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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 9:09pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
duduspace: 5 examples of this case will help your case severely. i am yet to see where external auditors will deliberately mask the true financial situation of any organization. it seems you think you are in nigeria where everyone can be bribed. you are a super-tool. an upgrade to debosky's toolship.
because tools choose to hear what they want to hear. it's very simple. . . .how much did the glazers borrow from the banks in their leveraged buy-out, what was united's profit just before the take-over? i don't need an external auditor to show me any statement when the facts are clear.
you are not intelligent at all. the moral of that sentence flew over your head.
cesc and merida were academy products of barcelona. they left barcelona because of their perceived lack of opportunities. this is different to arsenal picking them raw and polishing them into fine talents.
if you can show me where i have said ronaldo is a man utd academy product in the blogosphere, i will bow out of this argument. other than that, you are a hypocritical lying twit who just opens his mouth like an indolent asswipe. cesc having a youth cup appearance does not make him an arsenal academy product, u nitwit. academies are like schools. they move from class 1 to 2 and to 3. you don't play a match in the youth team and declare you passed through the academy. knowing that your tomfoolery is world class, here is another tip. wikipedia any player and check his details on the right hand side of the web-page. check under youth career. . . . .that should tell you which academy a certain player passed through. football is not so difficult but mumuface is so thick and poor in spirit, he cannot even pay attention. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 8:54pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
kcjazz: it is more credible because this source is from deloitte(the external auditor of all english premier league clubs). |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 8:45pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
kcjazz: unlike you, i back my facts with credible links. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10249101 |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 8:41pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
duduspace: shut up your dirty mouth, all the money from the debt went to the shareholders who sold their stake to the glazers. when fergie pissed the former owners off during the feud of "rock of gibraltar" racehorse saga, they sold off their shares to malcolm glazer. the glazers haven't spent a penny of theirs on man utd since they arrived. why won't the glazers show a true picture of their finances when there are external auditors who look into the club accounts? why are you such a stark illiterate? for as little as one pound, you can get a copy of the last financial statement of man utd from the companies house. . . .it's called freedom of information. duduspace: what has this got to do with anything? whether xavi and iniesta got to la masia in their babyhood means squat. if they strolled into la masia at age 21, they would always be good players. talent is in-born!
whether the program was in place since 1800 or 2010, arsenal do not have the attraction to pull prodigious talents all over the globe like barcelona can do. it is a disgrace you are using the excuses of age to mask the failure of the arsenal academy. look at the calibre of players in your academy and compare them to world class talents in other european academies. which of your youngster has lit up any youth competition at the world stage? none! how many arsenal academy products have won mvps in fifa/uefa organised competitions? none! beckham, giggs, scholes, etc did not join man utd at age 8/9 and yet they carved a niche for themselves. why can't arsenal academy products do the same?
the reason you are confused about this is because you are a tool. the age players come to club has nothing to do with this. the real determinant is if they actually pass through the academy. for instance, da silva twins(fabio and rafael) are not academy products even though they joined at age 17 but guiseppe rossi who joined united at 17 is a product of man utd academy. cesc fabregas never played in the academy even though he joined arsenal at 16 whereas gerard pique who joined united at 17 graduated from united's academy. george best was discovered by united scout at 15 but he passed through united academy(he spent 2 yrs in the academy). ronaldo went straight into the senior team(he never played in united's academy) so he is not united's academy product. this isn't ambiguous but i don't expect a gaynner to understand the dynamics - you people are the dullest set of football fans in the world. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 8:09pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
