The SNH Football thread

[scspkr99]

I love all the anti Chelsea biasery on here. Should we win the Champions league it'll make it soooooo much sweeter. We can potentially win our second champions league trophy, while Arsenal could win A trophy in 9 years hahahahaha

as many as Nottingham Forest

[murky21]

Glen Johnson (Age at start of season: 18, Club signed from: West Ham, Fee: £6.3m)
Alexei Smertin (28, Bordeaux £3.5m)
Geremi (24, Real Madrid £7m)
Juan Sebastian Veron (28, Manchester United £15m)
Damien Duff (24, Blackburn £17m)
Wayne Bridge (22, Southampton £7m)
Adrian Mutu (24, Parma £15.8m)
Joe Cole (21, West Ham £6.6m)
Hernan Crespo (28, Inter Milan £16.8m)
Claude Makelele (30, Real Madrid £16m)
Scott Parker (22, Charlton £10m)
TOTAL EXPENDITURE: £121m

2004-05
Mateja Kezman (25, PSV Eindhoven £5.5m)
Alex (22, Santos £5.7m)
Tiago (23, Benfica £10m)
Petr Cech (22, Rennes £9m)
Arjen Robben (20, PSV Eindhoven £12m)
Paulo Ferreira (25, Porto, £13.2m)
Didier Drogba (26, Marseille £24m)
Ricardo Carvalho (26, Porto, £19.8m)
Jiri Jarosik (26, CSKA Moscow £3m)
TOTAL EXPENDITURE: £102.2m

hardly conservative, still, for prices a decade old too

[ehbes]

Chelsea are the Miami Heat of the Prem

[wub]

£15m for Veron, when will people learn

[hubb]

Oh... I'm not thinking that's ^ not retardedly excessive (whoa)
just that there is a tactical system in place/ a formation and you buy to fill up those spots. In chelsea you don't exclusively go for players in the same league to fuck with the competition like Madrid and Bayern does. You might see a tendency of buying two very similar players and have them compete - like Mata and Oscar or Duff and Grønkjær or Terry and Cahill etc. there's just a bit more knowledge and they used to have a really capable scouting system and not just a sheik with youtube (Jovetic).

[hubb]

tbf

Veron just had a 5 year siesta in the prem.
He became that very same topclass player again and played until 38 or so on a top level.

That's my main gripe with english football, that the classic number 10 playmakers never really work in this league. Types that are just direct midfielders like Gerrard, Toure, Ince or Lampard is always prefered which is a huge mistake, not just a matter of taste.

[magma]

I love all the anti Chelsea biasery on here. Should we win the Champions league it'll make it soooooo much sweeter. We can potentially win our second champions league trophy, while Arsenal could win A trophy in 9 years hahahahaha

as many as Nottingham Forest

Short memories... I remember the glory-supporting was split pretty evenly down the middle between Liverpool and Notts Forest for a couple of years at my first primary school. I wonder how many of them still followed Forest by 1994...

In chelsea you don't exclusively go for players in the same league to fuck with the competition like Madrid and Bayern does.

[hubb]

He is hardly the defining factor on a whole team like for example Van Persi or Lewandowski would be. And didn't Arsenal get Gallas that was great then out of that deal?

I should've written city and not madrid there btw

[magma]

I was just being flippant tbh... I think most of the top clubs can be accused of it once in a while. Ashley Cole was a pretty huge loss for Arsenal at the time though and he's been a big part of Chelsea's success.

[rockonin]

In chelsea you don't exclusively go for players in the same league to fuck with the competition like Madrid and Bayern does.

[hubb]

flippant

Great term, especially in the context of this forum.

[scspkr99]

Short memories... I remember the glory-supporting was split pretty evenly down the middle between Liverpool and Notts Forest for a couple of years at my first primary school. I wonder how many of them still followed Forest by 1994...

Liverpool had a mad rivalry with Forest for about 3 years, we still sing about it, Clough got them promoted, won the League then won the European Cup in consecutive seasons deposing two times and defending champions Liverpool in the process, mad story unlikely to ever be repeated

[magma]

Short memories... I remember the glory-supporting was split pretty evenly down the middle between Liverpool and Notts Forest for a couple of years at my first primary school. I wonder how many of them still followed Forest by 1994...

Liverpool had a mad rivalry with Forest for about 3 years, we still sing about it, Clough got them promoted, won the League then won the European Cup in consecutive seasons deposing two times and defending champions Liverpool in the process, mad story unlikely to ever be repeated

I half expect we'll see at least one vaguely similar fall from grace when someone's benefactor gets bored and decides they want to win the Superbowl instead or something, but yeah, that really was a fucking amazing period. It's the sort of thing the Premiership has killed forever probably.

[ehbes]

The Super Bowl is pretty cool let's be real

[scspkr99]

I half expect we'll see at least one vaguely similar fall from grace when someone's benefactor gets bored and decides they want to win the Superbowl instead or something, but yeah, that really was a fucking amazing period. It's the sort of thing the Premiership has killed forever probably.

Yeah it's a part of my problem with football. You won't get a Derby county or a Forest or a Villa challenging for the league, even bigger established clubs including Liverpool and Arsenal have failed to keep up with new money which effectively rules out 95% league clubs. It's at a point where the owner you sign is more important than the players he pays for and that seems distorted.

[murky21]

Tony Yeboah has a LOT to answer for imo.

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[murky21]

loooool chelsea

comprehensively beaten by a much better team

[xtcvsmistycold]

I love all the anti Chelsea biasery on here. Should we win the Champions league it'll make it soooooo much sweeter. We can potentially win our second champions league trophy, while Arsenal could win A trophy in 9 years hahahahaha

ah

perhaps you'll win the league?



COME ON ARSENAL

[hubb]

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