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Altidore had been regulary scoring last season and with the season of experience in the bag, it's time to become the 25-goal scorer he's got the potential for. And by 25 I mean just in league matches, the knockout competitions are a crapshoot in terms of predicting # of goals.
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De Gea is looking much more comfortable out there tonight.
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Marouane Fellaini has been one of my favorite Premier League players since he joined Everton. He was a boss tonight, but so was Phil Jagielka.
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08-20-2012, 04:37 PM | #204 |
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Everton!!
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Wouldn't be hearing about this trophy drought if Arsene had stumped up cash for Jags anytime in the past 3 years.
Fellaini was in beast mode. I love the "target midfielder" role he plays. |
08-20-2012, 05:26 PM | #206 |
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Well, after round one, Arsenal are ahead of Tottenham and ManU. As bad as the draw was, I feel some happiness this weekend.
On the positive side for ManU, Robin did not have a hang nail in the loss. |
08-21-2012, 07:26 AM | #207 |
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Heads up in case any of you were among the 120 who purchased tickets.
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08-21-2012, 10:12 AM | #208 |
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Something tells me they could have held this match on campus at NYU and would have sold more tickets.
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Well I thought it is funny.....
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08-21-2012, 12:40 PM | #210 |
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Adebayor permanently off to Spurs.
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08-22-2012, 03:29 PM | #211 |
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One howler and a gift from the assistant have given Chelsea the lead
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08-22-2012, 05:08 PM | #212 |
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Sounds like Kun Aguero could be back within a month. Great news.
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08-22-2012, 10:13 PM | #213 |
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beIN Sport now has most (all of them except for the probable game at Mexico in the final round) USA's away games in World Cup qualifying. Previously many of these games were PPV only.
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08-23-2012, 09:58 AM | #214 |
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Matt Jarvis finally headed to West Ham for 7.5m rising to over 10m with clauses.
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08-23-2012, 11:52 AM | #215 |
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Arsenal getting Sahin on loan with an option to buy (17 mio euros is what i´ve seen)
Hope he gets back on track after a crap season with Real (not entirely his fault, injuries simply intervened too untimely), wonderfull player.
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08-25-2012, 12:29 PM | #216 |
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German league has started, Dortmund wins a close one over Werder Bremen yesterday with Reus scoring on his debut and then Götze with the game winner. First time in a while i went and it was fucking awesome, amazing atmosphere throughout even though Dortmund struggled a bit.
In terms of PL action, Rooney had half his leg sliced open it looked like (do not youtube it if you´ve just eaten) ManU wins 3:2 against Fulham (who were pretty good), both Van persie and Kagawa with their first goals. United did a piss poor job getting Kagawa involved, but every time he did touch the ball he was extremely explosive and dangerous towards goal. Swansea with another clear win, wow. Chelseas up 2-0 over Newcastle, the 2-0 was an amazing goal by Torres in combination with Hazard.
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08-25-2012, 04:08 PM | #218 |
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I'm now officially missing games that count.
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yeah, that was a fast development. Guess Mourinho is happy about that, Sahin gets playing time and he gets to screw with Wenger
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United should be a bit more patient and try to work through the middle a bit more instead of just passing it to Valencia out on the right so often. At times it's like if they can't create an opening with a few passes they just give him the ball by default, expecting him to beat the opposing fullback, get to the byline, and cross it. It's not always a great plan, especially against Everton last week where Rooney was just surrounded by much taller players. Kagawa has looked good in both games, he should have scored a second today but hit the post from close range. The van Persie goal was a beauty. The defense should look better once Ferdinand or Evans gets back in there to partner Vidic and Carrick can go back to midfield. None of Anderson, Scholes, or Cleverley are particularly great at defending and in both games so far the back four hasn't gotten much protection from the midfield. Apparently Rooney will be out four weeks but with an international break in the middle of that he might only miss two games. That gash was wide open too, like an inch wide strip of bloody flesh, nasty stuff. |
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08-26-2012, 11:39 AM | #221 |
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Martin Skrtel........FAIL.
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08-26-2012, 11:55 AM | #222 |
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That header he scored in the first half was amazing though, the ball came off his head like it was shot out of a rocket.
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08-26-2012, 09:16 PM | #223 |
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Liverpool look like they're adapting to their new style far faster than I expected; was quite impressed with them today, especially Sterling who seems to be really growing into the Premiership quickly - despite them basically throwing the win away ....
