Football Focus

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

@Mick:

There's a rather sweet documentary on Jock Stein on BBC Alba that you may enjoy.

[Parkdrive]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> ooh blimey, fabregas to chelsea, is poor parkdrive

> going to pop an aneurysm?!

The whole Cesc thing is somewhat amusing. First of all He goes "home" and they decide they don't want him. Arsenal don't exercise the buy back option so he goes to Maureen. THis is the same Cesc who said not too many months back that Maureen lacked respect, class, etc and also made derogatory remarks about Maureens club. Lo and behold he does an Eto'o and signs for a club and manager he supposedly despises. I smell the odour of money from here. It must be awful being rejected by the 2 clubs he supposedly loves. Reminds me of the Rooney "once a blue always a blue" scenario. The Arsenal have lost bigger players than him in the past and survived. While we had him, RVP, Na$ri, C?lichy we didn't win a tropy, they are all gone and we win the FA cup. Coincidence?

[Otta]

To be fair, if Barca don't want him and Arsenal don't want him, you can hardly blame him for going elsewhere.

[Mick Mac]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> @Mick:

>

> There's a rather sweet documentary on Jock Stein

> on BBC Alba that you may enjoy.

Equally "sweet" of you to point it out to me PGC. Thanks - I can hopefully get it on iplayer.

[Parkdrive]

Otta Wrote:

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> To be fair, if Barca don't want him and Arsenal

> don't want him, you can hardly blame him for going

> elsewhere.

I'm not blaming him, he's been spurned by the 2 clubs he allegedly loves most, so he's gone off with the fat bird at the end of the night cos he thinks he'll get a shag.

[Otta]

Haha, good lad.

[Otta]

Guaranteed 3 points for West Ham on the opening day then ;-)

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:)

[Jah Lush]

The MET sees sense at last.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/10908591/Yid-chanting-by-Tottenham-Hotspur-fans-no-longer-an-arrestable-offence-at-White-Hart-Lane-says-Metropolitan-Police.html

[StraferJack]

Sah-weeeeet

http://p1r.es/1ts27xF

Good signing for arsenal

[El Pibe]

From the link I thought you were signing Pires!!

[Parkdrive]

If we get Khedira as well I'll be ecstatic, not that I'm not incredibly chuffed already.

[Otta]

Yep, gutted Liverpool didn't get him, top signing for the gunners.

[Mick Mac]

If Liverpool was in London they would have got im.

[Otta]

Haha, probably.

Or if their best player wasn't going the opposite way.

[Otta]

Suarez deal agreed according to beeb.

?75m is a huge amount of money, but it feels like we've had to let him go on the cheap even at that price. If it wasn't for the bite and ban I really believe he'd have at least matched the Bale price tag.

Ah well, onwards and upwards, we've got a load of untested southampton players to be going on with, what could possibly go wrong?

[Otta]

"I hope you can all understand why I have made this decision," Suarez said. "This club did all they could to get me to stay, but playing and living in Spain, where my wife's family live, is a lifelong dream and ambition. I believe now the timing is right."

I will say for him that I don't think this is particularly about money, he wants to play at the very top and Liverpool are not there (hopefully a "yet" can be added to that). And maybe just maybe having that family tie close by might just keep him in line.

Good luck Louis you bloody loon you. Your football ability will be missed.

[Mick Mac]

It was good while it lasted. I'll miss him, he was amazing last season.

[Jah Lush]

So Suarez, Messi and Naymar in the Barcelona attack. That is fooking scary.

[StraferJack]

looks liek one of those "on paper" ideals to me - not convinced it's a winner in real life

I think Barca won't gel next season

[Jah Lush]

They still need to replace Carlos Puyol at the back as well.

[Alan Medic]

Listening to a Uruguayan journalist this morning, he said the consensus in the country is that Suarez is more suited to Liverpool than he ever will be for Barcelona.

How they reach that conclusion I don?t know but I guess it will be hard to replicate the season he had anywhere.

[Mick Mac]

Fast attack v slow attack i'd say AM

[red devil]

Agree about Suarez not being a good fit in current Barca side, whereas he would've fitted in seamlessly at Real. Maybe Enrique is about to abandon Tika Taka...

[red devil]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Sah-weeeeet

>

> http://p1r.es/1ts27xF

>

> Good signing for arsenal

Agree. Very good signing. Unlike Ozil, can see him easily adapting to the physical demands of the Premier League. Another attacking midfielder though, and with talk of signing Khedira/Bender, makes you wonder what will happen to the likes of Wilshire and OxC...