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Summer '17 Football Thread: Transfer Madness Edition

Postby PorkChop » Feb 12, '17, 11:59 am

Leicester just lost 2-0 to Swansea. Ranieri must go now, surely.

It'll be a sad day if he goes - last year's Leicester team are an inspiration to all underdogs. They showed us that if a small club ever wants to reach the heights of English football, all that's needed are blue WKD, pizza, steroids and a racist orgy here and there.

Do you think they'll go down?
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby PorkChop » Feb 12, '17, 4:59 pm

Also, what exactly is David Moyes trying to do at Sunderland?

I can't see an ounce of fight in him at all. It's like he's on a mission to get them relegated.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Feb 13, '17, 5:22 am

It's a tough decision considering what he achieved last season however I do feel he is worth sticking with. I don't think he has been helped by his players suffering a major drop in performances (expected in their case) that no-one could have foreseen. He's in the same boat as them and as Jamie Carragher recently, they all will be linked to the two facts that they won the title in a miraculous season then went down the next. I'd imagine future interviews on last season will include the drop if they did go down.

I'm not sure Ranieri set the right tone at the start of the season talking about "40 points" and talk of survival. He'd have been worth trying to approach the season in terms of trying to get to the top again rather than the doom and gloom of relegation. His signings haven't been fruitful either and Kante's departure can't hide the players from last season have performed meekly.

Moyes, well, he's Mr Negative/Pessimistic. Said no-one he could buy would help then bought his Everton players Gibson, Oviedo. Saturday was a big chance to climb up the table but besides Defoe banging in the goals, it hides many problems for them. Moyes could get them back up and build a structure as he did at Everton but the United job has made him ultra-miserable, no positivity or energy about him.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby PorkChop » Feb 14, '17, 3:20 pm

Steve Bruce is done. Genuinely wouldn't be surprised if he goes soon. What a shitshow.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Feb 15, '17, 5:35 am

^Wow, that bad? I'd assumed Villa's league position was down to a number of factors but wouldn't have put it solely down to Bruce. I'd still give him another season with a summer window. He's got experience to get teams out of the Championship and surely there was no expectation to go straight back up or to linger around the play-offs? Hear Sam Johnstone's loan isn't working out well to be euphemistic..
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby PorkChop » Feb 15, '17, 8:38 am

Sam Johnstone should be playing conference football. I'm not kidding.

All of the shots he's faced which have been on target, he's let in - although he did actually save a shot in his first game. His positioning is awful, he can't catch so he punches everything instead, his distribution is terrible and he's crap at one on ones. Basically everything you'd want from a goalkeeper is missing. He makes Guzan look like Peter Schmeichel.

Bruce should really drop him, and the fact that he hasn't is inexcusable. I'd go as far to say that he's already made the top 5 worst Villa signings I've seen in my lifetime, and I saw Eric Djemba Djemba. We've got 2 points from an available 24 and Bruce is still persisting with him. So frustrating.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby SlightlyJames » Feb 19, '17, 2:31 pm

Graeme Murty, ladies and gentlemen.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby PorkChop » Feb 20, '17, 4:32 pm

Villa are doomed. We're going down again this year.

Tony Xia can walk in and throw around his millions, but the problem is more than just the players and the manager. The club is rotten to its very core. It's the stadium, it's the fans, it's the training ground, it's ingrained in the infrastructure of the club. It's all rotten.

Aston Villa has become synonymous with misery and failure, and this has a profound psychological impact on anyone who walks into the club. The dark cloud which has hung over the club since Martin O'Neill walked out has become part of the club's identity. The players can feel it, the managers can feel it, the fans can feel it. It's toxic.

Obscene spending isn't a solution like at so many other clubs, as demonstrated by this season. The issue here is within the fibres of the club itself.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Feb 21, '17, 3:32 pm

All this booha over a pie/pasty.

I think the reaction has been a tad OTT although the fact The Scum were behind it makes me a tad queasy and Wayne Shaw is destined for a new career on the reality TV show circuit...
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Feb 28, '17, 12:37 pm

Man, Ranieri must be ticked seeing his team perform last night with a 3-1 win over Liverpool.

