Liverpool have bid for Mikael Nilsson

[Jens]

Swedish right back, can also play at left back. Plays for Panathinaikos. I´m mates with his agent, who gave me a ring. Rafa have put in a £1.5 Million offer...

[GOLDMEMBER]

Silly season has started.

[Remington]

Hahahahahahahahaha, Micke Nilsson! Worthless bag of shite. Your friend needs a new job.

...And, I've done this already. Search for the Sebastian Eguren thread.

[Remington]

For those of you that doesn't know him he's a Swedish one-footed midfielder currently struggling as a full-back in Greece. The Swedish national team's got a bigger full-back crisis then Liverpool, and especially on the right-side. That's why this 30 year old midfielder - who played in Division 6 (!) ten years ago got to play for the national team in 2002. Lagerbäck has since then replaced him - we're now playing a 36-year old right-winger as full-back instead. He's nowhere near good, but atleast he's better than Nilsson.

All and all, Nilsson's a very bad footballer who lacks talent but he's especially poor at marking, simple short passes and clearing the ball. In 2004 Southampton, who only recently failed to make the other poor Swedish wing-back (Nilssons precessor) Alexander Östlund a success, bought Nilsson. He got 16 games before declared not good enough for the Championship. Since then this bearded hippie-like midget's been playing for Panathinaikos, although most fans are disappointed over his presence. Nilsson is considered to weak and too slow for the Greek league and it seems like the club are ready to let his contract run out.

[Remington]

And yeah, he's also good mates with Zlatan.

[Stouffer]

Not a fan then Remmington?

[donmaths]

ha ha ha you really dont like him, Remington ?

[Remington]

I hate the lard ass, cunt!

[hamstrung]

So this is a crap joke then? If so, Jens wants negging.

[Remington]

[Remington]

Look at him. He's a disgrace. Only Kewell is fatter.

[PaddyBerger15]

Originally Posted by Remington

For those of you that doesn't know him he's a Swedish one-footed midfielder currently struggling as a full-back in Greece. The Swedish national team's got a bigger full-back crisis then Liverpool, and especially on the right-side. That's why this 30 year old midfielder - who played in Division 6 (!) ten years ago got to play for the national team in 2002. Lagerbäck has since then replaced him - we're now playing a 36-year old right-winger as full-back instead. He's nowhere near good, but atleast he's better than Nilsson.

All and all, Nilsson's a very bad footballer who lacks talent but he's especially poor at marking, simple short passes and clearing the ball. In 2004 Southampton, who only recently failed to make the other poor Swedish wing-back (Nilssons precessor) Alexander Östlund a success, bought Nilsson. He got 16 games before declared not good enough for the Championship. Since then this bearded hippie-like midget's been playing for Panathinaikos, although most fans are disappointed over his presence. Nilsson is considered to weak and too slow for the Greek league and it seems like the club are ready to let his contract run out.

Ace. Does he fit 'the policy' though? If so, sign him up Rafa.

[Josef Svejk]

Originally Posted by Remington

For those of you that doesn't know him he's a Swedish one-footed midfielder currently struggling as a full-back in Greece. The Swedish national team's got a bigger full-back crisis then Liverpool, and especially on the right-side. That's why this 30 year old midfielder - who played in Division 6 (!) ten years ago got to play for the national team in 2002. Lagerbäck has since then replaced him - we're now playing a 36-year old right-winger as full-back instead. He's nowhere near good, but atleast he's better than Nilsson.

All and all, Nilsson's a very bad footballer who lacks talent but he's especially poor at marking, simple short passes and clearing the ball. In 2004 Southampton, who only recently failed to make the other poor Swedish wing-back (Nilssons precessor) Alexander Östlund a success, bought Nilsson. He got 16 games before declared not good enough for the Championship. Since then this bearded hippie-like midget's been playing for Panathinaikos, although most fans are disappointed over his presence. Nilsson is considered to weak and too slow for the Greek league and it seems like the club are ready to let his contract run out.

But is he better than Degen?

[Jens]

I´ve double checked with my source and, apparently, it´s this Liverpool side from South America who made the offer.

Sorry for the miscommunication. He looks like Mcmanaman though.

[hamstrung]

Dead funny.

[OnizukaEikichi]

looks like shit as well

[Karl]

Jens is fucking shit.

[Evil_Ways]

Weird thing about swedish footballers.
Only very few of them are really good at club level. In the last decade it's basically only been Ibrahimovic, Larsson and Ljungberg who's done really well for top sides.
Yet these three together with 8 other decent or shite players form a very good national side.
Players like Linderoth (absolute shite at Everton) Lucic (shite at Leeds) Svensson (shite at Southampton) play blinders on a regular basis for their national side.
The complete opposite of England i suppose.

[Remington]

Yes it is. Mind that Sweden is a very small country. Out of the -10M countries it's only Croatia that's been on a similar basis the recent 10-15 years in international football. There's a great interest in football in Sweden, but a poor domestic league. There's always gonna be some good players. 1-2 new stars each year. Elmander is one you forgot to mention who is actually a bit good.

Must of Sweden's international success is due to our standardized 4-4-2-diamond counter-attack system that we've stuck to since the early nineties. Sweden always played the same. Players like Anders Svensson may be absolute shite but they are comfortable with Sweden's system. That's also why we have so many older players in the national team; players like Allbäck, Lucic, Alexandersson and Larsson (some of them has been around since the WC 1994); they generally play better in Sweden's system than the new young starlets, like Zlatan for instance.

[Evil_Ways]

Yeah considering the population Sweden has done extremely well.
But when taking population into account i suppose Holland with something like 16 million and Portugal with just over 10 is more impressive. Prehaps not the International teams efforts, but in terms of producing top players. I suppose they have abit of an advantage with all their colonies though.

[Remington]

Lars Lagerbäck released the Euro 2008 squad yesterday. Henrik Larsson, 36, were included once again. Super professional. Can't hate him, even though he recently played for the Mancs.