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I feel the need to defend Jordan Henderson a bit. Part of the problem last year was Dalglish, at times, playing him out wide. He doesn't have the technical skills to beat guys 1v1, nor the pace to blow by guys and get to the touchline. Generally, though, he's got a quick first touch, above average work rate and can rattle off a nifty shot from distance every now and then. I can easily see him fitting into Rodgers' general plan of pressing and pass-and-move as a water carrier positioned ahead of Lucas but behind the #10/trequartista (*). Admittedly if all of Gerrard, Aquilani and Lucas are with the team, I don't see a place for Henderson in the first team, but given inevitable injuries and the amount of games (Europa League, damn you! //shakes fist) scheduled, he should have no issues getting a good amount of playing time this year.
(*)Although if Liverpool are playing 4-3-3, there probably isn't a true number 10.
Borini is re-joining Rodgers at Liverpool. If this Dempsey plus cash for Carroll deal is real, Liverpool will have a pretty fantastic front line next season. And it seems Fulham might not be a bad place for Andy Carroll to just play soccer. Of course, that Dempsey and cash rumor is probably a load of crap.
In Spurs land, Adebayor is back on a permanent signing, Lloris is nearly a done deal and Stevie Pienaar is heading back to Everton.
Newcastle are the favorites, still, for Debuchy, which would be a great signing.
Something tells me this isn't the end of this saga, but the new season starts soon so they'll need to figure out something quick. Hopefully Edu, Boca and Bedoya make quick escapes. Maybe they should sign for the Cosmos!
Sorry if post incoherent on mobile.
The RAWKers? RAWKites? don't seem to rate Dempsey very highly. I also think Henderson could become a nifty player and will end up easily being the best of the Carroll, Adam, Downing and Henderson lot. If LFC goes to a 4-3-3 with Borini, Suarez and Dempsey up top, is that the end of Downing? I hope not as I want Spurs to keep getting results against Liverpool...
TBH, I only read RAWK for the first time to trawl for Sigurdsson news and that thread was something else so I checked out a few others. Definitely guilty pleasure reading! Then I discovered a Man U blog that has a thread dedicated to making fun of RAWK and my head nearly exploded. I don't think I'm strong enough for all the temptations the internet has to offer...
Which is the right outcome, Ferdinand's case just wasn't strong enough. It was his word against Terry's with no hard evidence.
Agreed. My impression is it should never have gone to court, but that's, admittedly, from a very American POV. With this verdict, does the FA still take disciplinary action, or is this now over? Suarez didn't have a not guilty verdict to buttress his case with like Terry has now.
Nyum nyum nyum!
Yeah, well he's been saying that for the last few years and he's still at Fulham. Liverpool gives him a much better chance to be a part of a team that does make the Champion's League.
Better chance, yeah. But they won't be there this year and they'll be fighting for a spot for next year. This was the best he could do?
He's not there yet! And who else is in for him?
The next step is if the SPL follows through on their threat to create an SPL-2 to create a softer landing for Rangers. My big question about that is who the hell would they find to play in a second SPL division since the clubs that would, supposedly, be used to stock this division just told the SPL to #### off, basically. Is it me, or have there been a lot of big stories this summer?
- Best Mel Gibson voice
If that is a required stepping stone to SPL I don't think any team in the first division would dare to stand up for their principles. The logical solution is of course to let all the SPL teams that aren't worthy of the premier division play in SPL-2, which means putting all but Celtic there. Celtic could keep fresh by playing New York Cosmos between European fixtures, it's not like crowning them champions by default is much less of a travesty than the normal order in Scottish football.
Only four of those teams have a capacity of greater than 5,000.
Stenhousemuir is the only club I've even heard of on there. Besides Rangers, of course.
edit: evidently Maxi had family reasons for wanting to go back and LFC let him go.
I think Clyde is a team that's been located in three or four different cities in the past two decades and has little or no reason to exist.
Peterhead is way way way way off on the extreme eastern coast. Berwick is actually in England.
East Stirlingshire had a famous season a few years ago when they had something like 6 points in 36 games.
Stenhousemuir have a fantastic mascot.
I have no idea what Annan, Montrose, Stranraer or Elgin are.
The highest attendance for any Third Division match last season was 2,551, who showed up for a Alloa Athletic v Annan Athletic game.
Stranraer is the former site of an RAF flying boat base, and the Supermarine Stranraer, a biplane flying boat that fought in the early stages of WW2, was named after the town. Aside from that, I know nothing...
I imagine the 3rd division teams must be loving this. They are about to get a lot more ticket sales this year.
They should do and he should also be charged and suspended because the evidence against Terry is stronger than it was against Suarez and they both have admitted to using racially aggravating language. Terry just got away with it because there was never going to be enough evidence to prove he intended to offend beyond a reasonable doubt. The judgement said as much, the paraphrased summing up was along the lines of "Ferdinand is very unlikely to have accused Terry of Calling him a 'black ####' and although Terry's story is flimsy and unlikely it is still plausible enough given the paucity of other evidence that he is found not-guilty".