Personally, Jamie Carragher and Neville had it spot-on during MNF on the whole situation at Leicester.

Players were naturally disposed to Pearson and that was helped by the end of the season winning run that got them safe so Ranieri came in and kept that success going to the ultimate trophy. But it seems some of the narrative is 'oh, he didn't do much' when there's so much to do like Carragher alluded to on MNF.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby PorkChop » Mar 04, '17, 4:12 am

Two back to back wins and clean sheets for Villa. I genuinely think if we'd lost them, Bruce would've been sacked.

Playing the mighty Rotherham today, and hopefully we'll get a third.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Mar 11, '17, 2:22 pm

Norwich sack Alex Neil and Rangers close to appointing unknown Caxinho to replace Warburton.

Thoughts @Daz @SlightlyJames
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby SlightlyJames » Mar 11, '17, 2:52 pm

AkydefGoldberg wrote:Norwich sack Alex Neil and Rangers close to appointing unknown Caxinho to replace Warburton.

Thoughts @Daz @SlightlyJames


Caixinha is signed already. I don't know much about him other than he won the Mexican league at some point? It's taken too long to get a permanent manager in place, Graeme Murty has been trying but even he acknowledged he was a bit out of his depth. Seems to have been gaining confidence though and the players gave him a big performance against Hamilton, not sure if he'll go back to managing the Under 20s or if he'll be looking to go into first team management elsewhere but he'll still be in charge for the Old Firm tomorrow.

Caixinha obviously a bit of an unknown but seems to have a good bit of experience. Don't know what his style of play is going to be but he's won trophies with other clubs so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for the time being. I do have hope that he can bring a bit of consistency to the team as that's been our main struggle. When the players are switched on and playing well they're very hard to beat but it's been the case too often this year that the performances just aren't there.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Mar 15, '17, 3:41 pm

Leicester City the sole English representatives in the CL quarter finals after Man City go out on away goals to Monaco.

If only PSG hadn't bottled it last week, it would have been a refreshing change to the line-ups of a CL QF which is normally so predictable with the teams involved.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby SlightlyJames » Mar 18, '17, 9:36 am

Pedro and Big Dave should be moving mountains to get Emerson Hyndman signed. Kid's been fantastic for Rangers for the past couple of months.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby Enygma » Mar 18, '17, 10:16 am

Why are the Arsenal board still accomdating Wenger
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Mar 18, '17, 10:25 am

Enygma wrote:Why are the Arsenal board still accomdating Wenger


Because it's a Board that has created a culture and environment where they only need certain requirements (top four) and Wenger has delivered that, with a few FA Cups in the last ten years. Thus, they've given him the appropriate funds for that. But it still doesn't take away from the fact that Wenger has been left behind by other managers, and stubbornly held on to his style of football. His first decade brought a side you feared but since 2004, and the break-up of the Invincibles, it's has been a fearless side to face.

He's suggesting he knows what to do and that sounds ominous, maybe he'll announce he will leave at the end of the season? But a two week international break has come at a good time for him, to let the situation die down but they face Man City that is a huge game with their current position.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Mar 24, '17, 8:23 am

England fans singing about the war and booing the German anthem.. :facepalm
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby SlightlyJames » Mar 27, '17, 7:13 am

Talk right now about a Rangers academy player by the name of Billy Gilmour. He's 15 years old and been training with the first team for a good bit of this season. Kid's not played a professional game but from the sounds of it he's Chelsea bound once he hits 16 in a few months. Guess it's his choice at the end of the day but are Chelsea not pretty consistent in their tendency to let young players stagnate/get pawned off to loan clubs before being released? I've lost track of how many times I've heard that same story. Have to say it seems short sighted.
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Re: February '17 Football Thread: ClaudiOut (for real this time) Edition

Postby PorkChop » Apr 02, '17, 9:30 am

COVENTRY :tim

The final few minutes of that were so bloody tense. Great to see Coventry lift a trophy, even if it is only the Checkatrade. The club has had it tough for far too long and it's great to see them be champions for a day.
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