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TheRat posted:I remember there was some talk in the CL thread about a commentator calling Antonio Valencia one of the fastest players in the world and people (myself included) not believing it. Apparently it's true I dont believe any of these. Mainly because I don't buy that the fastest players in European football from every league are coincidentally also the most technically able, aside from Valencia and Lennon.
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TheRat posted:Everyone knows that Messi and Ronaldo are absolutely stupidly fast though? Right but I don't buy that Messi is any quicker than, say, Abate. Besides Messi isn't so much a sprinter as he is good at turning ninety degrees at top speed.
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Apr 3, 2014 16:38
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TheRat posted:You just dont notice it because everything else he does is so good, but Messi's acceleration is godly. That's what I said he was good at - your list is of top speeds.
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Apr 3, 2014 16:43
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it's from January 2010, it finished 1-3 e: beaten
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Apr 3, 2014 17:09
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And now that Fellainis been exposed as dross, their team isn't looking nearly the dark horse people bleated on about eight months ago
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Apr 3, 2014 19:03
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They can't sell Eto'o he's on a one year and there's no £7m saved on wages since they don't seem to intend giving him a new one. lol at paying Torres 9m a year. Theyll have spent £80m on him in total then if they can find someone stupid enough to take him.
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Apr 4, 2014 08:40
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It's probably Fonte
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Apr 4, 2014 20:57
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pik_d posted:He's only 23 and is still playing football Or so he claims
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Apr 4, 2014 21:06
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He walked out of the club to Apparat's Goodbye
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Apr 7, 2014 03:08
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I love how Cazorla, this season's passenger, claims he'd go back to Spain to win titles. He wouldn't make the bench at either of the top two.
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Apr 9, 2014 16:38
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I've been pro Wenger forever but signing one injured forty year old in January knowing two of this season's best players would be injured until now is unforgivable. We lost and drew four games in December and we knew that March would have a worse fixture run of Bayern, Spurs, Bayern, Chelsea, City, Everton. Plus he's been utterly smashed five or six times this season. Has Mourinho ever been completely turned over? Barcelona 5-0 and Dortmund 4-1, and the only other game I can think of is when he lost to Boro 3-0.
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Apr 9, 2014 16:48
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blue footed boobie posted:Ideally I think the three behind the striker will be Ozil behind the striker and some combination of Wilshere/Walcott/New Left Winger on the wings. Ramsey?
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Apr 9, 2014 17:03
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How different this season would have been had we bid 50m for Suarez lol
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Apr 9, 2014 17:08
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blue footed boobie posted:They wouldn't have sold for 50 tbh. He was a good player that was banned for the next few months. He'd been banned for cumulatively 19 games in two seasons the first of which he'd spent being as unclinical as possible.
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Apr 9, 2014 17:11
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He was a player desperate to leave and he wasn't THAT good last year. He was overvalued at 55m because Liverpool, a team which finished seventh in the league, were supposedly hosed without him. Now he's worth more than Bale ever was imo.
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Apr 9, 2014 17:20
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Shrapnig posted:Birmingham Liverpool as well.
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Apr 9, 2014 22:17
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Shrapnig posted:I could have included United, City, and Chelsea as well but left them out for obvious reasons. Dalglish's Liverpool have a lot more in common with Arsenal than those three who from 2006 have had much better squads than Arsenal.
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Apr 9, 2014 22:27
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Shrapnig posted:Liverpool won the Champions League in 2005, it's a bit of a stretch to throw them in with Brum, Pompey, and Wigan. Dalglish's squad didn't. If City won the cup in 2005 you could list them too.
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Apr 9, 2014 22:29
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Shrapnig posted:Especially after they paid the 2nd highest fee ever for a player in the Premier League. In that same window City, Chelsea and Spurs spent like 250m combined.
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Apr 9, 2014 22:54
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Shrapnig posted:So three other clubs paid double what Arsenal paid for one player and brought in multiple players instead, cool. That Arsenal aren't really competing financially by buying ONE player over both windows, even if that player is 40+m
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Apr 9, 2014 22:57
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Shrapnig posted:Arsenal need to compete financially if they want to win poo poo, that's what I think is so frustrating for Arsenal fans. Spunking 20m on some good but not world class dude and buying three African boys from Ligue 2 isn't going to win you trophies. Agreed Also I was wrong: Spurs, Chelsea and City all spent over 100m each on players this year.
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Apr 9, 2014 23:08
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irlZaphod posted:Wow all those clubs combined spent more than a single club? All three clubs spent 100m each. My point is exactly that - they can compete financially with at least Liverpool or Spurs or maybe even United, but they're not. And spending 40m in total in one year is not evidence that they did compete financially this year. Even United, Liverpool and Everton spent 60m, 50m and 30m respectively.
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Apr 9, 2014 23:30
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irlZaphod posted:As mentioned already, Spurs only spent a load of money because they got a load of money for Bale. Arsenal don't have the financial backing of City/Chelsea, no, but they're not poor. That's what I'm saying, and if we're talking net spend then Arsenal are still not competing simply because of Ozils fee. He came off the back of selling Fabregas, RVP, Gervinho, Song, Clichy, Nasri.
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Apr 9, 2014 23:58
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not not luvd posted:1 - City Why on earth would you want Chelsea to win over Liverpool.
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Apr 10, 2014 16:26
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TelekineticBear! posted:I don't see anyway Suarez leaves liverpool, they're all but guaranteed champions league football next year, hes the main man in the team that could end up winning the title and it would take Bale esque money for Liverpool to even consider selling him He'll get a season long ban somehow
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Apr 10, 2014 17:42
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The Mash posted:I saw Flanagan call it the biggest game for Liverpool since 2005 Liverpool were in a pretty big game in 2007
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Apr 11, 2014 17:09
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Chelsea basically need City to lose at Anfield and Goodison, and Liverpool to drop points to Norwich or something.
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Apr 11, 2014 19:47
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tbp posted:City could lose a game and if they win the rest they will be above Chelsea No they won't. oh right, yeah above Chelsea, but not Liverpool.
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Apr 11, 2014 20:25
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Mickolution posted:Wouldn't they get in if Arsenal were to win and finish 5th/6th? Apparently not, only if the winner finish in the CL spots.
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Apr 15, 2014 21:03
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Burqa King posted:Are there any other players with first name instead of a surname? Scott Dan has the worst one.
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Apr 17, 2014 12:36
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The council just notified me to prepare for a Chelsea victory parade next month lol
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Apr 17, 2014 19:59
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euroboy posted:Are we talking first player ever even if we include pre-1992? Apparently first player in the post war era to win the league with three different clubs.
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Apr 20, 2014 20:29
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Shocking from Manchester United, they've become Chelsea.
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Apr 21, 2014 14:40
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Meulensteens available isn't he
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Apr 21, 2014 14:50
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emjayo posted:where will davey moyes go next? Barcelona
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Apr 21, 2014 14:55
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c0burn posted:Maybe they should compare it to Fergusons last 34 games. United weren't champions when he took over. Ferguson took a top 4 side into midtable for his first few years, then sold all their major players.
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Apr 21, 2014 16:13
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How stressful could managing a football club be. If someone put me in charge if Real Madrid for ten million a year it'd be like you dunked me in the fountain of youth.
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Apr 21, 2014 16:18
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Looking forward to the next manager taking them to sixth next year
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Apr 21, 2014 16:22
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It's not even been a year since Ferguson retired
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Moyes will go to Italy
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