Football Banter Archive July 31 2011

31 Jul 2011 23:10:50
1.Man utd
2.Chelsea (provided they get some decent signings)
3.Man City
4.Arsenal
5.Spurs
6.Liverpool
7.Fulham
8.Everton
9.Sunderland
10.Stoke
11.Aston Villa
12.Bolton
13.QPR
14.Blackburn
15.WBA
16.Newcastle
17.Swansea
18.Wigan
19.Wolves
20.Norwich

Liverpool will come 10th at best

10th is kind, liverpool fans are deluded and are in for a shock next season. Kenny will bottle it and walk

' Liverpool will come 10th at best ' ( I quote from above )
Are you aware that your bias is seriously affecting your football judgement.
What is your next posting going to be --Accrington Stanley to win the Champions League.

QPR will not come 13th. you must be nuts, they are destined for 20th.

31 Jul 2011 22:20:59
Oldham Athletic will not sell Chris Taylor as they have just recieved 5.7 million from oldham council as of tomorrow He wouldnt leave the team he supported anyway so stop bulls**tting about him joining burnley as he is an oldham player and will be for a few more years.

31 Jul 2011 22:08:03
why is everyone saying barnsley are going down?

1. yes we are usually around that area but new team and whole new management and new style thats working in pre season.

2. yes it is only pre season

but you can't suggest a team who has scord 15 goals and conceded one out of 4 games surely aren't one of the favourites for relegation more like mid-table at minimum.

I am a football lover and therefore not a
Barnsley supporter.
That was a joke by the way.
Now seriously, I would tip Barnsley to be my overachievers in the Championship which I can see being a very competitive division this coming season.
I think they have made a very good pick in appointing Keith Hill as manager. His record at Rochdale over a number of seasons has been excellent and he is used to working with very limited resources and not at all a manager who thinks he can buy success. This seems to me to make him an ideal man to look after Barnsley.
I know I've written this bit before but I have a feeling that there could be a couple of surprises on the relegation front this season. There are so many teams who fancy their chances of a successful campaign they can't all be right.

I wouldnt include Barnsley to get relagated this season. West Ham to win the league with maybe Ipswich to join them. 3 relagated teams from the championship are Derby, Peterborough, and Birmingham

31 Jul 2011 21:03:39
pastore, lukaku, neymar, sanchez didnt fancy a move to chelsea, has the chelsea era already come to a stop, failure to win europes top prize, failure to dominate england, failure to become a self funding club by 2010, and still aint, i see a similar thing happening at city, im sure they will win the league but it wont last, 2-3 years and then it will grind to a halt, just like chelsea, it will only last as the sugar daddy spends, but at some stage he will stop and city will have to balance books and be self funding.so i dread the next couple of years as a another sugar daddy buys all the trophies again but i know it wont last, thank goodness.

31 Jul 2011 20:54:42
my top 4 for this year is mansour city, man utd, arsene whinger, chelski, in that order, but chelski could be the one's under threat, no signings yet, ageing team, and liverpool or spurs could step into 4th place.

31 Jul 2011 20:51:49
i cant see any other team than man city winning the premiership, congrats to mansour for buying the title, your 500million plus has been well spent, a few dodgy signings along the way but never the less , proves money cant buy you love but it buys you silverware.

31 Jul 2011 20:34:34
Wright Phillips could be doing a seasons loan to Bolton as a replacement for Lee Chung Yong after breaking his leg. Sounds plausible as he wants away and Bolton were linked in january. Suppose City have the money to pay a large percentage of his wages too. Another name was Bentley but can't see Bolton affording his pay packet or see Tottenham contributing. We've lost a great player... Guttered.

31 Jul 2011 20:26:08
Luciano Becchio is attracting clubs north of the border. Dundee Utd, Motherwell and East fife are all siad to be keen

None could afford more than £50,000 about 2 weeks wages for him. The scottish league is rubbish

31 Jul 2011 19:49:30
well its not all bad at leeds utd before we kick off the new season, i like most fans have been underwelmed with our dealings in the transfer market, but at least we have kept hold of our star players unlike a lot of teams in the championship, and we have gone unbeaten in pre-season with a good win over prem side newcastle today at elland road. bring on the new season saturday garyd MOT

31 Jul 2011 19:35:55
Craig Bellamy for Celtic , get the deal done the player is a class act and the Celtic supporters who are critical of the possible signing really need to have a reality check , the player is pure class.

