Another chance to claim the title for RM this weekend. If Villarreal (playing at 1700 on Sunday whereas we do at 2100) don't win against Getafe, then the league is ours and the game at Osasuna will be a piece of cake. The plane which would take them players to Madrid to celebrate the title is expected to arrive at 0130, don't know how many RM supporters will stand up there until late night
Addy291 wrote:and no strikers at all, then signs players accordingly, I think he'll go down pretty well (until he starts going on like isso said). We literally have the worst strikeforce in the Premiership, so that needs to be sorted quickly.
Don't worry, you have Vassell B)
Quite possibly the worst striker I've ever seen play this year, he really is shocking.
But City do have the best central defence in the Premiership at the moment
Vassell is amazingly bad. I used to quite like him, around the time he got selected for England, but now he couldn't hit a barn door from 5 yards
City do have a good central defence but if either Dunne or Richards is injured, like the last couple of months, then the defence isn't anywhere either really. Dunne and Richards just work so well together that when they're not together they don't play all that well. If City had a whole season without Dunne and Richards getting injured then they could do very well. Then if we got a striker we could maybe steal a European place, although we're still on for qualification through the fair play tableB)
If we keep Petrov, Dunne, Richards, Elano, Johnson and buy a keeper, left back, right back, right winger and a striker or two, then next year should be pretty good, hopefully. It'a all down to what Scolari does in the summer transfer window. I doubt he'll do well
Arsene Wenger has confirmed that he will report Inter to Fifa for making an alleged illegal approach to Arsenal’s Alexander Hleb.
Manchester City are in negotiations with Barcelona for midfielder Giovani dos Santos.
DiarioSport says talks are already underway, though with one stumbling to overcome. Barca want to sell Dos Santos outright this summer, while City would prefer to take the Mexican on a season-long loan with the view to a permanent deal next June.
And more than 10,000 City fans are protesting at Eastlands on 10th May to support Eriksson, at which they will urge Shinawatra to take into account the wishes of the vast majority of the supporters and think again about the manager's position.
issoisso wrote:
Do any of you remember Mário Jardel? the brazillian striker, former Golden Boot?
a few years ago, when he played for Sporting, he suddenly and misteriously tailed off. started playing like crap. Then he went to a bundle of different teams, Bolton, Ancona, etc. Never did anything at all.
Now he's come forth and admitted it all. Women, Gambling, his mother's alcohol problems, his wife leaving him, all led to him starting on cocaine.
He's clean now, and he wants to make a comeback. He's 34 so It's going to be difficult, but if by some miracle he can come back to being even one fifth of what he was, any team in the world would have him.
Most of you never have never seen him play at his peak. Well, I'll just say he was ungodly. In the champions league the top teams in the world would put sometimes three men on him. and he'd still score. He was weak, slow, technically bad. Yet when there was a rebound, he was magically there to unleash his shot. Head, Left Foot, Right Foot, whatever, The accuracy was like nothing I've ever seen.
I have no qualms in saying his movement in the box was the best I've ever seen by any player in my lifetime.
In case anyone's interested, here's a highlights clip. takes me back
Oh man... That goal against Farense... Brilliant...
I actually met him once when I was 13 and he told me "Stay in school, don't do drugs and you'll be set for life" and, i had a great deal of respect for him ever since that day... But now it really hurts to see him this way...
Apparently Scolari's influence has already started at City
Porto's Bruno Alves is on Manchester City's hit-list - even though boss Sven Goran Eriksson is going.
City supremo Thaksin Shinawatra will buy the £10million Portugal centre-half, 26, even though top managerial target Luiz Felipe Scolari cannot take charge until after Euro 2008.
Remind me again who this 10 million pound Bruno Alves is? because the only Bruno Alves I know, the negotiation for his rights starts at 20 million euros
typical press. no idea what they're talking about.
Edited by issoisso on 03-05-2008 14:00
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issoisso wrote:
Remind me again who this 10 million pound Bruno Alves is? because the only Bruno Alves I know, the negotiation for his rights starts at 20 million euros
typical press. no idea what they're talking about.
It's probably the same press that said Bosingwa was on his way to Real Madrid for 12 million pound... Or the ones who said Lucho was on his way to Atl. Madrid for 15 million pound...
There is supposed to be a huge protest in the city ground for tommorrows clash with Liverpool, even Noel Gallagher has said he wants to keep Eriksson
I'd bring in Ronald Koeman B)
Karl_rab wrote:
There is supposed to be a huge protest in the city ground for tommorrows clash with Liverpool, even Noel Gallagher has said he wants to keep Eriksson
I'd bring in Ronald Koeman B)
yes bringing in Ronald Koeman is indeed a wise move if u want ur team to be ruined
and about Vassell, how did he ever get to play for England? I still remember him missing an important penalty a few years ago when my and my dad were laughing because he was already playing horrendous and still they decided to let him take a penalty
Dwight K. Schrute: 'I'm not a hero. Im just a mere defender of the office. You know who is a hero? Hiro from Heroes. That's a hero. And Bono'.
Koeman is quite possibly the worst manager currently alive. The fact that Valencia hired him after his catastrophic failures everywhere just proves that some people that are running clubs have absolutely no brains whatsoever.
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To be honest I have now found a lot of links saying that he is delaying his answer, I'm not sure which is the most recent news. I know Shinawatra is after Scolari as he said so in interview so in addition to that and the link it's very possible he will become the new manager. But I'm not as certain as I was before I must say.
Karl_rab wrote:
He has only ruined Valencia and they kind of deserved it for being so cocky. He did well in holland
he did a decent job with Vitesse. They had a great team but because they had no reputation, a lot of people saw it as a great job when it was nothing special.
After that, he screwed up Ajax, ruined Benfica, shot down PSV and now ripped Valencia apart.
The man is an idiot and very incompetent as well.
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