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Malouda is 31, in decline and has something like a year left on his contract, how much you wan sell am before? 50M?

Swift "4G" is obviously a farce when they're still offering 512kbps - 2mbps. Ridiculous.

No be only Kaka, na khaki!

Lansbury should partner Rambo. How far with Coquelin sef?

If i were Wenger I'd "rest" Arshavin and throw Miyaichi in the deep end, nothing dey happen!

Group A:

Barcelona
AC Milan
Man City
Borussia Dortmund


THANK YOU!

Walcott never misses when he's played in, he's an excellent finisher, even his biggest critics can't deny that.

Thankfully Vermaelen's injury doesn't seem to have affected him and he's looking even better than i remember.

Rosicky getting stuck in

duduspace:
I'll have Hazard down for a Central AM type role as well though I'm sure he'll also cope out wide.

Lille will demand an arm and a leg. . . Wenger will offer them a fingernail and a toenail

One "super quality" signing is looking necessary though.

Gervinho is going to make a lot of defenders wish they were never born this season.

nateevs:
Is this what Arsenal fans do these days to stay relevant?

Na so we see am. . . Chelsea fans on the other hand claim United players may never play for their country again

^^ Liverpool will kick United out of the top four

folahann:
Quote from: debosky on Today at 02:26:40 PM@Debosky
I was only joking o.
Do you think I like watching Thursday night football?
This will be Liverpool's third season in Europa League, what good has it done to them

Liverpool didn't qualify for the Europa League

dayokanu:
80% of income UEFA makes from club competitions is from these elite clubs

Have a league with Barca, Real, Milan, Inter Juve, Bayern Dortmund, Man Utd Liverpool

Another league with Arsenal, Everton, Bremen, Hannover, Sevilla, Tenerife, Roma, Catania and Udinese

While top sponsors would be struggling for the first, You would have to beg companies producing "Wara Soya" and Ola-Ola Pounded Yam flour to sponsor the Second

FAR more people watch Arsenal than Bayern Mushin. . . Even ALABUKUN no go gree sponsor league wey Bayern dey inside:



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bxg:
Heavy Rain most boring game Ever dunno eat d fuss is bout

The ending(s) were meh. And the fat PI dude turning out to be the Origami Killer made me want to break my console house

Bawss1:
How can you not be impressed by Batman Arkham Asylum?

Most repetitive game ever. . . Not necessarily a bad thing if what you're doing is actually fun(i.e AC). AA = grapple onto gargoyle, activate detective mode, wait for baddie, over and over and over!

Bendtner would be a brilliant signing for Bayern

chamotex:
More bollocks! . . . AVB said this . . . AVB said that. Get off AVB's co[i]c[/i]k and let him pick the side.
I still wont give up on you . . . . yet.

Do you want to place a bet now that the team you posted up there wont be the same after the Norwich game as you stated?
Since you are so sure of yourself.

No major brain fart over the past week. . . There is hope

Haven't been gaming much over the last month. . . Hibernating till Gears and Uncharted hit the streets.

I also hack consoles. . . "basic-hacking" is N1,000,000(negotiable), "pro-hacking" is N5,000,000(non-negotiable) and "full-hacking" requires you to provide your left arm, right leg, and the se[color=#000000]m[/color]en of a virgin dinosaur

Fuji House of Commotion

nateevs:
How you take know? Inside source?


This is Redknapp on Mata. . .

"We were in for Mata and close to doing a deal. But he didn’t come and Chelsea came in".

Redknapp talks too much shyte for his own good. If Spurs had an offer accepted for Mata, we'd have heard about it like we heard about the Chelsea offer.

Mata would have gleefully joined Arsenal if his valuation was met. Tottenham aren't in the UCL but if they offered him big money(which he doesn't seem to care about ) he'd have been over the moon.

He's just sucking up to chavs by namedropping.

"I want to come to England to win trophies - and that's why I accepted Chelsea's offer,'' he said. "It was also a question of sporting achievement, not money. Arsenal and Tottenham were both interested in me but they did not compare with the Blues. I want the Premier League title and this is possible at Chelsea."

New signings chatting their usual rubbish. Neither Tottenham nor Arsenal agreed a fee with Valencia. #shhhhh

mukina2:
This league has its way initial gra gra will soon wear off

You dey mind them?

