Kaizero

Henrique.

Reckon it's more a case of Benfica being in a "feeder" league rather than a "major" league tbh.

N-O members parade upon Ben Arfa's signing. http://cms7.blogia.com/blogs/n/no/noe/noelio/upload/20080222185449-oh-fuck-the-internet-is-here.jpg

I thought our set pieces, bar the short fast ones we did from time to time, were rather good.

Win 12-0

The scoreline is not showing a Chelsea wipeout but we were annihilated. Christ. If we'd have lost 8-0, confidence would have been at an all-time low from the very beginning. It wasn't, it was respectable, and we'll fight on from here. This. The players shouldn't feel too deflated from this defeat, which was my main concern before the match were we to be annihilated.

On another note, Xisco didn't look out of his depth with the few touches he had on the ball.

All in all it was a decent enough performance, and if we could string two passes together we'd might have gotten the scoreline even more respectable. The season starts next Sunday tbh, and hopefully we'll have taken something from this game and work on the counters.

My positives: Barton, he runs all he can and wins us the ball. If he can get his passing sorted, he's golden. Our defence at times looked very composed and in control against one of the best teams in the world even with all the pressure against them. My negatives: Perch, he looked all "What is this I don't even" all the time today. Our counters looked fucked up as hell, why no runs forward when we kick it long and Carroll wins the ball? What's the need to kick the ball long if we won't follow up into the box? It looked shoddy as fuck.

Norwegian prem experts says we have enough quality in our team for our players to shave off their mustaches soon, just unlucky to start at Old Trafford.

Right, just read through the thread. Fuck me this is knee-jerk on a new scale even for us, it's Man Utd at Old Trafford for fucks sake. I think given the cirucmstances we've actually done rather well.

Pretty much this.

Just hope we don't fall completely to shit in the second half, a 2-0 or 3-0 loss would be respectable and hopefully wouldn't fuck up any team morale.

Took a nap earlier, and ended up dreaming a horrible nightmare in which Ben Arfa signed for Wigan instead of us. I can't believe just how fucking distressed I was when I woke up before I realized it was all a dream. He needs to come here now, he just has to.

He has signed for Genoa, who in turn are loaning him to Milan.

Rather the contrary. I have faith in us staying up, albeit only just.

No chance of people shutting the fuck up about this yet? No.

Try watching him play and making John Arne Riise and Brede Hangeland look like junior footballers for 45 minutes.

Certain quotes seem to say so, yes.

This. A thousand times this.

We're losing momentum. How can anyone expect him to sign when we don't even have 200 pages?!

Maradona to Villa NEEDS to happen.

People on the aforementioned forum seem to be of the general opinion that Ben Arfa is in the right and Dassier is in the wrong, some are even saying they fear Marseille will have to compensate Ben Arfa if the contract/transfer dispute goes to trial. At least according to google translate, which by all means could mean they are on about Marseille paying the price for being cunts, not actually paying him a price. It's 5am ffs, leave me alone.

We are shit. We only have ca. 5100 posts since July 28th, OMplanète Forum have ca. 5700 posts since August 12th following a 450 page thread (20 posts per page) on the subject. He'll never sign for a club that have an independent supporter messageboard with such a low amount of posts about him, man!

He really does not like Marseille.