Football The 2012 / 2013 Season Thread

[Raven]

It's called the scatter gun approach.

Like putting £5 on every horse in a race to win and claiming to be able to pick a winner every time.

 

[caLLous]

Lol Kietanz, have a word ffs.

 

[Keitanz]

You're such a negative lot

I didn't say he's spot on all the time, since I have been following him (maybe 6weeks - 2months) he has been spot on about pretty much every thing that I have seen..

Christ.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

.....

 

[Scouse]

Aye, lets leave it as the bitter liverpool fan being incorrect again

You are welcome, of course, to side with the Manc fan who's been equally intransigent in his argument for the past 9 months

 

[soze]

That is fucking ugly. Nike can go and fuck themselves. What is wrong with a plain Yellow away kit

 

[DaGaffer]

That is fucking ugly. Nike can go and fuck themselves. What is wrong with a plain Yellow away kit

Be careful what you wish for, this is Nike's idea of plain yellow (their chief kit designer has really been dropping the bad acid this year)

 

[Scouse]

That is fucking ugly. Nike can go and fuck themselves. What is wrong with a plain Yellow away kit

It could well be that the home kit is for the home fans and the away kit suits the taste of supporters from far-afield. We may (and do) find it garish (it's fucking ugly!) but I bet the Thai's love it...

 

[gohan]

I dunno. Take the badge and sponsers off and it looks a lot like the sort of shirts I see people wearing around town. (Imagine cotton rather than polyester)

 

[soze]

Poor Szczesny

 

[DaGaffer]

Well at least Arsenal fans can use their away shirts as a beach towel. Liverpool seem to have scuba diving in mind for their supporters:

 

[Raven]

Heard a rumour that Newcastle are preparing a £10 million offer for Carroll


Please be true.

 

[caLLous]

That would be epic.

 

[Raven]

It seems it came from the Sun so probably totally wrong.

 

[cHodAX]

Well at least Arsenal fans can use their away shirts as a beach towel. Liverpool seem to have scuba diving in mind for their supporters:

Pefect kit for going down a few fathoms!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Sigh.

http://www.football365.com/news/21554/7891574/UEFA-snub-goal-line-technology

 

[Scouse]

Sigh.

http://www.football365.com/news/21554/7891574/UEFA-snub-goal-line-technology

Fantastic news!

The game remains human, fallable and unfair! Go beach-balls! Go hand of god! Go ghost-goals and goals that never were! Viva la interestingness!

 

[Litmus]

http://www.theladbible.com/media/afternoon-ladness-13?image=3

 

[Raven]

Sigh.

http://www.football365.com/news/21554/7891574/UEFA-snub-goal-line-technology

Ridiculous decision. The linesman behind the goal were a joke at the Euros.

 

[Embattle]

Not that surprising as Platini doesn't like the idea of Goal line tech.

 

[Lethul]

Zlatan and thiago silva to PSG according to swe papers

 

[Ch3tan]

Zlatan and thiago silva to PSG according to swe papers

SwissRamble did a very good blod on the financial situation at Milan, so it's very likely. It's been tweeted for a few days now.

Bet Agent_ITK even got this one right!

 

[caLLous]

Rarrrrr.

 

[soze]

€50m if you believe the hype. Silva is meant to be one of the best defenders in the world so it could be decent business.

 

[caLLous]

I would hope they would fetch more than 50 euros between them though, things at Milan aren't that bad.

 

[soze]

Too much potato wine for you i think

 

[Raven]

Rarrrrr.

Bale looks even more like a shaved monkey in that pic

 

[Ch3tan]

Yes they are caLLous

http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/milan-warning-signs.html?utm_source=BP_recent

This mission is made more difficult by Milan’s financial situation, which is by no means disastrous, but is bad enough to give the club pause for thought. Their traditional modus operandi has been to operate with substantial losses, which are then covered by the owners, but this will not be possible in the new world of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules where clubs will have to live within their means without the assistance of a wealthy benefactor.
This will test to the limit the negotiating skills of Milan’s vice-president Adriano Galliani, who has proved himself to be a wily old fox in the past, especially when he snapped up Ibrahimovic from Barcelona for around a third of the price that the Catalans paid a year before. The need for Milan to find bargains was further emphasised this summer when they signed two international midfielders on Bosman free transfers: Riccardo Montolivo from Fiorentina and Bakaye Traoré from Nancy.
Ibrahimovic of all people highlighted the club’s financial woes, “Milan’s problem is economic. There is no money to buy five players, or even the ones we need. We made a couple of signings, maybe there will be a third.”


When you look at the club’s most recent accounts (for the year up to 31 December 2011), you begin to understand what the big Swede is talking about, as these reported a thumping great loss of €67.3 million. Amazingly this actually represented a slight (€2.4 million) improvement on the previous year’s loss of €69.8 million, an indication of Milan’s structural weaknesses. The losses in both years would have surpassed €80 million without the benefit of substantial tax credits, €15.7 million in 2010 and €13.3 million in 2011.
Revenue grew by 7% to €234.8 million, but this was matched by a €13.7 million increase in the wage bill to €206.5 million, a record high for Milan. Note that this definition of revenue excludes €23.6 million profit on player sales and €8.4 million increase in the value of fixed assets (shown elsewhere). If these are added back, we get the €266.8 million of revenue mentioned in the club’s press release.

 

[Litmus]

Rarrrrr.

...While on the subject of spurs i cant seem understand AVB's vission for the club. I personaly really would like spurs to do well off there own backs.


But since AVB has arrived all I've seen in the papers is how his main aim is to win the prem, then the next day i read them and he says he's open to offers for van der vaart and modric? How the hell does he think he's going to be successful selling his best players. I really can see them slipping down the table if that's his mentality.

 

[soze]

Bale looks even more like a shaved monkey in that pic

Yeah they are trying to hard in that. Take away the cock on the beach ball and it is a nice kit though.