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hughy

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WRONG FUCKING POSE FABIAN
 
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yanno

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Bus-Conductor said:
Just seen West Ham picked up Ryan Fredericks on a free. Surprised Fulham let that happen? Felipe Anderson having medical at West Ham according to Sky. It's hard to tell how all these signings are going to gel, but individually, they've signed some decent footballers, and if Pellegrini still has some managerial mojo, he might get a tune out of them.
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Fredericks ran down his contract and ultimately Spam were willing to pay more than Fulham.

As we both know, he came through our Academy, where he was injured a lot, and has developed into a good RB. He's got pace to burn, which helps him recover defensively, and overlap in counter-attacking moves. His delivery is decent, though nowhere near as good as Trippier.

I watched him closely in the Championship play off game, and defensively I thought he was poor, frequently out of position and not taking responsibility eg not following runners.

It was a huge match, with the highest stakes, so I understand players being ruthless. But watching it live, Fredericks' stamp on Grealish seemed a deliberate attempt to take Villa's best player out of the game. It looked terrible in real time, and it's just as bad in slow motion.

If you can bear to watch a few moments of Steve Bruce, the footage of the stamp is around 15 seconds into the clip below.

Fredericks didn't learn that in our Academy....

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/11386494/bruce-fredericks-should-have-seen-red
 
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goughie1966

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ItsBoris said:
I honestly think Sterling scores/assists because of the quality of the players around him and maybe also because of City's general style of play. In Leicester's winning season Mahrez got similar numbers (17 goals and 11 assists) but without same world class players that Sterling has setting him up.

Watching Sterling for England he looks like an above average player, not top class. Rashford typically looked more dangerous when he came on imo.
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I sure as shit wish Mahrez had an English passport at the WC rather than Sterling.
 
Hakkz

Hakkz

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Thewobbler said:
Could have said the same thing about erisken. He was linked to the top clubs but we got him. You just have to wait and see until we all say I told you so.

I don't worry about any player other clubs sign. We will get the majority of what poch wants, I hope.
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Yeah but Anderson is 25. Eriksen was like 21 when we signed him? Anderson has been spending time in a league that just gets worse every year.
 
Marty

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Hakkz said:
Yeah but Anderson is 25. Eriksen was like 21 when we signed him? Anderson has been spending time in a league that just gets worse every year.
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Serie A has been on the up for a few years now. It was much worse five years ago.
 
Bus-Conductor

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yanno said:
Fredericks ran down his contract and ultimately Spam were willing to pay more than Fulham.

As we both know, he came through our Academy, where he was injured a lot, and has developed into a good RB. He's got pace to burn, which helps him recover defensively, and overlap in attacking moves. His delivery is decent, though nowhere near as good as Trippier.

I watched him closely in the Championship play off game, and defensively I thought he was poor, frequently out of position and not taking responsibility eg not following runners.

It was a huge match, with the highest stakes, so I understand players being ruthless. But watching it live, Fredericks' stamp on Grealish seemed a deliberate attempt to take Villa's best player out of the game. It looked terrible live, and it's just as bad in slow motion.

If you can bear to watch a few moments of Steve Bruce, the footage of the stamp is around 15 seconds into the clip below:

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/11386494/bruce-fredericks-should-have-seen-red
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I concur, Fredericks is a poor mans Walker, lots of pace but lacking intelligence and some composure. I was just surprised to see him leave Fulham. I watched the playoff game, remember the stamp, but then Grealish should have seen red later on too.
 
Marty

Marty

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Hakkz said:
It's still wank. Apart from Juventus and the odd display from Roma and Napoli.
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It had a genuine title race between Juve and Napoli, an incredible fight for fourth between Inter and Lazio, Milan who spent buckets and couldn't compete well enough, Atalanta who did well in Europa last season and thrashed Everton twice before losing narrowly to Dortmund.

You're clouded by your SPALs, Crotones and Beneventos who prop up the table. The top half is the healthiest it's been since probably the Calciopoli scandal.
 
Hakkz

Hakkz

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Marty said:
It had a genuine title race between Juve and Napoli, an incredible fight for fourth between Inter and Lazio, Milan who spent buckets and couldn't compete well enough, Atalanta who did well in Europa last season and thrashed Everton twice before losing narrowly to Dortmund.

You're clouded by your SPALs, Crotones and Beneventos who prop up the table. The top half is the healthiest it's been since probably the Calciopoli scandal.
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Yeah the Dutch league can also be very exciting.
 
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The only signings I’m worried about thus far are those made by City, United and Liverpool.

They’ve all recruited pretty well so far and are no doubt going to spend more. They’ve bought players that would have improved us bar Shaquiri obviously!

West Ham? They haven’t signed a single player that would bother our first XI!:ROFLMAO:
 
Syn_13

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Hakkz said:
It's still wank. Apart from Juventus and the odd display from Roma and Napoli.
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Spoken like someone who doesn't even watch the league.

It's every bit as good as some of the other big European leagues. I watch a bit of La Liga and the Bundesliga when I can on the usual major sports channels. Even those 2 leagues vary from great to shite depending on the teams involved Hell, even the premier league has that. Serie A is not weak at all. Outside of the 3 you mentioned Inter, Milan, Fiorentina, Sampdoria, Atalanta, Torino and Lazio all give good value for money. Certainly no weaker than the next level down in Germany and Spain after their big boys, or even our clubs after the top 6. The battles for the Champions League and Europa League spots were all very entertaining this year.

All leagues have their merit at certain levels, and there's not a single league that is thrilling all the way through. Can't comment on the ones outside the 4 mentioned above as I don't watch any of them. I just wish people weren't so quick to judge or just parrot what other people say.
 
Bus-Conductor

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Hakkz said:
It's still wank. Apart from Juventus and the odd display from Roma and Napoli.
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Disagree, SerieA was never as bad as some made out because tactically, generally, coaching there was still ahead of most other leagues, even if they’d haemorrhaged cash and sugar daddy owners, and it’s got better and better over the last few seasons and was damn good last season.
 
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