Football The 2011/2012 Season Thread

[Aoami]

City looking very good again tonight.

 

[Ch3tan]

Yep, they've dominated in Spain.

 

[Ch3tan]

Rooney's been fantastic in midfield..

Also, 100 goals in 105 games for Ronaldo. Machine.

 

[Ch3tan]

LOL! Surgical finish from Rooney there

 

[CorNokZ]

Christian Eriksen - 2 assists, both with the heel

 

[DaGaffer]

Another ugly European night at OT. Rooney was impressive but its a waste having him in midfield. Anderson was fucking terrible.

 

[Lethul]

Bayern and Napoli sure know how to put on a show.

When Bayern are playing good there are not a lot of teams that can match them tbh.

Gomez is everything I wish Carroll was

 

[Ch3tan]

Yeah he had a shocker, was surprised Fergie left him on so long to suffer.

 

[Everz]

Eriksen is an absolute don, Denmark and Ajax have got themselves a quality talent there.

 

[eksdee]

How long until he's rotting on the bench of a Premier League team then?

 

[Shagrat]

Wow that was a beaut of a volley by Andy johnson. Cracking game so far this.

 

[CorNokZ]

How long until he's rotting on the bench of a Premier League team then?

He won't be rotting anywhere. He will play a season or two perhabs more in Ajax and then move to a bigger club to be in the starting XI. BOOK IT!

Also Copenhagen tonight.. I am disappoint! Guess we'll just have to focus on the league now and grab that CL group stage spot right away

 

[Everz]

Didn't he say he wouldn't want to leave Ajax till he was at least early 20s?

And why would he, it's the perfect place to develop as an attacking player, we can only look at Suarez to see how much it had benefitted him for staying those extra seasons in the Eredivise, if he leaves before then he'll be bench sitting. That and it's not like Ajax are doing bad? There pretty much through to the last 16 and topping the league.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Yup, Babel left too early IMO. Needed another season at least. Instead he got Rafa'd.

 

[Raven]

He got Liverpooled. So many good players go there and turn out gash.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Rafa had a special talent for destroying young hopefuls though.

 

[Keitanz]

Lol, not really..

Lucas has turned in to a very good midfielder, without him we would be totally screwed right now.. he's the main one I can think of in recent years though, can't think of any good players who came to Liverpool and completely flopped in past few years .. I liked Babel, he wasn't actually that bad, he just needed more game time really, he was a super sub for quite a while and scored a few awesome goals.

 

[CorNokZ]

Ever since Agger came to Livershit he has been perma injured. Thanks for that

 

[Everz]

Lol, not really..

Lucas has turned in to a very good midfielder, without him we would be totally screwed right now.. he's the main one I can think of in recent years though, can't think of any good players who came to Liverpool and completely flopped in past few years .. I liked Babel, he wasn't actually that bad, he just needed more game time really, he was a super sub for quite a while and scored a few awesome goals.

Lucas went from the attacking sensation to the good midfielder however, other then that you haven't half destroyed some good prospects. Babel being the worst of the worst, never should have left Ajax as he wasn't half a talent but he looked a shell of himself at 'Pool.. destroyed.

 

[Vladamir]

Pass the crackpipe please Kean!

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11661/7290604/Kean-targets-European-football

 

[Everz]

IBRA ON HIS DRAMATIC RIFT WITH GUARDIOLA

Zlatan Ibrahimovic hasn't held back in his forthcoming autobiography, with serialised quotes emerging this week detailing his rift with Pep Guardiola. Ibra spent the 2009-10 campaign at Barcelona working with the young Coach before returning to Italy in a move to Milan.

The striker has since regularly vocalised his issues with Guardiola and has now put them into writing in the form of his upcoming autobiographical offering. Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet ran the opening chapter in which Ibra reflects upon his unhappy spell in Spain and how he accused Guardiola of being afraid of Jose Mourinho, at that time in charge of Inter.

“It was a childhood dream [to join Barcelona] and I was walking on air. It started well but then Messi started to talk. He wanted to play in the middle, not on the wing, so the system changed from 4-3-3 to 4-5-1. I was sacrificed and no longer had the freedom on the pitch I need to succeed.”

“So I asked for a meeting with Guardiola - for a discussion, not an argument. I said I was being used in the wrong way and that they shouldn't have bought me if they wanted another type of player. I told him what a friend had said to me - 'you bought a Ferrari but drive it like a Fiat'. The chat seemed to go well but then Guardiola started to freeze me out.”

“I would walk into a room; he would leave. He would greet everyone by saying hello, but would ignore me. I had done a lot to adapt - the Barca players were like schoolboys, following the Coach blindly, whereas I was used to asking 'why?'. I like guys who run red lights, not pedantic and strict rules. So I tried to be overly nice, didn't dare lose my temper.”

“But after this I stopped trying to adapt. For example, at Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous - it was no-one's business what car I drive - so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.”

Ibrahimovic's account continues, translated via Eurosport, as he reveals his worsening behaviour when it became clear that he would be on his way out of the Catalan club. The below except is in relation to an incident Ibra alleges took place after Barcelona's 4-1 win away to Villarreal on May 1, 2010. It was the first game after the club's Champions League semi-final exit to Mourinho's Inter.

“(Pep) was staring at me and I lost it. I thought 'there is my enemy, scratching his bald head'. I yelled to him: 'you have no balls!' And probably worse things than that. I added: 'You are s***ing yourself because of [Mourinho]. You can go to hell!' I was completely mad.”

“I threw a box full of training gear across the room, it crashed to the floor and Pep said nothing, just put stuff back in the box. I'm not violent, but if I were Guardiola I would have been frightened.”

Seems like a truthful insight tbh, Ibra started well for Barca but then did get shipped out to the wings. But then again, Messi is bigger then Barcelona..

 

[Keitanz]

Lucas went from the attacking sensation to the good midfielder however, other then that you haven't half destroyed some good prospects. Babel being the worst of the worst, never should have left Ajax as he wasn't half a talent but he looked a shell of himself at 'Pool.. destroyed.

Attacking sensation in Brazil yeah, I don't think he would have made it over here as an attacking player really, maybe in Spain or Italy.. just not here..

Babel really was not that bad at all, the main reason he was sold is because of the ref drama

 

[Cerb]

Finally all in one place...

http://www.complex.com/sports/2011/11/the-complete-history-of-mario-balotellis-shenanigans#1

 

[CorNokZ]

 

[CorNokZ]

 

[Cerb]

Super gay...but interesting haha

 

[CorNokZ]

from 20 minutes in you are going to be BLOWN away!

 

[Cerb]

On 15 right now.....gota love quiet Fridays at work

 

[Cerb]

The part in the dark made me sex wee a little.

 

[Marc]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/peanut4/200_premier_goals

I managed 95