we're brilliant at home.
plus unluckily for you both ledley and hudson are returning for tthe first time against you :L

This takeover will be great Chels if it means Risdale goes;).

Albion are going up:cheer:.

Yeah well we wil still do well hopefully our momentum can get us a draw i believe!

lol.

yes TG wants ridsdale gone anyway :)

you just better hope we're not on a good run; whenever we are we take even the best teams apart.

Football

Football thread
 

Futsal

Thats that game indoors with a smaller ball isnt it

I HATE it when Football is pronounced as Soccer:rolleyes::mad:.

Saves the club from being in more of a mess:), all the fans will have to hope it's done before the debt deadline imagine if they got promoted to the PL and started with a 10 point deduction:shocked:.

yup

i know that would be awful D: uphill struggle!
i hate people who say soccer as well, really grinds my gears :@

Will be a race against time for this takeover;).

Yeah it annoys me how the Americans say it but they've been brought up saying that term for their sports.

Fabregas Van Persie and Vermaelen are going on loan to Reading just for the Cardiff match :)

Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain has a superb goalscoring record with Los Blanco’s. He has a ratio of a goal every other game.

For most strikers that would be good enough to earn you a regular place in the starting line-up and the fans acclaim. However this is Real Madrid were talking about and they are on a different planet.

Scapegoat

The Argentinian striker received fierce criticism after Real’s Champion’s League exit at the hands of French side Lyon. He deserved some of the criticism because of the amount of chances he missed in that game in the Bernabeu but it was a poor team display and Higuain is just one of those players in the team.

Cristiano Ronaldo moaned that Higuain didn’t pass the ball to him and that he was too much of an individual. The two are in a completely different category. Ronaldo is seen as indispensable but Higuain seems to be treated like an outsider.

Galactico

Higuain is not and never will be considered a Galactico. It seems no matter what he does at Real he will always be second best to the latest Galactico. He has the potential and the talent to become a top class player but I don’t believe he can fulfil his potential in the shadow of the likes of Ronaldo, Kaka and Karim Benzema, who are considered Galactico’s.

He needs to be recognised for his true ability and not judged on reputation. At just 22 years-old he has time to become a truly world class striker. However at Real he will always be remembered for those misses in the Champions League and not the fifty odd goals he’s scored for the club.

Move

The striker has been linked with a move away from the club in recent weeks and I believe he will leave Real this summer. He has been in contract negotiations with Sporting director Jorge Valdano but Florentino Perez is believed to want the French-born star to leave. The club president usually gets what he wants.

Location

If Higuain does leave Bernabeu he won’t be short of potential destinations. He would suit the Premier League perfectly. He is clever enough and skilful enough for England’s top flight. With Chelsea and Manchester City on the lookout for new talent in the summer, I wouldn’t be surprised if he turned up on English shores this summer.

Italian giants AC Milan have also been linked with the prolific marksman but its believed that he would prefer a move to the Premier League rather Serie A.

World Cup

Argentina manager Diego Maradona selected Higuain in his last national team squad. Having only played four times for his country he is not sure of a place in that World Cup squad. He has some big competition for a place in the Argentina squad.

The attacking positions are possibly Argentina’s strongest with the likes of Leo Messi, Sergio Aguero and Diego Milito all competing for a place in the team. However if he keeps playing as he is for his club then surely he has to be on the plane to South Africa. If he does wish to leave Madrid then the World Cup will be the best shop window he could hope for.

Contract

All this speculation about his future could be his agent trying to put him in a stronger position for negotiating a new contract. It wouldn’t be the first time and won’t be the last time that an agent has drubbed up rumours to get their client a better deal.

However as they say there is no smoke without fire and at the moment Higuain is hot property and could make himself a superstar if he moved away from the Spanish side. This summer could be moment that decides where his career goes and hopefully for the Argentinian the right decision is made.

Higuain is amazing

Man Utd To Finalise £40m Deal For David Villa?

I can’t help but feel like we’ve been here before…

Manchester United are ready to steal a march on their rivals (probably every other major club in Europe) by submitting a huge £40 million bid for Valencia striker David Villa before the World Cup gets underway in June.

