The Association Football Thread

[bleedorange0037]

Granted its been against less than stellar competition, but 2 games into the season, Swansea look like a regular juggernaut.

 

[milohimself]

Maurice Edu is moving from Rangers to Stoke City

Surprised it didn't happen earlier

Waiting on bocanegra to move as well

 

[orange parmejohn]

Crap Saturday morning epl came on at frickin 7 o'clock??

 

[bleedorange0037]

Crap Saturday morning epl came on at frickin 7 o'clock??

Yep, you missed a sorry showing by West Ham. At one point near the end of the game they said that Swansea had had 71% possession in the 2nd half. That's Barca/Spain levels of possession. Even still the game could have been 1-0 if not for West Ham basically scoring two OG's in the first half.

 

[orange parmejohn]

Sounds like I missed a real snoozer.

 

[bleedorange0037]

Sounds like I missed a real snoozer.

I was actually pretty impressed by Swansea. They're probably going to get off to a hot start this year. They've already got 6 points and don't have to play any of the big name teams for another month of two. +8 on damn after two games isn't to shabby either.

 

[milohimself]

Wasted brilliant performances by friedel and BAE. I expect vdv to be on the move, probably to hamburg, still need to move on another striker. Fingers crossed for dempsey

 

[milohimself]

Rooney may be out a month

Fergie's forward situation just got a whole lot easier to figure out

 

[KingNick865]

Been real impressed with Swansea so far.

 

[Godfatha]

Amazing header by Skrtel.

 

[KingNick865]

If Man City would have crashed the net when Tevez put the ball on the frame of goal, it would be a tie game right now.

 

[Godfatha]

Thankfully they didn't. Liverpool has looked more in control since that incident.

 

[KingNick865]

Tello's really impressed me thus far on the wing.

dammit...1-0 Osasuna

 

[volball625]

Good fight back for the win. We consistently look like **** on the road.

 

[milohimself]

Modric to Real Madrid finally officially official, some reports saying a fee was paid to the tune of 33 million quid. If so, color me impressed.

Reports ALSO saying Spurs submitted a bid to snatch up M'Vila from Rennes, leading me to wonder "wtf"

 

[volball625]

Don't like him? I think he's a damn nice player.

 

[milohimself]

I think so too, but there's still a logjam with holding mids, and attacking for that matter if Van der Vaart doesn't get moved. I can understand looking at a #10 as VdV doesn't really fit what AVB does, but for holding, we've already got Sandro, Livermore and Scott Parker if he gets healthy. Should be more than enough.

 

[milohimself]

Anybody watching Udinese v Braga on FSC? Champions League field is close to being finalized.

 

[TylerD]

Yep.. Armero didn't seem to happy with the ground earlier. It came out of nowhere.

 

[milohimself]

Udinese and Braga going to penalties

 

[milohimself]

Yep.. Armero didn't seem to happy with the ground earlier. It came out of nowhere.

Thought they flew down to Venezuela for a match

BATE, Anderlecht, Dinamo Zagreb, Braga, and Malaga through to the group stage

 

[Godfatha]

Javi Martinez passes his medical. Looks like this thing is finally going to happen. He should make a great pairing with Schweinsteiger.

 

[milohimself]

I liked it

Looks like the run for the mighty American is over. Tottenham signed Hugo Lloris from Lyon. Pretty psyched

 

[Toujours Pret]

Hail! Hail!

 

[milohimself]

Also, second leg of the superclasico 4:25et on WatchESPN