Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:54 pm  

flipper wrote:

sensible.

And if it's car being provided for him the tax charge on it will be negligible too

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:27 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

And if it's car being provided for him the tax charge on it will be negligible too

Very true!

Doesn't Gary Neville have a Prius? I'd rather have a smart car!

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:36 pm  

The Boy TC wrote:

But when faced with truth or legend - always print the legend

Sid Lowe?

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:03 pm  

Does anyone speak Portugese:

From the Sporting Lisbon website:

"Eric Dier, defesa central dos juniores do Sporting, foi cedido por empréstimo, até ao dia 30 de Junho de 2011, ao Everton. Esta é uma oportunidade para o atleta crescer numa conjuntura competitiva mais exigente.
O jogador tem contrato com o Sporting até 2013."

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:19 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

Sid Lowe?

Was meant about everyone else printing the "he forgot about it in Spain" rather than having a pop at Sid.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:41 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Everton are either leaving it very late or in a worse financial mess than I thought. To go into a transfer window stating you need to strengthen and then sell 3 players who could be considered first teamers and not signing anyone is a tad silly.

You need to calm down a little....

Yes, we haven't signed anybody yet, but in reality we have actually lost 1 player, Pienaar, and that made financial sense.

Yakubu, rightly or wrongly, wasn't in Moyes' plans and as for Vaughan, he hasn't been in the manager's plans since about 3 years ago....Moyes has been trying to offload him for ages, but the lad kept getting injuries, so he was burdened with him.

I don't quite get this supposed need for a big squad....When we almost did the treble in '85, we used about 15 or 16 players all season.

All big squads do is produce unsettled players. Small squads produce unity.....I've never understood why clubs waste millions in wages on guys who spend most of the year warming a bench?...

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:43 pm  

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

All big squads do is produce unsettled players. Small squads produce unity.....I've never understood why clubs waste millions in wages on guys who spend most of the year warming a bench?...

Well you keep thinking that whilst your club scrap for mid-table and probably won't win a single thing, whilst those with big squads will forever try and compete on all fronts. I am highly disturbed if you can't fathom why clubs have deep squads.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:52 pm  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

Well you keep thinking that whilst your club scrap for mid-table and probably won't win a single thing, whilst those with big squads will forever try and compete on all fronts. I am highly disturbed if you can't fathom why clubs have deep squads.

Oh, I listen to all the guff that the managers come out with when their sides are struggling....Tired squads and all that...

Just makes me laugh, that when Liverpool were dominating European football in the 70's and 80's and playing upto 70 games a year, you could practically name their first team, week in, week out....In fact, I still can now.

Same goes for other successful sides of that era, like Villa, Forest, Ipswich, Everton, etc.....All this 25 man squad thing is a complete cover-up for under performing managers....

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:08 pm  

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

Oh, I listen to all the guff that the managers come out with when their sides are struggling....Tired squads and all that...

Just makes me laugh, that when Liverpool were dominating European football in the 70's and 80's and playing upto 70 games a year, you could practically name their first team, week in, week out....In fact, I still can now.

Same goes for other successful sides of that era, like Villa, Forest, Ipswich, Everton, etc.....All this 25 man squad thing is a complete cover-up for under performing managers....

Are you Kenny Dalgleish? It's not 1987 anymore Dita. In those days players trained then had a fag and went down the pub for the afternoon. They played the match and if they were injured they got on with it. They didn't know what metartarsils or ligaments were.

I'm not particularly bothered about Everton having 25 quality players, them signing one who could sort out this seasons lack of goalscoring would be fun though.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:24 pm  

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

Oh, I listen to all the guff that the managers come out with when their sides are struggling....Tired squads and all that...

Just makes me laugh, that when Liverpool were dominating European football in the 70's and 80's and playing upto 70 games a year, you could practically name their first team, week in, week out....In fact, I still can now.

Same goes for other successful sides of that era, like Villa, Forest, Ipswich, Everton, etc.....All this 25 man squad thing is a complete cover-up for under performing managers....

If you can't see how football has developed since then, especially physically, you need help. Furthermore, if you can't understand how having a bigger squad - with different players providing different skills and styles - is better, then you obviously don't get the modern game.

I remember watching Everton play (I think it was last season) and the two biggest somebodies they had on their bench were Gosling and Yobo, other than that, your entire bench was reserve players which are, in today's game, basically academy players.

What doesn't make sense is when a manager signs players to have a big squad, but then persists with the same old same old every week.