Football: WORLD CUP 06 and close season/transfer discussion.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:23 am 0

This was a typical England mid-week early season friendly.
None of the team gave a wank, and no-one wanted to get a knock in time for the weekend's league games.
Singled out for ridicule for their effort have to be Ashley Cole, David James, Gerrard, Beckham (for his refusal to pass to Rooney), Rooney (for all his effort, he still looked like a headless chicken, albeit one whos is built like a brick shithouse), and in particular Rio Ferdinand who looked half asleep throughout.

Pile of toss.

romanista · Post by **romanista** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:42 am 0

holland played an okay friendly, great first half and beginning of second 2-0 up against Germany.. then Van Basten changed 5 positions and a new system and we drew 2-2

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:29 am 0

i8manx wrote:Maybe this might be on the cards....Essien goes to Chelsea, Lyon get Baros, Liverpool make late bid for Owen.....might happen

My plan is slowly coming together......Woah, haha hah.....woah haha hah!!

romanista · Post by **romanista** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:27 am 0

why would liverpool want owen, they are just reverting tio the squad of three years ago, with nice english names, but no winners...

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:02 am 0

Owen: rumour has it that the board want MO back and that BenÃtez isn't too keen. Not sure I go along with that. Last summer I reckon RB would have been more than happy if MO had signed. He's a proven goalscorer and I for one would rather he was in our squad than playing against us.

The current crop of strikers at Liverpool have yet to convince people though it is very early days for the likes of Crouch and CissÃ© (after his injury). GarcÃa will always score - perhaps not in vast quantities whereas Pongolle and Mellor are both injured/recovering. Morientes was proving to be the biggest worry. IMHO he needs to make an impact soon before the flack starts flying.

So if we get Owen instead of Baros then that's a strengthening of the forward line in my book

Big if though. Near the end of the trasnfer window and all of this could just be paper talk. Our main priorities are a winger and a center back

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:31 pm 0

romanista wrote:why would liverpool want owen, they are just reverting tio the squad of three years ago, with nice english names, but no winners...

It's just the way it is, dude.

Liverpool are always looking at things they have done in the past.....

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PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:29 pm 0

Great to see that we're picking up our usual quota of injuries already, and still haven't bought anybody else. We'll be playing 4-3-1 before long.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:14 pm 0

Looks like we have just enough fit players to fill the subs bench.

Again.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:29 pm 0

Dio wrote:Looks like we have just enough fit players to fill the subs bench.

Again.

Yeah, but it's still only Friday. Give them time, and we'll soon be down to 14 or something.

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:54 pm 0

Zoot wrote: Liverpool are always looking at things they have done in the past.

well it would be difficult to look at things we've done in the future?????

.........maybe we should sign Mystic Meg

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:40 pm 0

Wonder what the odds are on Forest being relegated before Christmas? Might be worth a fiver the way we're going so far...

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:49 pm 0

Unsurprisingly, we failed to score, even when West Ham went down to ten men.

Not only that, Lee Clark came on as a substitute, and he's not even supposed to be with us in a playing capacity!

Buy a fucking striker, man! Or better still, two!

Birmingham - Man. City is a very entertaining watch, I have to say.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:29 pm 0

Yeah, we looked weak up front. Defence looked confident, although against West Ham's limited abilities that's not necessarily that much to say.

Until we can play 4-4-2 again things are looking pretty bleak. 4-5-1 - when the 1 is, if not yet over the hill at least approaching the crest - isn't working for us.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:32 pm 0

Dio wrote:Yeah, we looked weak up front. Defence looked confident, although against West Ham's limited abilities that's not necessarily that much to say.

Until we can play 4-4-2 again things are looking pretty bleak. 4-5-1 - when the 1 is, if not yet over the hill at least approaching the crest - isn't working for us.

Yeah, that's spot on. Still, if any of the irons in the fire come to fruition, it'll improve things considerably, because it seems we're not missing that much, just goals.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:34 pm 0

Yeah. Given that that's bleedin' obvious to me, I'm once more disgusted with our fans booing the team off the pitch tonight.

At least the ref showed how a potential red card decision should be handled. Waited, thought about it, discussed it with the linesman, then sent the cheating bastard off.