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#335345 Euro 2016 tournament thread
Shola
#335291 Euro 2016 tournament thread
Shola
England's biggest problem is Hodgson has picked a disastrous 23. One pure holding midfielder, one winger, no 'controlling' midfielders, 4 central strikers - three of whom are very similar, several 'number 10's' when we don't play with any. What is the benefit of having Wilshere, Henderson and Milner on the bench at the same time? What possible football scenario calls for that
Chris Coleman has been historically poor manager, but at least he decided how Wales can play to their strengths and picked 23 players according to that plan.
#334949 Transfer Rumours 2016/17
Shola
#334531 Euro 2016 tournament thread
Shola
Hopefully this will be the end of attempting to play like Spain. We look panicked whenever Wales stand off.
#334131 Euro 2016 tournament thread
Shola
x2
#334129 Euro 2016 tournament thread
Shola
#334016 The Night Thread Mk. IX
Shola
Two psychotics in Orlando, and a feeling that the rest of Europe has seemingly completely failed at integration.
#334000 Euro 2016 tournament thread
Shola
Ozil for example showed how magnificent he is in the final minute when given a bit of space. But him Gotze, Draxler, Muller, Draxler, Kroos all a bit similar.
#333900 Euro 2016 tournament thread
Shola
Anecdotal evidence but Wales' Neil Taylor and Ben Davies have both been absolutely unable to get anywhere near him, never mind tackle him within the last 3 months. But still I'd rather have Ross Barkley.
#333785 Euro 2016 tournament thread
Shola
Guardian journalists seem to think singing singing about Brexit is worse than foreigners doing actual crimes. One of them has complained about England 'wasting police time'. - yet there has been no
#333716 Euro 2016 tournament thread
Shola
Basically thinks that voting Leave should see you get tear gassed. His disdain for the working classes is evident.
#333708 Twatball 2016
Shola
Especially as Lorik Cana has got himself sent off too early...
#333501 Twatball 2016
Shola
Is Mark van Bommel at the Euros?
#333374 The Night Thread Mk. IX
Shola
Seems like a wicked urban legend to me,
#333242 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
Shola
#333174 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
Shola
John Cröss*
#333049 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
Shola
Arsene sticking him on the wing seems pretty likely though
#332843 The Lower League Thread
Shola
Middlesbrough went up last season comfortably despite their manager having a massive huff. Burnley and Brighton were 2nd and 3rd despite having absolutely nothing aside from running around.
#332838 Transfer Rumours 2015/16
Shola
#332620 The England National Team
Shola
Thank you Hodgson for being so hopeless and inept for leaving out Townsend. Hope everyone just sorts of forgets about him now.
#332312 2015/16 Champions League
Shola
Real, Inter, Liverpool and Chelsea all winning the Champions League within a year of Rafa getting appointed. I like those chances.
#331961 Old Trafford Lounge
Shola
"You've got to learn how to lose. They should learn how to lose around here." - The same thing can be said about Jose that's for sure.
#331908 Old Trafford Lounge
Shola
#331734 The Lower League Thread
Shola
Really the ideal system is zero parachute payments - it would cause a fantastic situation of 17 PL Clubs and three rotating clubs on loan from the second tier for the season. Is it really economic for Middlesbrough to sign Viktor Fischer? Would it not make more sense for him to sit on the bench at Everton, and perhaps Boro can get Stephen Ward or Hunt instead?
No doubt Huddersfield will be giving back the extra solidarity payment from Burnley getting promoted?
#331716 Old Trafford Lounge
Shola
Yeah that's what I mean - Mourinho basically putting pressure on Man Utd to hurry and do the deal as he has offers....
Then again I'm always skeptical that this level of really obvious 'mind games' actually happens. I'd imagine everyone in football already knows when deals are done - and Ed Woodward for example probably know where Morata / Lukaku / Stones etc. will be on September 1st.
#331630 Old Trafford Lounge
Shola
If so possibly hoping to wait until the last possible moment to hope LVG turns it around?
And obviously the Mourinho to Valencia / Inter rumours etc. suggest that the deal wan't done from Man Utd's perspective.
#331362 Old Trafford Lounge
Shola
I'm not sure who was in charge of the signings at Inter, but their first season signings seem pretty bad, Crespo, Muntari, Mancini, Quaresma and Luis Jimenez - can't recall any of those doing anything for Inter.
But second season was all funded by player sales, Zlatan was sold, and Vieira, Cruz, Figo and Crespo all left. Milito, Eto'o, Lucio (were all outstanding signings - but all in their later stages of their careers), Sneijder and Motta were excellent signings as well.
But looking at their team, Julio Cesar, Toldo, Lucio, Materazzi, Samuel, Chivu, Maicon, Zanetti, Cambiasso, Millito, Eto'o, Stankovic & Ivan Cordoba all aged 28+ and Mariga and Muntari not really good enough imo.
Meaning the squad of Sneijder, Balotelli, Pandev and the suspended Thiago Motta being the only players the following managers could really rely on going forwards - a bigger worry would be he got rid of Leonardo Bonucci, and kept 4 CB's all aged 32+....
#330930 Europa League 2015/16
Shola
Yeah but you got knocked out in the group stages by PSV and Wofsburg. - If Man Utd scraped 4th they're unlikely to much better next season
Like obviously winning it is good - and if lets say Thomas Muller was wiling to come only on the condition of already being in the CL then fair enough.
#330868 Europa League 2015/16
Shola
I understand caring about it if you're shit but Liverpool are normally there are they really going to miss a season of Europa that's probably playing weakened sides until the last 16 and get knocked out of Benfica? - arguably it's better for Liverpool as thy can concentrate solely on the league and Klopp can do what he wants to do.
Same with Man Utd and the Champions League - Do you's really care that much about it?
#330427 2015/16 Barclays Premier League Thread
Shola
I've said several bad words about Pardew and Ashley.
Shearer implied twice yesterday that this relegation mirrored the last one perfectly. With him in the Benitez role. Kinnear is a far better manager than Shearer and had a heart attack. Was Ashley meant to stop him having a heart attack?
Benitez has thankfully turned the corner since the Southampton game - but his weeks of dithering has relegated Newcastle. I hope Benitez stays as I'd rather him have control than the board - and I think he's the best bet at getting towards the upper echelons of the League. - He's shown hints of his class.
But Benitez has still made mistakes; two points from Villa, Norwich and Sunderland isn't good and 'serenading' him for being unable to overturn a one point deficit and achieve a 30% win ratio whilst for example this was being written about Pardew two years ago;