Goalies Bhoy

Celtic can't afford his wages

31 Jul 2011 18:33:27
Rumour has it that Southampton will continue their behind closed doors transfer policy, producing signings that nobody has discussed on transfer rumour sites for undisclosed fees.
You can expect any signings to be announced after 5.30 so that the Daily Echo can't get them in their late edition, keeping the club as the main source of Saints news

31 Jul 2011 18:12:15
Reading will not sign a direct replacement for Shane Long if he is sold to a Premiership team this summer. They will instead replace him internally, with Adam Federici becoming Noel Hunt's new strike partner.

31 Jul 2011 17:27:43
A source close to Arsenal has informed me of Arsene Wenger's transfer plans when Cesc leaves. I quote ' Arsene wants the best and will scout primary schools accross the country for French speaking academy prospects'.

31 Jul 2011 17:19:10
County may have broken league rules but the league said the owners were 'fit and propper' people, so Notts County can not be held responsible for the leagues mess up.

County should have had points deducted or thrown ou of the league disgrace

31 Jul 2011 16:48:58
Cesc Fabregas is a case of if not when. Nasri is a maybe.

31 Jul 2011 16:35:58
look at all those city fans at the dublin super cup, they are global just likew chelsea

Yes known Globally as moronic.

31 Jul 2011 15:55:43
Chelsea have always been the biggest and best. Just look at the players we have had, sinclair, morris, hitchcock, dixon, speedie, monkou, the list is endless and UNMATCHED by any team.
Chelsea are the best.

Chelsea Power

Mal donaghy aswell , all those european cups chelsea have also, about 3 lge titles aswell, the way chelsea built their fortune through their success and teir current youthfull squad , its amazing, wow wow waow i think london is kryptonite to the european cup
irish kop

Aye your highest achievement is the same as aberdeen s.

31 Jul 2011 12:10:26
English Premier Teams are a joke, paying crazy money for players that are practicaly rubbish, and the spl teams pay little money for players that are just as good. English football bores me, more excitement in the spl at least rangers n celtic work hard to get through european games.

Rangers aint going to get through there European game, Also not many scottish players move from there domestic leauge to the EPL becauase they are not good enough, Barry ferguson was rangers best player for years move down here he was terrible, Kenny Miller prolific in SPL, terrible EPL aprt from charlie Adams and i will chuck in Hutton i am struggling to find player from the SPL that have cut it in the EPL fact.

The only half decent excitement in the SPL is the old firm, which is basically a street fight

What about Darren Fletcher and Steven Fletcher... If the standard of English players were good why are so many foreign players being brought in season after season

So the of have no foriegn players suggest you look at celtics squad matey

I agree epl teams have to pay top money just becauce they are a epl team..they seldom get value for "thier" money.and in reality most of the team dont have the money....hence the DEBT....

The SPL will never match the EPL FACT

Listen mate i wouldnt compare the SPL to the EPL. Scotland has a population of around 5 million compared to Englands 50 million. Try comparing it with a similar size and the spanish league spanks your a**e

You listen mate , nothing better to do in scotland the reason why you all watch matches , cause all your birds are piss ugly and you just want to get out its ok scottish football and women are shocking i say stick together

maximus

31 Jul 2011 12:08:59
This championship season is going to be a tough one, i reckon Barnsley and peterborough will go down and the third place will be one from these three, Hull city, Crystal palace and doncaster Rovers.Birmingham will go up as champs, Forest second and third will be leeds or west ham.Millwall, cardiff, Ipswich will finish mid table.

I do agree with your view that the Championship will be a very very tough league this year with so many teams fancying their chances of going up and many of them with good reason to do so.
I must say though that I would be surprised if Birmingham went back up and absolutely amazed if they went back up as champions. In the longer term, say two to three years hence , i think they will be good bets for promotion but at the moment there surely must be too many players leaving all at once and too much financial insecurity about the clubs future. These things invariably transmit to the performances of the team on the field.
Also Barnsley will look to many like candidates for relegation but I'm not so sure. I think Keith Hill is a first rate manager and has plenty of experience in trying to progress a team off meagre resources, witness his splendid performance at Rochdale. i would go for Barnsley to exceed expectations this season.
Sticking my neck out ( and these are very tentative selections) i would take West Ham to be champions, Blackpool to be runners up and Leeds United to come through the playoffs. i can already hear people disagreeing with this. That's fine, but don't tell me that this season will be a cakewalk for any team in this division.
i don't really see the promoted teams doing more than average, it is quite a big step up from Div 1 and to sustain it over an entire season is not easy.
Relegation that's very tricky because its so competitive but i have a feeling that there could be some surprises this year because there aren't any 'usual suspects' this time round.

