The *Football* General Discussion Thread [ Edited ]

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Well that's the Community Shield out the way and all eyes look towards next weekend and the kick-off of the Premier League proper :smileyhappy:

Saturday 15 August 2009

Aston Villa v Wigan
Blackburn v Man City
Bolton v Sunderland
Chelsea v Hull
Everton v Arsenal
Portsmouth v Fulham
Stoke v Burnley
Wolverhampton v West Ham

Sunday 16 August 2009

Manchester United v Brimingham City
Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpoo


What are your hopes and expectations building up to these games?l

Message Edited by Yaster on 10-08-2009 02:04 PM

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Love the downing line :D

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Liverpool are playing £7M for Rodgers, smashing the previous premier league transfer set by Tottenham when they got Redknapp from West Ham. The biggest involving any premier league team is AVB to Chelsea, but the receiver was a foreign team.

Looks like we are in an age of transfer fee's for managers, compensation money is getting out of control.

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This is a start of a domino effect on mangers in premier league this summer, rodgers going to liverpool, lambert (maybe) going to aston villa, mackay possibly going to norwich, poyet possibly going to swansea, that bloke who use to manage schake in germany possibly going to west brom etc.  This is the silly season as we call it in football. 

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Come on Lambert. Would be my top choice out of him, Rogers and Martinez.
I hope we get him :p

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Strong rumours that we are getting Steve Bruce.

Pretty surprised really, thought he would be looking for a Premier League job. I'll be pretty happy if it comes off (given our situation anyway).

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Gawge, you do NOT want Steve Bruce. He was woeful at Sunderland, the fans hated him and he had them in a relegation battle at the start of the season.

Anyway, pleasant change for us to be one of the most stable clubs in the league at the moment :Lol:

This year was the first year since I think 2003 that we started and finished a season with the same manager :Lol:

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i'm with phep on this one. steve bruce has proven he isn't of managerial stuff - at least not in the premier league. he might be able to cut his teeth better in the championship but i doubt it.

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Premier League released players list

Arsenal: Almunia, Brislen-Hall, Hoyte, McDermott, Murphy.

Aston Villa: Caira, Cuellar, Heskey, Nelson-Addy, Taylor, Ward

Blackburn: Aley, Goulon, Grella, Knowles, Salgado

Bolton: Bennett, Blake, Connolly, S Davis, Eckersley, Fazlic, Gardner, Jaaskelainen, Klasnic, Knight, Obadeyi, Robinson, Steinsson

Chelsea: Bosingwa, Drogba, Kalou, Mitrovic, Taylor

Everton: Davies, Hahnemann, McFadden, Nsiala, Orenuga, Roberts

Fulham: Barroilhet, Cosgrove, Grygera, Harris, Johnson, Murphy, Pogrebnyak, B Riise

Liverpool: Amoo, Darby, Emilsson, Gomis, McGiveron, Roberts

Man City: Assulin, Benali, Hargreaves, Mancini, Nielsen, Taylor, Tse

Man Utd: Kuszczak, Owen

Newcastle: Adjei, Airey, Donaldson, Folan, Guthrie, Henderson, Kadar, Lovenkrands, McDermott, Nzuzi, Smith

Norwich: Ball, Dawkin, Whitbread, Wilbraham

QPR: Agyemang, Borrowdale, Buzsaky, Cerny, Cook, Gabbidon, Hall, Hill, Olley, Ramage, *****tu, Vine

Stoke: Davies, Diao, Fuller, Moult, Soares

Sunderland: Bagnall, Carson, Cook, Elliott, Gordon, King, Tounkara

Swansea: Bodde, Smith, Thomas, Walsh

Tottenham: Alnwick, Jansson, Lassen, Nelsen, Oyenuga, Ranieri, Saha

West Brom: Andrews, Downing, Edge, Elford-Alliyu, Fulop, Mattock, Scharner, Shorey, Tchoyi

Wigan: Breeze, Diame, Girvan, Gohouri, Myler, Pollitt, Robinson, Rodallega, Rugg, Thomas

Wolves: Craddock, Harris, Hemmings, Spray

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Is that West Ham's squad for next season?

[#11]

Lambert confirmed as manager. Very happy with this.

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@Kiez wrote:
Lambert confirmed as manager. Very happy with this.

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at least villa will start to look like a footie team now.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18192719

:)

[#14]

still need this thread re named

[#15]

RIP Rangers :(

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@Gresty79 wrote:
RIP Rangers :(

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:smileyvery-happy:

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@Gresty79 wrote:
RIP Rangers :(

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Meh. Just shows that football is unsustainable in it's current form and if Glasgow ends up with just one big club then so be it. We can see more of this happening over of the next few years so other clubs who refuse to wake up to reality should take this as the final, ultimate warning... the governments are not going to bail out a football club. Unless you are Real Madrid.

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Chelsea have confirmed they have appointed Roberto Di Matteo as their permanent manager and first-team coach on a two-year contract.

:D :D :D

[#19]

redknapp leaves tottenham 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18436663

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@fets81 wrote:

redknapp leaves tottenham 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18436663

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@fets81 wrote:

redknapp leaves tottenham 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18436663

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But its too late, we have already agreed terms with Laudrup.

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That's would've been great if he left in time for Swansea :(

Tottenham seems to be a sinking ship. Van Der Vaart made it clear that he wanted to play for Harry so held off on signing a contract, and Luka Modric is ready to leave again. Not entirely sure what's happening with on loan Striker Adebayour. Bad times for Tottenham it seems.

I'm definitely not smiling.