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chic2pimp:
You can yab them all you want but as long as they stop y'all from lifting the title for the 19th time, they could care less

It is delicately poised for em - so i am loving it.

Lose to Chelsea at Anfield - No 4th spot, No UCL, probably no Europa league.
Beat Chelsea at Anfield - 4th spot(possibly), Europa League(Certainly).

Which ever way - the only bad result for United is if Chelsea win at Anfield.
The last time Chelsea did that was under Jose Mourinho in 2005. Can they do it again with so much at stake? Fingers crossed!!!

duduspace:
Arshavin was brought in only when it was obvious Rosicky wasn't going to be back anytime soon, Silvestre and Sol were never bought to be first teamers. They were basically cheap experienced players brought in as stop gaps, only that one of them served that purpose very well while the other didn't and its no surprise where the one who didn't came from. Djorou would have been ahead of both of them if not for his extended time out due to injury.

There are millions of youth players in Europe who Wenger woulda brought in as stop-gaps. Why did he opt for Campbell/Silvestre if we are to believe in this your theory of 'Youth Policy'. Arshavin was 28 when he was brought in, why didn't Wenger buy Ben Arfa or any 22 yr-old to fill that role?

Ibime:
In 1995, Manure and Blackburn were fighting for the title going into the last game of the season. . .

Blackburn had to beat Liverpool and Manure had to beat West Ham. . .

All the conspiracy theorists were saying that Liverpool would throw the game to Blackburn. . . but they beat Blackburn. . . unfortunately Manure couldnt beat West Ham. . .

Anyone who thinks Liverpool will throw the game to Chelsea is having a bubble

The stakes are higher now. . . .
In 95, the league title count was Liverpool 18-10 Man Utd. They didn't give a damn in 1995 if United could win title number 11.
This is 2010, the count is tied at 18-18. . . . . .I know em Scousers. . . .They are the scum of the earth - Jobless and retarded folks and i am 100% dead cert they will readily sell their grandparents to slavery than let Man Utd clinch the 19th title before them.

duduspace:
I never mentioned dates so there is nothing to dispute with you here, you only asked for marquee signings and I gave you (actually didn't see the 3 year limit) but even then we are in the 4th year and the last 3 years would be 06/07, 07/08, 08/09.

The last 3 years would be summer of 2007.

Now you are losing it Debo, even my manure friends here would gladly take any one of those two ahead of Gibson. Apart from the odd long ranger, there isn't much that guy offers. Pique only had to move cause of the sheer quality of Vidic and Rio ahead of him. I hope and pray for the days the likes of Gibson will get 20 league games run for manure cos that would herald the return of the PL to the emirates.

I can bet DELUDED GAYnners said the same thing about Fletcher few seasons ago. . . .but look at him now.
He is cut for the BIG GAMES and he's now one of United's most trusted midfielder. See how the table turns!!!!
Gibson is ascending. . . Next season is a BIG season for him.

Almost any player can turn it on any given day, its the consistency that is elusive. Samir Nasri also turned it on against Manure last season. Those players have been bit part players and in no way first teamers at manure until this season.

Nani and Anderson turned it on against BIG TEAMS in their debut season.
Arsenal n Liverpool felt their wrath and they were understudy to Scholes and Giggsy in their first season unlike Nasri who made the first team immediately.

The afore mentioned reasons, the shift towards a youth policy which you stubbornly refuse to see or admit.

There's no shift towards a useless youth policy. . . . .Stop shifting the posts.
Youth policy wouldn't have brought in Arshavin, Silvestre and Sol Campbell. . . . .unless you wanna claim here Silvestre is 19 and Campbell is 17.

jalether:
Side effect of Heineken, that beer must be banned

Come to think of it. . . . . . .Rooney is very correct.
Liverpool are fighting to get into the Europa league cos if they fail to cop 3 points on Sunday, they would lose ground for the 4th place and Everton might just edge em out of the Europa League spot.

