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Official Football Thread 2006/2007 (Soccer)

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A bunch of Rossi speculation:

Porto and Juventus are battling it out to win Giuseppe Rossi's signature on loan for next season.
The 20-year-old Manchester United starlet was prolific after moving to Italy in January, scoring nine goals in 19 Serie A games for Parma.

Claudio Ranieri managed to get the best out of the American-born Italian striker, after he had endured a frustrating time at Newcastle United earlier in the season.

Juve have since appointed the 'Tinkerman' - known to be an admirer of the talented youngster - and Ranieri is eager to renew the partnership.

But United's purchase of Brazilian midfielder Andersen has complicated the issue, with Sir Alex Ferguson agreeing to give Porto preference in loaning players from the Premiership champions as part of the deal.

There is no indication that The Red Devils will even let Rossi back out on loan next season though, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer among a number of front-line members unsure of his future.

Louis Saha has suffered perennial lapses in fitness ever since moving to Manchester and speculation surrounding Alan Smith's contract also refuses to die down.

Rumours surrounding Nicholas Anelka have subsided, but the Old Trafford faithful would still like to see a new forward come in to improve the attacking options.

Rossi has stated his desire to forge a name for himself at the Theatre of Dreams next season, and that could prompt Ferguson to put his trust in the youngster, particularly if he is unable to enter in the transfer market again.
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PORTO AND JUVE AT THE ROSSI AUCTION
An auction has begun for Giuseppe Rossi, Manchester United's rising star who shined while on loan at Parma, scoring 9 goals in 19 Serie A games. Porto and Juventus contend for the player who is in need of regular playing time, something that will be difficult to come by in the Red Devil's starting lineup.

It seems that Porto, who just sold attacking midfielder Anderson to Ferguson, have expressed a strong interest in the little Italian jewell to the Scottish coach. Juventus, who for their part are looking for reinforcements to cover the nearly certain departure of Trezeguet, would be disposed to spend up to ten million euros in order to acquire the contract of the Clifton-born forward.
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It makes me sad that he isn't interested in playing for the US, but if he's good enough for Italy and that's where he wants to play - best of luck to him.
 
I fully expect him at Old Trafford next year, possibly not if United buy another stiker (but even then...).

I'm still not convinced he'll make it in the Premiership, but let's give him a chance. if he's not ready now I doubt he ever would be, I don't think another season on loan would help.
 
Regarding Rossi, that makes sense. It's time for them to either give him a shot or sell him.

A ton of games today including some critical Euro2008 qualifiers, a few random friendlies (Holland beat Thailand 3-1), NYRB play Toronto tonight, and the Gold Cup kicks off this evening with Costa Rica - Canada and the titanic Guadeloupe - Haiti clash. And for those of you scoring at home, Guadeloupe isn't even a country...
 
hadareud said:
what Arsenal forums do you go to btw Cornballer?
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BigSoccer Arsenal forums. Definitely a high percentage of American fans, but it's well moderated for the most part, and a good mix between decent analysis and stupid stuff just for laughs. I enjoy it, but I'm more of a lurker than a poster there.


Youtube of the day featuring penalty kicks....
Totti's new penalty technique
Ummmm, you want me to take that again? (Five times?!?)
Classic Cryuff (Pires tried this once and it did NOT work so well...)
The downside of letting your keeper take a penalty
 
wow @ the referee with that penalty. I would have kicked him in the guts after the 3rd time. I actually feel enraged just watching it :lol

the german goalkeeper penalty is great too :lol

edit: just found out that I already had an account at the bigsoccer board, what do you know. No worries, I shall only lurk too.
edit2: and I received reputation from you for a 3 year old post :lol. I shall return the favour
 
hadareud said:
edit: just found out that I already had an account at the bigsoccer board, what do you know. No worries, I shall only lurk too.
edit2: and I received reputation from you for a 3 year old post :lol. I shall return the favour
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Heh. I was wondering when you'd notice that. :P

Poland just lost to Armenia 1-0. Portugal and Serbia, who are behind them in the group, may be able to make up some ground this week.
 
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Henry rumours ignite

There’s a wild rumour every summer about a big name player moving to Liverpool and it seems the hot topic on Merseyside this year is that Arsenal striker Thierry Henry could be on his way to Anfield.