I remember Ibime creaming himself after racing to a 100 point lead over me after 5 games last year when i was still learning the ropes. . . We all know how that ended

tkb417:
Arsenal shd be skinned easily

Wenger is bringing a secret weapon

^^ Ozil had a year on his contract, not that anyone besides Wenger believes Chamberlain is worth 12M.

debosky:
^^

Succinctly put - the difference is not those players named, as Arsenal can confidently say they possess similar or arguably higher calibre of players in that same price-range.

The difference is in the highest earners - the Lampards, Drogbas, Cechs and Terrys, the ones who actually 'carry the side' - they are clearly not on 80k, neither are the likes of Rio and Rooney at Utd or Yaya, Tevez and Silva at Citeh.

Can Arsenal feasibly pay wages in that bracket? Not without significant cutting down of lower paid players and a drastic recalibration of the overall wage structure. Ultimately, it will lead to a bigger wage bill in the range of Chelski/United. I am not confident the club can afford that without winning trophies, knowing full well that the expenditure will improve chances of winning but not provide any guarantees.

The truth is Arsenal now face being "forced" to pay higher wages thanks to City and co.

A month ago i wouldn't have offered a player like Nasri over 100k, now i'm not convinced offering him circa 120K is a bad idea(not that he'll surely accept it considering the fact City are reportedly offering 185K).

RVP has 2 years left on his contract and another summer debacle is already shaping up, especially if he has a great season, which i'm believing he will.

Offer him(and maybe Nasri?) top dollar now IMO.

nateevs:
That's a very unfair thing to do. I like when you have a discussion rather than your unending need to slander.

I posted the opinion about "top quality" in a completely separate post. Dudu asks me to tell a team that pays such wages and still manages to finish in the top four every year and I listed players. I did not liken these players to any sort of quality at any time. There is no need for you to argue that way.

You can also quote my second post and say Fabio, Oshea, Carrick, Brown, Fabio, Anderson, Park, Valencia, and then say "na this be quality?" . . . . They won the PL.

So i take it when you said "My illustration was to highlight how Arsenal can pay wages in the 60 to 80k bracket and still get top quality", the "and still get top quality" part meant the top quality players are in a different bracket as opposed to getting top quality for 60-80k? You see the English language can be a bit rubbish!

You can forgive me for thinking the former considering the fact Dudu clearly meant clubs who pay about 80K max, in which case you haven't really proved anything considering the fact no club will pay all their players over 80K p/w, i.e ALL top clubs will have players in the 60-80K bracket.

And that's why these players play for their National teams and Shawcross doesn't despite Shawcross being Stoke's near best performer. Scott Parker puts a decent shift in every single minute for WestHam but he doesn't and cannot produce quality to command an 80k wage at a big club.

Parker has been very consistent for 2-3 seasons now, he was arguably the best player in the league last year(top 3 at least) and even starts games for the national team nowadays. He'll EASILY command 80k at  a top club.

My illustration was to highlight how Arsenal can pay wages in the 60 to 80k bracket and still get top quality.

Ivanovic
Bosingwa
Alex
Luiz
Mikel
Ramires
Sturridge
Kalou
Mata
Lukaku

Na these ones be "top quality"? I dey

At Arsenal there's also the likes of Vermaelen, Wilshere, Sagna, Song, Gervinho etc in that wage bracket that are every bit as good as, if not better than the players you have listed, you haven't illustrated anything!

Also, it's one thing to pay top wages for the players that "carry the team on their shoulders", it's another thing to cough up 30M+ for the transfer. Almunia will not suddenly morph into Buffon if you start paying him 200K p/w!

My sub keeper(Ruddy) saved Walters' pen. . . Seems everyone's bench is outscoring their starting XI

Ibime:
I can't believe they took Lamps assist away

It's still there for me. . . They better not try it cos i captained the heediot!

debosky:
You are quite daft if you fail to realise that ANY defender that is on a side with a clean sheet will receive better ratings than those on a team that conceded two goals.

Secondly, if you trust analysis from pillocks at Goal.com, your idiocy knows no bounds.