United have reportedly sent scouts to nearly every Valencia game this season and Chief Scout Martin Ferguson (brother of manager Sir Alex) has urged the club to make their move after watching Villa net a hat-trick in Los Che’s 4-4 draw with Werder Bremen in the Europa League last week.

It is widely believed that 28-year-old Villa will finally leave Valencia this summer, and the Spanish ace has gone on record expressing his love for United’s brand of attacking football on numerous occasions – which seemingly puts them firmly in the hot seat should Villa chose a move to The Premier League.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see Villa plying his trade in the Prem as much as the next man – the guy is a ridiculously good striker- but £40 million? Surely that’s a bit rich for a player who isn’t exactly a spring chicken anymore?

Should play for someone who apprechiate him more.

They dont have the money so its bollocks

Chelsea Set for Summer Clear Out to Cut £150m Wage Bill: Who Should Go?

Fifteen minutes after the final whistle blew on Chelsea’s latest unsuccessful tilt at the Champions League, Roman Abramovich, flanked by minders, took a long, lonely trudge across the pitch at Stamford Bridge.

His face, as ever, was inscrutable, but enough noises have come out of Stamford Bridge to tell us what he was thinking. Disappointment with Carlo Ancelotti? Yes, a little. Anger with his players for failing to deliver the performances in proportion with their pay-packets? Yes, plenty. Regret at losing sight of the big picture over the past year or two? Intriguingly, yes.

Abramovich, according to someone close to him, is facing up to having made mistakes. To an outsider, the obvious one was falling out with José Mourinho, but the Chelsea owner is more concerned by the way he has allowed his squad to grow older — and, very significantly, richer — while seeing Manchester United re-establish themselves as the dominant force in English football.

One example cited was that of the John Terry contract saga last summer, when he was wanted by Manchester City. Abramovich, apparently, was “spooked” by the possibility that his captain had been attracted to City’s riches, so Terry was offered — and duly signed — a new deal worth £151,000 a week. Six months later, Abramovich recognises that, while it would have been unwise to sell Terry, a five-year £40 million contract for a defender approaching his 29th birthday was not good business.

It goes on. Aware of the need to rejuvenate an ageing squad but committed to his ambition to make the club self-sufficient, Abramovich planned to raise funds for reinforcements this summer by selling a key player or two. But who is there to sell? The time to cash in on Terry, Ricardo Carvalho, Frank Lampard, Deco, Didier Drogba or Nicolas Anelka has gone, with their market value — and in certain cases their performance level — now in decline.

Considering it was always Abramovich’s aim for Chelsea to break even by 2010, the lack of forward planning is staggering. Although the precise figure has not yet been released, Chelsea’s wage bill for the last financial year was more than £150 million. United’s was a not inconsiderable £123 million, but the champions’ turnover was £72 million higher than Chelsea’s. In terms of wages as a percentage of turnover, Chelsea spent at least 70 per cent. The equivalent figures at United and Arsenal are 44 per cent and 33 per cent respectively.

Abramovich accepts that to rejuvenate the squad he will have to spend, but he is loath to throw good money after bad. Joe Cole, out of contract this summer, seems destined to be the first victim of a purge of the older players, but he might not be the only one. (Times Online)

This will make you laugh nathan, after that article on chelsea this is one of the comments someone wrote :


anonymous - March 22nd, 2010 at 2:43 pm

They should get rid of J.Cole and sign Diouff, sack Ancelotti and get Alladyce.


LOL

Taking the piss lol

Not long before I become second top poster in here now

Good luck :)

Shouldnt be long now.

I should get mine up in the bh thread really...

Liverpool are reported to be tracking Lille’s £20 million-rated playmaker Eden Hazard.

The 19-year-old Belgian shone over both legs of Liverpool’s recent Europa League clash with the French side, and it is now thought that Rafa Benitez has singled Hazard out as the man he wants to revive his somewhat stagnant midfield.


I think everyone could see that coming.
The only one who looked dangerous against liverpool.


Arsneal should get him tho.