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[Liverpool_fan]

Liverpool also open their pre season against Al-Hilal.

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Looks like Chelsea also start their pre season today.

Anyway

-------------Fabianski
Nordveit Koscielny Vermaelen Traore
-------------Frimpong
Rosicky ----Wilshere---- Arshavin
-----------JET-----Jay Simpson

Expect to see Chamakh and co. in the 2nd half.The game should be up here.
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No Almunia or Edu in the squad,looks like they are off.

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1-0 ARSHAVIN straight away
Stream dead

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2-0 Simpson.
Wilshere and Frimpong running the show.

 

[dreamcatcher]

Nasri seems like he hasnt yet recovered from his WC layoff. He is shiat!! Walcott is playing well for a change. Can we please have gourcuff instead of Nasri?

 

[Liverpool_fan]

Nasri seems like he hasnt yet recovered from his WC layoff. He is shiat!! Walcott is playing well for a change. Can we please have gourcuff instead of Nasri?

Get a grip lad

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Very good start by Arsenal to the pre-season.The youth were impressive in particular from what I managed to see.
Kos was a bit shaky but so was TV against Barnet on his debut.
Chamakh lead the line very well.Really tidy stuff from him.

Wilshere ran the show,and Frimpong was a revelation.

 

[Liverpool_fan]

Gulacsi, Degen, Darby, Ayala, Kelly, Riera, Lucas, Aquilani, Amoo, Dalla Valle, Ngog

WTF Riera

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WTH Game may be off
And the non-inclusion of Insua is worrying. I hope he is not being sold.

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

^^Fiorentina are in talks with Liverpool for him.

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Btw. it seemed like the players had something on their backs,under the shirt.Probably the GPS device Arsenal are using to measure fitness.

 

[skeletor]

Nasri seems like he hasnt yet recovered from his WC layoff. He is shiat!! Walcott is playing well for a change. Can we please have gourcuff instead of Nasri?

I really doubt whether you saw the 2nd half.

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

From twitter of bbcsport_david.
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Wenger says Almunia was "ill".Praises Chamakh and Theo.Says "maybe" to Joe Cole transfer,definite no to Schwarzer.
Also,criticised Barca for the public approach of Cesc but praises Rosell on him giving up the chase today.
Also says Silvester and Gallas are gone,Campbell in "no man's land"

 

[dreamcatcher]

@ico- Nasri was good in patches. Walcott was a revelation. But he is too slow on the ball is Nasi. The goal he scored was a mistake on barnets part with no credit to nasri. He had about 5-6 miss passes. The way Fring pong mastered the midfield was a revelation. Nasri was a disaster.if joe cole arrives, nasri should be sat out for a while. Prefer rosicky over nasri anyday. Somehow i dont like this guy.

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

No one was even close to being a disaster or even poor.Nasri shone in patches,as you said yourself.
Its just the first game of the pre-season anyway.So nothing really to draw conclusions upon.

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It is over for this summer.

Arsène Wenger insists that the stories surrounding Cesc Fabregas moving to Barcelona have to stop.

The Spanish midfielder has been consistently linked with a move to the Nou Camp throughout the summer. Arsenal put out a strongly-worded statement when the issue first arose but the story has just not gone away.

Speaking after Saturday's 4-0 victory over Barnet, Wenger re-affirmed his desire to keep Fabregas and outlined that he and Sandro Rosell, the new Barca president, had found a common understanding.

"There was a lot of unneeded talk," he said. "It is not pleasant to read this every day. Now, the story has to stop. "Cesc is our captain, he is so important to us and we want to keep him, that is why we were not listening to any offers.

"It was not a problem of money, just the desire to keep him at the club.

"We can only influence our own behaviour, and I believe things have now gone straight again with Sandro Rosell. We always had a consistent attitude and were always reluctant to talk about Cesc's departure.

"It is very important we give the impression that because somebody wants a player from us, we don't just give in," he went on.

"We have shown our love and care for Cesc since the start. I believe Cesc loves the club, has shown his attachment to the club many times and I am very confident the story will end there. We want Cesc to be part of our club next year, and that is it.

"What we want is to build a team for the future, to develop our team and are not in any talks for next year or the year after - we want our players to be focused on the targets we have at the Club."

 

[dreamcatcher]

^^Was supposed to get over a month ago. XD
Goal.com says that barca is planning a 40 million swoop again.

 

[Rahim]

The Italian coach caused uproar prior to this summer's showpiece in South Africa when it emerged that he intended to rate the showings of his players after each game, and make his thoughts public knowledge.

He was eventually persuaded by the Football Association to shelve that idea, as it was decided that scores should not be handed out until the tournament was over.

Average marks awarded to England's players during the World Cup (mark out of 100):

Robert Green - 51.67
David James - 59.28
Glen Johnson - 57.18
John Terry - 60.48
Ledley King - 57.50
Jamie Carragher - 59.04
Matthew Upson - 60.21
Ashley Cole - 59.58
Aaron Lennon - 57.64
Frank Lampard - 58.58
Steven Gerrard - 60.98
James Milner - 59.40
Gareth Barry - 57.50
Shaun Wright-Phillips - 61.09
Joe Cole - 55.45
Wayne Rooney - 58.87
Emile Heskey - 60.15
Jermain Defoe - 62.47
Peter Crouch did not play enough minutes to generate a mark.

Capello has been quite generous in his markings. Except for Gerrard and Ashley Cole not many would have crossed 40 marks!!

 

[Liverpool_fan]

What a joke. Totally skint; First Choice LB, Aurelio left the club few months ago (out of contract) and now they sold Insua for some paltry sum. Sums up the ownership situation of the club.

Fiorentina director Corvino noticed Liverpool were without a manager, and saw the chance to grab a bargain while there was a formal decisionmaking vacuum. He initiated talks with the Liverpool managerment, whoever they were at the time, about Insua, and Liverpool reciprocated. By the time Hodgson was appointed, the deal was already virtually complete, and despite wanting to assess the players for himself, he felt he couldn't stop a deal already agreed between the clubs.

 

[Kl@w-24]

Chelsea 1-0 Crystal Palace.

Essien scored the winner on his comeback. A very young Chelsea side with oldies such as Essien, Alex & Cech.
15 year old Chabolah also played a part!!

The Bison is back and he means business.

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Read somewhere that Liverpool are going for Terry's mate Wayne Bridge.

 

[Liverpool_fan]

We actually need TWO Left backs now. A first choice and a second choice youngster.

 

[Kl@w-24]

You'll never walk alone.

Your creditors will follow wherever you go.

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Erm..since it is a slow news day.

Mirror have run an exclusive on the Ronaldo situation.Found this really funny.

A friend said: “Ronni looked the girl in the eye and said extremely directly: ‘Me, you, f*** f***.’
“She was taken aback and just said: ‘What!’ She didn’t actually understand what he meant. She was totally nonplussed
“The window by his table was steamed up, so he drew a love heart on it with his finger. Then he said, ‘Me, you, kiss,’ and the penny dropped.

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Best pick-up line ever.

 

[skeletor]