Football Thread

[MWaugh]

You can buy the premiership, you can buy the league cup... But you still cant win the Champions League!!!

 

[gold639]

console?? We are on cloud no.9!!!

Winning the double aint a joke, is it??

Yeah lol


Lets continue celebrating

You can buy the premiership, you can buy the league cup... But you still cant win the Champions League!!!

I'm repeating what I said to Kevmead: Before the season,everyone said that Chelsea can't just buy the title.

This new thing about Chelsea buying the title is a pathetic excuse.Look at Man Utd.They've spent big on the likes of Ferdinand,Veron,Stam,and Rooney.

And when they won the title,I suppose they bought it too? :

Read this:

Chelsea's dollars helps excuses
Courtesy of www.soccernet.com

A healthy diet has become the norm for the modern professional footballer but every Premier League manager must live in fear of his best players dining out in a "top London restaurant".

For as sure as coffee follows creme brulee, a link with Chelsea, usually in the form of ever-hungry chief executive Peter Kenyon, will emerge in the next day's tabloids.

The bottomless pockets of billionaire owner Roman Abramovich have transformed Chelsea into a football black hole, capable of sucking in everything that comes within orbit.

Just about every player at every club in the world, and certainly in England, is aware that, whatever astronomical wage they already earn, Chelsea are easily able to double it.

So when Rio Ferdinand (pictured) pops out for a meal with his agent and "coincidentally" bumps into Kenyon just a few miles from Stamford Bridge, Manchester United are right to have cause for concern.

When that chance encounter turns out to be two separate meetings spread over three hours and is followed a few days later by a Ferdinand demand for a massive pay rise, any pretence can be dismissed.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard turned down a move to Chelsea last year but the Anfield fans - and board - live in constant fear that the inspirational England midfielder could yet be tempted south.

Chelsea still face an FA inquiry over the claim that Arsenal defender Ashley Cole was "tapped up" outside the transfer window over a possible move across London, while England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson was another forced to protest his innocence after meeting Chelsea officials.

While players and agents worldwide queue up for a gravy train ticket, those who have been recently overtaken in the cash stakes (Man. Utd) are suddenly crying "foul".

Chelsea's new-found status is sniffily dismissed by some as the rather vulgar flashing of new money that goes hand in hand with the "arrogance" of a coach who dares to suggest in public that winning the UEFA Cup and Champions League in successive seasons makes him successful.

But for the likes of Manchester United to complain about somebody trying to buy the title, after the "world's richest club" have spent most of the last 20 years doing exactly that, is hypocrisy of the highest order.

It was not Chelsea who paid STG30 million ($A74.48 million) to make Ferdinand the world's most expensive defender, or who spent STG20 million ($A49.65 million) on teenager Wayne Rooney.

Back in the days when Abramovich was scraping a few roubles together under Communist rule and Mourinho was dreaming of one day becoming Bobby Robson's interpreter at Sporting Lisbon, it was United breaking records to buy the best players in Britain.

Since then Real Madrid, Juventus, Barcelona, Lazio and the two Milan clubs have dominated the big-spenders' table.

Chelsea may have laid out 213 million pounds over the last two years but of the world's top 20 transfer fees they have been the buyer in only once case - the 24 million they gave Olympique Marseille for Didier Drogba last year.

The latest figures put Abramovich's wealth at almost STG15 billion ($A37.24 billion), which certainly leaves Kenyon as a dangerous diner.

But while other coaches may fear Chelsea's spending power, the irony is that Mourinho does not want a mammoth squad of superstars, preferring to work with a committed group of around 21 players.

The Portuguese coach moulded a decent Porto team into European champions with a lot more than a big wage bill and the stark truth that his frustrated opponents do not want to believe is that he is doing the same at Chelsea.

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There you go

 

[m_vaughan]

Bravo Gold!!

 

[MWaugh]

gold good point. however 1 thing i will point out is that man utd didnt buy ferdinand stam rooney veron etc in the 1 period of time. for example stam was ages ago, ferdinand a number of years, veron a few years before him and rooney only last year. chelsea bought the majority of their squad in one huge shopping trip.

however to showcase the lack comments i have available to me to counter your comment... i shall repeat:
You can buy the premiership, you can buy the league cup... But you still cant win the Champions League!!!
good post gold

 

[jonah]

Congrats to Liverpool (how's your head Ste? . It wasn't you that ran on the pitch near the end was it? ); Benitez had a game plan and it worked a treat. As Zim said, Carragher was outstanding in both matches, but as for Drogba...24 million??? . Also, why send on Huth and Kezman (another flop), when you've got a proven goalscorer in Forssell on the bench. OK, he may be a little rusty, but surely he was a better bet to get Chelski a goal in the last 10 minutes rather than punt it long and hope to get on the end of a Huth flick on?
Good luck to the Reds in Instanbul; it's going to be a tough ask but they keep coming up with the goods in Europe this year, so who knows?

 

[gold639]

They sent out Huth because of the power of his shots

Believe me,you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of one of his shots

 

[zimrahil]

Believe me,you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of one of his shots

Dudek certainly wasn't

 

[gold639]

Dudek certainly wasn't

Thats because Huth didn't even shoot

 

[faraz haider]

well i dont think liverpool gonna win against milan in final( i think todays match scoreline remain same as 1st leg semi final). but if some how psv win by 3-0 tonight i will put my money on psv winning final against liverpool. so accourding to me any team facing liverpool on final liverpool gonna lost against them.

 

[jonah]

They sent out Huth because of the power of his shots

Believe me,you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of one of his shots

Sorry gold, but if Mourinho was relying on the shooting prowess of Robert Huth then he lost the plot more than I thought he did. Sure, Huth may have a powerful shot, but he was sent on to play as the big man up front to win the long ball because they had run out of other ideas to break down the Liverpool defence.

 

[gold639]

Yeah that strategy makes sense......

 

[themuel1]

Ah well.....that goal should'nt have been allowed :

Nah Joking.

Liverpool played well.....they deserve to go through.

If we had Duff and Robben from the start,then maybe things would've been different.

And we were forced to play 2 Centre Backs at RB and LB....because Bridge and Ferreira were injured.

But I'm not taking anything away from Liverpool..they themselves had many injuries and they didn't have Xabi Alonso....well done to them.

Its disappointing to lose in the semi's 2 times in a row like that.

COME ON MILAN!!! BEAT LIVERPOOL AT ISTANBUL!!!



Yeah I would've preferred that...Cech hardly did a thing yesterday.





And before the season everyone was saying that Chelsea just can't buy the league....

Your not going to support Liverpool in the final? Youv'e gotta support the english team!

Well done Liverpoool, I was wrong, they were magnificent in defence. If they score early against AC Milan and defend like that, I don't think AC will be able to break them down like Chelsea.

 

[zimrahil]

If they score early against AC Milan and defend like that, I don't think AC will be able to break them down like Chelsea.

But Chelsea didn't break them down

 

[Will p]

Yeah gold thats quite dodgy, i mean if you're English, support the English team, no matter who it is...

 

[Ste]

well i dont think liverpool gonna win against milan in final( i think todays match scoreline remain same as 1st leg semi final). but if some how psv win by 3-0 tonight i will put my money on psv winning final against liverpool. so accourding to me any team facing liverpool on final liverpool gonna lost against them.

Well just like Liverpool wernt gonna win against Leverkusen, Juventus and Chelsea is that?

Yeah gold thats quite dodgy, i mean if you're English, support the English team, no matter who it is...

If it was Chelsea or Manchester United in the final I certainly wouldnt support them!

Ste