Gallas was a massive flop here. His goals and shoutyness covered for his poor defending. And for some reason people defended him despite his absolute averageness as a footballer. Its no wonder Mourinho refused to let him play centre half.

Indeed, useless scumbag who ended up at Perth via Tottenham.

Gallas was easily our best CB during the years he played here IMO.

Tottenham are in for a chance at top four this year if United continue to faff about with transfers.

Nah, they are well fucked. As usual.

liverpool at their best play better attacking football than arsenal

last season, i would def agree with that. they played some really good stuff.

also agree with rex re: gallas.

Tony Montana wrote:

NFL model is a fairer system. More socialist which is weird for USA.

it's not fair, it rewards failure. creates an illusion of parity. same for all US sports.

that said, there's no "social mobility" in european football. there's a class system in place, and though there are temporary ups and downs in the cycle, every club ends up where it "belongs." the established order rarely changes unless there is dirty money involved from russia or the middle east, or a formerly great team suffers from being stuck in a shit league.

We've probably played about 12 months tops of 'great attacking football' since 2008.

Start of 09-10 before RVP got injured, 2011 in the months around beating Barca, parts of last season... Not much more than that.

pool will still be the best team to watch this season, and sterling is turning into a fucking player and a half unfortunately. they'll falter because they're one-note and their approach relies on young players too heavily, much like us when cesc was here

kamikaze wrote:
Tony Montana wrote:

NFL model is a fairer system. More socialist which is weird for USA.

it's not fair, it rewards failure. creates an illusion of parity. same for all US sports.

that said, there's no "social mobility" in european football. there's a class system in place, and though there are temporary ups and downs in the cycle, every club ends up where it "belongs." the established order rarely changes unless there is dirty money involved from russia or the middle east, or a formerly great team suffers from being stuck in a shit league.

Of course theres social mobility in European football, many teams have had wonderful era's and now they are forgotten.
Madrids down lasted 30 years as did Man Utd's Barcelona were nothing until 1992 and where are Liverpool now?
The "dirty money" that you rail against is actually responsible for allowing newer clubs to gate crash the rich mens club that UEFA want to maintain with their FFP.

Bergkamp doesn't get enough credit for the player he was.

Ozil doesn't actually enjoy being here and would move to Chelsea straight away if Mourinho called.

Podolski is the best finisher in the league.

Le professeur wrote:

Ozil doesn't actually enjoy being here and would move to Chelsea straight away if Mourinho called.

😆 LeProf: Mind Reader.

The story goes Chelsea bid for Fabregas to see if we'd bite and buy him back. Then Mourinho would entice Ozil.

Now he's stuck with that balding loser.

Nasri's the only guy who's left us in recent years and created value for all involved. We got paid for a player that we've since replaced; he makes bank at City; and Pellegrini sees him as a key piece in his squad

Mesut is fucking loving it here, guaranteed.

marv3llous wrote:

Mesut is fucking loving it here, guaranteed.

I dunno man. Something tells me he's not enjoying himself. Not one bit.

Just out of curiosity, why do you feel he doesnt like it here?