The Football Thread

[redshirt]

I saw the ARS game last night. My word they played EXCELLENT football! Awsome passing and teamwork. If they keep that up, we might have new champions this season.

[biggyprox]

cant say much about the game last night, their a great team, they become better as soon as their players become fit.they truly deserved last nights win. good game by arsenal.

[_eRon_]

wah! matatapos na transfer window wala pa din na-ssign na new player ang manutd hehehe

[damaso]

numancia 1 barcelona 0

 

 

aaargh.

[duchessXI]

saw a bit of athletico mad and athletic bilbao. smooth Spanish silky passing. fun to watch. they just need a solid media sponsorship, some English commentary, and it will beat the EPL anytime.

[duchessXI]

Alberto Riera flies in for Liverpool medical

Riera ends Benítez's hunt for a left winger

 

 

my prayers were answered.

Viva Rafa Revolucion.

 

YNWA

[xycho_g]

numancia 1 barcelona 0

 

 

aaargh.

 

Depor 2 Real Madrid 1

 

 

 

aaaargh!

[duchessXI]

Prospective new Manchester City owner Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim believes only 'formalities' remain before Abu Dhabi United Group can rubber-stamp their takeover of the Premier League club.

Manchester City have completed the British record £32.5million signing of Robinho from Real Madrid with just minutes to go in the transfer window.

 

talk about procrastination.

[_eRon_]

berbatov has sign a 4-year 30 million pound deal with manutd; nasa manutd.com na, yey!! ..frazier campbell was sent the other way for a 1-yr loan deal..

 

liverpool sign reira from espanyol and unload voronin to hertha berlin and steve finnan to espanyol..

 

mukhang di nakakuha si arsene wenger ng holding midfielder for arsenal..

 

inter sign porto's ricardo quaresma..

 

chelsea lose robinho to man city; nice signing by the new owner of man city...di nakakuha ng new forward ang chelsea; well they have to wait for the return of drogba; katulad nmin; waiting for cristiano's return; perspective date daw; sept 27 ..

Edited September 2, 2008 by _eRon_

[duchessXI]

hmm lets see how berbatov works with manu.

 

good riddance to voronin, absolute deadwood. bye to finnan, goodluck, the teams losing a great player.

 

looks like transfer windows set, except that man city would want to nick in a few more big deals in prolific striker mario gomez and spanish striker david villa.

 

TORRES INJURED. putcha. i dnt he can make it for the manu game. sigh. want to watch the clash between berbatov-torres sana.

ngog to step up to the plate. ngog-babel, lol. damn still 2 weeks to go.

[_eRon_]

oo nga, ang malas ng liverpool, after losing gerrard with a groin injury for 2 weeks; torres gets a hamstring injury for 7-10 days, malas, tsk tsk...sa top4, arsenal lang ata ang injury free..sa chelsea, si drogba injured; sa manutd nman; si c.ronaldo, nani, hargreaves, carrick injured, sa liverpool si torres at si gerrard...

 

man city nga are making last ditch efforts to sign another striker after having signed robinho; may maihahabol pa kaya sila...

[redshirt]

And I always knew Fergie gets his man.

[duchessXI]

so hindi na si thaksin ang owner ng man city?

 

some Dubai emir gets much of the stake in the club.

[duchessXI]

Keegan 'leaves' Newcastle

 

what a loser, knew he wasnt going to make it unlike his good ol days. just came for the hollywood and glamour.

weeh, king kev is back, lets celebrate, 0-2 now, and milner to aston villa, with no manager in mind, i really dnt know where the toons are headed at.

