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Thursday, 31 March 2011

Ashley Young - a good addition?

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« Vidic plays 90 mins for Serbia | Home | Ashley Young – a good addition?By: Shaun | March 31st, 2011
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young So we’ve been persistently linked to Young as of late. The rumors will no doubt intensify on the back of some solid performances in an England jersey and being personally commended by Fabio Capello.

I’m trying to imagine where he would fit based on the personnel we currently have.

If Valencia stays fit, I can’t imagine him not commanding a regular spot on the right wing. God knows that would be our key to helping Rooney go on a scoring tear again.Nani’s form has been sensational this year and he’s flexible enough to play out on the left wing and drift infield to get his fill of shots on goal.

Where then does Young fit in? He’ll cost too much to merely be a sub or Carling Cup regular. Would we play him behind the forwards in a role that he’s thrived in the past 2 weeks? To go with a formation that consists of Valencia, Nani, Young and a duo of Rooney/Berba/Chicharito/Wellbeck?? would require strong clean up guy sitting in front of our backline.

Ultimately, a failure to first shore up our midfield defensively with the addition of more guts and grit would reduce our (potential) acquisition of Young to nothing more than a really expensive luxury.

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Category: Manchester United, Transfer Speculation

Tags: Manchester United, transfer rumors, Transfer Speculation
Tweet « Vidic plays 90 mins for Serbia | Home | arn00bI see him not so much behind Berbs/Chich and Rooney, nor taking Valencia's place, but more on the wing and and slightly advanced than Raul Meireles. He's most probably going to Liverpool, if not Spurs.

Don't think he'll go to United, there's no place for him and you already have forwards/strikers playing as wingers. You need someone in the central midfield soon since Giggs, Scholes and what'shisface number 4 are leaving soon. Unless you think that Park-Fletch-Carrick is a good midfield trio.Avfc_christypical manc talking out ya arseThomas K5he wont play in the championship with you bunch of spazs next yearblog comments powered by Disqus

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Mike Ashley Outlines European Ambitions For Newcastle United

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St James’ Park owner wants a return of European football every season to the North-East.

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Caption Competition #3: The England Captains and Ashley Cole

18 comments by Mad Dog and Glory on March 22nd, 2011

Apparently all is hunky dory in the England camp, like we believe that. So now is your chance to get in on the act. Tell us what this lot are thinking/saying? And before Joe Cole’s family get overly excited, this picture is from when he used to play football.

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Why Ashley Cole will never be popular

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Ashley Cole is one of the best left backs in the world. On his day, he might even have a justifiable claim to be the very best. He has made eighty-seven appearances for England and rarely let them down. During the past horrible twelve months for England, Cole was named their best player by the fans.

Winning

He has played his entire twelve year senior career at the very highest level with Arsenal and Chelsea, winning three Premier League titles, six FA Cups and a League Cup. He has been named in the Professional Footballers association team of the year three times and the UEFA team of the year twice.

All in all, Ashley Cole has had a glittering career and should be regarded as one of the best. Why is it then that he is a difficult person to like and that fans around the country can’t stand him?

Reasons

There are several reasons. The first one revolves around the way he left Arsenal. After saying that he would never play for anyone else he decided to leave when he was offered the measly sum of

Why Ashley Cole will never be popular

Dreadful public image

Winning

All in all, Ashley Cole has had a glittering career and should be regarded as one of the best. Why is it then that he is a difficult person to like and that fans around the country can’t stand him?

Reasons

There are several reasons. The first one revolves around the way he left Arsenal. After saying that he would never play for anyone else he decided to leave when he was offered the measly sum of

Premier League Managers Collective Reaction to Ashley Cole Shooting Incident (Video)

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Yep, before anyone asks, it is clearly not real but also amusing. Another one of those fake talkSPORT videos.

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Monday, 28 February 2011

Juventus Hemorrhaging Cash, Ashley Get Your Gun, and Other Monday Notes

By: Noel | February 28th, 2011
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It seems as though most of the news of interest from a Liverpool perspective today involves clubs and players that aren’t Liverpool. So it goes. There is a bit of Liverpool news on the injury front, though, and it isn’t pretty, as Martin Kelly could miss a month with a hamstring injury.

With Fabio Aurelio currently trapped in the void–or in 1973, or something–this leaves Liverpool with a grand total of one fullback for the foreseeable future. Hopefully everybody has enjoyed watching Jamie Carragher and Danny Wilson fill in, because chances are we’re about to get a heavy dose of just that…

* Of tangental interest on a couple of fronts, Juventus has just reported a 39.5M Euro loss in the first half of the season. Last year they made 14.2M over the entire term, while they expect to lose a similar amount in the second half of this season to bring their total losses close to 80M Euros when everything’s said and done. This is of course relevant to the previously discussed difficulty they might face in purchasing Alberto Aquilani when his loan comes due, and with hard numbers coming out it certainly paints a much more bleak picture for the grand old Italian club than one would have guessed.