Henry has made it public recently that he is unhappy at Arsenal and their constant underachievement of recent seasons. The French striker has also revealed in the past that if he were to play for any other Premiership club besides Arsenal, it would be Liverpool. However he also reassured Arsenal fans that this would never happen.

Murmurings on Merseyside over the rumours, which have been circulating for several weeks now, suggest Henry could be set for an extraordinary one year loan deal at Anfield, whilst Reds striker Djibril Cisse is being rumoured to be heading in the direction of the Emirates Stadium. Maybe someone should be reminded that April Fool’s Day was a couple of months ago?

Odds slashed
Today William Hill added fuel to fire when they cut the odds of Henry moving to Liverpool this summer from 10/1 to just 3/1 amid a lot of bets being placed on the transfer over the last two days.

Spokesman Graham Sharpe revealed, “After taking increasingly more calls and bets - mainly from the Liverpool area - we have shortened the odds significantly just in case there is something to the story, which has yet to emerge into the public domain.”

Our betting tip of the day - don’t bet on it!

http://www.thisisanfield.com/news/2007/06/henry-rumours-ignite
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:lol
Guardian's "The Fiver" feature said:
HARDEST GAME IN THE WORLD

Sure, writing the Fiver looks easy to you. Take the dish du jour, stir in a few old gags, reheat, sprinkle on some Lo-Honk flavouring and serve lukewarm at 5.02pm. Well it's not. There are no easy Fivers anymore. Fact. You might not understand that, but Second-Choice Steve and his mirthless men know how we feel. Everyone thinks they should walk over Estonia Nil tonight, but what we've all failed to realise is that there are no easy games in international football anymore. Fiction.

To prove it, here's our Handy Six-Point Guide To Estonia:

1) They have lost all six games in their group.
2) They last scored a competitive goal on the same day as Frank Lampard: October 12 2005.
3) They are without the suspended Raio Piroja, their best defender. "He is a big loss, but it will not affect my team selection," said McClaren, with a straight face.
4) They have not scored a European Championship goal against anyone other than Andorra this century.
5) They are bobbins.
6) They are really bobbins.

The England squad, however, seem to have been watching too many Fast Show DVDs: to them, this really is the hardest game in the world. "If we win, it will be a great result," deadpanned Michael Owen. "The sooner everyone understands that these games away from home are tough, the better." This isn't even ham-fisted spin; the toaster genuinely means it! As does this jester, England's Brave John Terry: "Estonia are a good side, very tough to break down, very good at set pieces," he said, shaking like Drew Barrymore with her popcorn in Scream. "They almost scored against Croatia at the weekend."

Not only do England have to contend with a revolutionary opponent who can almost score goals, they must also overcome those nasty critics. "What you have to do to answer your critics is by putting in performances; we have done that in the last two games," said Second-Choice, his pants inexplicably catching fire as a higher power realiaed he was referring to that laboured draw with a comatose Brazil and the truly pitiful victory over Andorra. "When there's an England game and the possibility of playing for your country, you get energy from nowhere really," added Terry, inadvertently blowing up 492 polygraphs. "I am not going to think negatively. That is not in our thoughts. We are all thinking positively." Evidently.

Follow England's unconvincing win against one of the worst teams in Europe with Mike Adamson's minute-by-minute report from 7.30pm.
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I can't believe people are thinking of the possibility of a draw tonight. It's bloody Estonia. If we have aspirations of winning the Euro's we can't be worried about whether we're going to beat some minnow that hasn't even scored 1 goal in all of their matches.
 
OMG I was contemplating making a Henry to Liverpool Joke because in the past Henry has said that we have amazing fans and i didn't want to upset hadareud.

Seeing how there's a rumour...

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You know he wants that trophy. :lol
 
SCHADE DEUTSCHLAND ALLES IST VORBEI!

is what I would be singing if the own goal they just scored would have happened in the last minutes of the game. in a game that mattered. if I actually watched it.
 
There are four games on TV

Germany
France
England
Italy

Im watching Italy because the stadium is hilarious. It looks like theyre playing in the local park.
 