Edited September 2, 2008 by duchessXI

[duchessXI]

TRANSFER WINDOW

 

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ARSENAL

In: Mikael Silvestre, Samir Nasri, Aaron Ramsey, Amaury Bischoff

Out: Alexander Hleb, Gilberto Silva, Jens Lehmann, Mathieu Flamini, Philippe Senderos (loan), Justin Hoyte, Nacer Barazite (loan), Armand Traore (loan)

Spent: £18.5M

Received: £15.8M

 

ASTON VILLA

In: James Milner, Brad Friedel, Brad Guzan, Luke Young, Nicky Shorey, Curtis Davies, Carlos Cuellar, Steve Sidwell

Out: Olof Mellberg, Patrik Berger, Luke Moore, Shaun Maloney, Thomas Sorensen

Spent: £45.6M

Received: £4M

 

BLACKBURN

In: Paul Robinson, Vince Grella, Keith Andrews, Danny Simpson (loan), Carlos Villanueva (loan), Mark Bunn, Julio Santa Cruz

Out: David Bentley, Brad Friedel, Stephane Henchoz, Bruno Berner, Maceo Rigters (loan)

Spent: £8.8M

Received: £17.3M

 

BOLTON

In: Johan Elmander, Danny Shittu, Fabrice Muamba, Riga Mustapha, Ebi Smolarek (loan)

Out: El-Hadji Diouf, Abdoulaye Meite, Ivan Campo, Stelios Giannakopoulos, Andranik Teymourian, Daniel Braaten, Blerim Dzemaili

Spent: £18M

Received: £5.5M

 

CHELSEA

In: Deco, Jose Bosingwa, Fabio Paim (loan)

Out: Andriy Shevchenko, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Claude Makelele, Steve Sidwell, Tal Ben Haim, Khalid Boulahrouz, Hernan Crespo, Ben Sahar (loan), Claudio Pizarro (loan)

Spent: £24.2M

Received: £23M

 

EVERTON

In: Louis Saha, Marouane Fellaini, Lars Jacobsen, Carlo Nash, Segundo Castillo (loan)

Out: Andrew Johnson, Lee Carsley, Stefan Wessels

Spent: £16.5M

Received: £10.5M

 

FULHAM

In: Andrew Johnson, Bobby Zamora, Mark Schwarzer, Fredrik Stoor, John Pantsil, Zoltan Gera, Pascal Zuberbuhler, Toni Kallio, Dickson Etuhu, Julian Gray (loan), David Stockdale

Out: David Healy, Steven Davis, Kasey Keller, Brian McBride, Carlos Bocanegra, Dejan Stefanovic, Collins John, Alexei Smertin, Hameur Bouazza (loan), Lee Cook (loan), Eddie Johnson (loan), Elliot Omozusi (loan), Jari Litmanen, Philippe Cristanval

Spent: £20.9M

Received: £4.5M

 

HULL

In: Anthony Gardner, George Boateng, Geovanni, Daniel Cousin, Marlon King (loan), Peter Halmosi, Craig Fagan, Bernard Mendy, Paul McShane (loan), Tony Warner, Kamil Zayette (loan)

Out: Stuart Elliott, Henrik Pedersen, David Livermore, Michael Bridges (loan), Frank Belt, Brewster Frizzell

Spent: £9.9M

Received: £0

 

LIVERPOOL

In: Robbie Keane, Albert Riera, Andrea Dossena, Philipp Degen, Diego Cavalieri, David Ngog, Peter Gulasci, Emmanuel Mendy

Out: Peter Crouch, John Arne Riise, Scott Carson, Steve Finnan, Andriy Voronin (loan), Harry Kewell, Danny Guthrie, Anthony Le Tallec, Sebastian Leto (loan), Paul Anderson (loan), Jack Hobbs (loan), Adam Hammill (loan), Besian Idrizaj

Spent: £41M

Received: £21.75M

 

MANCHESTER CITY

In: Robinho, Jo, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Vincent Kompany, Tal Ben Haim

Out: Vedran Corluka, Rolando Bianchi, Geovanni, Sun Jihai, Georgios Samaras, Andreas Isaksson, Emile Mpenza, Paul Dickov, Matt Mills, Nery Castillo

Spent: £76.6M

Received: £13.8M

 

MANCHESTER UNITED

In: Dimitar Berbatov, Davide Petrucci

Out: Louis Saha, Mikael Silvestre, Gerard Pique, Fraizer Campbell (loan), Lee Martin (loan), Danny Simpson (loan), Chris Eagles, Tom Heaton (loan), Kieran Lee, Dong Fangzhuo