It’s also of interest from a Liverpool perspective because even if part of their plummeting revenue is due to a drop in sponsorship and a re-negotiated, less favourable Sirie A television contract, the biggest single hit to Juventus’ revenue stream comes from dropping out of the Champions League and into the Europa. Premier League sides don’t report on the same schedule–the last reported numbers for Liverpool still had half a season of Champions League payments attached to them–so it will be some time before we know the full damage to Liverpool’s finances from dropping into Europe’s second level, but even with a new set of owners the kind of numbers being faced down by Juventus offer an ominous warning.

* Elsewhere, to the surprise of absolutely nobody, Wayne Rooney has escaped punishment for his elbow to the head of Wigan’s James McCarthy on the weekend. Most observers seem to feel it was a red card offense which should have seen him suspended for three matches including the upcoming game against Liverpool, but with the player not even receiving a booking at the time it was never likely the FA would hand down retroactive justice. In the end, then, they indeed didn’t hand down any kind of retroactive justice, as official Mark Clattenburg claimed he saw the event clearly at the time and so the FA claimed they had no grounds within their rules and by-laws to re-examine the situation.

While it would be easy enough to cry United favouritism while asking what would happen if this was a brutish foreigner like De Jong trying to take somebody’s head off, as always with the FA it seems to mostly boil down to institutional incompetence and a desire to cover their ears, eyes, and mouth and demand–via telegraph, perhaps, seeing as their mouths are covered–that they and their officials never, ever get a single thing wrong. Because if there’s one thing more important to the FA than getting things right, it’s saying that they got things right.

* On the lighter side of things, Torres hasn’t scored yet for Chelsea, and people have started to question his drive and form and general sulking attitude. Seeing as he’s no longer a Liverpool player–and since I now risk raising ire by discussing him–I normally would have let sleeping dogs lie at this point were it not for Annie Eaves uncovering part of The Secret Diary of Fernando Torres:

Today at training I made another faux pas. We were getting changed and JT dropped his armband, I picked it up and handed it back to him. Everyone went quiet. I had to go and stand on the naughty step for 10 minutes. Nnobody is allowed to touch his armband unless he hands it to them. I don’t even know why he needed to wear it, we were only going swimming.

Well, playing for Chelsea certainly sounds like a great deal of fun. Especially the part where Ashley Cole likes to wander around with a hunting rifle.

In the meantime, while you try to pretend that everything is in fact hunky dory, or wonder at the oddity of a day on which you’d rather read Torres’ fictionalised trials and tribulations at Chelsea because the only news worth talking about that’s directly Liverpool related is so awful you don’t quite know how to deal with it…

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Category: Premier League, Team News

Tags: Alberto Aquilani, Chelsea, Fabio Aurelio, Fernando Torres, Finances, I Can't Feel My Face, Juventus, Manchester United, Martin Kelly, Noel's really a bit of a dick, Premier League, Team News, Wayne Rooney
Tweet « West Ham’s Unpleasant Impressions | Home | agiambaCouple notes about Juve's figures- club site says we expect to lose 60M by the end of the year, not 80M. Second, the fuss about Aquilani is all that...a lot of fuss. It's 5.5mil for the next 3 years, certainly within our means. It all came about because Juve were interested in a lower lump-sum amount (JG Wentworth-style) and the Sun/DailyFail took that to mean we're totally broke.

Most of the money for his signing has been already budgeted, anyways. If he continues to do well (been off the last month or so) then we'll certainly sign him. If not, we'll let him go back. Not a financial question at this point.NoelThanks for a more in the know take on the Juventus situation--it's nice to know the specifics of what fans are thinking rather than relying too much on papers that may not be following things particularly closely.agiambaHappy to oblige. Seems our clubs fortunes have been rather close the last
few years.

Sorry about Poulsen.NoelHah. You can have him back whenever you want.agiambaWell, take this to heart. Now that you have a DoF, shouldn't have anymore
Poulsen incidents.YannApparently he’s worth £4.5m (est. 5.3M Euro), so Juve can take him, flog him off, and there’s almost the first Aquilani instalment. What do you say? Do we have a deal?LucasLeiva21"I don’t feel one of the boys here. At Liverpool I’d go into training, see Dirk’s face, and immediately feel better about myself. I miss this."

Somebody give Annie Eaves a Pulitzer! Shit, I doubt they have Pulitzers in the UK, but still...

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