General Football/Soccer Talk

[George7]

Did you said anything bout Hope, hondo???

Well he had 6 goals and 9 assists on a mediocre season last year, so imagine what he'll do when he completes full preparation!! Last year he came at the start of August. On champions league he'll be just awesome! He started really well so far!

[Phil89]

Which is why we sold him....

Man, you guys had failures lately... Riera, Jovanovic, Robbie Keane...

All because of the two %@^%#^#&^&# owners we had at the time, we had to settle for second or third choice transfer targets because of no money.

Riera was bought because the owners wouldn't give up money for David Silva, who Rafa wanted. Simple as that.
We had the chance to sign Dani Alves for just £8m (link), but the stupid stingy owners wouldn't give Rafa the money. 2 years later he signed for Barcelona for £30m.
Keane was alleged signed by Rick Parry without Rafa's support. He sucked and Tottenham paid us £16m to take him back 6 months later.
Jovanovic was signed by Rafa before he left and Roy didn't play him. Not sure if it was because Jova was crap or just because Roy was incompotent.

It aint Liverpoop for nothing

Last time I checked we had 18 league titles and 5 european cups. Hows Arsenal doing lately?
The last trophy we won was the FA Cup in 2006. Arsenal haven't won anything since that time so I wouldn't be gloating about anything.
In the last 6 years all Arsenal have won is 1 FA Cup. Liverpool have won an FA Cup and a Champions League final in the same period.


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With the new owners now we are spending money again. We may not be signing 'big name' stars atm, but that's just because we aren't in europe.
The reason we've signed Downing, Adam and Henderson is simple. To feed Andy Carroll lots of crosses and passes and help utilize his height advantage.
Last season all three were in the top 10 for creating scoring opportunities. Henderson and Downing had 78 (=3rd) and Adam had 64 (9th).
They were above guys like Modric and Fabregas.

Well he had 6 goals and 9 assists on a mediocre season last year, so imagine what he'll do when he completes full preparation!! Last year he came at the start of August. On champions league he'll be just awesome! He started really well so far!

He was pretty inconsistent at Liverpool. He did some great things though. I remember a goal against Aston Villa from Reina's quick kick.

[kibaxx7]

Last time I checked we had 18 league titles and 5 european cups. Hows Arsenal doing lately?
The last trophy we won was the FA Cup in 2006. Arsenal haven't won anything since that time so I wouldn't be gloating about anything.
In the last 6 years all Arsenal have won is 1 FA Cup. Liverpool have won an FA Cup and a Champions League final in the same period.

My Google-fu tells me we haven't won anything since 2005 (FA Cup), so, even worse.

In the last 6 years we have 1 FA Cup, 2 Carling Cup Finals and 1 Champions League Final...

then 4th in 2011 (Liverpool: 6th), 3rd in 2010 (Liverpool: 7th), 4th in 2009 (Liverpool: 2nd, 14 points ahead)...

so I guess both teams are kind of even.

[Phil89]

Yeah, I guess we shouldn't be arguing about who is better considering we're both going through rough patches.

Suarez scores both goals as Uruguay beat Peru to reach the final of the Copa America.

[Houndy]

God help the MLS

[Phil89]

It seems Sanchez to Barcelona is almost done. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14240148.stm

[[Q]]

i dont really keep up with transfers, but id like to keep fifa 11 updated. any big names change teams? i got Coentrao on Real. any of the other top teams get good players? chelsea, man u, barca, inter, ac milan

[Phil89]

I do that on FIFA every year too. Why wait a couple of months for the new game to come out?

These are some of the big ones that I could think of:

Man Utd
Phil Jones - Blackburn
Ashley Young - Aston Villa
David De Gea - Atletico Madrid

Man City
Gael Clichy - Arsenal

Arsenal
Gervinho - Lille

Liverpool
Stewart Downing - Aston Villa
Jordan Henderson - Sunderland
Charlie Adam - Blackpool
Doni - Roma



Real Madrid
Nuri Sahin - Borussia Dortmund
Hamit Altintop - Bayern Munich
Jose Callejon - Espanyol
Fabio Coentrao - Benfica

Barcelona
Alexis Sanchez - Udinese

Malaga
Ruud Van Nistelrooy - Hamburg
Jeremy Toulalan - Lyon
Diego Buonanotte - River Plate
Nacho Monreal - Osasuna
Joris Mathijsen - Hamburg
Joaquin - Valencia
Sergio Sánchez - Sevilla
Isco - Valencia

Valencia
Pablo Piatti - Almeria
Diego Alves - Almeria
Dani Parejo - Getafe

Villarreal
Cristian Zapata - Udinese

Sevilla
Piotr Trochowski - Hamburg
Emir Spahic - Montpellier



Juventus
Reto Ziegler - Sampdoria
Andrea Pirlo - AC Milan
Michele Pazienza - Napoli
Arturo Vidal - Bayer Leverkusen
Stephan Lichtsteiner - Lazio

Lazio
Miroslav Klose - Bayern Munich
Djibril Cisse - Panathinaikos
Lorik Cana - Galatasaray
Federico Marchetti - Cagliari

AC Milan
Philippe Mexes - Roma
Taye Taiwo - Marseille

Inter Milan
Jonathan - Santos

Roma
Jose Angel - Real Sporting
Bojan - Barcelona
Erik Lamela - River Plate



Bayern Munich
Rafinha - Genoa
Manuel Neuer - Schalke



Benfica
Ezequiel Garay - Real Madrid
Axel Witsel - Standard Liege
Joan Capdevila - Villarreal

Porto
Alex Sandro - Santos
Danilo - Santos


If you really want to spend some time updating transfers you could check out these wiki transfer lists: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

[kibaxx7]

Vidal to Juventus is official now? Real Madrid also got Lens' Varane. If Zidane recommends a player, you go and buy him, no questions asked.

[Phil89]

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[Cruzerr]

Two things: Why the fuck did he do that??
Second thing: Why is this guy playing?

Coming from A Gooner pretty much.

[Phil89]

No left foot apparently.

[J@3]

Second thing: Why is this guy playing?

Coming from A Gooner pretty much.

If you were a Gooner you'd know it was a friendly and normal for teams to play a lot of their reserves/youth players during them.

[kibaxx7]

Gervinho scored both goals in 15 minutes Huge start for his career with us...

That will be Jenkinson's best goal of his career. An own goal.

[George7]

Damn, really easy 2-0 lead for Uruguay so far in the match...

[Phil89]

Well done Luis Suarez. Hopefully he gets a nice rest now and comes back to Liverpool ready to start the season.

[J@3]

Did you see guys see what Balotelli did? What a clown.

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[Cruzerr]

What do you expect from an "Ape"

[Phil89]

Definetly has some mental issues.

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[shadowgrin]

Ape? Racism.

[Cruzerr]

Ape? Racism.

Didn`t actually mean the whole race you know. The things that Balotelli has been doing are quite astonishing, and I aint the first person to say that he is an "Ape".

[shadowgrin]

I aint the first person to say that he is an "Ape".

I know. There are lots of racist persons out there.

[Cruzerr]

I aint the first person to say that he is an "Ape".

I know. There are lots of racist persons out there.

Damn, got me there. I guess theres a bit of racism in all of us, or just me ?

[shadowgrin]

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[kibaxx7]

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