All the FA need to do is present enough evidence to a three person tribunal that Terry made reference to the color of Ferdinand's skin while on the football pitch (which he did) and they could even add a 'bringing the game into disrepute' on the basis it wasn't a good idea to shout 'I never called you a black ####' at the top of your lungs across a football pitch.
The trial notes also brought up a very amusing anecdote. Terry was being cross examined and was asked how many times he had been sent off in his career. Terry then mumbled a response and the judge asked his QC to ask him "Can you say, please, four times?”. Terry's response was to say "Please, please, please, please". Which caused much mirth in the courtroom and a confused John Terry to wonder what everyone thought was so funny.
Ok, so I had to look Annan up, but I actually knew the other 10.
I disagree. Terry's was a heat of the moment thing. That doesn't excuse him from saying it, but context matters. Suarez's was a deliberate usage to provoke a response and was tied to a physical action. His was worse and stronger.
Though I do agree with you, and this is a changing of my opinion from before, that because he used a racial slur, he should be disciplined since the FA is trying to weed it out in any context.
Unfortunately the Premier League code of conduct makes no mention of context. It just says "Don't do it. Ever. For any reason". It's pretty black and white about it.
Which is why he won't get as many games as Suarez.
I admit that the choice of words was intentional :p
Hot and heavy DP action!
Well, then everybody can start again in the third division! They can just flip the pyramid upside down!
What a debacle this is.
The debacle is Scottish football making a living on being a sandbox for religio-ethnic baiting and little else for the past hundred years.
Yep.
There is no incentive for the SFL clubs to do the bidding of the SPL. They get very little of the TV pie, and the clubs will make more money from hosting zombie Rangers twice a year and drawing them in the lower rounds of cups.
Presuambly the SPL will now try to bribe the 1st division clubs into this new SPL2. SPL management should be ashamed of themselves.
There's always Partick Thistle! I actually know very little about Partick, but if the gf ever convinces me to move to Glasgow, that'll be my club. I'm assuming the lack of interest in them allows them to escape the general twattishness of Rangers and Celtic?
Presuambly the SPL will now try to bribe the 1st division clubs into this new SPL2.
I just don't see how this would work. The first division clubs will still have to deal with the massive anger of their support that forced them to vote against allowing Rangers in the first division, plus there's the logistics of creating a new league in a month which seems impossible. Doncaster and Regan seem nuts to me, as an outsider looking in. Not to mention that, looking at it long term, why would the SPL want to divide the pie up another 10 ways in perpetuity just to save themselves 3 years of hardship now? That just seems idiotic. Maybe they should take this opportunity to try to build interest in non-Old Firm clubs so that when Rangers do come back, it's to a healthier league than one in which only 4 games a year matter.
Apparently West Ham are hoping the fact that Carroll, Nolan and Big Sam share an agent will help them land Andy. Whether that's code for an under-the-table bribe or not, I couldn't say.
I think everybody outside the Rangers, the SFA and SPL chief executive wants that to happen. You just have terminal short-termists in charge. Doncaster doesn't care about the SPL, he cares about where his next job is coming from.
This is his avatar on the twitter as of today. Disco Benny does, in fact, advertise.
Taking on Der Kaiser? Du hast einen Vogel! I suppose when you're being backed in the corner, just lashing out like a crazy man could work.
Were I to get a Spurs jersey, I almost certainly would get an Assou-Ekkoto one.
And so it goes, the inexorable march of time...
I want to reiterate my excitement for Michael Bradley's now-confirmed move to Roma by posting a photo of the way Zeman apparently lined up Pescara at kick-off for most/all games this season.
I'm very much looking forward to Serie A this season. Still have to wait on Al Jazeera getting their #### together, though. GRRRRR.
There is an Italian restaurant in Palo Alto called "Pasta ?" When they filed the paperwork they did not have a name so just filled it out with "Pasta ?" as the name and a plan to change it, they never did.
At least they aren't encouraging false hope!
I hope they forget to replace that in the paperwork and Naming Rights Stadium accidentally becomes the official name.
I think we can all root for that.
Naming Rights Park would be infinitely better than "SportsDirect@St.James' Park"
Maybe they told him one more year behind Given and then he's the man?
He's still dumb to take that if he had offers to start somewhere. He should know by now that things can change in an instant and there's no guarantee they can keep that promise.
Anyone? Anyone? He's an England international, only slightly used!
Given the level of...how can I put this?...clownshoes goalkeeping one sees every year
Who are the keepers worse than Guzan that have starting gigs? It's tough for keepers to break into a starting 11--there are only so many open jobs every year. I can think of 10 clubs off the top of my head he'd have no chance at. And maybe Villa even told him it would be open competition this year. I don't think there's anyway he would have re-signed if a starting place had been available with another club.