Tottenham 64
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Aston Villa 64
Man City 63
Liverpool 62
Everton 57

tkb417:
na ogbologbo idiot

the guy for say
"Liverpool remains one of the best teams in the country"
"we all can see how they have made considerable progress in the Europa league"
"Thats a testament that they are one of the best sides in the country bar the difficult patch they witnessed earlier in the season"
"i expect the good run to continue against Chelsea"
"anfield is the most difficult place to visit and i expect them to beat Chelsea and go ahead to win the europa league"

thats what the gorimapa shd have said

CLASSIC!!!!!!

duduspace:
I'm not going into how good or how bad the players bought have been, but there has definitely been a shift in Manure's spending,  they bought Hargo for close to 20m and Carrick for close to 19m.

Carrick was bought for 18 million. . . .The only signing United copped in 2006/7.
It was in 2007/8 United bought Hargreaves - stop distorting the facts to suit your selfish wet dreams.
Hargo and Carrick were not bought in the same transfer windown.

And please stop mentioning Gibson as someone who is getting better by the day, that Chap is the same age as Song and Fabregas but would you change him for any of those 2?

The difference between Gibson and Cesc/Song is the lack of opportunities. . . . . .
Before Pique left United, many peops thunk he was average until they started seeing him doing the shifts at Barcelona.
Give Gibson match appearances in a run of 20 league games and he will show his worth. . . . .

Nani and Anderson were bought for 15m each at 19 and 21 years old and have taken time to come good 2 years later, can Arsenal afford to have playing staff worth 30m warming the benches?

The same Nani/Anderson that copped MOTM performances against Arsenal in their debut seasons?
Are you high on cheap drugs?

Its the strength in depth these teams have built up in the past they are still depending on, cue Schole's last minute header at City or Gigg's impressive season. We are building our strength in depth within our youth and it will definitely pay us going forwards, we will definitely make the breakthrough very soon.

Who asked Wenger to sell good players like Gilberto, Pires and Ljunberg prematurely?

tkb417:
hehehehehe
is that whathe said

o pari

the boi no get sense

Liverpool go vex now open yansh for Chelsea to score 7 goals.
What kinda Scouser disrespects his roots?

dayokanu:
Lahm and Evra have never been and can never be on the same level.
Lahm shytes on him all day of the week including weekends and public holidays
Evra what a joke

Evra can fellate Altintop for all i care

The same Lahm that was repeatedly impaled in the rectum by Nani?
Nani wouldn't go past Ritchie de Laet but scored TWICE in a game for the first time in his career at Man Utd against Phillip Lahm.

Watching the PFA awards now. . . . .Rooney don mis-yarn o.

"I'm sure Liverpool will want to beat Chelsea," said Rooney.

"The pride they've got and the history they've got, I'm sure they'll want to win that game.

"They are fighting to get into the Europa League."

tkb417:
na u sabi ooo

Tkb, do you agree Darren Bent deserves to make the PFA team of the season?
Any striker that scores 24 league goals for a team placed in the 10th position is better than Drogba/Rooney combined in ma opinion.

jalether:
@ BD, you went from
To THIS
You are clearly not consistent, make up your mind Mrs.

Bluediva is more erratic than the British weather.
One moment she's a blue-diva, the next moment she's Hot-chic.

duduspace:
Give credit where it is due, I pointed it out on here that Chelsea and Manure cannot afford to continue to spend the way they have and the rule was one of the reasons I stated that anyway but even apart from the rule, Chelsea's moves in the transfer market at the beginning of this window had already pointed to the emerging trend in purchase of players. For example, since Manure has sold off CR7, they haven't breached the 20m ceiling or brought in any marquee player.

What difference does this make?
Whether you buy a player for £50 million or you bought 4 players for £50 million , the fact remains £50 million was spent.
Since the sale of Ronaldo. .United have bought Obertan(£3 million), Valencia(£16 million), Smalling(£10 million), Hernandez(£10 million) and Diouf(£4 million).

