[John_D]

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:09 am  

McClennan wrote:

How come, when discussing England, nobody ever mentions installing a quota on overseas to increase the number of English players in the league in the same way that they moan about in RL?

I think I'd prefer to see more English players going abroad, get themselves an education into other ways of playing the game, a bit more life experience. I know that's unlikely with the level of wages in England being a lot higher. Still, it'd be nice to see players with ambition rather than staying in a comfort zone.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:07 am  

United v Barcelona in Gothenburg on August 8th sold out in 30 minutes. Stadium holds 43,000.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:08 am  

Roddy B wrote:

What are the goings on with regards to transfers then? Been fairly quiet for obvious reasons, Chelsea and United have made good buys already, Arsenal's look decent, but most of the other clubs don't seem to have done too much to get the pieces in place. Expecting big things from Citeh, with plenty of players coming and going. They clearly need another centre half, possibly a full back to play either side and maybe a midfielder to come in and support. Assuming Tevez goes, they will definitely need another striker. Is Dzeko good enough?

Things seem quiet on Liverpool's part, I'm not expecting an awful lot given the money we've wasted over the past couple of years, but I still hope we have a few aces up our sleeve.

In a interview with TalkSport this morning, Brendan Rodgers said he is looking to bring in 3 or 4 new faces.

The Mirror are reporting that we are ready to bid for Demba Ba, who has a £7M release clause. Furthermore rumours about Gaston Ramirez won't go away.

[John_D]

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:18 am  

And a Happy Champions League Day to you all!

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:28 am  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

In a interview with TalkSport this morning, Brendan Rodgers said he is looking to bring in 3 or 4 new faces.

The Mirror are reporting that we are ready to bid for Demba Ba, who has a £7M release clause. Furthermore rumours about Gaston Ramirez won't go away.

Isn't that release clause only to a CL club, or have I totally made that up?

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:44 am  

Guerrier wrote:

Isn't that release clause only to a CL club, or have I totally made that up?

Yes, but let him and Rodgers play Football Manager.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:04 pm  

Guerrier wrote: Isn't that release clause only to a CL club, or have I totally made that up? Not seen that anywhere in any reports this morning. A quick search on the internet and it suggests that the release clause is for a team that qualified for either European competition, this meaning we are eligible to activate his clause. Remember though Catalancs is an ITK apparantley. http://www.nufcblog.org/2012/01/ba-rele ... _LhsbtZ62I

Guerrier wrote: Isn't that release clause only to a CL club, or have I totally made that up? Not seen that anywhere in any reports this morning. A quick search on the internet and it suggests that the release clause is for a team that qualified for either European competition, this meaning we are eligible to activate his clause. Remember though Catalancs is an ITK apparantley. http://www.nufcblog.org/2012/01/ba-rele ... _LhsbtZ62I

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:54 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

I also think that in football, foreign players don't really stunt the growth of homegrown players,

Well surely if Arsenal have twenty French players in their academy that's a block to development?

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:31 pm  

Lord Tony Smith wrote: Not seen that anywhere in any reports this morning. A quick search on the internet and it suggests that the release clause is for a team that qualified for either European competition, this meaning we are eligible to activate his clause. Remember though Catalancs is an ITK apparantley. http://www.nufcblog.org/2012/01/ba-rele ... _LhsbtZ62I Only 'apparantley' though. Villas Boas off to Spurs. Had a feeling he was biding his time till a big club showed interest

Lord Tony Smith wrote: Not seen that anywhere in any reports this morning. A quick search on the internet and it suggests that the release clause is for a team that qualified for either European competition, this meaning we are eligible to activate his clause. Remember though Catalancs is an ITK apparantley. http://www.nufcblog.org/2012/01/ba-rele ... _LhsbtZ62I Only 'apparantley' though. Villas Boas off to Spurs. Had a feeling he was biding his time till a big club showed interest

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:56 pm  

Goochie wrote:

I'd expect Citeh to be fairly quiet. I think they'll sign another centre half and probably a striker but other than that the incomings will just be upgrades on players that will leave.

An injection of pace wouldn't be bad