Football : Season 2011/12

Gotze's dad didn't rule it out, he said he wasn't sure, and it doesn't really amount to much what he said anyway.

[denphone]

Arsenal confirm Tomas Rosicky has signed a new contract. 31-year-old Czech Republic midfielder has been with AFC since 2006.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-arc...act-at-arsenal




Not sure some Arsenal fans will be enamoured with this news.

Nah Rosicky is a useful squad player and this comes after a good run of form.

[thenry]

hes doing well at the moment but the question is when Jacks back, Ramseys fresh and Rosickys benched will he be able to perform coming off the bench say after a run of games not featuring? i'm not too sure but ye if he can then good squad player. i want to know how much he's on.

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den ?

Luis Suarez admits to being intrigued by the project at Paris St Germain and says he would welcome the opportunity to play alongside countryman Diego Lugano.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...-a-possibility

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by adzii_nufc

Different types of Newcastle supporters will tell you different stories. What Mike Ashley has done thus far was necessary to keep Newcastle afloat. He pumped millions of interest free loans into the club and Supporters didn't criticise that. It was the Kevin Keegan resignation that got people riled and all because apparently Kev wasn't getting everything his own way regarding transfers. I'll be the first to say when he came back he sounded delusional and I could swear he thought he was managing Manchester United with talks over Thierry Henry and other players that wouldn't associate themselves with this club in a million years.

Then the sacking of Chris Hughton brought more hatred towards the Ashley regime and he appointed Pardew whom many questioned his ability compared to that of Hughton. Ashley then made it clear with the Andy Carroll transfer that if you don't want to be here then there's the door and brought in a massive £35million in one of the best bits of business in British transfer history if you look at how it's turned out.

Signings such as Cabaye, Ba, Ben Arfa, Santon, Marveux and Cissé for less money than what Newcastle sold Carroll for is amazing alone. 6 quality players that have done their part this season in a massive way. We have now built a squad capable of actually competing with the top teams for once. With all that talk of £35 million to spend.. Some delusional geordies (The were gonna win the league) ones need to realise that £35 million does not mean it's going to be blown on a single player or even two players, it was invested and so far invested well with the announcement of Newcastle's youth system being scrapped in the summer and millions of pounds are to be spent in bringing talent from different countries to rebuild that from the ground up.

The stadium re-naming is a big disappointment but yet may turn out to be nothing with little to no interest in anyone wanting to take rights of the stadium name. The hatred for Ashley died down some time ago bar the Chav's and Yob's at games that rip hoarding's down and vandalise the stadium over such matter, this is not the right way to do things.

To cap it all of, If Newcastle supporters are angry at the way things have turned out, just take a good look at the league position and the financial status of our club. Freddy Shepherd and his habit of spending money on crap would have ran it straight into the ground if he had kept going.

So would you describe Mike Ashley (as a Newcastle owner) as like Marmite?

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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

The decision by Rangers players to take a 75% pay cut, is something that all clubs should do to prevent clubs going bust.

The amount of money players get is a disgrace for playing 180 minutes of football per week, Some players are on 250k per week. Are they worth that much to kick a ball full of air.

I blame tv companies for adding to the list for paying £50/60.000 per game to the clubs, Clubs should show an example to the fans by saying, for the entire season we will charge the fans £20.00 entrance fee to watch ANY game for a whole season.

PL clubs should also cough up money to help lower league clubs, as this is where they get future stars players from to enrich there teams.

There is no chance those players will accept any wage cut, they have lavish lifestyles to maintain

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Originally Posted by thenry

TheSun probe Roman Abramovich, 2billion pumped into Chelsea > http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...n-Chelsea.html

All that and they still find it hard to match Man U

Clearly he should have bought Man U instead

[Russ]

When Roman came along and pumped his millions in to Chelsea, their fans were adamant that he wasn’t “buying success”.

So what happened, they instantly found success. And when he stopped spending stupid money on players, the success dried up.

So yes, Chelsea tried to buy instant success in exactly the same way Man City are trying to do now

[colin25]

How about every club has same amount of money to spend...and best team wins

That would stop the arguments aboutr mine is bigger than your one

[denphone]

Originally Posted by colin25

How about every club has same amount of money to spend...and best team wins

That would stop the arguments aboutr mine is bigger than your one

Yes a excellent idea Colin.

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Well two goals in a minute at the Emirates.

[thenry]

and one at the death of the game

Originally Posted by denphone

Well two goals in a minute at the Emirates.

It's called Wenger time

Originally Posted by yesman

It's called Wenger time

Actually it's called Krul time. Scored in one of the many minutes added on because of his timewasting. That's what that mini-fight was about at the end (or so I hear, I was in the stadium) RVP pointed that out to him. He was wasting time from the first half! Not even QPR, Blackburn or Swansea came to waste time and try and get a draw. Justice.

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Sorry. I guess that was rather Krul...

Originally Posted by Damien

Actually it's called Krul time. Scored in one of the many minutes added on because of his timewasting. That's what that mini-fight was about at the end (or so I hear, I was in the stadium) RVP pointed that out to him. He was wasting time from the first half! Not even QPR, Blackburn or Swansea came to waste time and try and get a draw. Justice.

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Sorry. I guess that was rather Krul...

Maybe you now know how United fans feel after all those "Fergie Time" accusations, but we didn't make excuses.............wasting time in the first half? ... give over.

Originally Posted by yesman

Maybe you now know how United fans feel after all those "Fergie Time" accusations, but we didn't make excuses.............wasting time in the first half? ... give over.

He was wasting time in the first half. I was there. He was spending ages over the goal kicks and continued to do so in the second half. Obviously the first half didn't count in the second half but if Pardew is complaining about the 5 minutes he should ask his keeper, they were completely justified.

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It appears that was what caused the Van Persie tiff. After the goal the Sky cameras should RVP pointing at his (metaphorical) watch and is alleged to have said 'Time waste now'. This followed on from a minor argument between the two after the first half.

[thenry]

yup but it all paid off with our winner. Rosicky stepped up i honestly thought he lost his class but thats obviously wrong. his form before today was boarderline ok for what we have but as mentioned hes stepped up, keep it up.
Theo got on with it today. think less for him me thinks just do it like the kit tick says
Wengers Rosicky, Ox subs nearly backfired again! but we managed to get what we deserved nonetheless.

Pardew should be thankful his side didnt get spanked with us missing a handful of chances.

Ah whatever. It almost worked. Newcastle have some great attacking talent, I don't know what happened in the second half because they weren't the same but Ben Afra and Ba especially are talented players.

Arsenal have a really hard game next week, at Everton. Will be happy with a draw there I think.