Re: The Football Thread - 2011/12 (II)

by DJ_Smerk Mon 28 May 2012, 23:48

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/9295242/Chelseas-rebuilding-grows-with-78m-Eden-Hazard-signing.html

£78 million?

WHAT THE F*CK CHELSKI?!?! Laughing

by Brass Monkey Tue 29 May 2012, 00:00

Aye, I heard he's on 100g after tax. Plenty. Mofo.

by JKLever Tue 29 May 2012, 00:04

would've thought Citeh would double that without blinking

by skully Tue 29 May 2012, 00:06

Imagine being the head accountant/paymaster for an EPL club as you dole out weekly pay cheques so big that they could bail out the Greek economy. Shocked

by Brass Monkey Tue 29 May 2012, 00:08

JKLever wrote:would've thought Citeh would double that without blinking

Reportedly, Hazard wanted guarantees about a certain number of first team appearances and Manchester's arse wouldn't cash that.

They can't go for that. No can do.

by horace Tue 29 May 2012, 01:58

was listening to BBC Worldwide overnight and there was a story about a whole pile of raids on Serie A and B personages suspected of matchfixing...inc the home of Juve's manager...sounds like it will make the cricket spot fixing scandal minor by comparison

by tricycle Tue 29 May 2012, 07:00

And one Italian national team player was questioned too, Domenico Criscito. Lazio's captain has been arrested.
Link

Pakistan's bunch are squeaky clean.

by skully Tue 29 May 2012, 07:01

horace wrote:was listening to BBC Worldwide overnight and there was a story about a whole pile of raids on Serie A and B personages suspected of matchfixing...inc the home of Juve's manager...sounds like it will make the cricket spot fixing scandal minor by comparison

Yoiks, I thought they put the cleaners through Italian football years ago. Apparently not. Shocked

by horace Tue 29 May 2012, 07:54

according to the Beeb over 30 houses were raided...maybe checking for int on the carpets or dust mites columbo

by LeFromage Tue 29 May 2012, 07:56

DJ_Smerk wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/9295242/Chelseas-rebuilding-grows-with-78m-Eden-Hazard-signing.html

£78 million?

WHAT THE F*CK CHELSKI?!?!

What I can't work out is how Chelsea can possibly comply with the incoming (it's either this season or next) Financial Fair Play regulations. They make enormous losses, year upon year, have one of the largest wage bills in Europe, and spend an absolute bumload, year upon year, on players and compensation packages for the latest sacked manager.

I can only assume they've loopholed the f*ck out of it and Platini's great white vision for football equality will be utterly toothless and unenforceable.

by LeFromage Tue 29 May 2012, 07:58

skully wrote:
horace wrote:was listening to BBC Worldwide overnight and there was a story about a whole pile of raids on Serie A and B personages suspected of matchfixing...inc the home of Juve's manager...sounds like it will make the cricket spot fixing scandal minor by comparison
Yoiks, I thought they put the cleaners through Italian football years ago. Apparently not.

Some things can't be cleaned, so ingrained are they in the fabric of the culture and national psyche.

You could boil Italy in bleach for a generation, but it'd still be a hive of corruption.

by taipan Tue 29 May 2012, 07:59

Dello wrote:
DJ_Smerk wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/9295242/Chelseas-rebuilding-grows-with-78m-Eden-Hazard-signing.html

£78 million?

WHAT THE F*CK CHELSKI?!?!

What I can't work out is how Chelsea can possibly comply with the incoming (it's either this season or next) Financial Fair Play regulations. They make enormous losses, year upon year, have one of the largest wage bills in Europe, and spend an absolute bumload, year upon year, on players and compensation packages for the latest sacked manager.

I can only assume they've loopholed the f*ck out of it and Platini's great white vision for football equality will be utterly toothless and unenforceable.

Ditto City

by taipan Tue 29 May 2012, 08:01

Dello wrote:
skully wrote:
horace wrote:was listening to BBC Worldwide overnight and there was a story about a whole pile of raids on Serie A and B personages suspected of matchfixing...inc the home of Juve's manager...sounds like it will make the cricket spot fixing scandal minor by comparison
Yoiks, I thought they put the cleaners through Italian football years ago. Apparently not.

Some things can't be cleaned, so ingrained are they in the fabric of the culture and national psyche.

You could boil Italy in bleach for a generation, but it'd still be a hive of corruption.