duduspace: stop lying through your teeth. the rules back in the days will not allow anyone under 16 to sign for any big club. nothing to do with wenger, but the football association rules that have now relaxed the laws and allow kids to join clubs because football clubs now offer academic exercises unlike the way it was back in the days. whether a club picks players at 15/16 or 8/9, a talented player is a talented player. dayokanu: 2006/7 wage bill chelsea - £132.8m man utd - £92.3m arsenal - £89.7m liverpool - £77.6m 2007/8 wage bill chelsea £172m man utd £121m arsenal £101m liverpool £90m 2008/9 wage bill chelsea - £167m man utd - £123m arsenal - £104m liverpool -£107m |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 7:59pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
duduspace: so arsenal were trophyless for 6 yrs because they built a stadium? how much did arsenal actually borrow to finance the completion of this stadium? is it up to 700 million pounds the glazers lumped on united's shoulders? how come man utd marked their most successful haul of trophies when they are under a massive debt and arsenal couldn't even muster a community shield with their small debt? these excuses are getting stale. the stadium had nothing to do with wenger's failure. building the emirates had nothing to do with koscielny and szczesny having brain-farts in wembley. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 7:35pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
dayokanu: tottenham hotspur, of course. mumuface has come again to tell us porkies. very soon, mumuface will tell us martin keown and ray parlour didn't graduate from arsenal academy. pat rice(wenger's assistant) is 61 yrs of age - he graduated from arsenal's academy. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 7:09pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
duduspace: so how does this statistics help wenger's case? la masia produce ballon d'ors. . . .world cup winners, european championship winners. arsene wenger's youths have won nothing of note. cannot even win their domestic league or any domestic cup competition. wenger should tear up the scripts and start afresh. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 7:01pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
duduspace: that statistics is flawed. only 10%? you must be a joker!!! i can count more than 50 players in barca's academy that have played for the senior team and as at 2009, only 440 players have passed through la masia. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 6:42pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
kcjazz: who is this tool for goodness sake? how can anyone say only 10% of barca academy products play for the senior team? valdes, puyol, pique, xavi, busquets, iniesta, pedro, bojan, messi are all starters and they all passed out of la masia. if you don't know your facts, stop posting on a forum. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Fan Thread: In Fergie We Trust! by Cougar2: 6:26pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
chamotex: heard they have tricked fergie countless times too. when he wants rafael, fabio walks up to fergie and say. . . ."yes boss". |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 6:21pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
proudly9ja: arsenal don't play good football. toying with the ball around the edge of the box without really doing anything with it is not good football. it's frustrating to watch. we saw barcelona last week. they keep possession and they do something with it. arsenal do the possession football but are toothless with it. the best way to describe arsenal is. . . . . . .loads of pre-intimacy, no penetration. kcjazz: when man utd won the league 3 seasons in a row, chelsea were the highest spenders and they pay the highest wages in the land. the issue of money cannot be used as an excuse for wenger. he has had these players for the past 5 seasons. granted, he got them cheap but over the years, their value has appreciated. does fabregas still play like a midfielder signed for $0? does van persie play like a striker signed for $3m? |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 6:11pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
proudly9ja: do you really believe this notion? what is "best football" without winning competitions? we are talking six seasons without a trophy. six seasons? i really don't think any team can lay claims to be the best in the land without a single trophy to show for it. duduspace: arsenal then were better than arsenal now. arsenal pre-wenger didn't go six seasons without a title. george graham might have been boring as a manager but he delivered. he won titles domestically and in europe. he could only beat what was put in front of him and he did. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 4:57pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
duduspace: what was wenger's pedigree when he joined arsenal? a useless club in japan is pedigree? there more than a dozen managers who in europe that have got good pedigrees. matter of fact, there are plenty of them.
