The English Football Thread

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I think it`s the price putting people off Owen.

Madrid get him for £8 million , he spends most of the season on the subs bench & now he`s worth twice that?

I don`t think Newcastle will get him , I think Man Utd will see what Newcastle are offering (£11 million i hear) and improve on that so they don`t have to spend the £16 million Madrid are asking.

I agree, except that even at 16million he'd be cheap for a class striker, considering the silly money changing hands these days.

I can't believe L*******L let him go for such a small amount.

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Liverpool had to let him go for £8million plus Nunez, so about £8.1million, because he was into the last year of his contract and £8million suited them better than letting him walk for free at the end of the season.

Plus it was pretty obvious Benitez prefers big boys up front, like our friend Peter.

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what's with all the chelsea hateing, i was really glad they won the premiership, just because i wanted abramovich to get something back for all the money he put into it, and for that exact reason i hope they win the champions league, and it also seemed to me they were buying players that were not superstars ( like real did ) and all of them turned out to be class players....

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ok seeing as i despise chelsea with an unparalleled passion- im going to reply with vigour to your post adidasss. firstly- buying players that arent superstars.......eh?
crespo- one of the top strikers in serie A- cost lazio £32 million to buy him from parma. superstar? i think so
drogba- top striker in france- £24 million shelled out to buy him. (oh yeah, top scorer in uefa cup aswell)
shaun wright-phillips- has been the talk of english football for the last year, the "english pele" has ive heard him described. £21 million.
robben the best young talent in european football at PSV- real madrid, barcelona, inter, juventus, arsenal nd man united all wanted him before chelsea got him.
mackelele real madrids vieria- a main stay and key fixture in "los galacticos". £16 million for a defensive midefielder kinda suggests hes not merely a star.

i wont go on at that. but why do i hate chelsea? hmm, well first of all they use their financial might to bully smaller clubs into selling their best talent- west ham for example- robbed of their stars. they have no respect for the rules and regulations of the league and just waltz around believing a cheque will get em anywhere. what they did with ashley cole, rio ferdinand and frank arnesen is just arrogant, conceited and disgraceful.
peter kenyon is also an arrogant Dr Evil wannabe or knows sweet FA about football and just wants to make himself rich and succesful- "the title race is going to a close battle between a group of one"- bit disrespectful dont you think?
before abramovich swept into stamford bridge with £8 billion chelsea were the newcastle of the premiership- struggling to break the top 4 and languishing in the uefa cup. they were on a level pegging with everybody else and simply were not good enough. now of course they have an unlimited transfer budget they can do what they want cant they! knicking all the best footballing talent because they can offer £10 million more than say united or arsenal. they take all the best talent from the lower teams and we're forced to feed on the scraps- all because of one bloody russian. i truely believe they hve bought the title and to the people that say "oh yeah its alright getting the players- but you need to make the team work"...cant be too difficult making a team full of the worlds best players worth over £190 million collectively to work can it?! **** even i could do it.

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Originally Posted by LedZepStu

drogba- top striker in france- £24 million shelled out to buy him. (oh yeah, top scorer in uefa cup aswell)

Cisse scored more goals for Auxerre in the French league that season.

Originally Posted by LedZepStu

shaun wright-phillips- has been the talk of english football for the last year, the "english pele" has ive heard him described. £21 million.

Wright-Phillips isn't even a starting international, has never played Champions League football and has barelt registered any sort of impact abroad apart from for looking a bit like Gary Coleman.

Originally Posted by LedZepStu

i wont go on at that. but why do i hate chelsea? hmm, well first of all they use their financial might to bully smaller clubs into selling their best talent- west ham for example- robbed of their stars.

Same as Arsenal, United, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barca, Milan, Juve, Bayern etc etc etc.

Originally Posted by LedZepStu

before abramovich swept into stamford bridge with £8 billion chelsea were the newcastle of the premiership- struggling to break the top 4 and languishing in the uefa cup.

They qualified for the Champions League the season before Abramovich turned up and even earlier than that they had gone further in the competition than Arsenal had ever managed to go.

Originally Posted by LedZepStu

they were on a level pegging with everybody else and simply were not good enough. now of course they have an unlimited transfer budget they can do what they want cant they! knicking all the best footballing talent because they can offer £10 million more than say united or arsenal. they take all the best talent from the lower teams and we're forced to feed on the scraps- all because of one bloody russian. i truely believe they hve bought the title and to the people that say "oh yeah its alright getting the players- but you need to make the team work"...cant be too difficult making a team full of the worlds best players worth over £190 million collectively to work can it?! **** even i could do it.

Inter Milan have spent nearly half a billion in the last decade. Haven't come close to winning Serie A. It takes a lot more than money to be successful. You're just coming across as a jealous Arsenal fan because there's another team joined in the United-Arsenal two horse race, IMO.

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Originally Posted by LedZepStu

I truely believe they hve bought the title and to the people that say "oh yeah its alright getting the players- but you need to make the team work"...cant be too difficult making a team full of the worlds best players worth over £190 million collectively to work can it?! **** even i could do it.

look at Real.....nuff said....and i'm glad Chelsea have made the Premiership a bit more interesting, now it wont be the same old tired battle between Arsenal and Man. united and they've raised the bar for other clubs, now don't tell me other clubs can't make the same buys, as far as i know Man. united is STILL the richest club in the world, it's not Chelsea's fault they were buying shyte players.....( or at least not as good as the ones Chelsea was buying ), and you cannot deny the fact that Mourinho IS the best football coach in the world, another football coach was smart to notice that every single player that has trained under Mourinho has improved on his game supstantially.....GOOOOO CHELSEAAAAAA!!!!!!!AAAAAARGHHHHHHHH!!!!

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Originally Posted by franscar

Inter Milan have spent nearly half a billion in the last decade. Haven't come close to winning Serie A. It takes a lot more than money to be successful. You're just coming across as a jealous Arsenal fan because there's another team joined in the United-Arsenal two horse race, IMO.

chelsea have spent over a quarter of a billion in 3 bloody years!
you'd have to be an absolute mug to not have any success with £50+ million being spent on new players each year.
and league wise before mr abramovich came along chelsea hadnt got near the title for over 10 years.

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Originally Posted by LedZepStu

you'd have to be an absolute mug to not have any success with £50+ million being spent on new players each year.

*cough*Leeds*cough*

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Originally Posted by LedZepStu

chelsea have spent over a quarter of a billion in 3 bloody years!
you'd have to be an absolute mug to not have any success with £50+ million being spent on new players each year.
and league wise before mr abramovich came along chelsea hadnt got near the title for over 10 years.

So you're upset because they went from third to first quickly? They did it by buying in, exactly the same way Arsenal win the league. Both sides have as many home-grown youngsters playing for them, so as far as I can see they're as bad as one another.

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except for the fact arsenal spend on average 5-10 million every pre season while chelsea spend around 50-60 million. not much of a difference i know..