[EN] Premier League 2005/06 (6 Viewers)

[madlawyer1]

and why would you call me stupid for saying my team will win? please mind your ManU FC Soccerballs:fero:

 

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[Nicole]

I said 'dont be stupid' not that you were...please read

 

[Chxta]

Shiver me timbers...

So much agro on the forum nowadays...

First Zlatan and I...

Now ManU vs Arsenal...

 

[Fred]

++ [ originally posted by Nicole ] ++
I said 'dont be stupid' not that you were...please read

Chelsea is the only team i can think of that has a bigger chance.

 

[Fred]

++ [ originally posted by mikhail ] ++

Interesting signing. With Vieira, Gilberto Silva, Flamini and Fabregas, they don't really need another player there. Unless, of course, they're selling Vieira...

Hleb isnt a defensive midfielder,is he?

 

[Chxta]

Now here's another who has been missing. Welcome back fred.

 

[Fred]

thank you chxta

 

[Chxta]

After six years as a Premiership referee Andy D'Urso has been relegated to the Football League next season after failing a performance review.

The demotion could threaten his international career when Fifa conducts its annual review at the end of the year but until then the Essex official can continue to handle top games in Europe.

D'Urso was limited to a dozen Premiership appearances last season when he served a suspension for failing to send off Barry Ferguson despite booking the then Blackburn player twice in a match at Southampton.

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Two Football League referees, Martin Atkinson and Andre Marriner, both 34, are to be promoted to the elite squad as part of a move to lower the average age and stimulate competition.

 

[Azzurri7]

Chelsea to win it.

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by fred weasley ] ++
Hleb isnt a defensive midfielder,is he?

No, but he is a central midfielder, so he'd be competing with that lot for a game. From what madlawyer said though, it sounds like he won't have any trouble with that.

 

[Bjerknes]

Hleb a central midfielder? Are you sure about that John?

I'm pretty sure he is a left attacking midfielder or winger, so he would probably be Pires' replacement or whoever else plays on the left side of midfield.

 

[Stu]

I haven't seen a lot of Hleb recently but I'm pretty sure he's primarily a central attacking midfielder who can play on the flanks if necessary. I know for a fact that he isn't an out and out winger.

 

[Bjerknes]

Well Stuttgart IIRC used him primarily as the left midfielder in the diamond midfield formation, however I have seen him play attacking midfield, usually prefering the left side.

 

[mikhail]

That's interesting. If he's intended as a winger, he might leave Van Persie and Reyes more time up front. That would spell then end for Pires, unless he's going to be used to back up Ljungberg.

Either way, he looks like pushing someone out of the squad!

 

[gray]

Most likely Pires, who'll probably leave next season on a free anyway.

 

[mikhail]

So is Bergkamp (unless he changes his mind again). I guess that's another hole he'd fill (by freeing Reyes/van Persie from wing duty. That said, Reyes might get unsettled again!

 

[madlawyer1]

No he wont Mikhail, cos Reyes has settled down fully now. Anyway, Hleb is a great signing. And we'll soon be showing the Premiership who's boss once again.

 

[Fred]

David Dein went to Sevilla to negotiate a 10mil Pound offer for Baptista,i really hope we get him,he'll make a lethal partnership with Henry

 

[Chxta]

Newcastle manager Graeme Souness admits he will do well to stay in the job for another year.

The Scot is the bookies' favourite to be the first Premiership boss sacked in the new season.

He has endured a turbulent first 10 months at St James' Park since succeeding Sir Bobby Robson.

But Souness has vowed face up to the challenge and run the club his way.

'If I last another 12 months in this job I will have done well,' Souness told the News of the World.

'I have to be strong and certainly won't turn my back on this challenge.

'There is only one way I will go about it - my way. I have got to be strong and be my own man.

'There have to be standards of discipline on the training filed and a code of conduct at the club.'

 

[juvelover]

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