*Official* English Football Season 2010-11

[TT Boy]

I don't pretend to follow German football to any exent, but Mainz are currently top of the Bundesliga, aren't they? Presumably he's doing something right. Current German U21 captain too, which also suggests some ability.

I'd like to get him purely because it'd be one over Jerry.

Yeah and they beat Bayern recently as well but you tend to get that in the Bundesliga that a team from nowhere starts great but after the winter break these sides tend to fall away.

 

[Craig]

Lol. Hicks & Gillette really are a pair of ****s tho, aren't they? They make the Glazers look like the offspring of Jack Walker and Roman Abramovich. I find it hilarious that the chairman they brought in to be their patsy has proved rather steelier than they anticapted. Stand to take a £177m hosing between them from what I've read. Their opposition to the sale sending Liverpool into hock would be their crowning glory.

Couldn't happen to nicer blokes.

Oh how the once mighty have fallen. In slightly similar news: United confirm significant losses - Barclays Premier League - ESPN Soccernet

 

[aussie]

Phil Jones.

Yea him and Smalling are the two under-25 centre backs (although I think Jones has been playing DM a lot for rovers this season) that are worth talking about at this early stage. While I'm a long time fan of Steven Taylor from Newcastle's ability to be international quality, but who knows. Overall that pretty flat compared the to the start of the 2000s era, even more reason to keep close attention to this Dier bloke in case he turns out to be the real deal.

 

[marc71178]

Gary Cahill >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jones or Smalling

 

[aussie]

Gary Cahill >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jones or Smalling

I dont see a potential international quality CB in Cahill at all. The only thing he has over Jones & Smalling is more league experience.

 

[Jarquis]

As well as being better at football.

 

[aussie]

As well as being better at football.

We shall see what happens long term with all of them & see who really becomes international quality. Debate closed, since by CW standards in this footballl thread this little discussion will just dragging on ridiculously.

 

[roseboy64]

Would be worried for Cahill if he wasn't better than two rookies pretty much.

 

[Craig]

I see that Vito Mannone has been complaining to Italian newspapers about a lack of first team football, so perhaps a case of don't let the door hit your arse on the way out?

 

[sledger]

We shall see what happens long term with all of them & see who really becomes international quality. Debate closed, since by CW standards in this footballl thread this little discussion will just dragging on ridiculously.

Oh the irony.

 

[Craig]

I see that Gazza was arrested for drink driving.

 

[blahblahblah]

Liverpool Chairman Martin Broughton Believes Fernando Torres Will 'Absolutely' Want To Stay When He Hears NESV Plans - Goal.com

 

[aussie]

Would have kept Gerrard as captain. But its all good..

 

[Ikki]

Reckon it's not a good choice. Gerrard seems to lift his level when he's captain.

 

[sledger]

As evidenced by his recent showing in the World Cup of course.

 

[Ikki]

Better than the rest of the poms.

 

[sledger]

Which is in itself a stunning acolade, if ever there was one.

 

[GIMH]

Ikki is right though

 

[sledger]

I didn't say he wasn't. What I was getting at was just questioning the value of him upping his performances against miserly opposition in qualifying.

 

[aussie]

I didn't say he wasn't. What I was getting at was just questioning the value of him upping his performances against miserly opposition in qualifying.

So just because the opposition in WCQ & WC was not a Spain or Brazil means you have to look down on it?.