Men's Soccer (Football) Thread [Archived] Soccer • Page 119

Ibra in MLS would be too much fun. But I don't believe these rumors are legit.

 

Some twitter account also saying we've granted Celtic permission to talk to Coyle.

Please. I like him as a dude, but he is incompetent. Someone get Kreis on the phone.

 

Makes sense it's a bigger club than United at this point :p

Just gonna win every game 5-4. :p

 

if this is true i'm getting my tattoo removed

 

Celtic can, and should, be doing wayy better than Coyle, especially with Dangers coming back up next gear.

People into Celtic, would you take Roy Keane? Seen him heavily linked the last few days

 

WELL THEN

 

The thing is that Coyle seems to have upside on the surface. He achieved just enough success in a top league to feel like you recognize potential, and then Bolton's downfall can be disregarded as circumstantial and out of his control.

I was excited when we hired him, but eventually he proved that his struggles were of his own doing; poor player selection, misguided tactics, a stubborn lack of adjustments, etc.

He's intriguing, but ultimately not who you want or need.

 

Get Rich quick.
A quiz. If you were putting together a list of the 20 best Premier League defenders ever, would you…

a) Use your football knowledge and memory, perhaps Googling a couple of names from the Premier League early days to get some perspective.

b) Consult some previous lists, all of which will feature the names of John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Tony Adams and Sol Campbell.

c) Use spurious statistical criteria.

If you answered c), then congratulations because you could get a job at the Daily Telegraph website. Or at least an internship.

They decided that the best way to come up with a list of ‘The 20 best Premier League defenders ever‘ was to calculate the percentage of clean sheets their team recorded with them on the pitch. Oh and they limited it only to players who have played at least 100 Premier League games. So less ’20 best Premier League defenders ever’ and more ’20 defenders who played at least three seasons in the Premier League alongside other really good defenders at a successful club’.

So we learn from this list that…

– Paulo Ferreira (9th) was better than the likes of Vincent Kompany, Ashley Cole and Rio Ferdinand, who had the misfortune to play for West Ham and Leeds before Manchester United so is of course quite a lot shitter than David May (7th).

– None of the above are as good as Daniel Agger (5th).

– Richardo Carvalho (sic) is the best Premier League defender ever. Well done, Richardo (sic). You da man.

Mediawatch: Who's better than Rio and Vidic? - Football365

 

Honestly Maysy is 7 spots too low.

 

In news that will shock absolutely nobody. Chelsea have offered John Terry a new deal.

 

The only positive to Keane coming in would be that he'd clear out some of the dross in the squad imo. But he's shown at Sunderland and Ipswich that he'd just bring in different, mainly Irish, dross. He's not able to handle the pressures of being a manager either by the looks of it, which obviously doesn't bode well for somewhere as demanding as Celtic. So unless he's been completely changed by learning from Martin O'Neill, I don't think he should be appointed.

Of the realistic prospects (or what the press are leading me to believe is realistic), I want Brendan Rodgers.

 

Even I wouldn't wish Keane on Celtic.

 

I see Zlatan is finally going to live out his dream

 

Zlatan is the greatest person on this planet, we should all be lucky to share it with him

 

Dare to Zlatan. I bet you can't.

 

Minnesota is essentially Sweden Lite. Look at all of these Swedes. Would you just look at it!!



Zlatan: King of Loons

Make it happen.

 

I'm sure Zlatan would pay NOT to play in Minnesota.

Also, lol at the union having claimed to discover him first

 

Ventura County Fusion have been DQ'd from the USOC for fielding an ineligible player after L.A. Wolves protested.

The magic of the cup!

 

So close, Bob. So close.

 

What an utterly amazing and misguided way to judge the best defenders!

I honestly don't even know who David May is...

 

what the fuck

what THE FUCK

you do not know the man the legend that is david may???????

 

Just had to Google him. Genuinely never heard of him. I'm so sorry. I've let everyone down.

 

So the second to last match day in La Liga was played simultaneously, but the last one isn't. Does that make any sense???