Soccer Thread

[Mr. Goosemahn]

Where's Mourinho going to coach now? Real Madrid?

That's the rumor. Read somewhere that Madrid was ready to launch a $57 million dollar offer for him.

[Rosebud]

knowing that ballack is gonna miss the world cup makes me so upset. im thinking this is how the German starting XI may turn out now:

--------Klose---Podolski---------
Ozil---Schweini---Kroos---Marin
Lahm--Merte---Friedrich---Boateng
------------Neuer--------------

its gotta be eith kroos or trochowski playing more of the attacking center midfielder role, while Schweini will now have to drop back and play defensively, similar to what hes doing now at Bayern

I'm actually hoping for something more like
------------------Neuer-------------------
------------Merte-----Boateng-----------
Lahm--------Westerman---Aogo/Jansen
----Ozil---------Schweini----Marin/Poldi
-----Keisling/Gomez--Klose/Mueller----

Although ultimately I think we'll just stick Khedira in Ballack's spot.

[SeanTaylorRIP]

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/...urn=sow,241471



<3 Gooch.

If he really wanted to be a good person he'd take his salary from this past year and donate it to charity. Still a nice gesture I guess.

[iowatreat54]

If he really wanted to be a good person he'd take his salary from this past year and donate it to charity. Still a nice gesture I guess.

That really makes no sense...

That's like saying if I wanted to be a nice person, I'd donate my salary to charity. Sure, it'd be a nice thing to do, but it's not like he unfairly obtained his salary.

He's in effect making it so he doesn't get paid for not playing this year, and uses this past season's salary to pay for hopefully a healthy full season next year.

[Verloren]

Chelsea is going to make a record bid for Torres. Supposedly more than the Ronaldo offer.

Uh oh.

Chances are Hicks will override Benitez and say yes just to keep Liverpool afloat. Not happy about this rumor at all.

[Addict]

Uh oh.

Chances are Hicks will override Benitez and say yes just to keep Liverpool afloat. Not happy about this rumor at all.

wait, Benitez still has a job? I didn't expect him to. Go Rafa.

[Giantsfan1080]

What are some of the best sites for transfer news, rumors, analysis?

[UKfan]

If you want to learn about the EPL, the two main tv providers here that do good football analysis are:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/
http://www.skysports.com/football/

Similarly for newspaper analysis you can try

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/ (be careful though, can be a bit NSFW)

and there is also

www.fourfourtwo.com

They are all good for EPL stuff, and you get rumours and reporting of otehr big transfers too

[thefalconer]

david villa to barcelona for 34.2 million euros. barca didn't waste any time and now they're gonna be aiming for cesc. crazy good squad for next year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...celona-arsenal

[JRTPlaya21]

What are some of the best sites for transfer news, rumors, analysis?

goal.com & tribalfootball are good since they cover pretty much every rumor no matter how whack.

[Caddy]

goal.com & tribalfootball are good since they cover pretty much every rumor no matter how whack.

Goal is less sketchy than Tribalfootball. Tribal take every single rumor and publish it which is not the case at Goal.

[Giantsfan1080]

Goal was the major one I followed but I figured you guys would have some better ones as well. Thanks everybody.

[Caddy]

Goal was the major one I followed but I figured you guys would have some better ones as well. Thanks everybody.

Goal is ok. I used to be a paid contributor and after I left it really stopped me from using the website for quite a while.

I will however be going back to it a bit over the offseason.

[Rosebud]

zonalmarking.net

best football site on the web.

[Caddy]

Can't wait for the world cup. Even though Australia is in a tough group I think we will exceed expectations yet again thanks to our highly disciplined style of play. (Also Tim Cahill = SEX)