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[Trumo]

Lallana is a very good player and definitely played very well last night but as with a lot of players from smaller clubs who are lauded, a big factor is the amount of game time they get. Any player who plays week-in week-out will look all the better for it. It's when they move to a larger club and become part of that club's squad rotation that any limitations can be shown up.

 

I've not watched enough of Lallana or Southampton to know if he's consistent in his performances, but the way people talk about him and the way MOTD highlights are edited would suggest that he is consistent and can cause problems for even the best sides in this division. 

[DanDanShaw]

I'm just glad none of our players were injured (not just the English lads).

 

Letting Roy Hodgson train and prepare Henderson, Stevie, Johno, Sterling and Sturridge is like handing the keys to your new Ferrari to your senile old uncle.

[John McClane]

Fair point DanDan

You think what goes through a players mind working under inspiring managers at Liverpool, Southampton and dare I say Chelsea, then getting selected for the big time, telling your family and friends, the excitement, pack your bag, get to the hotel/ base and its Roy fucking Hodgson calling the shots,telling you how to press and play against fucking Denmark and next to him is Neville, who in the last month has probably picked a fault of your club performance with his 80 inch digital toys on sports.

 

I guess the united players wont notice a great difference.

[DanDanShaw]

Fair point DanDan

You think what goes through a players mind working under inspiring managers at Liverpool, Southampton and dare I say Chelsea, then getting selected for the big time, telling your family and friends, the excitement, pack your bag, get to the hotel/ base and its Roy fucking Hodgson calling the shots,telling you how to press and play against fucking Denmark and next to him is Neville, who in the last month has probably picked a fault of your club performance with his 80 inch digital toys on sports.

 

I guess the united players wont notice a great difference.

 

Imagine playing for Liverpool week in week out, with the trust of the manager to pretty much do your own thing, playing beautiful football with complete freedom.  To being trained like it's the 70s, with incompetent coaching staff and having how you play dictated to you by a manager who's so shit scared of opening up - he'd come back from a sex tour of Zimbabwe negative.

 

I bet they can't wait to get back to Melwood.

[Jairzinho]

But, but, but... Roy Hodgson's methods have translated from Halmstads to Malmo to Orebro to Nuechatel Xamax to the Swiss national team.

 

They certainly have.

[Stickman]

I'm just glad none of our players were injured (not just the English lads).

 

Letting Roy Hodgson train and prepare Henderson, Stevie, Johno, Sterling and Sturridge is like handing the keys to your new Ferrari to your senile old uncle.

 

 

I'm glad we don't have a game this weekend as it will take longer than a few days to flush out the shite Hodgson has been coaching them....stuff like that could scar you for life.

[Pureblood]

Lallana?  He's no Le Tiss.

[LFC64]

Some interesting comparisons have been made with the 78 England experiment by Greenwood against Switzerland( was it?) that had I think 7 Liverpool players plus Keegan who had just left.

Ended nil nil and predictably it didn't go down well with Fleet Street.Lots of theories were offered as to why the reds players who were European Champions didn't turn over the Swiss but conveniently left out the one that maybe the blend of LFC's staff players and fans were just better than the National set up.

Paisley's Liverpool went on to successfully defend the European Cup while England failed to qualify for Argentina

[Tony Moanero]

Hodgson is a plonker.

[spider-neil]

Wilshere out for 6 weeks (BBC). Oof!

[Lee909]

Wenger will be happy

 

Jack Wilshere out for six weeks after breaking foot in Denmark win

 

Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has suffered a hairline fracture in his left foot and will be sidelined for at least six weeks.

 

The 22-year-old sustained the injury during England's 1-0 international friendly victory over Denmark on Wednesday night at Wembley.

 

Wilshere was injured in a challenge by Liverpool's Daniel Agger in the 12th minute but played on until the hour.

 

A crack was discovered in the navicular bone following a scan on Thursday.

 

 

[DanDanShaw]

Wenger will be happy

 

Jack Wilshere out for six weeks after breaking foot in Denmark win

 

Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has suffered a hairline fracture in his left foot and will be sidelined for at least six weeks.

 

The 22-year-old sustained the injury during England's 1-0 international friendly victory over Denmark on Wednesday night at Wembley.

 

Wilshere was injured in a challenge by Liverpool's Daniel Agger in the 12th minute but played on until the hour.

 

A crack was discovered in the navicular bone following a scan on Thursday.

 

Well at least Hodgson's has his answers, I wonder who's resolve will be tested next.

[DanDanShaw]

[Stickman]

In a funny sort of way that looks better than Wilshere

[Brigant Moloch]

Sebastian Rode joins Bayern on free transfer from Eintracht, great player, Schweinsteiger backup I guess.

[J-V]

Wenger will be happy

 

Jack Wilshere out for six weeks after breaking foot in Denmark win

 

Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has suffered a hairline fracture in his left foot and will be sidelined for at least six weeks.

 

The 22-year-old sustained the injury during England's 1-0 international friendly victory over Denmark on Wednesday night at Wembley.

 

Wilshere was injured in a challenge by Liverpool's Daniel Agger in the 12th minute but played on until the hour.

 

A crack was discovered in the navicular bone following a scan on Thursday.

 

Well in Dan, even sorting out rival players when on International duty.  That's what I call dedication.

