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[DSWii60]

The Guinea goal is going to stay under siege until the end of the game now.

 

[Steroyd]

Cut me some slack - I've never played it before.... :lol

And thou shall show thee redemption for commiting such a sin, go into the light and right your wrongs purge yourself of all your past discretions.

My next door neighbour is Ghanian... go Ghana whenever that starts.

 

[SupahBlah]

The demo is great I like Nero's devil arm especially when you use it to smackpwn the boss.

Pixeljunk monsters got released on PSN today I think it's really great like a RTS tower defence game.

:lol Yes, giving him a bitchslap with it was most enjoyable.

That PixelJunk Monsters works on remote play, is there a demo for it at all?

 

[Falch]

Falch - any word on Lee Nguyen currently being on trial with Randers FC in Denmark?

Nope, first I hear about it. It's being reported on Danish websites, though.

 

[Karakand]

:lol I love how people think City got money. More and more rumours are saying that Thaksin got no money, at least not until his assets are unfrozen. And even if they are, some say he won't spend it on City.

Why would he not spend money when he has it? The amount of money he has frozen is so ridiculous that it'd be a drop in the hat to spend a couple 10 million a season.

 

[Steroyd]

:lol Yes, giving him a bitchslap with it was most enjoyable.

That PixelJunk Monsters works on remote play, is there a demo for it at all?

Idiotically just the jpn store.

 

[DSWii60]

Morrocco really should've done more with the possession they've had in the past 15 mins.

 

[Cornballer]

Goals from the Guinea-Morocco game:

http://www.d1g.com/video/show/?id=1720864
http://www.d1g.com/video/show/?id=1720871
http://www.d1g.com/video/show/?id=1720884

 

[DSWii60]

3-2

 

[Scum]

Guinea 3 - 2 Morocco

 

[Cornballer]

How much time is left?

 

[DSWii60]

Arguing going on about a free kick on the edge of Guinea's box. Last chance for Morrocco.

Edit: Game over 3-2

 

[Scum]

How much time is left?

We're in 3mins added time, of 3mins added time. Morocco have a freekick.

 

[Scum]

Game over. Guinea 3 - 2 Morocco.

 

[Manager]

Why would he not spend money when he has it? The amount of money he has frozen is so ridiculous that it'd be a drop in the hat to spend a couple 10 million a season.

Of course, I'm not saying I know the guy. I didn't even know who he was before he bought City. And who says he can get them unfrozen?
He probably got blood on his hands. Being a prime minister and earn like a billion in a couple of years? There seems to be proof that he did some shitty stuff. He did buy that telecom company that gave him tons of money, but there were some crazy stories about that too.

And it's a little bit convinient, that he *bought* a reason to not be in Thailand. And, now suddenly people like him! Wow. He got what he wanted.

Of course, I haven't read enough about him to say that I'm sure he's a killer, but every article seems to show more and more about how shitty he is.

Anyway, many many journalists has written in their columns that they don't believe he will spend much money. And hell, even our summer buyings was NOTHING of his money. Doesn't that say anything? It's not like they froze ALL his assets.

Anyway, we'll see. Who knows. I wish the journalists are wrong.

Luis Fabiano says he's interested, and newspapers are reporting that we've made a bid of around 8.5 mil.

 

[h0pper]

ok, it's pretty fucking sweet.

 

[Karakand]

Awesome, I get my second RROD the day the DMC4 demo drops.

moar liek devil may CARE amirite

 

[Cornballer]

:lol

 

[Steroyd]

:lol the timing sucks, at least it wasn't a GTA IV release.

Pixeljunk monsters over remote play is awesome when it doesn't lag.

Great Ghana vs someone and my PC decides to take a dump... Microsoft is there anyone you're not screwing over today?

 

[Osorio]

Today's the supplemental draft? I don't even know what that is.

 

[Cornballer]

Today's the supplemental draft? I don't even know what that is.

It's all of the leftovers from last week's draft. Not sure why they break it up this way, but that's what it is. There's also a waiver draft, I think.

Also, sounds like DCU have locked up the signing of Gallardo, but Gomez will probably be leaving.

 

[Karakand]

:lol the timing sucks, at least it wasn't a GTA IV release.

My first RROD was the first freaking day of the Halo 3 beta. I was so damned pissed. (Probably because my piece of shit roommate at the time hogged so much bandwidth that I had to leave the thing on all night to download, which probably caused the meltdown.)

This time... eh. I just cleared my backlog on the system and I have No More Heroes to play.

 

[Osorio]

Also, sounds like DCU have locked up the signing of Gallardo, but Gomez will probably be leaving.

Really? I thought Gallardo was looking at playing here. Him and Angel and all that BS.

 

[Cornballer]

Really? I thought Gallardo was looking at playing here. Him and Angel and all that BS.

I only saw him linked with DCU. They're pulling in 3-4 players this week. The empire strikes back and all that. Fuckers.

