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Thats a few journos/reporters now who seem to think we're keen on him.

If there's one team in the world that I would think wouldn't be after him it's Barcelona Xavi. Iniesta. Busquets. Fabregas. Mascherano. Thiago. OK.

Fingers crossed anyway, was really hoping on this one.

Original source apparently: http://bit.ly/S3qUSA

Just realised that is a megaGiggs (the post I deleted)

Aye according to those guys its on some Lille forums that he's signed a 1 year extension.

got to disagree there, people want to watch the clubs at the top more, however if the clubs at the top get all the money then they stay there, by sharing the money round from pooled incomings it stops the playong field from becoming too lop sided. Yeah but without the other clubs there is no opposition to play. That's the point. The league is 20 teams and they all contribute equally to the competition and in turn the 'product' simply by each playing 38 games. It doesn't really stop the playing field being too lop-sided btw, it's still like that. But it does help a little bit. liverpool wanted a system like they have in spain where clubs sell their own tv rights. personally i think all the tv money should be divided up equally and each club shopuld be on the same ammount of times. Bigger clubs always tend to rise to the top but it takes away most of the glass ceilings. I'd love to be in a league where the way we're going on at the moment (with our transfer policy etc) you could physically imagine us challenging for the title. I mean, it's not as if we've always been up there in the past. But there was always a chance through clever management and maximinsing undoubted potential that it was possible. Right now it is simply impossible with the sugardaddy clubs imo. agree with that. but had a giggle at "physically imagine". You get what I mean.

got to disagree there, people want to watch the clubs at the top more, however if the clubs at the top get all the money then they stay there, by sharing the money round from pooled incomings it stops the playong field from becoming too lop sided. Yeah but without the other clubs there is no opposition to play. That's the point. The league is 20 teams and they all contribute equally to the competition and in turn the 'product' simply by each playing 38 games. It doesn't really stop the playing field being too lop-sided btw, it's still like that. But it does help a little bit. liverpool wanted a system like they have in spain where clubs sell their own tv rights. personally i think all the tv money should be divided up equally and each club shopuld be on the same ammount of times. Bigger clubs always tend to rise to the top but it takes away most of the glass ceilings. I'd love to be in a league where the way we're going on at the moment (with our transfer policy etc) you could physically imagine us challenging for the title. I mean, it's not as if we've always been up there in the past. But there was always a chance through clever management and maximinsing undoubted potential that it was possible. Right now it is simply impossible with the sugardaddy clubs imo.

Le Tissier admitted to it in his book too.

got to disagree there, people want to watch the clubs at the top more, however if the clubs at the top get all the money then they stay there, by sharing the money round from pooled incomings it stops the playong field from becoming too lop sided. Yeah but without the other clubs there is no opposition to play. That's the point. The league is 20 teams and they all contribute equally to the competition and in turn the 'product' simply by each playing 38 games. It doesn't really stop the playing field being too lop-sided btw, it's still like that. But it does help a little bit.

It's the same sort of thing as that Liverpool wanker wanting to get rid of equal TV money share because people don't watch the little clubs. Fact is they do. The league is so marketable because of what it is, the different teams, the history, the genuine atmosphere in the stadiums created by the genuine fans, scraping relegation, battling for European slots. These are all important things that contribute to the league being so marketable. The Super League would be interesting for a few years but people would very quickly get bored and disillusioned by it. 90% of it would become essentially the CL group stages, atmosphere would be non-existant at half the games. More and more of matchgoing fans would be pushed out of it. There would be no away support whatsoever. It would be a pile of wank. It might happen but I don't think it will. I think they realise that the essence of the sport will be lost thankfully.

You'd end up with 2 or 3 clubs dominating it and a load of clubs who are used to being the big boys becoming the also rans. The league would very quickly become boring, predictable, uninteresting and not very marketable. They'll be cutting their noses off to spite their faces. Not to mention it would be the death of the heartbeat of all of those clubs: the local matchgoing supporters.

Same, I still can't stop giggling at it.

A £35 million, 70k a week, plan-B/C/D substitute? A player who will want to be playing every week? If that's the case then they really would be better off just getting rid now.

The same point can be made about Charlie Adam by the way. He can't run as much as his Swansea midfielders could and he loves howking the bard 40 yards up the pitch whenever he can.

Whether he's managed 5 minutes or 10 years is not the point so I'm not sure how that is relevant in the slightest. All coaches usually have a set style of play that they stick to and it's a reasonable argument that Carroll doesn't look suitable to it. He's the manager and he's got every right to ditch a player he doesn't want to work with.

class

Dortmund Ayr Utd: (nsfw)

Btw - on Reading - LOLZ at Ian Harte back in da Prem.

McCleary and Guthrie are fairly long term tbf.

Haha. Like the school bully nobody likes picking on the borderline special kid.

Are they? Guthrie, Defoe ( if he signs) and Pogrebnyak are quality signings for them IMO. Alright, should be enough to keep them up. Nothing ground breaking though. People always overrate when clubs go on spending sprees with lots of players they are aware of. Mackems last season for example, outside of this board many thought they were having a great window for some reason. They are decent signings for Reading though.

Fergie luvs dem wingers

Just saw that too, WTF

As a footballer I honestly think he's one of the worst in the league. He will always score goals though, fairly frequently too. Hard currency.