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Fair enough. But what do you mean by playing every game? Before his injury I believe he was more of a bench player than anything else. He starts one game after his injury and he's automatically a tyrant? Watch him being benched the moment Ramires comes back.

He was right and he predicted correctly that one day he won't have as talented squad as he had with Porto... and he predicted right, he will be the one blamed. Prophetic if you ask me. Voted no.

Fuck, I totally forgot today was a game. But I see we lost 2-0... fuck that! I dislike your post because of this: you called Lampard a "legend". Why between quotation marks? Please fuck off if you're implying that he isn't a legend. And he just came back from an injury. I didn't see him play but it was always going to happen when a 33 year old injury prone player starts after a fresh injury... it's something that should be AVB's responsiblity to recognize and address. If he really was THAT bad, and he was preferred over the others, then you can see the problem lies within the whole squad if there ain't no better options... or it was just a big gamble/mistake by AVB, dunno.. I must watch the game. I'm pretty sure soon enough Lamps will get himself back into physical form and score a winner, and this thread will fall into abyss just like the "Is JT finished" thread.

absolutely no evidence of 4-4-2 being effective for us. we've only seen the team play 4-3-3 under AVB. I doubt the players could adapt so quickly after playing mainly 4-3-3 for the past 8 years, it would probably lead to more disaster tbh.

He is one of the few managers who is certain to take his team to the next level. That's why we fear him going to City, no other manager would invoke such fear imo. Proud that he is part of our history. And that moment with Materazzi, top man.

well said

good read but you get one question, and that is what you ask? a bit disappointed really

So Term X, how did the meeting go?

exactly.. torres's depression and the lack of creativity contribute to that. MAYBE he would change if he'd get 10 chances per game, but that's not going to happen with this team and I believe he was brought in to finish the 1 or 2 chances he gets per game. he doesn't do that. that's not the Torres the world knows, because in Liverpool he was known as the man who could be a shadow for 89 minutes and then pop up and score one chance. this is derailing Danny's thread though. The main question is should Danny be playing ahead of Torres in CF position or not? Imo he should, but that's not a possibility because our right wing is in a bad situation atm without him. AVB even showed it once against Blackburn I think, he snubbed Torres and Drogba, but our right wing was so flat.

The goals would come from (accurate) shooting

our midfielder that is Lampard has got 20 goals a season for the past who knows how many years, regardless of our team's creative issues... even now he has much more. Creativity only excuses you so far.. I have no doubt Falcao and RVP would be miles ahead of Torres in our team. And our off-position winger that is Sturridge has got also more. Yeah I can see where he can feel upset when a moneydrain is preferred to him in his favoured position. The case with Torres however is exceptional and it should be studied by coaches across the world as an example of what went wrong and how to avoid it.

Moulding the new Mikel, as we sense the latter might be off soon... can't be without a scapegoat now can we

nostradamus? or baba vanga?

this video is private

yeah, the prejudice on this forum is sometimes astonishing. I remember people calling Cahill a greedy fuck and saying they don't like him already because of what newspapers reported, but after his interviews and debut all is forgotten... short memory people have. If it's the way of the people, then I see why FA is the same.

how can you be sure? there was so little time between Bob's and Rio's touches that it's impossible to know the trajectory of the ball's initial flight. but if the goal was officially given to Luiz, then no sweat, I'm just a fact freak.

sorry but that last goal was a Ferdinand own goal. or was it officially given to Bob?

Yeah.. whenever Estonia played England, there were long talks in our media how the police will handle the hooligans and drunks etc. One of the few games where the police were on heightened alert.

and that's how injuries occur in training

They are in incomparable situations. Jose was given a blind cheque to rebuild the squad immediately, AVB comes in a time when the club is trying to make profit and not to mention FFP (this means no more blank cheques). It's a much harder task for AVB than it was for Jose.

this Bernstein guy will probably appoint himself

aah man, Duff what would I give for one now

i want to punch his teeth out

Bayern have now Robben, Ribery and Shaqiri... that's devastating