 

[Osorio]

I only saw him linked with DCU. They're pulling in 3-4 players this week. The empire strikes back and all that. Fuckers.

Fuck them. He was linked with DC first but he's also interested in playing with Angel again. He even said Angel was the person who convinced him to look at MLS.

 

[Cornballer]

FA to take no action over Adebayor/Bendtner incident

The following statement was released by the FA on Thursday afternoon

"The FA will not take any formal disciplinary action against over the incident involving Arsenal team-mate Nicklas Bendtner during the Carling Cup semi-final second leg against Tottenham but will write to both players to remind them of their responsibilities."

tsk tsk!

 

[Manager]

Why should they do Wenger's dirty work? He's the one to tell Ade to behave like a grown man and then sell Bendtner to City.

 

[SupahBlah]

Awesome, I get my second RROD the day the DMC4 demo drops.

moar liek devil may CARE amirite

Or CRY, amirite???

Also, lol at Cena.

 

[Karakand]

I just realized I'm going to miss the Rez HD release.

 

[Scum]

How on earth did he miss that!!

 

[Scum]

Ghana 1 - 0 Namibia
It's been a looonnng time coming! \o/

 

[QVT]

It's been such a long timeee
think i should be scoring
time doesn't wait for me
it keeps on rolllllllin'

schooools out for weekend
deeee dedededededeeee
schoooools out for weekend

 

[Cornballer]

According to reports in France, Argentine playmaker Marcello Gallardo is set to sign with D.C. United. The highly-coveted attacking midfielder's arrival would mean that former MLS MVP Christian Gomez's days in D.C. are over. Whether Gomez goes elsewhere in the league via trade, or if he takes one of the foreign offers he was considering this month, remains to be seen. (As Steve Goff rightly points out though, you never know a deal for an Argentine midfielder is done until he's actually in uniform).

D.C. is loading up on foreign players, having landed Argentine forward Franco Niell on a one-year loan deal on Tuesday and signed Colombian defender Gonzalo Martinez on Wednesday.

Red Bulls fans bumming about the Red Bulls missing out on Gallardo should know that, according to one high-ranking team source, the Red Bulls never made a serious inquiry about Gallardo and were never in the running for his services.

The Columbus Crew has agreed to sell Chilean defender Marcos Gonzalez to Universidad Catolica for an undisclosed transfer fee, sources with knowledge of the deal told SBI. Gonzalez figured to anchor the Crew back-line but needs on offense and the drafting of highly-regarded center back Andy Iro made selling Gonzalez a necessary decision. Look for the Crew to start out with Chad Marshall and Danny O'Rourke as central defense starters until Iro shows he's ready to take the job.

That's all for now. I'll be looking to uncover some more player movement news, and get more details on these stories, as the day goes on so stay tuned.

There's no draft tracker up, so results will probably be here in one big chunk at around 4pm ET, if Galarcep is to be believed.

 

[Falch]

Villarreal - Barca for the Copa in 5 minutes.

 

[Cornballer]

US callups....

U.S. men's national team coach Bob Bradley recalled 21 players from the team's earlier camp for training ahead of the upcoming friendly against Mexico in Houston on Feb. 6.

Landon Donovan leads an MLS-heavy list of players who should make up a bulk of the roster that will face Mexico at Reliant Stadium in two weeks. Here is the roster:

GOALKEEPERS – Steve Cronin (LA Galaxy), Brad Guzan (Chivas USA), Will Hesmer (Columbus Crew), Zach Wells (D.C. United)

DEFENDERS –Dan Califf (Aalborg BK), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards), Ramiro Corrales (SK Brann), Todd Dunivant (Toronto FC), Clarence Goodson (San Jose Earthquakes), Drew Moor (FC Dallas), Michael Parkhurst (New England Revolution), Eddie Robinson (Houston Dynamo)

MIDFIELDERS –Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Ricardo Clark (Houston Dynamo), Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo), Justin Mapp (Chicago Fire), Pat Noonan (New England Revolution)

FORWARDS – Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy), Chris Rolfe (Chicago Fire), Taylor Twellman (New England Revolution), Jeremiah White (AGF Aarhus)

Bradley will add some European-based players to this group for the match, but it appears unlikely that Bradley will call in a full-strength squad.

 

[Scum]

FT Ghana 1 - 0 Namibia

Unconvicing win by Ghana.

 

[Cornballer]

:lol

 

[Karakand]

I take issue with the replacement of freedom with relegation.

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

 

[Manager]

Seems like Alves has signed with Boro now, reported on SSN. From earlier today:

It is understood the player has accepted a contract at the Riverside and Boro are thrashing out a fee in the region of £10million with Heerenveen.

10 mil is less than 18 mil. Hopefully Sven was right, for all of our team's sakes.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Can Boro afford that? Downing or Woodgate might be on the way.