31 Jul 2011 12:05:29
Barnsley has taken kyle reid on trial from his release from charlton .

Source : radio dee dar
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How could he have scored for Sc**thorpe today? For one he was wearing a Barnsley shirt and scored past Scunny keeper Josh Lillis and for two, Scunny didnt score, they lost 5-0 person stick.

31 Jul 2011 11:43:50
27 Jul 2011 14:10:36
I'm really starting to get fed up of the people who are constantlyslagging offNorwich for buying as they call 'nobodys' and the fact that because of this they will go straight back down. No surprise that these comments are coming from the supporters of the BIG 4 who clearly haven't seen any football that QPR, Swansea and Norwich have played last season. I hope these supporters are proved wrong and all 3 of these teams avoid relegation.

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I know this is a rumour page but I would just like to wholeheartedly agree with the above comment. Nobody in the premier league expected Blackpool to play the way they did last year based on the only game they had seen of them (playoff final) and it is no different this year. Both QPR and Swansea have much better long term defensive records than Blackpool did, and even Norwich have an uncanny ability to score more than their opposition or snatch it right at the death. I say give all 3 promoted teams a fair chance and judge them based on their performance over a season and not their 'size', reputation or postcode.

A Swans fan

Blackpool went straight back down and at least two of the three promoted teams will do this coming season.

31 Jul 2011 10:37:33
Liverpool are second rate now and can't attract world class players. Dogleash and his reckless spending will get you in trouble. Chelsea will hammer you twice next season. Home and away, especially at the anfield library

Liverfool fans are stuck in the past, thats why so many of them have betamax players so they can watch past glories. Donkey carroll will be a joke next season

Lol luis suarez, dalglish is a genius for getting 50 mil for that spanish tramp, who couldnt hit the g spot on a ten pound pu@@y, we wallopped chelsea twice last season and were stronger again, ageing team chavski, no one wants to sign for u, pastore etc, boom
irish kop

Dogleash is not a genius, Liverpool will finish well behind chelsea next season and you know it. Donkey carroll to score 10 (OWN GOALS) next season

Take the chequebook off dalglish, he hasn't a clue, mid table for the dirty reds next season, anfield is a dump, you should go to old trafford if you want to see a proper ground

Man united enter the race for the olympic stadium to be closer to their fans , they were walloped aswell in march , chavski are done, old old team , as for those rats across from man city, luis suarez will maul yiz again, torres is no suarez, booooooom, thanks for the 50MILL
irish kop

liverpool mid table next season

Liverpool are a joke of a club, there signing's this summer reflect what that club have become as for queen kenny he will be gone by the end of the season, they will finish mid table with that squad there best player suarez will want a transfer away next summer, gerrard is finished can't ever see them in champ's league again what ther fan's have to accept is liverpool fc are a mediocre club now, even everton are better than them fact

Haha u joker leave your name next time so i can repost the sh@@e out of you, even whiskey nose himself is saying lfc be the team, he knows we have the best forward in the business, luis to smash u all up,
irish kop

Have the balls to say were your from and leave your name you arm chair.were were all the chelsea fans b4 you had money very average gates FACT.your the same person posting the same crap about us, are you a chelsea or man u fan, because you post for them both

ste liverpool

Funny how we went from being in the relegation zone, getting clearly beaten by the likes of Blackburn and mid table teams, into pushing for European places and destroying United and City with a squad made up of youth, injuries and players with the calibre of Poulsen and Jovanovic. All in the space of a couple of months. New era at the club and a lot of you can't handle the fact that we are going to be a force next season.

Plus lfc not finished in the market yet, everyone wants to come n play under kenny , more respect for him as he was a genius of a player aswell as manager for us n will be , wallopped united n chavski n city, , chavski were bust until abramovich came in, we were just controlled by two cowboys last year , global giants lfc , londons 3rd club chelsea
irish kop

How did Liverpool get on in the ra cup last season? Berbatov loved his hat trick as well, and the mighty giants of European football that is braga, what happen their?so enjoy your odd victory over others, we will enjoy winning trophies instead.

ONLY FOUR TEAMS IN ENGLAND WORTH TALKING ABOUT THEY ARE MAN UTD CHELSEA ARSENAL AND MAN CITY THE REST JUST MAKE UP THE PREMIER LEAGUE.