If we want to talk about analysis, you should've heard what Carra said - he said Arsenal's defenders (Vermaelen particularly) would have been the ones picking up the MoTM awards if they didn't concede.

The fact is that the game was so poor that only a defender could get MoTM, and they picked one from the winning team - it's no rocket science. Sagna played better but could never get it because his side conceded two goals.

You dey mind Ibime and hin sidekick? Vermaelen was by and far the best player on the pitch and they are saying Goal.com gave Enrique MOTM, which only proves their ratings are rubbish.


@topic

2 weeks ago i'd have driven Nasri to Manchester myself but now i'm not so sure. . . Latest reports suggest the deal could be off.

Any truth in Hazard @ 23M?

Only deluded Man Utd & Real Madrid fans are still making this Messi vs Ronaldo argument. . . Ronaldo himself will slap you if you compare him to Messi

coogar:
ronaldo has done it in the top 2 leagues in europe - where else should he prove himself.
messi's butt has been planted in la liga since age 13 - can he cut it on a wet tuesday night in stoke? robinho couldn't, veron couldn't. . . .are you sure messi can?

Messi has nothing to prove in England when he's consistently dazzled England's best teams in the UCL.

you call what clasicos are physical? i need you to email aaron ramsey about playing in britannia.
i am yet to see a bone-breaker in the clasicos under mourinho. . . . .i am yet to see a player going out for 8 months in the el clasico. most of those tackles are nothing. barcelona players are experts at conning the referee and make you believe they have been hacked to death. when the match was 2-2, barcelona stopped diving. the moment they are hacked, they get up instantly cos they needed a goal and they could not afford to waste time fannying about.

Irrelevant. . .

mind, stoke isn't even about physical game alone. . . . .it's their mode of play that is catchy.
rory delap launching his javelin throws from the halfway line with the throw assisted from 0.00009cm by kewyne jones' sweat. how are the barca midgets expected to deal with such incursion with villa, pedro, messi, xavi, iniesta, thiago? they would climb on top of each other i guess. . . .

What does Bacelona defending long-throws have to do with Messi? Is Messi a defender

one question that messi's fanboys have not answered. . . . . . .if chamakh and messi swap teams, whose team would win?

More irrelevancies. . . If Ronaldo and Chamakh swap teams, whose team would win?

coogar:
this argument has been put to bed. the clubs at the highest level will not play like stoke.
they will play the way barcelona would want them to play. . . .playing with pride.

but stoke will not play with pride. . . . .they would play the way they made andrea villash boash look like a tool last season.
messi ranted for 2 years when ordinary rangers fc(inferior to stoke when it comes to negative football) held his team to a goalless draw. these kinda scenarios are what ronaldo has tasted and mastered. messi hasn't and this was why he was anonymous against uruguay who were forced to 10 men and played defensive all game. . . . .this was why messi also failed against jose's inter when they were forced to 10 men and went defensive.

Why is Ronaldo immune to this your insane logic? Ronaldo should go and prove himself in Djibouti Premier League before we say he is better than the players there.

P.S. The Classicos have been very physical under Mourinho and Messi has still scored a shitload of goals in them. If Messi can do it against the "world-class" defenders in Madrid i don't know where you got this idea he'll choke against Higginbotham and co that every other team in the league routinely mop the floor with.

Coogar wants Messi to prove himself on "a cold wet Tuesday at Britannia" when he has already proved himself time and time again at the highest level against the best teams in the world in the UCL/La Liga. Ronaldo should also go and prove himself on a hot, dry Thursday at Surulere National Stadium before we say he's better than the agberos that play there

tocdee:
LAWD HAVE MERCY!! Sagna had a better game than Enrique? Sure you saw this game? Seriously? Enrique was MILES better than Sagna! I struggle to think of any meaningful effect Sagna had today. He must be grateful for Vermaelen's (great player) cover play.

OK

Bent goal + assist the only bright spot on an otherwise wretched week(so far)!

Was planning on swapping Baines for Cashley this morning, then wait for it. . . wait for it. . . wait a little more. . .

Enrique was poor yet Walcott was in his pocket all game? How many LBs can say that?

Olodo, i never said he was poor, he had a decent game. I'm only wondering why you're raving about him when Sagna playing out of position had a better game at left-back.