[Josef Svejk]

 

That's ridiculous.

 

 

His mouth's closed.

[LFC64]

Well in Dan, even sorting out rival players when on International duty that's what I call dedication.

Tyldseley was desperately trying to make a case for a poor challenge by Agger until after  christ knows how many replays one angle then showed Wilshere had just shit out of the challenge and kicked straight through Agger's trailing foot injuring his own in the process

[beejay]

England have a decent crop of young players and it's a crying shame that the FA decided it was a good idea to put a tactical dinosaur in charge of them.

 

My squad :

 

Hart, Forster, Foster

 

Johnson, Flanagan, Cahill, Jagielka, Caulker, Jones, Baines, Shaw

 

Gerrard, Barkley, Wilshere, Henderson, Sterling, Lallana, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Townsend

 

Rooney, Sturridge, Rodriguez & Welbeck 

 

Loads of pace, plenty of options and no fear. Once one fast young gun tires, bring on another to run the legs off the opposition.

 

Unleash this lot and we could have a right go but that useless old tosser will clog the plane up with the same bunch of losers as previous failed tournaments like Cole, Lampard, Milner & Defoe.

[DanDanShaw]

Sebastian Rode joins Bayern on free transfer from Eintracht, great player, Schweinsteiger backup I guess.

 

Ballack was saying before they played Arsenal that Schweinsteiger doesn't really get a look in anymore, so probably more of a replacement/squad player.

[Brigant Moloch]

Ballack was saying before they played Arsenal that Schweinsteiger doesn't really get a look in anymore, so probably more of a replacement/squad player.

I think now they've got Rode, Lahm will be back RB and Martinez CB permanently.

 

Lahm - Martinez - Dante - Alaba

-----Schweinsteiger - Rode------

 

defense-wise it's football porn;)

[Jairzinho]

Queens Park Rangers announce £65m loss in 2013 accounts

Championship side Queens Park Rangers made a loss of over £65m in their accounts for the year to May 2013.

 

QPR spent £41.4m on transfer fees and saw their wage bill increase by almost £17m to £68m in an attempt to avoid relegation from the Premier League.

 

The Loftus Road side's overall debt increased to £177.1m, up from £91.4m in the 2012 accounts.

 

Championship clubs losing more than £8m in 2013-14 will be subject to sanctions under Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.

QPR finances 2012-13

• Overall loss: £65.4m (up from £22.6m in 2011-12 accounts)
• Turnover: £60.6m (down from £64m)
• Salary bill: £68m (up from £51.3m)
• Number of playing, coaching & support staff: 107 (up from 84)
• Overall club debt: £177.1m (up from £91.4m)

QPR Holdings Limited posted their accounts with Companies House earlier this week.

 

"When, alongside my business partners, I purchased a majority shareholding in the club in August 2011, my goal was to turn QPR into an established Premier League club," QPR chairman Tony Fernandes wrote in his statement.

 

"Being relegated was obviously not part of our plans, but our focus and determination to achieve our long-term goals has not diminished.

 

"We are confident that the 2013-14 season will also see the club continue to make progress towards achieving its short, medium and long-term off-pitch target."

 

During the accounting period, the number of players, coaches and support staff on the club's books swelled from 84 to 107.

 

Rangers bolstered their squad under manager Mark Hughes in the summer of 2012 and, after the Welshman was sacked in November that year, more money was made available to his successor Harry Redknapp in the January 2013 transfer window.

 

The big-money, high-wage arrivals included Julio Cesar, Park Ji-Sung, Estaban Granero, Jose Bosingwa, Christopher Samba and Loic Remy, but it made no difference as they dropped out of the top flight.

 

Rangers have since off-loaded those six players and others in an effort to cut their wage bill.

 

Following their relegation in May, Malaysian entrepeneur Fernandes claimed he had been "exploited" since he took over at Loftus Road, and the club is now under pressure to try and avoid an FFP rules  penalty.

 

Rangers are currently fourth in the Championship, but have little chance of closing a 17-point gap on leaders Leicester with only 14 games still to play, and are nine points adrift of Brunley, who currently occupy the other automatic promotion place.

 

Any team remaining in the second tier that falls foul of FFP rules will be subject to a transfer embargo until they can prove their financial results are in line with the regulations, while a team promoted to the top flight will be subject to a fine, which is operated on a sliding scale.

 

Fernandes, who also owns AirAsia and is team principal of the Caterham Formula 1 team, completed his takeover of QPR in 2011.

 

The 49-year-old has plans to build a new training ground at Warren Farm in Ealing and in December the club unveiled proposals for a new 40,000-seater stadium in a development at Old Oak Common.

 

[Alan Sex]

That's QPR fucked for the Champions League then.

[bossy]

Replying to an earlier post re Glen Johnson and saying those who thought he wasn't up to much must just be looking to have a pop. Bollocks. I don't do that kind of nonsense I just say what I see and I thought he was pretty poor I'm afraid. He was caught out on 3 or 4 occasions, misplaced a number of passes and was fairly careless throughout.

[fowler9]

hats off to Danny Agger, injuring one of our rivals but not only that managed to make it that little prick Wilshere who deserves a good kicking regardless of him being a good footballer at a team we want to do better than