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2012/2013 Premier League Season + FA & League Cup chat
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Finally! Now all we need is 18 yard box technology to determine handballs or fouls.
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Finally Kagawa shows his worth. Not a United fan as many of you know but, I was really really happy when Kagawa tucked the third one away. I knew he was really good at Dortmund and couldn't really figure out why he wasn't doing well in the Prem yet.
Nippon! (clap clap clap) Nippon! (clap clap clap) Nippon! (clap clap clap)
Nippon! (clap clap clap) Nippon! (clap clap clap) Nippon! (clap clap clap)
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He was absolutely class at Dortmund. It takes some players time to adjust to a new league. Macaws said he was still getting used to having to take a lot of knocks and tackles that would have been fouls in Germany but aren't here.Kamuifanboy
Plus he had that knee injury which won't have helped. I think he'll find his feet here though and become a good player for United.
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Suarez takes the lead for the golden boot after a hattrick leaves him on 21 ahead of RVP's 19.
Then the Arsenal Tottenham game today is big for Liverpool as we attempt to get a CL place if not automatic qualification Europa League slot.
Then the Arsenal Tottenham game today is big for Liverpool as we attempt to get a CL place if not automatic qualification Europa League slot.
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Bale is just on a whole new level at the moment. Has he hit one of the top 5 players in the world? Maybe top 3? Discuss. I personally think so.
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Am I the only one who thinks bale a slightly over rated, I mean he's a good player but he's no where near as good as people are making him out to be. If he went to a slower passing league he would be shown up as average, his pace makes him stand out in the prem.
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Great games so far this weekend. City still to play Villa tomorrow, but that should really be a formality (of course, Southampton should have been too, so we'll see).
Great performance by Kagawa for United, finally showing the class he had with Dortmund. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come; he was very good in Germany, and he's still very young. If he can continue with performances like that, he looks to have been a great buy.
Equally impressive was Suarez. He's putting up an excellent case for player of the season, and Liverpool are very fortunate to have him. Forgetting the off-field baggage, he's an incredible talent and he seems to fit very well with the system that Brendan Rodgers is trying to build. Daniel Sturridge has been a good addition for them, freeing Suarez to drop deeper and impact the game more, and even though he wasn't playing this game, I think that he's been a revitalizing presence for the whole Liverpool attacking force.
Coutinho has looked really good so far too, and he's another player who has a long future ahead of him if he keeps playing like this. Looks to have been a good bit of business for Liverpool.
As to the north London derby today, I think that questions really need to be asked now of Wenger. He said going into the game that he did not have a special plan for Bale, and we all saw where that led. To not assign a marker to possibly the most in-form attacker in the league is madness. That said, Spurs played well as a whole and deserved their win.
Beyond even this game, I have been baffled by Wenger's antics lately. To publicly say that finishing 4th was more important than winning a trophy? Why isn't it both? A top team should be in it to win everything they can; to say that your only goal is to finish 4th says a lot about the ambition of the club. How do they expect to attract players with that approach? How do they expect to even keep the players that they have?
I have massive respect for Wenger for what he's done in his time at Arsenal. He has been probably the best manager that the club has ever had, and he has influenced the entire game with his focus on youth and conditioning, and no one should ever try to take that away.
With all that though, I can't help but feel that he's lost the plot a bit in the last few years. Sure, you can point to the board and the club management and say that they've not given him the budget to be successful, but is that really true? He's spent 10s of millions of pounds in the last few years, and brought in some pretty average players while allowing some truly world-class talents to leave. Beyond even that, he has not addressed several of the problems that have been evident in the squad for some time; there is still no leader in their defense, and they still look woefully undermatched in the rear midfield.
Beyond even the signings, you have to look at the mentality of the club, and that comes back to what I said earlier. To have the manager saying that 4th is good enough? If Arsenal want to be a top team, it simply is not.
Edit: man, two post by me calling for managers to be fired in the same day.... rough weekend
Great performance by Kagawa for United, finally showing the class he had with Dortmund. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come; he was very good in Germany, and he's still very young. If he can continue with performances like that, he looks to have been a great buy.
Equally impressive was Suarez. He's putting up an excellent case for player of the season, and Liverpool are very fortunate to have him. Forgetting the off-field baggage, he's an incredible talent and he seems to fit very well with the system that Brendan Rodgers is trying to build. Daniel Sturridge has been a good addition for them, freeing Suarez to drop deeper and impact the game more, and even though he wasn't playing this game, I think that he's been a revitalizing presence for the whole Liverpool attacking force.
Coutinho has looked really good so far too, and he's another player who has a long future ahead of him if he keeps playing like this. Looks to have been a good bit of business for Liverpool.
As to the north London derby today, I think that questions really need to be asked now of Wenger. He said going into the game that he did not have a special plan for Bale, and we all saw where that led. To not assign a marker to possibly the most in-form attacker in the league is madness. That said, Spurs played well as a whole and deserved their win.
Beyond even this game, I have been baffled by Wenger's antics lately. To publicly say that finishing 4th was more important than winning a trophy? Why isn't it both? A top team should be in it to win everything they can; to say that your only goal is to finish 4th says a lot about the ambition of the club. How do they expect to attract players with that approach? How do they expect to even keep the players that they have?
I have massive respect for Wenger for what he's done in his time at Arsenal. He has been probably the best manager that the club has ever had, and he has influenced the entire game with his focus on youth and conditioning, and no one should ever try to take that away.
With all that though, I can't help but feel that he's lost the plot a bit in the last few years. Sure, you can point to the board and the club management and say that they've not given him the budget to be successful, but is that really true? He's spent 10s of millions of pounds in the last few years, and brought in some pretty average players while allowing some truly world-class talents to leave. Beyond even that, he has not addressed several of the problems that have been evident in the squad for some time; there is still no leader in their defense, and they still look woefully undermatched in the rear midfield.
Beyond even the signings, you have to look at the mentality of the club, and that comes back to what I said earlier. To have the manager saying that 4th is good enough? If Arsenal want to be a top team, it simply is not.
Edit: man, two post by me calling for managers to be fired in the same day.... rough weekend
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