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  1. did you see LvG's post-match interview? obviously he isn't going to start panicking, but that he chalked some of it up to luck was a bit difficult to watch. And the way he said "it's difficult to play against a team that goes into a compact mode" it's like WHAT???? you're MANCHESTER UNITED, and you cannot contend with a "compact" SWANSEA? like, how does this not reflect a serious problem in attack for him? idgi
  2. I agree IRB, and there seems to be a shared consensus of pure confusion and frustration with LvG over on RedCafe.net -- the Martial signing just doesn't make sense for RIGHT NOW at all. It's funny seeing the Caf members freaking out. None of them want Austin ("pub player"), most don't want Pato, and none of them seem to want anything less than Ibra or Ronaldo. United is going through a serious identity crisis right now.
  3. i think charlie austin would be a good signing for united. he's proven in england, and should be available for relatively cheap. wouldn't be opposed to martial either, but he isn't going to be a massive influence on the squad right away, i don't think. and that is a massive price tag to pay for a prospect when the team needs a lot of help right now. would rather have ibra.
  4. I dunno.. in 2006, England was fielding a squad with Rooney, Beckham, Gerard, Terry, Lampard, A. Cole, Rio Ferdinand, G Neville, Carrick, Michael Owen... on paper, that is a very solid team. probably should have been just as strong as any other. but it NEVER seemed like managers could figure out how to partner Lampard with Gerrard - the midfield was NEVER as strong as it should have been. Very strange. England won't be winning anything any time soon, I don't think, but the team will be more exciting going forward, I think. I'm hoping for a serious youth movement.
  5. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/32024808 FA's Greg Dyke announces plans to restrict non-EU players FA chairman Greg Dyke has warned Premier League football is in danger of "having nothing to do with English people" as new proposals to limit the number of non-EU players are outlined by English football's governing body. The FA has also revealed plans to toughen the rules on home-grown talent in the latest proposals from its commission, which was set up in 2013 to improve the England team. The commission has also proposed changes to work permit rules having highlighted flaws in the system. The stricter work-permit rules, approved by the Home Office on Friday, will come into force from 1 May. Under the proposals outlined by the FA on Monday: A player will have to have been registered with his club from the age of 15 - down from 18 - to qualify as 'home-grown'. The minimum number of home-grown players in a club's first-team squad of 25 will increase from eight to 12, phased over four years from 2016. At least two home-grown players must also be 'club-trained' players - defined as any player, irrespective of nationality, that has been registered for three years at their club from the age of 15. Only the best non-EU foreign players will be granted permission to play in England. Dyke on spotting the next Harry Kane Speaking to the BBC's sports editor Dan Roan, Dyke explained the rationale behind the FA's new proposals by highlighting the impact of Harry Kane. The Tottenham striker, 21, only made his first Premier League start for Spurs in April 2014, and is this season's top scorer with 19 goals. "We have to do this by negotiation with the different leagues and with the clubs - we have to convince them that this makes sense for English football," said Dyke. "And we are helped by Harry Kane in truth - we are helped by seeing a young kid come into the Spurs team and become the top scorer in English football. "How many other Harry Kanes are around in the youth teams of Premier League clubs? It was almost by chance that Tim Sherwood became manager at Tottenham for a time and put him in the side - otherwise he would still be out on loan at Millwall or somewhere else." 'An awful lot of bog-standard foreign players' "If you apply the system we are just introducing over the last five years, a third of non-EU overseas players that have come here wouldn't get in," Dyke added. "We don't want to stop the outstanding talent coming here, but there are an awful lot of bog-standard players as well. "If we could get all this through, over the next three, four or five years, you could see the numbers of home-grown players going up from a percentage in the high 20s to 40%. It matters that this happens across the whole of English football, but it particularly matters to the top end of the Premier League. "The future England team by and large play for the top six sides. If you look in Germany, or Spain, it's always the same. And amongst the top six sides the decline in English players is quite marked. "If you look at who is playing in the Champions League, the English numbers compared to the Germans, the Spanish or the Brazilians, are pathetic."
  6. Solaris (1972): 9/10 haven't seen this one for a while. I think 2001: A Space Odyssey is my favourite movie. if not, it's certainly a top 3, and this movie is essentially Tarkovsky's rejection of 2001 on the grounds of it being a cold, calculated, inhuman representation of, well, humanity. Tarkovsky replaces this 'coldness' with (very Russian) meditations on love and what it means to be human (in a setting very similar to 2001's). some of the visuals, designs, and camera work seem exceptionally dated (lots of odd zooms, hilariously outmoded fashion meant to represent technology, etc.), and it isn't charming. but its all made up for in pure "huh???" moments - this means, of course, that it isn't for everyone. but i certainly enjoyed it. one for fans of heavy, heavy sci fi or philosophy majors. but uh, yea.
  7. interesting. I don't know anything about Kurzawa, but PSG just sent Digne out on loan (with option to buy) to Roma, and the two play the same position - seems like a weird move.
