FOOTBALL: Season 2006/07 Discussion Thread

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:47 pm 0

Lots of West Ham conspiracies flying around. My personal favourite is that the players are a kind of down payment on taking over the club

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:30 pm 0

Sky Sports News is funny. They've got a countdown clock on the screen, and they've resorted to interviewing kids hanging around outside various training grounds for news on which players have been coming and going.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:32 pm 0

Over Under on the time it'll take for a Pompey song about our latest signing containing the word "reindeer" to appear when he gets onto the pitch for the first time : 8 minutes.

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:38 pm 0

Sibierski to the toon? Bit unexpected that...

fog · Post by **fog** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:39 pm 0

Flabio wrote:Sky Sports News is funny.

What, funnier than us signing Antoine Sibierski?

We now have half the midfielders in the league on our books and yet only one left back.....and even that's debatable

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:07 pm 0

It's picking up speed now, Roy Keane seems to be signing everyone that isn't nailed down...

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:19 am 0

Mental. We desperately need strengthening in defence, we could certainly do with strengthening up front, and we sign.... another midfielder.

And we kept Milner (midfielder). Not that I'm unhappy with that particular decision.

Have we got more midfielders than Spurs, yet?

merman · Post by **merman** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:30 am 0

Flabio wrote:Sky Sports News is funny. They've got a countdown clock on the screen, and they've resorted to interviewing kids hanging around outside various training grounds for news on which players have been coming and going.

"Peter Kenyon, give us a ring, let us know what's happening..."

"I'm trying to get onto the Arsenal website... and so are thousands of others"

Ipswich... well, could have been a lot worse. Sold Forster to Hull, a bit like Parkin he didn't work out which is a shame. Extended Simon Walton's loan till January (he looked good against QPR) and brought in John Macken from Palace on loan till January as well.

But... I can't help feeling that Legwinski is not the playmaker we were looking for. Time will tell.

(And I wasn't putting Andrew Cole down earlier, just he seems to be constantly involved in transfers.)

Mat T · Post by **Mat T** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:49 am 0

First of all,

at the West Ham deals today. Easily the most amazing deals I can remember on a transfer deadline. It obviously all sounds very dodgy, but at the end of the day if I was a West Ham fan I would be over the moon.

Glad to finally see the end of the Ashley Cole saga. What a farce that has been. Arsenal have done well getting Gallas in the deal.

Finally some good news for Leeds today - managed to hang onto Tony Warner till January, signed Rob Douglas on a permanent deal (he was great last year on loan) and finally managed to get rid of cash magnet Bakke to Brann in Norway. About time!

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:30 am 0

It's an arse they did the Cole deal too late to sell us Wayne Bridge though.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:38 am 0

Mat T wrote:Glad to finally see the end of the Ashley Cole saga. What a farce that has been. Arsenal have done well getting Gallas in the deal.

The general feeling from most Arsenal fans is that we got the better of that deal.
Additionally, according to the Mirror this morning, that has driven a big wedge between Morinho and Kenyon.

I do feel sorry for Wayne Bridge though. He's a talented player who shouldn't be warming his arse on the subs bench all the time.

However, my favourite report this morning is that Spurs were unable to sign Petrov from Atletico Madrid because Reyes went to Real instead...

Darth Bungle · Post by **Darth Bungle** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:00 pm 0

Guess who's back!

http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/ ... 94,00.html

Bernard is back at Newcastle. I thought the first signs of the fact that Souness was going to fuck up Newcastle was when he sold Bernard and unsettled and then got rid of Robert, it's like he thought "I'll come in, fuck up the left wing and go from there".

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:16 pm 0

Just spotted that myself.

I thought he was class when he played for us, and was disappointed when he left. I heard he might have eaten a few too many pies since then, but if he gets fit he'd be worth having around, I think.

Hang on, though, when was the last time we signed a "quality" defender whose previous club was Rangers?

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:29 pm 0

BERNARD? BERNARD!!!!!

Just heard it while in the chair at the hairdressers and nearly got my ear cut off.

Fantastic news.

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:47 pm 0

West Ham in takeover "discussions". That didn't take long!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 306356.stm

Edit - and I hope for Newcastle fans' sake that Bernard has gotten on a treadmill since I last saw him.