Spent: £32M

Received: £9.7M

 

MIDDLESBROUGH

In: Justin Hoyte, Didier Digard, Marvin Emnes

Out: Luke Young, George Boateng, Lee Cattermole, Mark Schwarzer, Fabio Rochemback, Gaizka Mendieta, Lee Dong Gook, Jonathan Grounds (loan)

Spent: £10.2M

Received: £10M

 

NEWCASTLE

In: Fabricio Coloccini, Xisco, Jonas Gutierrez, Danny Guthrie, Sebastien Bassong, Ignacio Gonzalez (loan)

Out: James Milner, Emre, Amdy Faye, David Rozehnal, Stephen Carr, Peter Ramage, Lamine Diatta

Spent: £26.8M

Received: £19.1M

 

PORTSMOUTH

In: Peter Crouch, Younes Kaboul, Jerome Thomas, Glen Little, Armand Traore (loan), Ben Sahar (loan), Nadir Belhadj (loan)

Out: Sulley Muntari, Pedro Mendes, Linvoy Primus (loan), Omar Koroma (loan), Asmir Begovic (loan)

Spent: £18M

Received: £15.7M

 

STOKE

In: Dave Kitson, Amdy Faye, Abdoulaye Faye, Ibrahima Sonko, Danny Higginbotham, Tom Soares, Andrew Davies, Seyi Olofinjana, Thomas Sorensen

Out: Marlon Broomes, Adam Rooney, Russell Hoult, Anthony Pulis, Jon Parkin

Spent: £17.5M

Received: £0

 

SUNDERLAND

In: Djibril Cisse (loan), El-Hadji Diouf, David Healy, Steed Malbranque, Pascal Chimbonda, Teemu Tainio, Anton Ferdinand, George McCartney, Nick Colgan, David Meyler

Out: Danny Higginbotham, Dickson Etuhu Andy Cole, Greg Halford (loan), Russell Anderson (loan), Paul McShane (loan), Ross Wallace (loan), Ian Harte, Stephen Wright, Stanislav Varga

Spent: £34.4M

Received: £3M

 

TOTTENHAM

In: Luka Modric, Roman Pavlyuchenko, David Bentley, Giovani Dos Santos, Heurelho Gomes, Vedran Corluka, John Bostock, Cesar Sanchez, Fraizer Campbell (loan)

Out: Dimitar Berbatov, Robbie Keane, Paul Robinson, Steed Malbranque, Pascal Chimbonda, Teemu Tainio, Younes Kaboul, Lee Young-Pyo, Anthony Gardner, Tommy Forecast, Tomas Pekhart (loan), Leigh Mills (loan), Joe Martin, Radek Cerny

Spent: £66.1M

Received: £77.7M

 

WEST BROM

 

In: Borja Valero, Scott Carson, Luke Moore, Roman Bednar, Marek Cech, Gianni Zuiverloon, Abdoulaye Meite, Kim Do Heon, Jonas Olsson, Ryan Donk (loan)

Out: Curtis Davies, Kevin Phillips, Zoltan Gera, Martin Albrechtsen, Miguel Tininho

Spent: £21.3M

Received: £8M

 

WEST HAM

In: Valon Behrami, Jan Lastuvka (loan), Balint Bajner

Out: Anton Ferdinand, Freddie Ljungberg, George McCartney, Bobby Zamora, John Pantsil, Nolberto Solano, Richard Wright

Spent: £5M

Received: £19.3M

 

WIGAN

In: Amr Zaki (loan), Lee Cattermole, Olivier Kapo, Daniel De Ridder, Maynor Figueroa (loan)

Out: Marlon King (loan), David Cotterill, Julius Aghahowa, Antoine Sibierski (loan), Andreas Granqvist, Josip Skoko, Andy Webster, Salomon Olembe

Spent: £7M

Received: £1.6M

 

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