So apparently there was an owl flying around the stadium at the Finland-Belgium game. It did a victory lap and landed on the crossbar for a while.
 
jamesinclair said:
There are four games on TV

Germany
France
England
Italy

Im watching Italy because the stadium is hilarious. It looks like theyre playing in the local park.
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I'm watching Germany - Slovakia, to confirm Blaburn's comments about German domination. :lol
 
I'd love to comment on the England performance, but I missed the first 30 mins due to ****ing useless streams, so I only have 15 mins to go on.

Luckily I saw the goal, excellent turn and finish from Cole. Other than that it looked comfortable for the most part, one or two decent chances (like Lampard's header), but a dodgy moment of defending almost let them score so we need another.
 
Frenck said:
The Metzelder own goal was quite bizarre, not exactly what I expected from a Real Madrid defender.
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Yeah, just saw it. Don't know which goals was more entertaining, the 1-0 by Klose or the 1-1 by Metzelder. :lol
 
GOAL! Estonia 0 - 2 England (Crouch 54) Beckham, in plenty of space, sends over a dipping cross that Crouch allows to bounce in front of him before looping his header over Poom into the far corner. It was a very neat goal, even if there weren't any defenders anywhere near the two protagonists. The fans immediately start chanting "There's only one David Beckham!" which may or may not be true.
 
GOAL! Estonia 0 - 3 England (Owen 61) Beckham is again the creator, while Owen is the scorer for the first time in 13 months. With the left-back standing off him again, Beckham had time to deliver another delicious cross to the six-yard box, where remarkably Owen was completely unmarked. He then made enough contact to nudge the ball back across Poom and across the line. And suddenly England are world-beaters again! Tomorrow they'll be second favourites for the European Championship (I don't know why, but they're always second favourites).
 
Decent performance, Beckham was great, did what we had to do.

Russia are drawing away to Croatia right now, which really isn't what I'd like to see. I mean, it gives us a better chance of finishing top, but I'd prefer to just concede that to Croatia and have a better shot at second.
 
A couple thoughts (mostly stolen from the Guardian PBP)

- Crouch is out for the next game w/ yellow cards, but Rooney and Owen will probably play anyway
- Jenas has 16 caps?
 
well, things are looking a lot better for you again, I'm glad.

Germany destroyed footballing giants Slovakia 2:1 at home by the way. Scary stuff for the rest of Europe.
 
Shock Horror England played like an English team in the first half and squeezed a result.

Then Estonia got tired in the second half leaving Beckham with time and space to assist twice.

Dyer breached the defence a couple of times wished he pulled the trigger earlier in some instances and Terry made an off the line clearance cruelly denying Estonia's first goal in the qualifiers. :)

I'm satisfied.
 
Croatia and Russia finished 0-0, so the table looks like this:

1 Croatia-------7---12---17
2 Israel--------8---10---17
3 Russia--------7---10---15
4 England------7---10---14
5 Macedonia---7---/-1---7
6 Estonia-------7--/-14---0
7 Andorra------7--/-27---0

England's remaining fixtures:

H Israel
H Russia
H Estonia
A Russia
H Croatia

Win every game and beat Croatia 3-0 and we'll top the group no matter what anyone else does. Primarily though, just qualify.
 
England are in a much better situation after today's results. Did Beckham limp off injured?

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The Arsenal round up looks like this...

Jens played the full 90 in a 2-1 win for Germany over Slovakia.

Cesc was booked then subbed after 67 minutes in Spain's 2-0 win over Liechenstein. He also set up a goal.

Alex Hleb played the full 90 and won a pen in Belarus's 2-1 defeat in Bulgaria.

Nick Bendtner played an hour of Denmark's 2-0 win in Latvia.

Gallas lined up for France, they're currently leading Georgia 1-0 in the 75th minute.
 
Not really, he picked up a knock early on in the game and played on until we were 3-0 up, then went off as there was no longer a risk. I'm sure he'll be ok for Madrid, you couldn't even tell he was hurt while he played on. And they only have two games left, wrap the foot up, shoot him full of painkillers and send him off to LA Galaxy crippled.
 
Internationals are over, let's get back to being transfer muppets.

Anyway, the fixtures for the Premier League 2007 / 08 will be released next Thursday.
 
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