Does that look like a club that is suffering from cash?

Ibime:
Lennon has copped 12 assists. . . . I doubt Valencia would have copped much more despite playing the full season.

Stop talking like a ninny. . . . . .Appearances also count. . . .
Lennon has been crocked for huge parts of the season. His Actim Index will be in the negative integer by now.
It's not necessarily about assists/goals or fuckever. . . . .Match appearances also count a lot which is why Vida/Terry/Torres/Rio have not made it.

You dont need a defensive midfielder in what is a nominal representation of the best 11 players in EPL. . . . besides, how do you know that Fabregas is not my DM?. . . . according to Xavi, Fab4 would make a great defensive midfielder. . .  

And each time he's come against Darren Fletcher, he has been sodomised rigorously.
Fletcher deserves his place. . . . .He's come against many midfielders this season and he's made all of em look toothless.

In my book, Fabregas would be player of the year over Rooney, much less competing with Milner for Young Player of the year.

Rooney is streets ahead of Fabregas this season in his one-man mission of pushing United to the summit.
Wazza's performance since Christmas outstrips whatever Ronaldo even achieved here. . . .Rooney's head n shoulders above any player this season.

Its all subjective. . . . when Lamps went 8 games without a goal, the press overstated the case. . . what they also failed to mention is that Lamps was assisting in all those games, and had already copped 10 assists by Christmas. . .

Lampard has been useless this season until recently.

Sauron's TEAM OF THE SEASON


                   Friedel

Cuellar    Dunne    R. Johnson   Evra

Valencia  Fletcher  Milner    Malouda

              Rooney  Bent.

jalether:
You should become a comedian, very funny, what's next sam sodje is better than Nesta.

refer to the team of the [b]decade [/b]somewhere on this forum and checkout who got majority of the vote at LB

English fans will ensure Ashley Cole gets there but if you know your football very well. . . .Evra trumps Cole in everything.
Evra can defend better and he is United's best winger when he decides to maraud.

debosky:
Yeah right - if Chelski were 4th because of this 'free flowing' footie we'd see what they'd be saying. Without DD's goals, they'd be lower than City right now on points. Forget all this talk of 'flowing footie'.

Somebody else will score the goals.
Chelsea won all their games when DD was eating roasted corn in Africa during the Nations Cup.

Drogba came back and the team started misfiring - the thing is. . . .some players gloss over their lethargic performance by scoring with their arse or their groin and then the media go bananas. . .

Drogba and Giggs belong to this horrible sect. . . .99% of their game is a shower of shyte then they supply a goal assist or get the goal and everyone forgets about their useless performance before their goals.
I mean, how could Giggsy have won the MOTM against SPURS? Did he complete a pass successfully in 90 mins?

The exceptions are the massive scorelines that Chelski secured this season and nothing more. Even at AC Milan, which of Carlo's teams made such high scoring victories?  

Serie A is different to EPL and mind you. . . .Chelsea benefited from some dodgy officiating yesterday.
Kalou shoulda walked after dislocating Sorensen's elbow - that's DANGEROUS PLAY. He went in two-footed knowing Sorensen was closing in.

Villa's defence is one of the best in the league, so it is an OBVIOUS one off that they lost so catastrophically, ditto with Stoke, whose players have little to play for. To attempt to castigate DD based on those clear outliers is not statistically sound.

DD is a very good player - no one is disputing that but Can Chelsea afford to drop him and still blossom? I think they CAN!!!

jalether:
Utter rubbish, It should have been Shay Given(even though Hart has been exceptional as well but still. . . . . )

Piennar >>>> Milner and A.Cole >>> Evra.

I laugh in Arabic.
A.Cole cannot clean Evra's boots. . . . .I'll put Cole on the same level as Clichy.
This is the 3rd time Evra has won a place in the PFA team in 4 seasons. . . . . .He's the best left full-back in the whole Northern Hemisphere.