  8. oh god, I just had a long ass post typed up, and then I closed the wrong window. but luckily, I think you could just read this to get a better understanding of United's complicated (and ridiculous) financial situation and how it (probably) influences transfers: http://www.stretford-end.com/2011/03/manchester-united-debt-and-ownership-explained/ I see topbananas is reading the thread now, and I bet he could explain United's finances way better than I can. but I think the gist of it is that United, unlike Chelsea, was 'purchased' through borrowed money that collects massive, massive interest, and its reserves are generally created or sustained through sponsorships, winnings, and sales rather than direct cash injections. I think this explains why United's purchasing in recent years has been less than sexy, and this year it has dramatically changed: the loss of Champions League revenue has hurt them big time, and the only way to regain it is through purchasing. meaning that United's profits are like a bag of candy with a thousand hands reaching in it, whereas Abramovich is like Willy Wonka himself. why don't you think United's debt has influenced their buying power? look at their purchases in recent years: Bebe, Zaha, Fellaini, Young, Kagawa these are not world-beating players. In some of the years referenced int he article above, there were only 1 or 2 signings at all. It wasn't until the recent dramatic loss in revenue that the board were willing to allocate finances to "big" spending again, at the level one would expect from United http://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=1724&teamTabs=transfers
  9. didn't mean to say "no history to speak of" in a disparaging way - but i mean that relatively speaking, they are quite new to the realm of global branding and trophy winning compared to the likes of Madrid, Manchester United, etc.
  10. also the movie Genius, starring Colin Firth - easily my favourite actor. a biopic about Maxwell Perkins, the editor of some of the most famous novels of all time (hemingway, fitzgerald, etc.), and helped put the legendary publisher Scribner's on the map. could be interesting! also starring Nicole Kidman.
  11. ^ it's a shame the trailer for The Heart of the Sea kinda verges on mega hollywood cheese at times, because I think the story (it's the true tail of a rogue sperm whale attacking/marooning a whaling ship, the one that influenced Moby Dick) is probably about as good as a story gets. but director Ron Howard being Ron Howard, I just don't know HOW "hollywood" it will be. too much CGI? too sentimental? too fake, despite it being real? that said, I thought Howard's film from, what, 2013(?) called Rush was as good as a sports movie can get. so, maybe he can prove me wrong here. i also think Youth has potential. but maybe that's just because i'm a big sucker for Michael Caine. but with a supporting cast of Harvey Keitel and Paul Dano and Rachel Weisz, I am very optimistic. directed by Paolo Sorrentino, the guy who won best foreign film for The Great Beauty in 2013.
  12. What do you think they should do? Manchester United and Arsenal are not like Chelsea, PSG, Man City, etc.. Arse and United have complex financial systems which revolve around cash earned in relation to debts paid -- in other words, these are historically successful teams with reserves of cash, but colossal debts. Chelsea and PSG, for example, are the contrary: they are clubs with no history to speak of, and no money earned. They have sugar daddies who go into personal debts (or into the red) to buy their team success based on the achievements of the individual owner, rather than the club. It's easy for Chelsea to just go out and buy anyone, because the only debt Chelsea has to worry about is the debt of the owner, and what does he care, since he has 8 billion more dollars to burn? It's really not as simple as Arsenal just going out to buy Bale... obviously if they could do that, they would.
  13. PSG going for Coentrao is a bit disheartening, isn't it? PSG was poised to become a serious contender in Europe, but now they are just picking up scraps. With Cavani and Ibrahimovic rumoured to be heading out, the squad looks far less imposing on a European level
  14. Fellaini up front isn't a terrible option, especially in a no. 10 role, where he has had some pretty solid outings in the past But either way, I think LvG opening up about that is probably just because the players United have been interested in are severely overpriced simply because United is sniffing around -- in talking about their in-house options, United appear less desperate. Could just be a mind game, really
  15. wonder if there's an option to buy at the end of the loan deal? surely balotelli has no future in england? he's now on his 5th major club (Milan twice), and he's only just turned 25. he's gambling with his career, big time
  16. zero substance to this post, but the Daily Mail has a headline going right now and it reads: wonderful.
  17. this song is just too good for words. Nebraska may be my fav album of all time
  18. Pato was a championship/football manager monster back in the day, too. Always tried to sign him when I managed a mid table team, and he was a 40+ goal scorer year after year He gets the FM Stamp of Approval
  19. Pato is reportedly being offered to English clubs according to the Telegraph and a few other sources: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/11818899/Manchester-United-transfer-news-Brazilian-Pato-offered-to-Old-Trafford-club-and-Chelsea.html Hard to believe this dude is only 25. He's been around forever. Was he like 17 or 18 when he started playing in the AC Milan first team? People were projecting him to be the next Fat Ronaldo back in the day. If the pricetag of 10-11 million is accurate, I'm not sure it would hurt for United to put a bid in, just in case Rooney doesn't improve his form or gets injured -- a decent backup option, and certainly couldn't be any worse than Falcao
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