Dave Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Marlon King created 38 chances FFS! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDiablo Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 I fucked that post up pretty badly there. Go me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Marlon King created 38 chances FFS! By the looks of it Boro were a chance creating machine. Then Alves twatted it over the bar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 No reason to be anything other than happy with the Downing signing brummie, maybe a bit pricey but everyone is these days. Id like us to look abroad a little more often, but i quite like Downing. He was superb against us at our place this season, is two footed, and provides ammunition: Daily Telegraph - Chances Created Last Season 1 Frank Lampard Chelsea 124 2 Steven Gerrard Liverpool 80 3 Stewart Downing Middlesbrough 72 4 Luis Antonio Valencia Wigan Athletic 70 5 Wayne Rooney Manchester United 67 6 Francesc Fabregas Arsenal 63 7 Mikel Arteta Everton 63 8 Dirk Kuyt Liverpool 63 9 Mark Noble West Ham United 63 10 Nicolas Anelka Chelsea 62 My appreciation of Downing really grew this last season. Managed to catch a lot of Boro games and he really is a good player. His left foot is great, passing , crossing or shooting it's never far off. My favourite thing about him though is his smarts. He knows what he's good at and he focuses on doing those things well. Doesn't force the issue and makes very good decisions the majority of the time. He's also a lot more versatile than I thought, saw him on the right and through the middle at times last season. Solid purchase. A bargain considering Milner cost the same. He's on a completely different level to Milner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 On Assists.. Kevin Nolan is 46th with 4 assists. Of course it doesn't say how many were for Bolton. We rank pretty highly on the red/yellow card tables. Tackles "lost" table .. 1 Nicky Butt Newcastle United 49 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Porto signed Radomel Falcao from River Plate for just 5.5m Euros as Lisandro Lopez` replacement....another bargain made by Porto. South America is a gold mine if people would just put in the work and scout there properly. It's hardly a risk too as the players are so cheap. Valencia cost Wigan less than £1 million for goodness sake. Signed from Villarreal. Work Permits will always rape the UK from signing up these South American talents. Is true. However a lot of the internationals from the less renowned countries like Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Colombia etc would qualify, and a lot of these guys are better than the same old Zamoras, Bowyers, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 On a lighter note Downing going is yet another Championship rival losing one of their best players. Not that he was going to stay like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 On Assists.. Kevin Nolan is 46th with 4 assists. Of course it doesn't say how many were for Bolton. We rank pretty highly on the red/yellow card tables. Tackles "lost" table .. 1 Nicky Butt Newcastle United 49 HA! I had to laugh out loud on that one. Biggest misconception out there is that Butt is some sort of ball winner. The guy more often than not completely misses his tackles and is left strewn out on the pitch while the opposition saunter merrily into our area with our defence left completely unprotected. Last season was just unspeakably awful. It would be really difficult to top it but we are well on our way it seems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Porto signed Radomel Falcao from River Plate for just 5.5m Euros as Lisandro Lopez` replacement....another bargain made by Porto. South America is a gold mine if people would just put in the work and scout there properly. It's hardly a risk too as the players are so cheap. Valencia cost Wigan less than £1 million for goodness sake. Signed from Villarreal. Work Permits will always rape the UK from signing up these South American talents. Is true. However a lot of the internationals from the less renowned countries like Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Colombia etc would qualify, and a lot of these guys are better than the same old Zamoras, Bowyers, etc. Well I'm definitely not going to disagree with that statement. I guess it's just a bit of a risk to go through the whole process of trying to sign a player only for the government to say it won't go ahead. On Assists.. Kevin Nolan is 46th with 4 assists. Of course it doesn't say how many were for Bolton. We rank pretty highly on the red/yellow card tables. Tackles "lost" table .. 1 Nicky Butt Newcastle United 49 HA! I had to laugh out loud on that one. Biggest misconception out there is that Butt is some sort of ball winner. The guy more often than not completely misses his tackles and is left strewn out on the pitch while the opposition saunter merrily into our area with our defence left completely unprotected. Last season was just unspeakably awful. It would be really difficult to top it but we are well on our way it seems. In NB's defence he was something like 14th on the Tackles won table.. but that just means he put in ALOT of tackle attempts and failed with a massive percentage of them. Lee Cattermole top of the succesful tackles table.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Lamapard created 44 more chances than anyone else Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest koenji Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Porto signed Radomel Falcao from River Plate for just 5.5m Euros as Lisandro Lopez` replacement....another bargain made by Porto. South America is a gold mine if people would just put in the work and scout there properly. It's hardly a risk too as the players are so cheap. Valencia cost Wigan less than £1 million for goodness sake. Signed from Villarreal. Work Permits will always rape the UK from signing up these South American talents. Is true. However a lot of the internationals from the less renowned countries like Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Colombia etc would qualify, and a lot of these guys are better than the same old Zamoras, Bowyers, etc. A lot of the South Americans, Argentines in particular have Italian passports. I think the Uruguayans too.....but less so the other countries. As Sir Bobby said once, there are some undiscovered gems there......well perhaps not Gavilan but he cost next to nowt ........good to see a bigger influx of South Americans in this country.....too many managers before were scared to take the `risk` As for Falcao, actually he re-signed for River to enable them to get a transfer fee On June 30, 2009, Falcao's contract with River Plate expired making him a free agent. However, Falcao declared that he felt indebted to the Buenos Aires club and would negotiate River into any transfer that moved him to Europe. To do so, he would re-sign a contract with River once a move is agreed with a buyer, so that River would be the selling club of record and benefit from a transfer fee of some kind[4]. On July 14, 2009, the Portuguese club FC Porto acquired 60% of Falcao's transfer rights for €3.9 million from River Plate (with whom Falcao signed a symbolic contract to facilitate the transfer)[5]. Falcao agreed to sign a four-year contract binding him to the Portuguese Champion until 2011 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Lamapard created 44 more chances than anyone else Overrated you know... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 which is why he's the best player in the premiership as things stand Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmk Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 which is why he's the best player in the premiership as things stand Stevie Gerrard is better tbh, more complete player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gash Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Thought Downing was crocked till Christmas like? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowen Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Mackems in talks with Crouch according to the beeb, £12m with Hodgson still sniffing around. Not having an owner doesn't seem to be stopping Portsmouth from flogging all of their players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Lampard is immense, rarely watch a player that I'm impressed with every time I see him... but he comes close. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 which is why he's the best player in the premiership as things stand Stevie Gerrard is better tbh, more complete player. that's what I used to think Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gash Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1199812/Arsenal-turn-Madrids-17m-Huntelaar-Bordeaux-demand-Silvestre-swap-Chamakh-deal.html I hope Arsene hasn't rejected the deal to keep Silvestre Two birds with one stone getting a striker and getting rid of Silvestre! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 which is why he's the best player in the premiership as things stand Stevie Gerrard is better tbh, more complete player. that's what I used to think Me too. Lampard was the best player in the league last season imo. No contest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowen Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 which is why he's the best player in the premiership as things stand Stevie Gerrard is better tbh, more complete player. that's what I used to think Me too. Lampard was the best player in the league last season imo. No contest. Not in the top 6 tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 which is why he's the best player in the premiership as things stand Stevie Gerrard is better tbh, more complete player. I think Gerrard is the better player but some (well quite a lot) seem to think all Lampard does is score quite a few lucky goals and does nothing else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 which is why he's the best player in the premiership as things stand Stevie Gerrard is better tbh, more complete player. that's what I used to think Me too. Lampard was the best player in the league last season imo. No contest. absolutely Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Snrub Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Huntelaar would be such an ideal signing for Arsenal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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