Ibime:
Malouda has copped 12 goals this season (without penalties). . . . Fabregas should be the same or thereabouts. . .

I agree. . . .

The same people who voted this nonsense are the ones who tell me that Milner is more deserving of Young Player of the Year than Fabregas. . . .

Milner played more games than Fabregas so i understand why he was chosen. He has really improved and should go to South Africa.
How many times will CESC be nominated for this same award?

Lamps also copped 26 goals and 15 assists and cant make the team of the year?. . . crikey!

Lampard had a disappointing first half of the season.
The diamond formation didn't suit him at all and he was a passenger in most games. He contributed nowt until his gaffer changed his tactics.
Fletcher had a better season than Lampard - It's not about goals.

This should be my team of the year:



                               Friedel/Hart/Schwarzer


Ivanovic                Dunne               Vermaelen             Evra/Ashley


Lennon                Lampard            Fabregas                Malouda

                 
                            Drogba              Rooney

Has Evra missed a game for Man Utd? I didn't think so.
Forget about Ashley Cole - pound for pound. . . .Evra is streets ahead of Ashley Cole - don't buy the English hype.

Lennon was superb but then Valencia played more games and contributed more than Lennon.
FFS, Darren Bent has scored 24 league goals and he isn't even in the team. By the same token, Bent should be in the team ahead of Drogba.

debosky:
Scored 9 yesterday but lost against Utd and Arsenal without DD. . . .I guess the few games with high scores is what will win them the league and not the hard fought points that DD has been securing from the beginning of the season.

We are discussing Chelsea's free-flowing football with/without Drogba. . . . . It's not necessarily about the goals scored but the brand of football.
Chelsea flow better without DD. Anelka's movement worries defenders more than Drogba's flat-track bullying.

Myopia and tunnel vision are very severe ailments to suffer from - and Chelski fans seem to suffer both consistently - Ibime once said Chelski NEVER lost playing 4-3-3, before yesterday's game, Chelski NEVER won by large margins with DD playing. 

There will be exceptions. . . . . .Messi is aerially poor but that does not mean he won't score the odd goals with his head.
Thierry Henry is also aerially useless but i am sure he has scored a few with his head at some point.
What you cannot then say is. . . . . . Henry is as good as Tim Cahill or Oliver Bierhoff aerially.

debosky:
Few.
Maybe most improved at a top 4 side, but not in the league - Dunne has improved massively since going to Villa.

Richard Dunne is the best defender in the league by a country mile. . . .Wenger should be shot for not getting him.
He woulda won titles for Arsenal.

Even Kalou is more deserving of a spot than Malouda.

12 goals + 8 assists as a winger is an excellent return.
Who the feck is Kalou?

Rooney was poor before his injury against Bayern bar the goal he scored from a Bayern mistake.

Poor before his injury against Bayern?
Didn't you see him against Liverpool/Fulham?

cabali:
I wonder where they all were when we were up against Spurs? I wonder what they had to say. For the first time we score a lotta goals with him present and it becomes legendary.

Without Drogba, Chelsea woulda scored 9 goals yesterday.

debosky:
When Malouda scores the number of goals as Fabregas then he'll have some hope. If Cesc didn't make the PFA midfield, then the midfield will be left blank.

How many of those goals came from penalty kicks/dodgy freekicks?
Abeg, get some perspective. . . . .Malouda is the most consistent Chelsea player this season and the most improved player in the EPL.
I ain't a Chelsea fan but Malouda deserves a space in the starting XI more than Cesc.

Every player goes off the boil at some point, even Rooney has been poor since before the CL quarter finals. So for a player like Vermaelen coming into the league for the first time and doing as well as he's done, it is highly commendable.

Rooney got injured. . . .His going off the boil is understandable.
Before Verminator's injury. . . .he was a pile of skunk.

debosky:
@ Sharon

Despite your puerile comments about Vermaelen, obviously his colleagues have rated him enough to put him in the PFA team.

