The Football Thread 2008/09

[Cropolite]

Vieri & Crespo aren't overwhelming either

[PES Fan]

Oh God, lets pray Madrid don't improve their defence. Fifa 10 will be a disaster with everyone choosing them.

[teh bork]

£80 million! I'm surprised United didn't ask for Huntelaar or Sneijder in exchange. Madrid though are doing exactly what they did last time under Perez, here's their list of attacking players:

Raul
Saviola
Sneijder
Robben
Drenthe
Kaka
Huntelaar
Higuain
Van Nistelrooy
Ronaldo

They won't drop or sell Raul, despite the fact that he's past it and been that way for a few years, Ruud is no doubt off, but what of the others?
Also despite this wealth of attacking talent, their defence is still awful, none of them are world class defenders, as Liverpool, Barca and numerous other sides in La Liga have shown them this season. Hopefully this comes back to bite Ronaldo and Perez (who is the man I most despise in football) on the arse, in the words of Keegan I would love to see them win strawberry float all for the next few years.

[Zellery]

It's a bit different from all those years ago now though.

People were once talking about Andy Cole's record signing to Utd for £9 million.

His was never a World Record though, merely a British one if I remember correctly.

I was trying to convey how times have changed and how amounts for players have increased year on year.

[chalkitdown]

DING DONG
THE banana split IS GONE!

\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/

I no longer have to petend to like him! Happy days! \o/

[PES Fan]

£80 million! I'm surprised United didn't ask for Huntelaar or Sneijder in exchange. Madrid though are doing exactly what they did last time under Perez, here's their list of attacking players:

Raul
Saviola
Sneijder
Robben
Drenthe
Kaka
Huntelaar
Higuain
Van Nistelrooy
Ronaldo

They won't drop or sell Raul, despite the fact that he's past it and been that way for a few years, Ruud is no doubt off, but what of the others?
Also despite this wealth of attacking talent, their defence is still awful, none of them are world class defenders, as Liverpool, Barca and numerous other sides in La Liga have shown them this season. Hopefully this comes back to bite Ronaldo and Perez (who is the man I most despise in football) on the ****, in the words of Keegan I would love to see them win **** all for the next few years.

Higuain will stay. You should add Villa to that list because its looking likely he is the next player. Raul will be 3rd choice striker then, Higuain after the season he has had cannot be dropped, and Villa will no doubt be the number 1 striker.

[Zellery]

DING DONG
THE banana split IS GONE!

\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/

I no longer have to petend to like him! Happy days! \o/

When did you ever pretend?

[chalkitdown]

[Denster]

It's a bit different from all those years ago now though.

People were once talking about Andy Cole's record signing to Utd for £9 million.

Cole was £6.25 million.

[Zellery]

It's a bit different from all those years ago now though.

People were once talking about Andy Cole's record signing to Utd for £9 million.

Cole was £6.25 million.

My mistake. That wasn't really my point anyway, it was answering Poncho saying Ronaldo is worth the same as Figo and Zidane combined.

If those two players were in their prime now at this time, they would have been worth considerably more.

[Hank Scorpio]

Ferguson must have a big name player in mind to replace Ronaldo. Hopefully Ribery or Benzema or maybe both.

[chalkitdown]

I wonder is any of the 80mil will go towards finally securing Tevez.

[Hank Scorpio]

I wonder is any of the 80mil will go towards finally securing Tevez.

Berbatov > Tevez

[PES Fan]

I wonder is any of the 80mil will go towards finally securing Tevez.

I hope not. When Tevez understands rotation then I might welcome him at old trafford.

[Stig]

I wouldn't mind Madrid throwing in Huntelaar with the £80 million. Weren't United linked with him a fair bit before he moved there?

Surely that'd be a waste of time if United do go out and buy Benzema?

It's Lyon though, their chairman is a banana split. As if the price wouldn't be inflated enough because it's United, the fact that Lyon know they have some serious money will make it even worse.

Lyon's chairman is the reason they're in the position they're in.

He's done it using quite good business nous.

Not really a banana split .

[mcjihge2]

I expect most of that £80 will be going to pay off the Glazers debt. As a Liverpool supporter i cant help but think that Hicks and Gillett will be looking at Torres and Gerrard and thinking how much they could get for them now.

[Denster]

I expect most of that £80 will be going to pay off the Glazers debt. As a Liverpool supporter i cant help but think that Hicks and Gillett will be looking at Torres and Gerrard and thinking how much they could get for them now.

No it wont.

The debt is perfectly manageable and always has been.

[Stig]

The debt is perfectly manageable and always has been.

Correct.

It's not a bad thing to be in debt. It's only bad if you can't afford to be in debt.

If you get your maths right, you can even use debt to make money on money that isn't yours! Genius.

[Denster]

Stig and I are in complete accord.

[Stig]

Stig and I are in complete accord.

Don't think it's the first time that's happened Denny!

Fed up of people talking shite about stuff they don't know about.

(That includes you on Rafa, BTW )