rafa benitez will do a good job in arsenal. . . . . . sack wenger, hire benitez. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 4:34pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
Ibime: you have to pity arsene wenger at this point. obviously, the luck of the draw did not favour them at all. from nou camp to old trafford within a space of three days will take some energy out of the players. the title race is still open and wenger has a genuine chance of winning that(if he wants to). |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Fan Thread: In Fergie We Trust! by Cougar2: 3:12pm On Mar 14, 2011 |
nani is back! valencia on the right. . . . .nani on the left. the run-in will be exciting. dayokanu: he returned last weekend and trained in carrington today. i saw him tackling valencia too. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 10:52pm On Mar 13, 2011 |
ritchboy: vic-o is a legend. these are spiritual lyrics. you won't get this kind of cadence anywhere on the planet. nigga raps like crazy. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 9:18pm On Mar 13, 2011 |
ritchboy:
no one remembers the third. . . . .and before you digress. . . .how does this explain the trophy drought that is now moving to the 7th season? |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 9:06pm On Mar 13, 2011 |
ritchboy: if only arsenal can be as successful as kanye west(the owner of that quote). . . . . you should be quoting the pitiful lines of eedris or vic-o. both of them have something in common with the arses. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 8:49pm On Mar 13, 2011 |
debosky: if fabio and rafael are good headers of the ball, arsenal woulda conceded two goals before the fabio goal. i remember two excellent crosses from the left that rafael headed over the bar and the one fabio misjudged and headed back to where the cross came from. those were 2 good chances before the goal. dayokanu: they can still win it this season. . . . .are you losing hope? nateevs: why do i think this punchline is too personal? |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 8:23pm On Mar 13, 2011 |
ritchboy: not quite the case. liverpool fans know their limits when it comes to football. they rarely brag and we know their internal crisis screwed em up under rafa benitez. arsenal is a different kettle of fish. there's stability in the management, the stadium churns out money and we have been told some of the players in arsenal are at par if not better than their counterparts in the league - so where is the title to show for it? we have been told here wenger is marginally better than ferguson - so why isn't this quality showing on the pitch whenever the 2 managers cross swords? the mind boggles. . . . . chamotex: the same stadium move allowed da silva twins to pee on the whole arsenal midfield last night. . . . .the excuses will never stop. lest i forget, where's head-nigga-in-charge(hnic)? he's not recuperating in the hospital or is he? |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 8:08pm On Mar 13, 2011 |
kcjazz: you saw ferguson in united in 85? liverpool didn't win fa cup in 2006? must you rewrite your own history to fan wenger's burning rectum? |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 4:32pm On Mar 13, 2011 |
debosky: this is harsh. arsenal defended well in parts. i doubt vidic won a single header against djourou/koscielny. it wasn't as bad as you are making it to be. united's goals were counter-attacks. there's no team with an immunity against counter-attacks.
even before united scored the opener, arsenal felt it was going to be a walk in the pack and kept coming forward in droves. maybe the line-up deceived wenger and the players. you didn't commit players forward in the game at old trafford in december like your players did yesterday and a break was always going to be dangerous for arsenal.
did he? change in personnel isn't urgency. arsenal played like they were leading 2-0. no urgency in their play at all. when they get the ball(and we all know arsenal players are fast), the pace slows down because van persie wants to touch the ball 9 times before releasing it to a team-mate. this gave united enough time to settle down and re-organize their defence. to beat united is easy. . . . .confuse vidic with 5-6 smart n pacy passes and he is dizzy. . . . .but if u pump 2000 crosses into his box, vidic will win 1999 out of them.
you had your chances to score. this isn't like the barcelona game. arsenal had plenty of chances but your strikers weren't clinical or van der sar had a blinder.
even when the defence lets a team down, the attack should be doing something on the other end too. koscielny had the chance to bury it. he aimed the ball where van der sar was positioned. chamakh headed straight at van der sar, etc etc. you need clinical strikers. a cheeky bid for eduardo in the summer perhaps? |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 4:01pm On Mar 13, 2011 |
debosky: well. . . . .the more you prevent united from creating chances, the less they would score. . . .arsenal had a good chance to qualify last night. you even commented the absence of the arsenal-killers(park, fletcher, anderson) should spell a good fortune for arsenal but that wasn't the case still.
they shouldn't. if we play man city with that team, we will be severely slaughtered. i also back west brom to tear us a new one with that pathetic midfield. all arsenal had to do was control the midfield and work the flanks. wes brown was the weakest link. . . .did arsene even try nasri on that channel once during the game? these are tactical flaws. if arshavin isn't doing his job well on brown, why not switch for a change n see what comes out of it?