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08-28-2012, 06:05 PM | #224 |
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Sounds like Theo Walcott might be the next Arsenal player out the door.
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08-28-2012, 06:29 PM | #225 |
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I missed most of it when it was live, but catching up on the replay of the Udinese vs Braga game, and this has been alot of fun to watch. Pretty exciting, attacking soccer on both sides for most of the game.
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08-28-2012, 09:09 PM | #226 |
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It probably doesn't feel great to be Maicosuel (Udinese attacking midfielder) tonight.
He came off the bench late in regular time to make his home debut, in the penalty shootout he tried a Panenka but the goalkeeper just stood still and caught it while everyone else on his team scored. Udinese lost the shootout 5-4. The players were booed of the field at the end of it and Udinese probably lost at least $30m when they lost the shootout, there being such a difference in TV money between the Champions League and the Europa League. That's a tough debut. No wonder it looked like he was crying as he walked off. Last edited by Big Fo : 08-28-2012 at 09:09 PM. |
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Cracker of a first half in Madrid. Real lead 2-1 after dominating the half, Barca got one on a tremendous 35 yard free kick from Messi.
Di Maria missed a good chance right before the whistle blew. 4-4 on aggregate.
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08-30-2012, 11:25 AM | #229 |
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Champions League live draw going on currently
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Awesome, can't wait to see the groupings.
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08-30-2012, 11:41 AM | #231 |
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Ajax and Dortmund are going to make that an awesome group.
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08-30-2012, 11:42 AM | #232 |
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Yes, I am looking forward to seeing that group out of all of them. |
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Classic how they spoke about financial fair play and at the same time, you know, there are some clubs in there that are light years away from that.
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08-30-2012, 12:09 PM | #234 |
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Not a good day for Ajax fans.
A pretty easy draw for Man Utd, hopefully this year SAF doesn't mess around and play too many backups in these games. That's what fucked us last year, it should never have come down to needing a result in the last game. |
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08-30-2012, 01:04 PM | #236 |
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Nice draw for Juve. Should make it through in 2nd or potentially even first place.
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08-30-2012, 04:08 PM | #237 |
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Au contrair, ManCity and Borussia Dortmund are much less likely to rig their games.
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08-30-2012, 05:22 PM | #238 |
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Wish it was more possible for me to see City play at the Bernabéu.
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ANDY FUCKIN' CARROLL!
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Nigel de Jong to AC Milan for 3.5mil Euros seems like a steal.
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08-30-2012, 07:47 PM | #241 |
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I bet they don't see much Karate in Milan, they're in for a treat.
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08-30-2012, 09:37 PM | #242 |
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Goes along with City's buy high-sell low mentality. Can only hope the appointment of Soriano fixes that when he takes the position in September. The selling of de Jong doesn't bother me so much - word is he's looking for around 100,000 pounds per week and that is a helluva lot of money for an enforcer with limited technical skills. I believe he's already the highest paid at what he does. I just hope they seal the deal with someone similar or better tomorrow. They've been looking at Benefica's Javi Garcia I guess, who I don't know a ton about. I'm still keen on the Rodwell signing, but I see him more of a long-term Barry replacement and not someone who can be plugged into an away watch against Real Madrid this season. Looks like they're brining Maicon aboard. Even though he's 31 and not quite the same player he was, I'm kind of excited about it. He could do a job as a wing back in City's 3-4-1-2. Last edited by sovereignstar v2 : 08-30-2012 at 09:38 PM. |
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So does this lead to Dempsey finally heading to Liverpool?
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08-30-2012, 09:48 PM | #244 |
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Probably. Too bad Arsenal never made a push for him as he'll never get to play Champions League football in his career now.
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Aston Villa had a bid for Dempsey this morning, but he allegedly told them he only wants to go to Pool.
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Bastos to Fulham
Llorente is even money for Spurs, Moutinho in at Spurs for £22m, a club record. Gio to Mallorca Afellay to Schalke on loan Mbia and Granero to QPR, huge signings for them Crazy day so far.
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Charlie Adam to Stoke for £4m
Scott Sinclair to City for £6.2m, what do you think of this, sovereign?
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Inter's right back Maicon is also in at City.
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van der vaart to Hamburg, I missed that one earlier.
Spurs have also agreed terms with Hugo Lloris, trying to work out a fee with Lyon.
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Reports in Portugal claim Manchester City and Benfica have now come to agreement over Javi Garca - around £24million.
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