A backup goalkeeper in Prem will earn double or triple the wages of a top Championship player. Nobody goes down voluntarily except on loan (and then they keep their Prem wages).
That'll create some interesting traffic jams if they can't redo the schedule so that Dundee and Dundee United aren't at home on the same day.
There will be no such comedy, as the mysterious "team 12" on the SPL fixture list is always at home when Dundee United are away, and vice versa. Presumably someone had forseen this possible consequence...
It's not just that he is going to be a backup again (unless there's a loan deal or Given is about to be sold), it's that he's going to be a backup at *Aston Villa* again. He had an opportunity to leave that stinkhole but chose to come back. The other offers must have been significant salary cuts.
This article published today says that there are nine conflicts on the schedule.
Anyone? Anyone? He's an England international, only slightly used!
"[...] as demand for striker hots up"? I can't be the only one who's seen it termed like that before, right?
I stand corrected and shake my fist at whatever website I read at the time that stated that the fixtures meshed exactly!
In a vacuum probably Carroll. That question depends hugely on who else is already on your team though.
Bendtner. Assuming neither isn't an option.
Given that the two Dundee clubs play in grounds that are a literal stone's throw away from each other (much closer than Liverpool and Everton), there will now need to be some re-arranging of fixtures.
Newcastle are hot for Carroll for some reason. I don't get that at all.
Dundee Non-United already wear the same color as Rangers. Surely no one would object to them Ibrox for their home games until this is all sorted out.
Depends on if you're Newcastle or Liverpool!
Newcastle is a different team from when Carroll left. they have a #9 who's 10 times the player he is and they keep the ball on the ground a lot more. It doesn't seem like a great place for him except that it's home.
Lukaku may head to Fulham on loan. That could be good for everyone, though I'm not so high on Lukaku.
I would not go above £5-7 for him and £40K a week. He is a player that does one thing very well and can succeed if a team is built to exploit that One Thing, in all other respects he's pretty much a rich mans Grant Holt. He does not have the body or ball control to handle long balls as a lone striker, is no more than "barely acceptable" in terms of playing the ball on the ground and is less mobile than Bengie Molina.
Do not want.
I read this article, too, and it makes sense to a point--Ibra is great but not getting any younger and all--but this statement sticks out for me. How is FFP forcing Milan to sell but not keeping PSG from plunking out for these ridiculous salaries? Something here doesn't compute.
I'm not remotely knowledgeable about FFP but what was PSG's wage bill before those deals? FFP sounds like it's creating a sort of floating salary cap and if a team has room under that "cap" then they are going to be able to add players.
To put it into baseball terms if something like this were done I could easily see the Yankees selling Curtis Granderson and Nick Swisher to the Rays because the Rays would have room within the framework of FFP.
Don't know, but they signed some big names last year, too. And who follows PSG? I can't imagine their income is all that great unless they have some unique commercial deals in the pipeline. I'm just going to assume FFP is nonsense until I see Chelsea, Man City, etc. tightening their belts.
The police are investigating the "Choc Ice" comment one of Rio Ferdinand's followers made about Ashley Cole. I think it's admirable the Brits want to stamp out racism, but jeez.
I also assume Paris S-G are taking the Man City route to getting out from under FFP my making use of all the off-sets (like spending millions on training facilities) and "friendly" sponsorship deals.
He had such a great season at 17 with Anderlecht (20 goals) that despite his struggle last year, I still think that he has the potential to be very good. He's still only barely 19 and AVB made a poor decision not to loan him out last year as he clearly wasn't ready for Chelsea. With Pogrebnyak gone, the Cottagers need FWs to pair with Dembele and Lukaku definitely needs the playing time.
We'll see. Ligue 1 doesn't get all that much in tv revenue and they've guaranteed Silva and Ibra a total of 25 million Euros a year...AFTER TAXES. Even if they can get "friendly" commercial deals and add in CL money that will put their revenue somewhere near Tottenham's at 181 million Euros (I'm being generous to PSG here as they aren't even in Deloitte's top 20 Money League yet while Tottenham is 11th), those deals for just Silva and Ibra will account for over a quarter of their turnover without even taking into account the transfer fees (which they might not have to depending on how they account for it--I'm honestly not sure how UEFA is going to make teams clubs handle amortization on transfer fees). Hopefully Swiss Ramble will take a look at it because I'm genuinely curious about it.
Kind of the Mini-Me one compared to Van Persie.
It's like having your Cy Young-winning pitcher and your #4 starter hit the market at same time.
I figured Gooners wouldn't be too worried. He's occasionally devastating, though.
Theo Walcott=Josh Beckett; Occasionally brilliant with memorable performances but at the end of the season he's a step down from being a star and leaves you feeling like he didn't accomplish what he should have.
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