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That's a relief, I was worried they didn't have enough new talent brought in this summer...
Anyway, just noticed that Barcelona plays Madrid at 4:30 Eastern time this afternoon....in China. Wouldn't that make the game in the middle of the night local time? That seems pretty crazy, even though I imagine the timing is for viewership in Spain. Are they expecting a sellout crowd I wonder?
Well that makes more sense - not sure where I got that idea from. Thanks.
Hopefully Wigan can spend some of whatever money they get on a replacement, but I imagine that will be a tough loss to overcome for Wigan.
Of course. But they're still lousy players.
They are moving their super cup to China from next year on for a nice bundle of euros.
Also, 22:30 is just dinner time in Spain, frontrunning kids with the bad taste to root for one of those teams can see the game.
Moses is a good young talent, but Chelsea seems an odd destination for him. To review, that's now pushing double figures in personnel for mostly the same position.
Chelsea has Juan Mata, Eden Hazard, Marko Marin, Oscar, Gael Kakuta, and now Victor Moses as young wingers / attacking midfielders in the current squad. Oh, and Daniel Sturridge if you consider him a forward/winger rather than a pure striker. Plus they've still got Florent Malouda and Yossi Benayoun hanging around.
Lest you think the numbers get more reasonable if those old guys kick off...not so fast. There's Kevin De Bruyne, Lucas Piazon, and Thorgan Hazard ready to break in soon.
This is the year Chelsea shows progress towards breaking even!
This is the year...oh, who are we kidding?
Presumably he's going to go on loan to, like, let's say, Wigan or somewhere. Kakuta has spent the last decade or so on loan. Benayoun was obviously on loan all of last year. Maybe Kakuta, Lukaku and Moses can all go on loan together as a premium loan package. Or Chelsea can just buy some other team and fill it with Chelsea players like Arsenal and that Belgian team, or Udinese and Watford.
The Moses situation really illustrates what a "selling club" is. He was the hot property in the Championship after doing great with Crystal Palace. He went to Wigan in February 2010 and basically did nothing for a year and a half. He scored his first goal for Wigan last December, and now he's off. If you buy high (in the market for as-yet-unproven players), you'd better sell high as well.
He did play some supporting striker at Crystal Palace, but Chelsea probably would have been better off looking at real striker to backup Torres and Sturridge. But at 9m I can't complain. If your going to buy young assets, I'd rather have him at 9m than Rodwell at 12.5m or Powell at 7m any day.
Trust me Shooty, there is absolutely no need to qualify or explain the first 5 words of that sentence.
My guess is that if his agent is saying there's also interest from Burnley, Derby and Birmingham City that there's no chance he ends up signing with Spurs, correct?
And Pedro immediately responds, wow. Great ball from Mascherano.
Sahin is on 115K a week? No wonder he's not going to Spurs!
Settling in nicely at Liverpool, then. Narf!
Sahin is on 115K a week? No wonder he's not going to Spurs!
But but but...I was told that Sigurdsson chose Tottenham over Liverpool for the money!
I don't think so. Chelsea are thin on home-grown players to round out their 25-man squad. Cole, Lampard, Terry, Cahill, Sturridge, Bertrand, and Turnbull are all English. That's seven. Kakuta makes eight, I think. That gives them the minimum. Moses makes nine and would allow Chelsea to loan Kakuta out again if they wish, without handicapping their squad size.
The Moses situation really illustrates what a "selling club" is. He was the hot property in the Championship after doing great with Crystal Palace. He went to Wigan in February 2010 and basically did nothing for a year and a half. He scored his first goal for Wigan last December, and now he's off.
I think you're at least a year off on that first goal. Moses was indeed on the periphery for most of his first season at Wigan, but I'm pretty sure he managed to find the net once or twice. He really blossomed last season after N'Zogbia left for Villa, though. I'm sure he should score more, but his role at Wigan was really more to be the outlet for balls played out from their back three and to provide for Di Santo. And he's quite good at doing that, from either flank.