Malouda has had a good 7 games or thereabouts - before then he was his usual absentee self.

His first half of the season was excellent but he went off the radar after the new year.
Malouda was a different animal throughout the season - He shoulda made it and Cesc shouldn't have.

Fabregas played fewer games - i guess EPL players just felt pity for his fruitless efforts.

slimshay:
Suara and him mumuish Shawcross comments again. I guess the players pf teh EPL must be drugged to vote Verm into the team of the season.
Its the ARSENAL!!! Gunners never run, gunners been fighting all their lives. Na here we dey.

Vermaelen flattered to deceive. . . . .He had an outstanding first half of the season - i must agree but so did Dunne and those Brum defenders.
TV5's 2nd half of the season was atrocious. He kept making school boy errors and he was part of the reason Arsenal didn't land the distance.

Read this PIECE

debosky:
Kit on the other hand likes wasting time discussing metaphysical bunkum like how Silvestre's former life as a tiger is giving us bad luck since Arsenal's karma is that of a lion.

I discuss facts and issues while Kit is always speaking like nostradamus high on ganja.

Eastbay:
I was surprised how Rafael was able to keep Bale quiet for most of the game (couldn't watch it live;had to watch a replay).
Woulda given the youngster full marks except for that lapse that led to Spurs' equalizer.
The guy needs to keep his concentration.Otherwise he's as good as any right-back in the world right now.He's becoming stronger defensively:marking out highly-rated players lately.

That was a CLEAR foul on Carrick. . . . . .What surprised me was no one complained and even the idiota that was fouled.
The best player on the pitch was Rafael. . . .  .There was an exquisite pass he made to Valencia in the first half with the Ecuadorian shooting straight at Gomez instead of squaring to Berbatov. . . . That was the pass of the match.

Rafael will be great for us - and i am happy he's learning the hard way.
The more will play him, the more his errors would be corrected and the better he will get.
He ate Gareth Bale ALIVE. . . . .

PFA TEAM OF THE SEASON


                      Hart

Ivanovic   Dunne   Vermaelen    Evra

Valencia   Fletcher  Fabregas    Milner

           Rooney  Drogba
-----------------------------------------------------

Where is Malouda?

jalether:
Dude, are you not tired of talking out of your a$$, you said the same gibberish against Arsenal and Man utd, can you remind us the outcome

Conveniently forgetting Tottenham, Wigan and Everton.
U won't beat Liverpool at Anfield. . . .Bookmark this page!!!

nateevs:
What happened to our baptism at OT?
Penalty.

Simon Beck CHEATED!!!!

nateevs:
Just rest the dude.
He's got his own agenda.
He can't believe we have scored 2 already.

We ain't leaving this league to ManU.

Against STOKE? Your baptism is at Anfield, not here!!!
Just drop 2 points at Anfield, you can beat Stoke 1000-0 and the goal difference won't mean nada.

OMO IBO:
Dangerous play?
Dude, give it a rest.
Ball wasn't in keepers possession.

2-footed lunge is a FOUL and another referee woulda given Kalou a red card!!!

GOALLLLLLLLLLLLL

Kalou's 2nd goal is a FOUL!!!!
DANGEROUS PLAY!!!

Ibime:
Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllll!!!


Please I dont want FBS coming here to pinpoint that exquisite touch from DD. We don hear!!!

Even that was a FLUKE. . . . . .If he tries it 40 times, he would flunk it 40 times.

nateevs:
How did the ref miss the penalty?

Drogba pushed him into it. . . . .Referee saw it but it's ball-to-hand. . . .

STOKE should score abeg. . . .

FFS, Drogba's technique is appalling.

nateevs:
Just look at Kalou.
Dude never has a problem getting into interesting positions.
He never does anything when he does.

From a standing position, he's one of the best dribblers in this league.
Kalou can beat any defender with ease but he does nothing with it.

What a shot from Lampard!!!