something we should look into oneday.
Whenever the German system is mentioned it gets totally romanticised. The legal structures have changed in the last decade very much and are much more similar to the English system now. Most clubs here are in fact public or private limited companies where "members" have little to say, but decisions are made on by governing bodies.
What's the difference between a members club and a private company with fan shareholders? Do the german clubs have specific limitaions against the amassing of share blocks?
There are loads of differences, a major one is that in a member club every member has one vote among shareholders his votes reflect the quota of his shares. Most professional clubs in Germany now have the structure that the football department is spun off into a separate private limited company where the member club holds a minimum of 50% of the shares. Members basically don't elect presidents, chairmen etc. as well which is done by supervising boards (who are at best elected by members). In the end the members of the "clubs" have nothing to say. And rightly so.
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How many Spanish ones are proper members' 'clubs'? I know Barca are and you hear about presidential elections at Real Madrid etc.
The decisions made by the members are normally just to elect the person promising the most "trophy signings"...
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Something we should look into oneday.
Whenever the German system is mentioned it gets totally romanticised. The legal structures have changed in the last decade very much and are much more similar to the English system now. Most clubs here are in fact public or private limited companies where "members" have little to say, but decisions are made on by governing bodies.
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Newcastle Forgot About Álvaro, Claim Levante
Levante have claimed that Newcastle United pulled the plug on a deal to sign Álvaro after being accused by the player of blocking his move to the Premier League.
The Valencia-based outfit received an offer for the Brazilian central defender and replied in the positive and waited for the Magpies' next move.
As no news came through, Levante believe that Newcastle changed their minds, but did not inform them which caused the player to speak out to the press.
“We received an email from Newcastle at 6pm (on Tuesday) and we accepted the offer,” president Julio Romero said.
“It seems that they changed their mind since then. They forgot to tell us about it.
“Álvaro can stay at Levante. The offer was refused and he is still our player.
“I hope that he will remain as professional as he has always been.”
Álvaro stated that he thought Levante were to blame and claimed that he could not longer face paying for the club as they had stopped the transfer.
Lucas Brown, Goal.com
My money is on either Newcastle/Australia or Lukas Ramsauer tbh
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The aqueduct?
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Away to Lyon now, Juve obviously realising their mistake.
3rd in Italy to top in France his home country. Not really a bad move is it?
Especially if you haven't played a league game so far this season...
Why...
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Knowing that your predictions are mostly wide of the mark, we'll probably see a new spending record now.