Football The 2012 / 2013 Season Thread

[Aoami]

 

[megadave]

 

[Raven]

Mourinho/Ancelotti swap?

 

[Vladamir]

 

[Lethul]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SkLJQu-fHw8

 

[caLLous]

 

[Wazzerphuk]

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Very strong rumours that Pulis is being sacked.

Please be true!

 

[eksdee]

Was about to post the same - off you fuck then, Pulis.

 

[Raven]

Hope not, don't want to see him at another club. Would rather he stayed at Stoke and they get relegated next season.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

No Prem club will touch him with Wij's dick.

Arsene Wenger's managerial tenure will be longer than the other 19 added together now.

 

[caLLous]

Yeah I'd prefer him to get relegated with Stoke. Him *and* Stoke need to fuck off, not one or the other.

 

[eksdee]

That would be preferable for sure.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

If Stoke don't play like cunts without Pulis I don't care if they stay up or not. If they continue to play like cunts I will want them down but there are few managers are shit and cuntish as Pulis, so it's unlikely it'd be as severe.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Since promotion to the PL in 2008, Stoke have scored 0.99 goals per game; the fewest of all teams in the top flight for 3+ seasons.

In the past 4 seasons, Stoke have averaged the lowest pass success rate (66.9%) of all teams to have been in the Premier League.

Since August 2008 Stoke City have taken 2435 long throws in the Premier League, at least 1363 more than any other team.

Of Stoke's 190 Premier League games since promotion in 2008, they have had >50% possession in only 13.

Stoke City were involved in seven of the 10 shortest Premier League games in 2012-13 based on ball-in-play time.

This season, the most frequently fouling team were Stoke with an average of 11.8 per match

 

[eksdee]

Great team!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u-xRbSdPKXo

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Stoke City have spent £120m more than Arsenal since Tony Pulis took over.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

http://eaglesthatlooklikearsenewenger.tumblr.com/

 

[caLLous]

I forgot about Malouda...

 

[Shagrat]

I forgot about Malouda...

"oh my time at Chelsea has been such a nightmare, when a chance of moving came rather than stay in the reserves for a whole season I took a wage cut to move somewhere else and get regular football."

oh wait......

 

[Wazzerphuk]

"oh my time at Chelsea has been such a nightmare, when a chance of moving came rather than stay in the reserves for a whole season I took a wage cut to move somewhere else and get regular football."

oh wait......

No-one has moved for him have they? Largely because he's on HUGE wages.

 

[Shagrat]

No-one has moved for him have they? Largely because he's on HUGE wages.

well that's the point I was trying to make. I'm sure if it was that much of a nightmare he'd have taken a wage cut to play football somewhere else. Instead he'd sooner take his massive wage and then just bitch about it being such a traumatic time.

 

[Raven]

He should go to shitty, they love players who are happy to sit in the reserves on obscene money.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

well that's the point I was trying to make. I'm sure if it was that much of a nightmare he'd have taken a wage cut to play football somewhere else. Instead he'd sooner take his massive wage and then just bitch about it being such a traumatic time.

He can't take a wage cut until a team bid for him and Chelsea allow permission to talk to him. A player has no power in that position, he can only take a wage cut when a team want him. If no team wants him because he'll need talking down, that's not his fault. It's Chelsea's fault for being so utterly pathetic and willing to let 100k p/w go on someone they never intend to play and won't allow to train properly.

 

[Embattle]

He can't take a wage cut until a team bid for him and Chelsea allow permission to talk to him. A player has no power in that position, he can only take a wage cut when a team want him. If no team wants him because he'll need talking down, that's not his fault. It's Chelsea's fault for being so utterly pathetic and willing to let 100k p/w go on someone they never intend to play and won't allow to train properly.

Not really since I doubt there was ever going to be much interest in him due to transfer fees, wages and the lacklustre performance he showed before he even went in to the youth team.

 

[eksdee]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/21/andy-carroll-liverpool-west-ham

Hope he sees sense and takes the move, it'd be for the best.

 

[Aoami]

Yup. He probably feels he's a bit better than the club, but he's not proved it yet. He is still young so there is plenty of time for him to go on to bigger things if he puts in a couple of solid years at West Ham.

 

[soze]

If Chelsea were that bothered they could have helped him find another club and either given him a free transfer to subsidise his wage or done like City and Ade and paid a portion of his wages. Chelsea are not victims footballers move clubs for money expecting one to half his wages because he is out of favour is ignorant.

 

[Embattle]

How do you know they didn't, in reality neither of us know the exact in and outs of what happened all we know is he is bitching about being in the youth team and happy he has now left. I'm not saying he has to take a pay cut to move but then I'll ignore him moaning about it since he simply wasn't good enough to be in our first team any more so either way Chelsea were going to lose out.