Rival Watch

Only team to take points off the mighty King

Should have won that game aswell

Manchester City's Vincent Kompany to serve four-match ban after appeal over red card against Manchester United is dismissed :dance:

sina90 wrote:Manchester City's Vincent Kompany to serve four-match ban after appeal over red card against Manchester United is dismissed :dance:

I thought it was a fair enough challenge, no contact and he got the ball but oh well, GO CITY .

Some transfer news to report: Gary Cahill will reportedly finalise his move to Chelsea tomorrow for around £7mil.

Pulis happy to boss Wales for Gary Speed memorial match

Stoke boss Tony Pulis has admitted he would happily take over as Wales manager - but only for one game.

The Welshman would be willing to send out the national side against Costa Rica on Wednesday, February 29 in a memorial game for Gary Speed.
However, while the Wales job is something he might consider later in his career, Pulis confirmed his immediate future lies at the Britannia Stadium.
He told the Stoke Sentinel: "Anything that would help in any shape or form in respect of Gary Speed, I would gladly do.

"I would have to speak to [Stoke chairman] Peter [Coates] first, of course, and if he didn't think it was right then fine.

"But if he was okay and they asked me for just a one-off game, then I'd do it out of respect for Gary.

"My main job remains at Stoke, but as I've said before, your national job is something you might look at in the future."
Mirror
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Janitor role suits him more

So. We're 9 points behind Spurs.

GoonerJay29 wrote:So. We're 9 points behind Spurs.

Can we still finish above them? I personally dont think so but if we did i will do crazy stuff, crazier than Eboue.

Well in their next six games, they play away to City, Liverpool and us, and play Newcastle at home.

So if results go our way and we beat them, then the defecit can be closed pretty quickly.

Our next six league games:

Swansea (a)
Man Utd (h)
Bolton (a)
Blackburn (h)
Sunderland (a)
Tottenham (h)

And Tottenham's next six league fixtures:

Wolves (h)
Man City (a)
Wigan (h)
Liverpool (a)
Newcastle (h)
Arsenal (a)

City 48
United 45
Spurs 45
Chelsea 37
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Arsenal 36
Liverpool 34

So, everyone has played 20 league games. No more games in hand for anyone. However, we have certainly had a harder fixture list on paper than Spurs.

Spurs still to play:

Man City (a)
Arsenal (a)
Liverpool (a)
Chelsea (a)

Whilst they have these fixtures to play, we can hope.

BUT, we have to do the business OURSELVES too. We can not afford to drop Stupid points.

Swansea on Sunday we have to win. Man United next Sunday, we have to win. Bolton away, blackburn home, Sunderland away we HAVE to win.

No more dropped points.

Is it too much to ask for all 18 points in those 6 matches
Manure and spuds should be beaten at home (with Titi scoring )
dropping points in other 4=suicidal even if 3 of them are away

Swansea, Man utd, Spuds and Sunderland are going to be the hard ones. If we manage to get 10 points from those four games then i will be happy. But we do need to solve our fullbacks problems and i dont see that happening soon.

djoe26 wrote:Swansea, Man utd and Sunderland are going to be the hard ones. If we manage to get 10 points from those three games then i will be happy. But we do need to solve our fullbacks problems and i dont see that happening soon.

Henry scoring has bonus point good to know

sina90 wrote:

djoe26 wrote:Swansea, Man utd and Sunderland are going to be the hard ones. If we manage to get 10 points from those three games then i will be happy. But we do need to solve our fullbacks problems and i dont see that happening soon.

Henry scoring has bonus point good to know

Oops forgot to mention Spuds.

Chelsea preparing €30m bid for Lille's Eden Hazard - report
The Premier League giants are eager to bring the highly-rated Belgium international to Stamford Bridge in January, and have opened negotiations with his current club

Source: http://www.goal.com/en/news/11/transfer-zone/2012/01/12/2843171/chelsea-preparing-30m-bid-for-lilles-eden-hazard-report

Manchester City are set to welcome David Silva back for Monday's trip to Wigan
Silva missed Tuesday's Carling Cup defeat by Liverpool with an ankle injury but he is expected to train tomorrow and should be fit.

good if they have him available for spuds match as well
onemanteam

Manchester United v Bolton
Tottenham v Woves
Chelsea v Sunderland
Wigan v Man City
Liverpool v Stoke

This weekend's fixtures for our rivals.

sina90 wrote:Manchester City are set to welcome David Silva back for Monday's trip to Wigan
Silva missed Tuesday's Carling Cup defeat by Liverpool with an ankle injury but he is expected to train tomorrow and should be fit.

good if they have him available for spuds match as well
onemanteam

SHIT.

Spurs and Liverpool draw. Good day. We must make it a good weekend tomorrow.

Manure next Mathces;
Arsenal (A), Liverpool A (FA Cup),Stoke City (H), Chelsea (A), Liverpool (H)


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Official: Chelsea sign Gary Cahill

MJGunner wrote:Official: Chelsea sign Gary Cahill

Is he going to be starting, or benched?

Chelsea would b stupid to throw him in straight away. I also think that Luiz has a lot more dynamism than he does. I also rate Ivanovic higher than him, but I'm not AVB though.

Looks like Newcastle are about to sign Pappis Demba Cisse. Would be a great signing for them.

Talks of Cissokho also joining Newcastle this month. Ever so slightly, they're building a very good team.

You consider us Rivals?

Shame we wont see Ba and Cisse together until after AFCON, iam still very skeptical over this Cissokho talk......

Spending 7.5-9m on Cisse and then 8m on Cissokho seems very Un-Ashley.

Especially when you consider we need a CB aswell, reckon we will sign Cisse and a CB tbh.

Mole how you will setup?
when you wanna go with 4-4-1-1
dropping one of cisse/Ba
or Ben Arfa on the flanks?
him as effective there?