If anything, I think he's a bit of a bargain for Chelsea at <£10M. Wigan probably could have held out for more, especially if they had a hunch Chelsea were after him as much for his home-grown eligibility as his actual talent.
Even better first touch from Pedro. And a ferocious finish.
Iniesta's run and deft little through ball for Xavi to tuck away Barca's third was even better than that though. Absolutely sublime.
Twelfth time's a charm...
I assumed their primary motivation in getting Moses was to stick him on the bench during Champions League's games so he can count as a "home grown" player.
Came here to post this now. It's very good, but MCoA left out some key words: obsessive Football Manager playing/blogging.
Speaking of Man U and being full of crap, there's a weird story making the round in the Spurs blogosphere about Zeki Fryers who just signed with Standard Liege. The story is that Spurs have a secret deal with Liege to buy Fryers back next year for a couple of million as a way to get around the tribunal process which had set his fee at an excessive 6 million because of Man U's influence over the tribunal. Is there anything to this? It sounds like tinfoil hat stuff.
Vaguely related...I've been considering a trip to the region around Rostov-on-Don or Kazakhstan. Is that nutty?
That sort of emphatic statement is usually a dead giveaway that he's about to sign someone.
Supposedly he's been scouting Dembele which makes a lot sense for them.
"Caucasians go home!" This sounds like a Yakov Smirnoff bit.
"In Soviet Russia, Whitey racially abuse Caucasians! What a country!"
Que? He seems kind of redundant with Kagawa as a #10, and he's not really mobile or defensively gifted enough to cover central midfield if he plays deeper.
I think he can play deeper and I suspect as his career goes on he'll move deeper and deeper. If Spurs sign him I see them playing him alongside Sandro. That said, I don't think Spurs will go in for him.
"In Soviet Russia, Whitey racially abuse Caucasians! What a country!"
Someone tell Farrakhan there's a magical land where caucasians are the ones discriminated against! (I keed, I keed!)
How differently would this transfer window have shaken out for Chelsea if Leo Messi or Arjen Robben could hit a friggin' spot kick? I'm thinking at least half of their summer signings would have elected to go elsewhere.
Ah, vacation like a member of the Soviet Nomenklatura.
or Kazakhstan. Is that nutty?
Unless you're a space nut and want to go to Baikonur, I don't see the attraction. Really horrible climate and not a beach (or bikini) in sight.
Yeah, but that part of the world has these fellas.
"This isn't the camel toe you're looking for."
*waves hand*
Nobody tell Zlatan Ibrahimovic or he'll charter a plane to go there and bag himself a couple.
*waves hand*
I'll have you know I take my bizarre wildlife very seriously, funny man.
A colleague of my wife's was at a park in Tasmania several years ago, and there were about two dozen kangaroos hanging around in this one spot, just kinda chilling out. One started getting a little curious and hopped over towards this guy and was sniffing around and otherwise getting up in his grill. So the guy sort of put his foot on the roo's belly and gently pushed it back.
The roo made what he described as "an exaggerated exhaling sound", and at that moment all the other roos' heads snapped up from whatever they were doing and just stared at him. He said at that point he would rather have been in the wrong part of Detroit after dark. Luckily, nothing happened so he paused and then slowly backed away from the area after a few moments. But I reckon he came awfully close to getting his ass beat.
Wallabies are definitely less intimidating while maintaining all the roo goodness you travel to Australia for.
A really boring day in the transfer market today. Modric is still a Spur, Huddlestone's loan to Stoke may be off, and Edu is closer to joining Stoke as they've agreed to a fee with Rangers.
Half asleep? Check
Pants untied? Check
Wearing a 1976 USA Eugene, Oregon Olympic Trials t-shirt? Bizarrely...check.
Aggressive autograph seeker getting in your grill, camera in tow? Check
Posted on twitter for all to see? Check
Damn it, Luka, you're supposed to be in Madrid. FFS!