Just like Pakistani cricket

by horace Tue 29 May 2012, 08:08

and saffie cricket in the hansie days

by LeFromage Tue 29 May 2012, 08:11

taipan wrote:
Dello wrote:
DJ_Smerk wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/9295242/Chelseas-rebuilding-grows-with-78m-Eden-Hazard-signing.html

£78 million?

WHAT THE F*CK CHELSKI?!?!

What I can't work out is how Chelsea can possibly comply with the incoming (it's either this season or next) Financial Fair Play regulations. They make enormous losses, year upon year, have one of the largest wage bills in Europe, and spend an absolute bumload, year upon year, on players and compensation packages for the latest sacked manager.

I can only assume they've loopholed the f*ck out of it and Platini's great white vision for football equality will be utterly toothless and unenforceable.

Ditto City

Oh yeah, City have already tried to weasel their way around it by signing the biggest sponsorship deal in the history of money with, erm, their owners.

by taipan Tue 29 May 2012, 08:15

horace wrote:and saffie cricket in the hansie days

Or even Aus in the Warne and Waugh days.

by horace Tue 29 May 2012, 08:19

keep on pitchin' taips...the hansie stuff was endemic and ran through the team like the effects of a bad prawn curry...still that is all ancient history now is it not?

by taipan Tue 29 May 2012, 08:21

Snap

by DJ_Smerk Tue 29 May 2012, 15:33

Brendan Rodgers off to Liverpool? FFS.

by LeFromage Tue 29 May 2012, 16:03

Saints have a £7 million bid for Burnley's Jay Rodriguez accepted.

That's a f*ckload of moolah for a Championship striker. Should've shopped around Europe - bound to be better deals than that.

by DJ_Smerk Tue 29 May 2012, 16:06

I'm putting him in my fantasy teamnext season.

----------------Hart-------------------
Richards-----------Evans---------------Cahill
Hazard--Kagawa--Sigurdsson--Dempsey
Torres-------------Rodriguez--------Podolski

by Brass Monkey Tue 29 May 2012, 16:17

DJ_Smerk wrote:Brendan Rodgers off to Liverpool? FFS.

Phooey!

by JKLever Tue 29 May 2012, 20:32

I'm still chuckling at the thought of Horrie listening to BBC Worldwide.

Still trying to tune in for news about the centre of the universe from your colonial outpost H old boy? Laughing

by Lara Lara Laughs Tue 29 May 2012, 22:36

Hmmm. Interesting signings by Chelsea. Marin and now Hazard for 32m. Strange that he's gone with a club without a manager.Who sold the club to him and explained how he would fit in tactically? Some suit?

Hazard is potentially out of this world but Marin is not too shabby either. Bags of talent and just 23. They're also rumoured to be planning a 30m bid for Hulk, which wouldn't be a bad move if the midfield and attack is to be full of waifs. I've not seen much of him but seems a bit Julio Baptista-y. Apparenty he can play right wing like Baptista.

With Ramires, Mata, Torres, Hazard, Marin, Hulk they've potentially got something a bit exciting. Mata, Hazard, Marin and trusty old Lamps could, in theory, create a shit load of goals for Torres. They've all got world class assist records.

Whether it be Hulk or someone else they need another striker (Higuain? - would be devastating in Prem), a right back and potentially a water carrier. I'd like to see Lampard play this role more in the future as he loses some of his attacking vitality. He is a pretty tidy, intelligent, superbly tatically disciplined (see Barca/Bayern) and will still chip in with goals and assist plenty. I see absolutely no reason why he couldn't play this role as well as, say, Deschamps. He's more than good enough IMO.

Exciting times at Chelsea high. Could be a real force next season, depending on what happens with their manager.

*mutters* f*cking pisses me off that he didn't go to Arsenal though*mutters*

by Brass Monkey Tue 29 May 2012, 23:08

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:
They're also rumoured to be planning a 30m bid for Hulk, which wouldn't be a bad move if the midfield and attack is to be full of waifs. I've not seen much of him but seems a bit Julio Baptista-y. Apparenty he can play right wing like Baptista.

Can play right wing? Pretty much does play right wing, sharing the responsibilty with Belluschi and being one of those in fashion 'inverted' cack-footed type winger forwardy things. He can play anywhere attacking, IMO.

Hazard has been veering quite a bit left in his advances forward this last season, what with Joe Cole wrecking the right side... so they could iron out careers together at Chelsea in the same team. With Torres up front, it could be quite an exciting combination and I must say I'm pleased that players of this calibre could be coming to our shores.

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