31 Jul 2011 10:55:10
to all the so called fans of the "bigger clubs" than celtic... take away the sky money and what would you have or even relegation..money can buy status and make you a big club overnight ...but are you a big club when things go wrong..you guys are saying we are not playing in a good league..put your team into our league and see how big a club you really are..put our team in your league and we will show you how massive we are..........epl champs in 5 years .....cmon the hoops

What a rubbish post

Put Man utd in the scottish league they would win every game and not concede a single goal they would get into europe and still get into last 4 as normal- man utd are a brand and dont need the money from what sky gives them they have enough sponser fan base to be a big club becasue they are

would chris commons sign for man utd no lol but he is celtics best player a joke

Still would not be able to pay the wages they pay now if they played in the spl.

I think ANY club in the Premiership would win the SPL...actually most of the Championship would have a pretty good chance haha

31 Jul 2011 10:28:33
to all the so called fans of the "bigger clubs" than celtic... take away the sky money and what would you have or even relegation..money can buy status and make you a big club overnight ...but are you a big club when things go wrong..you guys are saying we are not playing in a good league..put your team into our league and see how big a club you really are..put our team in your league and we will show you how massive we are..........epl champs in 5 years .....cmon the hoops

But the moneys there so get over it

31 Jul 2011 08:21:06
im a liverpool fan, but celtic are bigger than most prem teams all exept liverpool and united, bigger globally and been champions of europe, likes of man city n chelsea n spurs everton just got to face it , yesterday in dublin cup u could count the city fans on one hand,

Well most of celtic fans are southern irish anyway so whats your point

The point he is saying is man city are a big club in manchester..nowhere else...Hail Hail..

At the end of last season you could count celtic fans at celtic park on one hand, deserted in droves

Facts are facts for watever reason, man city recently returned from the usa and terrible crowds, celtic have thousands out there, im not a celtic fan but its fair to say celtic are global,

31 Jul 2011 07:54:04
What is harder to win - the english first division title or the Scottish Premier division ?
Gents please be constructive with your answers and make it a honest debate

31 Jul 2011 07:47:48
Paul Scholes has rejected a move to celtic to join as player coach and is seeking a similar role at more attractive post at Bury

31 Jul 2011 07:44:28
HOT OF THE PRESS

Martin Allen has approached ex liverpool striker robbie fowler to join him at county as player - coach

also to sign Adam smith from mansfield town by monday.


RUMOURS NOT CORRECT - Conlon/Page/Brechin/Small not joining or havent been asked to join County just dodgy rumours on varius boards.

Correct rumours
Jack Lester has joined Benson in snubbing to join the club

31 Jul 2011 07:39:49
Notts County are bigger than Mansfield - but shame they a corrupt
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How do you figure that?


How do i figure the pies are two divisons higher and are in pro - league footy mate. Yes we are probably going this season but we are the pies

31 Jul 2011 07:36:38
If a bigger team like Sheff wed or Chesterfield played they would walk the league and probably be un beaten all season

Chesterfield ha ha, which person thinks that?

Chesterfield ha ha

31 Jul 2011 07:32:59
Huddersfield forward Jordan Rhodes has decided that the step up the the Championship with Millwall is too good to to turn down even though the move to London would be difficult from Yorkshire. Another player who Kenny Jackett is interested in is Sheffield Wednesday youngster Gary Madine. Madine who moved to Wednesday earlier this year is keen to move down South to concentrate on his football. Madine is likend to Andy Carroll.

31 Jul 2011 07:54:04
What is harder to win - the english first division title or the Scottish Premier division ?
Gents please be constructive with your answers and make it a honest debate

English.

31 Jul 2011 07:47:48
Paul Scholes has rejected a move to celtic to join as player coach and is seeking a similar role at more attractive post at Bury

31 Jul 2011 07:40:12
After having a few drinks in the Toon last nite, me mates and I ended the nite having a Kebab, who was in the takeaway, none other than Messi speaking to his agent saying that he MUST sign for the Toon, because these were the best kebab's he has ever had.

31 Jul 2011 07:38:48
Notts County are bigger than Mansfield - but shame they a corrupt
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How do you figure that?

Notts County are in league one and Mansfield are non-league. Yes County are corrupt in winning promotion a year ago with a squad they couldnt afford and broached football league rules income to wages and are dislked by anyone outside Nottingham but yes they are bigger than Mansfield, but can see them being on par next season with mansfield going up and notts going down thats a given

31 Jul 2011 01:35:37
It frustrates me that all of these rumours about readings shane long are obviously complete rubbish - why would he sign for another championship side when he has premier league clubs looking for his services. More to the point why sign for southampton when he is already part of one of the championships strongest sides

THINK