Michail Antonio is an interesting name for England.

Aguero elbowing. Lamela eye gouging.

Phh, small potatoes compared to the main man!

Literally said to my mate as we were watching the game 'if that was Costa we'd never hear the end of it' along with his stamp on Luiz a couple of years ago. 

 

Aguero is no less an aggressive character than Costa, but his face fits better and he doesn't play for Chelsea.

Nacer Chadli apparently set to sign for West Brom. He's a decent player and should be a welcome addition to an offensively-lacking squad:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/aug/28/west-brom-nacer-chadli-tottenham

Wow the match of the day commentator couldn't have been more up pep Guardiola's arse if he tried

A rare weekend for us for on the newspaper headline for bad reasons. Some dodgy penalty calls ( and no calls) all around, wouldn't be surprised if we get 1 against us after the international break.

Former solid pro/underrated centre back and current wasteman Joleon Lescott has gone to AEK Athens:

 

12 hours ago, EdinburghBlue said:

Literally said to my mate as we were watching the game 'if that was Costa we'd never hear the end of it' along with his stamp on Luiz a couple of years ago. 

 

Aguero is no less an aggressive character than Costa, but his face fits better and he doesn't play for Chelsea.

It was a bad elbow but steady on there. 

saints signing sofiane boufal for 16million 

what a bargain

I have to agree unfortunately, It is worthy of a 2/3 game ban, In essence it will be a 2 game ban as one of those will be a Capital One Cup game and he was never going to start that. On a different subject, What have you lot made of Stones? If he wasn't English i'd be using the term world class talent to describe but because he's English for some weird reason, I'm not pulling the trigger on that as i might have been influenced by the media hype so far, He does look good.

37 minutes ago, Kinkladze1871 said:

I have to agree unfortunately, It is worthy of a 2/3 game ban, In essence it will be a 2 game ban as one of those will be a Capital One Cup game and he was never going to start that. On a different subject, What have you lot made of Stones? If he wasn't English i'd be using the term world class talent to describe but because he's English for some weird reason, I'm not pulling the trigger on that as i might have been influenced by the media hype so far, He does look good.

I still have doubts about him defensively but in terms of what he brings to your build up play he does look very good (though I think that's as much down to Guardiola's tactics as it Stones). Hopefully he'll stay injury free while on international duty, it will be interesting to see how he does against Ibra.

 

Edited August 29, 20169 yr by the special one

Hahaha what the f**k - BBC is reporting that Asamoah Gyan is going on loan to Reading!

Hart is on his way to the Serie A according to reports, Battle between Napoli/Torino for him, 1 year loan deal, Classic Serie A transfer. 

58 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

Hahaha what the f**k - BBC is reporting that Asamoah Gyan is going on loan to Reading!

I'm amazed as you. However, why wouldn't he want to come to Reading? We've not got one but two Nando's here!

12 minutes ago, Kinkladze1871 said:

Hart is on his way to the Serie A according to reports, Battle between Napoli/Torino for him, 1 year loan deal, Classic Serie A transfer. 

It will be very interesting to see how Hart copes in Italy.

If Torino got him they would IMO become instant contenders for a European place, provided he adapts. 

I'm not sure he would want to go to Napoli. Pepe Reina is in goal and apparently he has been pretty good for Napoli. There would IMO be no guarantee of consistent game time there, which is surely what Hart would want given his national place is at stake.

1 hour ago, Kinkladze1871 said:

On a different subject, What have you lot made of Stones? If he wasn't English i'd be using the term world class talent to describe but because he's English for some weird reason, I'm not pulling the trigger on that as i might have been influenced by the media hype so far, He does look good.

 

Let's see how he gets on in the CL, apart from the Chelsea manyoo and City attacking line ups, I don't see any other world class attacking line ups in the premier league, so the reall test is to come.

1 hour ago, PloKoon13 said:

Hahaha what the f**k - BBC is reporting that Asamoah Gyan is going on loan to Reading!

Another player who has sacrificed playing a good standard of football by chasing high wages.

He's played in dog sh*t leagues for about four years now, maybe he's finally grown tired of it?

In fairness, Reading are a team in desperate need for goals so if he provides them then all good. 

Or he could turn into another Vydra. Reading paid £2m to Watford for a year-long loan and he scored something like three goals. 

Kaveh Solhekol ?@SkyKaveh  51s52 seconds ago

It's becoming cheaper to buy clubs than players. According to reports in France, Marseille is being sold for £34m

 

 

3 hours ago, havelschayes said:

saints signing sofiane boufal for 16million 

what a bargain

Yea, great bit of business, from what I've seen, quality signing. 

5 hours ago, Kinkladze1871 said:

I have to agree unfortunately, It is worthy of a 2/3 game ban, In essence it will be a 2 game ban as one of those will be a Capital One Cup game and he was never going to start that. On a different subject, What have you lot made of Stones? If he wasn't English i'd be using the term world class talent to describe but because he's English for some weird reason, I'm not pulling the trigger on that as i might have been influenced by the media hype so far, He does look good.

 

I don't think anything of Stones right now. He's not been bad and he's not been good. One thing he hasn't done is improve you defensively so far, 3 games, no clean sheets.

Torino it is for Hart

10 minutes ago, Kinkladze1871 said:

Torino it is for Hart

Massive upgrade for Torino incoming.

Padelli is one of their weaker players apparently. 

is anyone else quietly rooting for QPR? I loved Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink as a CFC player & always wanted him to do well - now that he is the gaffer of QPR & I am kinda rooting for him

1 minute ago, robdog said:

is anyone else quietly rooting for QPR? I loved Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink as a CFC player & always wanted him to do well - now that he is the gaffer of QPR & I am kinda rooting for him

That's on a par with wishing for a dose of syphillis because your mate is the local GP and he gets paid for treating it.