Football The 2014/2015 Season Thread

[caLLous]

Or what? You're gonna grab 5th place?

Well there's no need to be a dick.

 

[Vladamir]

http://www.thesportbible.com/articl...e-of-his-squad-back-home-according-to-rumours

 

[Calaen]

Well seems i was right... Van Gaal used a 3-4-3 (5-2-3) wingback systems in his first pre-season match. Good result with a 7-0 win but means nothing.

I'm sure someone was berating Van gaal at the start of the world cup for changing the system to 3-5-2. People forget it's a great system if you have the players for it.

 

[CorNokZ]

http://www.thesportbible.com/articl...e-of-his-squad-back-home-according-to-rumours

https://vine.co/v/M25Bv5hBgTL

 

[Vladamir]

Apparently 350,000 James Rodriguez shirts have been sold in the last 48 hours, how much of his fee has been recouped already?!

 

[DaGaffer]

Apparently 350,000 James Rodriguez shirts have been sold in the last 48 hours, how much of his fee has been recouped already?!

About 8% (not including his wages etc.)

 

[Corran]

I'm sure someone was berating Van gaal at the start of the world cup for changing the system to 3-5-2. People forget it's a great system if you have the players for it.

Aye, to be honest it all depends on how it being played... is it a true 3-5-2 or is it more towards a 5-3-2 with a small amount of attack coming from wing backs. 5-3-2 is extremely negative in a lot of ways so hoping it is more attack minded for good football. Want to win with a bit of style, not by boring the opponents

 

[ileks]

Aye, to be honest it all depends on how it being played... is it a true 3-5-2 or is it more towards a 5-3-2 with a small amount of attack coming from wing backs. 5-3-2 is extremely negative in a lot of ways so hoping it is more attack minded for good football. Want to win with a bit of style, not by boring the opponents

It's flexible in that you can do either. Shaw and Valencia are really well suited to it.

 

[Corran]

Yeah, but it all comes from what the manager thinks. Hopefully he more minded as attacking due to his background but you never know with football.

 

[Moriath]

Aye, to be honest it all depends on how it being played... is it a true 3-5-2 or is it more towards a 5-3-2 with a small amount of attack coming from wing backs. 5-3-2 is extremely negative in a lot of ways so hoping it is more attack minded for good football. Want to win with a bit of style, not by boring the opponents

After 7-0 I guess 3-5-2

 

[Ch3tan]

He said the team is unbalanced with too many forward players, and if he played 4-3-3 then he'd be leaving too many on the bench. So it's certainly attacking.

 

[Himse]

Vidal - 'I won't go to Utd' what happened to them still being able to pull in big names?

 

[miri]

Or maybe he's just happy at Juventus?

 

[Himse]

Or maybe he's just happy at Juventus?

Let me troll Utd fans in peace, also: 'Vidal arrived back in Italy and when asked by reporters whether he would stay at Juventus said: 'I do not go to Manchester. Can I say I will remain with Juve? I don’t know.'

 

[caLLous]

Bojan – first training session with Stoke…

 

[soze]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-confirm-didier-drogba-signing-3914032 That is us fucked.

 

[miri]

Can't believe he's back. Surreal. Torres is fucked.

 

[Raven]

I don't get why Torres sticks around, he should be at the peak of his career. A new club might get him playing again.

Or maybe that is his problem, just plain lazy.

Anyway, excellent news for Chelsea and premier league fans.

 

[miri]

Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head - lazy. There's no way a player with that much talent can be so bad for so long unless he hasn't made the effort to change.

 

[soze]

It is wages. He is on a boat load £150-£170k a week is rumored no where else is going to pay him that. Why would he leave. Train twice a week play twice a month and earn £600k easy money.

 

[Vladamir]

Exactly what Soze said

Hope Lukaku doesn't spit his dummy out over Drogba coming back, or maybe that's why he's come back!

 

[Ch3tan]

I really don't get it, he's 36 and past his prime. Give lakaku a chance instead.

 

[soze]

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20140727/arsenal-to-sign-goalkeeper-david-ospina

Another one down. And we signed that Southampton Right Back too.

Also Khedira is back on now he has dropped his wage demands. Good times.

 

[soze]

I really don't get it, he's 36 and past his prime. Give lakaku a chance instead.

One is a proven big game player the other seems to go missing in big games, I think the world cup was a chance for Lukaku to prove his worth but in two games he proved fairly useless and in none of his Everton games did he take a game against a big team and boss it. If Drogba is still half the player he was then he can win a game on his own.

I fucking hate Drogba.

 

[soze]

Remy failed a medical by the sounds of it.

 

[megadave]

Fabregas looking awesome for us as a CM in our preseason game, those passes. Costa scored too, yay.

 

[miri]

https://vine.co/v/M0tEAaTM0Lh AND TORRES IS BACK

 

[miri]

http://gfycat.com/NextPoliteEmeraldtreeskink rifled

 

[megadave]

can't you imbed gfycats?

 

[miri]

Don't think so