 

[Steroyd]

10 mil is less than 18 mil. Hopefully Sven was right, for all of our team's sakes.

What Sven say?

For the love of god he can't be the Alves we've been following in the dutch league.

 

[SupahBlah]

Can Boro afford that? Downing or Woodgate might be on the way.

Boro aren't poor, but their chairman basically funds everything because its not like they can rely on stadium attendance. :lol

 

[Cornballer]

Picks from the Supplemental Draft trickling in....

KC:
M Pat Healy from Towson State.
M Vicente Arze from Mercer.
M Tom Gray from Monmouth.
GK Andrew Kartunen from Stanford.

RBNY:
Danleigh Borman
Michael Palacio
John Gilkerson
Laurent Manuel

DC United picks:
UCLA defender Brandon Owens (U-17s, U-20s)
West Virginia midfielder Dan Stratford (England native)
Franklin Pierce (N.H.) goalkeeper James Thorpe (Division II champions)

 

[Manager]

What Sven say?

For the love of god he can't be the Alves we've been following in the dutch league.

Alves was heavily rumoured to City, and the staff commented him in various newspapers. It was more or less a given at that time that Sven checked him out (I thiiink there were some agent comments about City too), but as he didn't sign him, I guess he didn't think he was worth the fee.

On the other hand, every striker in Europe has been rumoured to City, so Sven probably think every striker in Europe isn't worth their transfer fee.

 

[Cornballer]

Supplemental Draft picks.

Chicago Fire : MF Kai Kasiguran (Messiah), F Adrian Bumbut (Liberty), MF Zach Pope (Duke), D Steve Bode (Wisconsin-Milwaukee), MF Timothy Conway (Nyack), GK Melford James Jr. (Montevallo).

Chivas USA: F Kraig Chiles (San Diego State), F Javier Ayala-Hill (California State), MF El Hadj-Cisse (North Carolina State), D Andre Sherard (North Carolina).

Colorado Rapids: F Kevin Forrest (Washington), MF Cesar Zambrano (Illinois-Chicago), GK Mike Graczyk (New Mexico), MF Daniel Antunez (Hartford).

Columbus Crew: GK Billy Chiles (Towson), MF Corey Elenio (Evansville), F Lukasz Tumicz (Rhode Island), F/D Zola Short (Virginia).

D.C. United: D Brandon Owens (UCLA), MF Dan Stratford (West Virginia), GK James Thorpe (Franklin Pierce).

FC Dallas: F Yannick Reyering (Virginia), M/D Ben Shuleva (Southern Methodist).

Houston Dynamo: MF Johnny Alcaraz (Westmont), F Craig Thompson (Colorado School of Mines), MF Kieran Hall (Fort Lewis), F James Georgeff (Central Florida).

Kansas City Wizards: MF Pat Healey (Towson), MF Vicente Arze (Mercer), MF Tom Gray (Monmouth), GK Andrew Kartunen (Stanford).

Los Angeles Galaxy: D Michael Gavin (Portland), GK Charles Alamo (California-Riverside), D Greg Folk (UCLA), F/M Daniel De Geer (San Francisco).

New England Revolution: F Mkokheli Dube (Coastal Carolina), D Chris Tierney (Virginia), MF Kyle Altman (Trinity), F Saidi Isaac (Winthrop).

New York Red Bulls: MF Danleigh Borman (Rhode Island), MF Michael Palacio (Stony Brook), D John Gilkerson (Winthrop), D/M Manuel Laurent (Brown).

Real Salt Lake: F Tino Nunez (UC Santa Barbara), MF Kevin Reiman (Michigan State), F Kenny Anaba (Cincinnati).

San Jose Earthquakes: F Adam Smarte (California-Santa Cruz), F Tim Bohnenkamp (Creighton), D Greg Curry (UC Santa Barbara), D Tim Jepsen (Duke).

Toronto FC: F Xavier Balc (Ohio State).

 

[Osorio]

Hmmm are any of those guys going to make a roster?

 

[Cornballer]

Most of them will end up development players ($12,000 per year!) or washing out, but some of them eventually end up being starters.

 

[Wes]

Can Boro afford that? Downing or Woodgate might be on the way.

Boro aren't a poor club. Also how much did they get for Yakubu? I'm sure they haven't spent all of that.

 

[hadareud]

the whole Adebayor thing seems to blown completely out of proportion.

He shouldn't have done what he's done or said what he did, but he apologised immediately afterwards. There's emotions involved in football and when you're down by 3 or 4 goals at Spurs you better be pissed off.

Yeah, could and should have handled it differently, but such is life.

A telling off is sufficient.

And Bendtner is going nowhere btw

 

[Osorio]

Most of them will end up development players ($12,000 per year!) or washing out, but some of them eventually end up being starters.

Well Osorio drafted in the right positions so let's see if there's a diamond in the rough.