easiest header? that header wasn't easy. and rooney needed the base of the post to help the ball into the net. that was a bold header. almunia was closing in. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Fan Thread: In Fergie We Trust! by Cougar2: 3:48pm On Mar 13, 2011 |
Mr_TA: they did? Procedure: - the player taking the penalty kick must kick the ball forward - he must not play the ball again until it has touched another player - the ball is in play when it is kicked and moves forward
the whole witness intimidation offence had happened 2 years ago. as morrison was less than 18 then, the story couldn't be published. he turned 18 some few weeks ago and the dailies were on the story like flies. morrison has sorted himself out and he's now getting to play more games. i am sure he will get promoted by next season. he was by far the best player on the pitch. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 3:39pm On Mar 13, 2011 |
debosky: that's not the point, prophet debo. i think a lot of arsenal fans are angry the midfield arsenal rolled out should have slaughtered united's midifeld but fabio and rafael still caused arsenal massive damages in the game. one would expect wilshere, diaby, denilson to murder gibson and oshea. rafael and fabio are rookies playing out of position. . . .the criticism wouldn't have been this harsh had united lined up carrick, anderson and fletcher in the middle of the pack. diaby and denilson did nothing offensively and defensively. wilshere was fantastic and nasri was solid. arshavin once again disappointed. he had wes brown for the taking but he didn't utilize the advantage to bamboozle united's weakness in the back four. wenger has to take some blame here for his tactical naivety and some arsenal players really need to take a second look at themselves for the show of shame. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Fan Thread: In Fergie We Trust! by Cougar2: 3:19pm On Mar 13, 2011 |
Mr_TA: the referee was a tool. he sent pogba off for dummying a goalie in his run-up to take a penalty. ronaldo does that every time. . . .where is it written in the law book that a player taking a penalty kick cannot dummy the keeper before kicking. the referee ruined the match. after pogba's sending off, morrison lived up to expectation. he is miles above any player on the pitch and his winner was an acrobatic volley. . . . fergie should promote this lad now. he's the biggest teenage talent in the country. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 10:30pm On Mar 12, 2011 |
debosky: those rebounds fell where there were no players. it's either vds was extremely lucky or arsenal strikers didn't make a huge nuisance to united's defence. like i said, it's all about passion/determination. one team wanted the victory more tonight and that team won.
the defensive flaw is not your players failing to react to the rebound. the flaw is the events that happened before the rebound. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 10:19pm On Mar 12, 2011 |
chamotex: vic-o is a legend. his lyrics are mind-blowing. heard he's on guinness book of record 2010. the only rapper you cannot listen to with a straight face. no matter how pissed you are, you must laugh. it's exactly what arsenal fans need tonight. so let's do some after parryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! debosky: defenders will always be beaten by the rebound. the key to avoid such is not to get yourself in that position in every match.
once a chance leads to a rebound, start praying the ball falls for your defenders and not the attackers. no one can be culpable for that. it's like blaming defenders for wicked deflections. how do you defend such?
i pray a goalie does. . . . . . . in the emirates cup! |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Fan Thread: In Fergie We Trust! by Cougar2: 10:05pm On Mar 12, 2011 |
chamotex: roy keane was crocked, fergie threw phil neville in the midfield and he battered vieira to a pulp. i think that was 02/03 season at old trafford. scholes and veron scored the goals.
he will grow to be a world class defender. i just hope he can take charge whenever we have vidic and rio absent. he has to grow into a leader. a defender who can organise his defence like rio/vidic can do. whenever he's lined up with either vidic or rio, he has been very excellent.
can't wait to have nani back too. we need those boys for the run-in. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only (A New Strength, A New Hope). by Cougar2: 9:59pm On Mar 12, 2011 |
chamotex: these okoro boys make me laugh. . . . .what the heck is this? lil wayne impostor? he even does the cheeky laugh after each bar. [flash=425,400] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3y1WNX8XLc?version=3"[/flash] chamotex, the above video is dedicated to you. this calabar boy in italy has lyrics that would rival nas and eminem. i heard he is a nairalander too. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Fan Thread: In Fergie We Trust! by Cougar2: 9:46pm On Mar 12, 2011 |
oshea is a better midfielder than a defender. that was confirmed today. he won every tackle he attempted. he wasn't indecisive like he does when he's playing closer to the goal. i am happy to see valencia running the flanks again and i must also commend chris smalling. he was a thorn in van persie's flesh. |
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