The English Football Thread

[Newkie]

Bit off topic but too funny to leave out.

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[Urban Hat€monger ?]

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[Nurse Duckett]

Where's Rooney going to go? I just get the feeling he wants to move on, the only hope Man U have of keeping him is that the anti English tyrant is no longer there, and maybe he'll be allowed to play for his country in friendly matches now and not have to pretend he's injured just to keep on Fergies good side.

Surely he wont go to Paris, he's far too good to be wasting his career in a second rate league like the French league isn't he? It says one of two things about you if you choose to go play in France, you're either only motivated by money or you're finished and can no longer hack it in a top class league.

I can see him playing for Arsenal, I think that'd be a good move for him. His wife would probably be happy because she'd be living in that London rather than plasticy Manchester.

If he ends up at Chelsea I'll be very disappointed, I know he isn't the sharpest tool in the box but I've never had him down as a shallow wanker, and you have to be incredibly shallow to even consider playing for Chelsea.


He'd be more than welcome at Leeds haha, but we have a written test before you can join us and I'm not sure he'd pass it, he makes Beckham look like a quantum physics expert. Anyway, as soon as a scouser appears things start to go missing don't they, first its your trainers then your wallet and then your car, I think its best all round if he buggers of to that London, they deserve him.

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by Nurse Duckett

If he ends up at Chelsea I'll be very disappointed, I know he isn't the sharpest tool in the box but I've never had him down as a shallow wanker, and you have to be incredibly shallow to even consider playing for Chelsea.

This was true at one point but it's not anymore. Chelsea, sadly, have bought their way to 'big club' status. They've won trophies and a lot of players will want to work with Mourinho.

Players see football clubs as jobs and joining Chelsea has great job prospects. It's the same at City now but to a lesser extent. Players like Adebayor and Robinho obviously only joined for the money but these clubs (Chelsea & City) have won trophies and leagues now.

I've got a feeling Rooney will join Chelsea, just can't picture him at Arsenal at all. And if United are going to sell him they had better do it now because his value is only going to go down from here. If I was a buying club I would lower my bid after Moyes' interview. It is absolutely clear that Rooney still wants to leave. Being asked specifically if Rooney wants to stay and responding, 'I can categorically say... he is training well', is a big fat no.

In hindsight they should have fucked him off after the first time he asked to leave.

[Goofle]

Suarez and Rooney at Arsenal. EPL winners.

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Originally Posted by Goofle11

Suarez and Rooney at Arsenal. EPL winners.

And what exactly is the attraction for world class players to come to Arsenal?

Celebrating 4th position in the league.
Constant disappointment in both national and international tournaments.
A chairman and management team content with being a feeder club with the reluctance to put the money earned from sales back into buying top players.
The best they've managed in recent times is an over the hill Podolski.
A team that's only been regressing for years and aren't even considered a threat to the likes of Man Utd and City.
Watching their long-time weaker city rivals become a better team than them.

There's not a hope in hell Suarez or Rooney will sign for Arsenal. Wayne will stay at Man Utd and Suarez is probably Spain, France or Germany bound.

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by Mankycaaant

And what exactly is the attraction for world class players to come to Arsenal?

Celebrating 4th position in the league.
Constant disappointment in both national and international tournaments.
A chairman and management team content with being a feeder club with the reluctance to put the money earned from sales back into buying top players.
The best they've managed in recent times is an over the hill Podolski.
A team that's only been regressing for years and aren't even considered a threat to the likes of Man Utd and City.
Watching their long-time weaker city rivals become a better team than them.

Very harsh imo. I agree in parts but they can offer Champions League football, challenges for trophies, the London lifestyle and pretty decent wages. From a footballer's point of view they'll want to play at the Emirates too.

Every year people say Spurs will overtake them and every year they fail. But this is like when people said every year Liverpool would fall out of the top 4 and it happened.

Arsenal need to seriously step their game up this season starting with transfers cos if they don't they're gonna be left behind.

There's not a hope in hell Suarez or Rooney will sign for Arsenal. Wayne will stay at Man Utd and Suarez is probably Spain, France or Germany bound.

Suárez could I reckon. I can just picture it after going on about the media wrecking his life. The scousers would go into meltdown

Said earlier Rooney is Chelsea bound imo.

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by Fluffy Kittens

Said earlier Rooney is Chelsea bound imo.

Anyone heard the latest regarding Rooney?

Sky Sports are reporting that Chelsea have made a bid of 10m + Mata or Luiz for Rooney. United say they declined. But Chelsea have hit back and said the bid was only a monetary one. Seems like it's now turning into a war between United and Chelsea for Rooney.

Chelsea: 'The terms of [Rooney] offer are confidential but for avoidance of doubt ... didn't include transfer or loan of any CFC players'

So from what I can see, either United have leaked some bollocks to the press to unsettle a couple of Chelsea players or Chelsea are lying and are trying to backtrack so as to not piss their own players off. I think it's the latter. Chelsea are hardly gonna come out and say 'yes, we offered them a couple of our players', if they didn't then they'd have issued a statement straight away but it must've took about four hours.

Seems like this has got legs though. The hamstring injury, Rooney's leak to the press yesterday ( + ) and now a bid?

[Nurse Duckett]

It would be nice to see the Arsenal win the Prem, its been a while since a football club won it hasnt it.

[Nurse Duckett]

I see all this "big club" talk as Sky TV rhetoric. In the real world there are at least a dozen big football clubs in England.

I believe that the sky years will be ignored in years to come, a little bit like the world cup before the 50s. Its all been money based, how far back do you have to go to find a club that built a team that won the league, instead of buying a team that won the league?

Nothing lasts forever and Sky TVs financial grip on football wont last forever either, when it ends hopefully the football world can get back to football, and leave all the pantomime histrionics in the past.

One of my best mates is a City fan, he's been a season ticket holder for 15 years until this season. He told me he isn't renewing it this time because its embarrassing to be there, he likened City to their neighbours and that was the final straw for him.

In my world Chelsea are what we call a shiithouse club, they always have been and they always will be. When the money years end they'll be back to being the yoyo club they always used to be, if they don't go bankrupt first.