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#168718 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bmg033
#168481 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bmg033
Pretty much. I'm not saying we should be happy with finishing 5th-7th every year, because every team should be looking to improve. But at the moment its difficult to see how we'd get top 4 consistently, especially next season. City & Chelsea will be up there, you'd imagine Liverpool will be competing again, Arsenal are always around 4th and Man Utd will most likely challenge for 4th with Van Gaal in charge. To me, it seemed obvious that we should try and get someone like Rafa Benitez who is a proven winner and could potentially get us a cup win of some kind. Don't forget that the Europa League now gives a CL place to the winner, so winning that could give us glory and a chance to improve and attract better players.
For me this is the last chance for Levy to get it right. He must give Pochettino time and back him 100%. If he sacks him for failing to get 4th next season, then I think its time for Levy to go.
#168437 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bmg033
I'm getting tired of Levy constantly demanding a top 4 finish, when in reality we've got the 6th/7th best squad in the league. Yes, another run in the CL would be nice, but I want to see us actually win something and we aren't going to win the CL, probably not even in my lifetime and im in my 20's. Im not saying I never want to get top 4, because I do. But right now we simply can't compete with the very top teams over the course of a full season, so we should be aiming for something like an FA Cup win or even a Europa League final.
#167541 Lennon Leaves Celtic
bmg033
Apparently Spurs are ignoring all the unemployed managers. Thank God. I just hope that doesn't mean we get Pochettino.
#167138 The England National Team
bmg033
And they won on penalties as well.
#167137 The Manchester City Thread
bmg033
#167136 The Manchester City Thread
bmg033
#166971 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bmg033
#166852 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bmg033
Ronaldo & Messi to partner Kris Boyd up front for Aberdeen?
#166577 World Cup 2014 Thread
bmg033
Agreed, they can fill the 15 minutes between end of the first and start of the second half with adverts if they want. Just not in the game please!
#166576 World Cup 2014 Thread
bmg033
It would be very annoying. Remember when ITV decided to go to an ad break in the Everton - Liverpool game a few years ago and we missed the only goal of the game? I don't want that to be happening at the World Cup, just imagine England winning 1-0 and we missed the goal because ITV decided to show us the go compare man and some gambling adverts instead.
#166382 World Cup 2014 Thread
bmg033
They haven't actually 100% decided on doing it yet, but its still shit that they are actually considering it.
#166379 The Armoury
bmg033
#166027 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bmg033
That payments to clubs chart is so depressing when you see that clubs like Norwich and Cardiff got over £60m for being totally shit and providing almost no entertainment.
#165723 World Cup 2014 Thread
bmg033
#165547 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bmg033
#165544 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bmg033
#165106 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bmg033
I like Milner there. He's looking at Richard Wright and thinking "What the fuck are you doing here?"
#164574 New four-point plan to boost England football
bmg033
About 6 or 7 players went from Spurs to Swindon this season, half of them on loan. The others i'd imagine have some sort of buy back clause. There is the proof that these "new strategic loan partnerships" aren't new at all. The FA showing once again that they know sweet FA.
#164557 New four-point plan to boost England football
bmg033
#164530 New four-point plan to boost England football
bmg033
Agreed. The whole bribery thing is a joke and is just another example of the FA showing a lack of respect to lower league teams. It sums up the way football in this country has gone, just throw money at everything and hope it works.
Dyke mentions that their research goes back 20 years to 1994 when there was 69% English starters in the Premier League. He seems to think that just by having more players, that the England team will get better. Well, if he'd researched properly, he'd notice that 20 years ago England failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup. Surely its not about having more players, but having better players and better coaches?
I still feel that this would help the bigger teams a bit, but only the bigger teams, which is wrong. There are ways of improving the English game and this certainly isn't it.
#164383 New four-point plan to boost England football
bmg033
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As these B teams can't get higher than League 1, what would happen if the top 6 teams in League 1 were all B teams? Would there be no promotions, or would the teams that finished 7th and 8th be automatically promoted with 9th-12th in play offs? Both of those scenarios are ridiculous and are one of the many reasons I am against this load of shit.
#163572 The Manchester City Thread
bmg033
#163568 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bmg033
Their best young players will join PL teams for a tiny fee and then drop to the PL B teams. These B teams would then probably beat all the lower league teams, as they have the best players. The lower league teams will then be forever stuck in League 2 as they can't keep their best players, don't get enough money from player sales to rebuild their squads, don't get decent loan players from bigger teams and they will effectively be having to play against the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City and so on, every week. Whats to say the B teams wont become full of foreigners like the first teams anyway?
Also, don't start banging on about how they do it in Spain or Germany or whatever, because the English Football League has history and tradition, unlike the foreign lower leagues. To be honest I don't see anything wrong with the current reserve league system, the FA should leave them as they are.
#163511 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bmg033
This is a such a shit idea. Whats wrong with reserve leagues or the loan system? Nothing. The FA are just sucking up to the big clubs as usual.
#163474 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bmg033
City facing £50m fine
#161783 Champions League 2013/14
bmg033
Yeah, only once Madrid went down to 10 men. But when it mattered most, in the cup final, Madrid won.
#161727 Champions League 2013/14
bmg033
Not Brazil then?
Brazil 3-0 Spain
#161724 Champions League 2013/14
bmg033
Well done for stating the obvious.
I thought it was clear that teams are finding ways to beat tiki taka, and beating them well. Bayern last season and Brazil at the Confederations Cup last summer are great examples. I think Guardiola is making a mistake by thinking that he can just use the same system all the time and carry on winning. I'm not saying he should use the exact system that Bayern used last season, but use it as a starting point and just tinker with it a bit. I guess next season will be better for them though as they'll be more familiar with the system and have Lewendowski up front.
#161638 Champions League 2013/14
bmg033
Or it could be Ronaldo vs Mourinho in the season that we lost the great Eusebio.
I don't get why Guardiola had to try and change the style of play for Bayern. Their style of play last season was good enough to thump the Barcelona tiki taka crap 7-0, but he still thinks the tiki taka is better. Makes no sense.