English Football Thread 2012/2013

Who will win the 2012/13 Premier League?

  • Manchester City

    Votes: 9 25.0%
  • Manchester Utd

    Votes: 19 52.8%
  • Arsenal

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Spurs

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Newcastle

    Votes: 1 2.8%
  • Chelsea

    Votes: 6 16.7%
  • Everton

    Votes: 1 2.8%

  • Total voters
    36
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Ethically it's perfectly fine. They are just trying to be a successful club in the long and short-terms. Signing promoising young players is a part of their strategy for doing so.

well, it is and it isn't.

You're right, it's perfectly fine within the rules, however, the bigger question is whether the actual footballing side of football needs to be run using such a strict capatalist ethos when it is a sport for entertainment purposes.

I don't think using teenagers as financial commodities is so completely ethical that there isn't room for discussion.
 
I've been saying all season Spurs have plenty of time to throw away their decent position. Level of short termism in football journalism these days is just ridiculous. I believe about 3/4 months ago most of the MoTD team and most press had Wenger out, Spurs challenging Man City and Chelsea in chaos.

If only being a Spurs fan wasn't painfully predictable it would probably get quite miserable.
 
I usually don't go all out and quote full on articles, but I thought this needs to be seen and read.

"I think that next season is going to be much better, I am convinced about that," Soriano told the Mirror. "It doesn't mean we're going to win one or two titles. But, in the grand scheme of things, if we look at the next five years and I could plan now, I would say I want to win five trophies in the next five years.

"That may mean we win no trophies one year and two in another but, on average, I want one trophy or title a year.

"That's the Champions League, the Premier League or the FA Cup. I think it's a realistic aim, yes. But I'm talking about five years.

"If next year we don't win, but progress our football and get to the semi-finals of the Champions League, finish second in the Premier League and lose the FA Cup Final again, that will be fine.

"That's because we will have progressed in the way our football develops."

And the former Barcelona vice-president and managing director hopes it will be a foundation of local talent that will see the club into a new era of success.

"Teams that have won consistently in the past have a core of players that are home-grown," said Soriano.

"I've seen it to the extreme in Barcelona, where we won the Champions League, with nine out of the 11 players in the team home-grown. And you've seen it at United.

"It's consistent. You can't win one year after the next if you don't have a core of players that have been playing together for a long time.

"What we also want is football concept so that the basic way we play is shared by the whole organisation. From young teams all the way up to the first-team.

"We're asking the new manager to have close collaboration with the youth football and to work together to achieve this. This has a consequence. We maximise the chance to win.

"You can't go to the market every year and buy the most expensive players. That's not to say we won't be signing expensive players. We will.

"But the objective - the vision - is to have a team where at least half of the players will be 'City' players.

"A 'City' player will be someone like Joe Hart, who has been there a while. They love the club and can be the core of the squad.

"When a young boy or a marquee signing comes, he knows there are some people who are going to tell him 'this is City, this is how we play, this is how we behave'.

"So the vision is that we will have at least half of the team at this core and we will be adding players every year as we need them.

"The players might come from other clubs, continents or cultures, but we have to have stability in the culture and the way we play."

Soriano: City demand a trophy a year - ESPN FC

(Poorly headlined by ESPN ofc)
 
"When a young boy or a marquee signing comes, he knows there are some people who are going to tell him 'this is City, this is how we play, this is how we behave'.

This is City? What - the club that before the takeover were a mid table club at best, or a yo-yo club, or one that was in League One not all that long ago? This is City?

Sorry, that just really made me laugh. 'This is City' - who the hell do you guys think you are? Liverpool, with their 'This is Anfield' sign? :lol:lol:lol:lol At least they've got a bit of history to back it up. :lol
 
Couldn't comprehend half of his words. 2nd in the Premier League, semis of the CL and a FA Cup final and good football?!!

That's crazy.
 
Any other Utd fans getting a bit concerned at the wholesale changes Moyes is making to our backroom team? Also David, don't try and buy the whole Everton team... we've already been heavily linked with Felliani, Baines and Jagielka.

Speaking of Everton, what do the Toffees here think of their new badge? I agree with what Yahoo was saying about it... it does look a bit like one of those Hobbit cottage things...
 
It's an awful awful badge.

Looks like the tatt pro evo used to produce when they didn't have the liscences.

I can live with the idea of the changes, dropping the wreaths/motto wouldn't bother me too much.

it just looks rubbish, amateurish and childish.

For a little bit of colour the petition against it has more signatures than the proposal for moving to kirkby got yes votes. People's club etc. :rolleyes
 
Martinez seems to be heading to Everton, what do you people think of that?
 
Queens Park Rangers?
 
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