pie-eater 207 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Probably bollocks but: Manchester United lead race to sign Arsenal and Tottenham target Mesut Ozil Manchester United are lining up a £12million bid for Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil. -- If it's only 12 mill, you would think someone will "swoop" in with a more substantial bid. He would it seem be a good long-term signing for any top team. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Originally Posted By: grungy-gonads indeed! Where are the other two keepers, Green and Hart (?) ? actually I was laughing at the video posted....just a wee bit slow though as 2 other peeps posted stuff before me! But James to Bristol City is a bt of a Although I didn't realise that they were in the Championship, I thought they were league 1 Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Top Tips Goalkeepers. Probably best not to do this: Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Good one that Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 They should go for his dad, surely! Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Ozil says he is going no-where. If he stays another year he can move for free, so perhaps it's a "just about to be sold for as much as possible" tactic. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Here's a telling story of another fab England keeper England goalkeeper Joe Hart says he would consider going back out on loan to help his international career if he is not Manchester City's number one. City boss Roberto Mancini says he is yet to decide whether Hart or Shay Given will be his first-choice keeper. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Probably something like that. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Come and get me!! Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Lots of Liverpool to be bought stories now... Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Yes big story now. Looks like he is offering to buy up debt and then spend more as well. Happy Liverpool fans? Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Anything will be an improvement on current dire situation. They are saying a conclusion will come this week. Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Nah, I think it will be their year. Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Quote: Having watched his team slump to what was their third consecutive pre-season defeat in the space of just 12 days, Ancelotti was also sufficiently disappointed on Wednesday night to question their collective concentration and character. Chelsea face Manchester United on Sunday in the Community Shield and then have just six days to prepare for the start of their Premier League title defence, which begins against West Bromwich Albion on Aug 14. However, Ancelotti believes that it will take a further fortnight for his contingent of 10 World Cup players to return to full fitness. Just round the corner now. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Mickey Owen scores a goal in rampant 7-1 win. Community Shield on Sunday. Link to post Share on other sites
pickled mushhead 0 Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Quote: The Chinese government fund represented by Kenny Huang has spent the past fortnight raising precisely the amount of cash required to finance a bid for Liverpool. Sources have confirmed to Digger that the China Investment Corporation, the sovereign wealth fund to the world's most populous nation, is the organisation being fronted by Huang, who yesterday admitted interest in bidding for Liverpool. In a series of trades since 19 July, CIC has sold $558m of shares in Morgan Stanley, equating to £351.4m. That sum is equivalent to Liverpool's debt to the nearest decimal place, and is exactly the number insiders say has been quoted to interested parties as the sale price. China Daily, the English-language arm of the Chinese state media, reported yesterday: "China Investment Corp, the Chinese sovereign wealth fund that bought a 9.9% stake in Morgan Stanley in 2007, sold $90.5m of shares in the investment bank on 30 July, bringing the total amount divested in the last two weeks to about $558m." The Chinese Government to buy Liverpool?! Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted August 5, 2010 Author Share Posted August 5, 2010 Hmmm. Good read about formations here http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2010/aug/04/the-question-is-4-2-1-3-the-future Evolution never stops. As the World Cup showed, 4‑2‑3‑1 has come to replace 4‑4‑2 as the universal default (18 of the 32 teams played some form of 4‑2‑3‑1 at some stage, with another three fielding a 4‑4‑2 that perhaps should have become 4‑2‑3‑1) so the system at the very highest level has already begun to mutate. Spain, by the end of the World Cup, had followed what Barcelona did at times last season, what Arsenal seemed to be reaching towards, and set up in a 4‑2‑1‑3. Now clearly the distinction between 4‑2‑3‑1 and 4‑2‑1‑3 is minimal. It entails nothing more than the central player in the trident pulling a little deeper and the two wide players advancing slightly. In practice, as the wide players look to escape the attentions of full-backs, their depth of position may not alter greatly, but to refer to the system as 4‑2‑1‑2‑1 and start introducing a fifth band is probably to begin to confuse the simplicity that gives value to the practice of assigning numerical codes. The shape, if anything, resembles a diamond sitting on a plinth. As I've said before, the designations are of course crude, but they have a use in providing a broad explicatory template. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Good read that. Link to post Share on other sites
mitchpee 10 Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Liverpool better hope Torres picks up his game as compared to what he did with Spain. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted August 6, 2010 Author Share Posted August 6, 2010 Nursing injury Mitch. If he can come back soon and get to full fitness and not break again.... please! Liverpool won tonight 2-0. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Liverpool win in Europe! Link to post Share on other sites
ShinyDiscoBall 2 Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 The ever-exciting Community Shield on Sunday. Oh it's exciting isn't it. We haven't been too hot pre-season games. Time to start getting into gear. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 That mofo from HK better not be serious about buying Liverpool. ****. Link to post Share on other sites
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