English Football Kit Quiz
I would love seeing Burnley and Scunthorpe join Villa and the Hammers in the FA Cup semis.
EDIT: Only three of 92 have any sort of green whatsoever. I find that... intriguing. Four if you count sponsor logos.
I got 37 in total. Of the Premier League clubs, I only missed on Reading. They changed their kit a bit since I last saw them play regularly.
Gave up at 14. Stoke is about the only one I think I should have gotten. I was expecting black not white shorts.
This might have to replace my Flipflopflyball skin for my ipad.
I also like the Bradford City and Blackpool kits are pretty sharp. Something about orange I guess.
Oh!
Yeah, I'm sure there are probably a bunch of Red Sox fans already raging about LFC (no sarcasm, I'm positive lots of fans will say it was because of Liverpool). Maybe Henry is gutting the Red Sox and planning to sell. Crazier things have happened.
Or the Red Sox could have realized they had Ned Coletti on the phone while he had hundreds of millions of dollars burning a hole in his pocket.
edit re: 1254
That was an interesting article. *
*Also, Sahin!!! I really don't understand Wenger. Sahin was perfect for them. A striker and some sort of wide player and I'll be happy. Also, I might have missed talk of it, but thoughts on Downing playing left back? I thought he looked decent. It might be crazy enough to work.
"If we wanted to sign Sahin, we would have done it. Sahin is a quality player but he is not a purely defensive midfielder. We have Jack Wilshere coming back and he is a similar type of player. If someone top-top class turns up, completely defensive, then we will consider it.”
Heh. The problem with Wenger is he doesn't have that Redknapp-like twinkle of the eye when he's spouting complete ####.
Come on you Irons!
On a happier note, I think I'm going to Charlton when I'm in London. They're home to Derby my last night there, easy to reach on public transport, easy to get (I imagine) tickets. Sounds like a plan to me.
On a happier note, I think I'm going to Charlton when I'm in London. They're home to Derby my last night there, easy to reach on public transport, easy to get (I imagine) tickets. Sounds like a plan to me.
Nice. I really want to go to a lower division game when I'm there but there aren't any midweek fixtures that week.
I know it's just one and a half games against bottom-of-the-table competition, but I'm feeling good about my crazy Swansea-finishes-8th prediction from preseason.
I thought at home AVB might try Van der Vaart deep with Sandro and keep Gylfi behind the striker, but nope, Livermore paired with Sandro again.
Odemwingie on the bench for Brom with James Morison taking his spot.
"They've got a major logistical problem on their hands," he said. "It's a vast country – I don't think we realise quite how vast – and there are going to be enormous difficulties for the teams that qualify, according to where they're drawn. You've got to remember, it's the Brazilian winter, so it's not going to be a particularly sunbathing time unless you happen to find yourself in Rio. If you're down in Porto Alegre, you're going to need a fur coat because it snows. And if you find yourself in Manaus then you will find 45-50 degrees heat and plenty of mosquitos as well being near the Amazon jungle."
Already preparing the excuses!
That Hodgson quote is hilarious.
Centerback Usain Bolt is in attendance!
He might be an improvement over Carrick who looks helplessly out of his depth (though the goal was Young's fault)
Not Ku guh wuh, English people, Ka Gah Wa, emphasis on second syllable! Roberto "Mart a nez" has bad pronunication company.
For a game that they lost 3-0, that didn't really change my view of the Hammers much. Pacey teams--and good ones, of course--are going to give them trouble in general. But I remain convinced they can eek out enough draws and the occasionally grind-it-out goals on set pieces victories to stay up.
I turned this game on at 1-0 Fulham, and it seems like it's been all United ever since. EDIT: And that was BEFORE the third goal!
Sincerely, Other Bayern Haters
Nah, that post was actually completely correct. The occurrence of something with negative probability of happening however, has caused the universe to collapse, and merge with a separate universe, in order to maintain probabilistic integrity.
The effects of this merge are few, and subtle, but one of them is that Bayern is now totally awesome.
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