[ENG] Premiership 2012/2013 (8 Viewers)

[Gabriel]

RVP kills Kagawa I guess.

 

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[Gian]

Van Persie scored whenever he was fit. I've been a huge fan of Persie since his early days at Arsenal and I rate him more than Rooney and for me he's always been the 2nd best striker in the Premier league after Drogba. (or 3rd after Torres, when Torres was still considered good)
I don't need to convince myself anything, Persie is a brilliant player and would improve any team he joins. He's a luxury signing, he's an unnecessary signing and we could've done much better using that money to sign another midfielder or heck, even signing Song would've been better.
But if Persie is used in the right way (Without forcing Kagawa and Valencia out of position) he can be the difference between winning the PL and the 2nd place.

Ideally I'd play like this:

-------Persie

Nani Rooney Valencia

---Carrick Scholes

Rooney was amazing playing behind Chicharito in 2011. Rooney can rotate with Persie, and Kagawa rotate with Rooney.

Dont you think that SAF will switch back to his 4-3-3 where he won the CL with (CR7, Rooney, Tevez / Nani/Wellbeck - Rooney - RVP)?

 

[acmilan]

Show me a better record. 0.5+ goals per game is a great record for any player that is not Ronaldo or Messi.
Consider that he got that record while being in and out of the team because of injuries and not playing as the main striker.

Van Persie is a world class striker and no one can argue about that. Any Arsenal fan trying to label him as a one season wonder, is just too bitter to remember how good Persie was.

goals/time played can be a very misleading statistic. Take Huntelaar for example - by all accounts he failed to make an impact in the big teams for which he played yet his goal average was second to none in both Real and Milan ... I think he may have had the best goals/time played ratio in all of serie A the year he played for Milan even if I don't have the stats in front of me right now (Alen, where are you when I need you ).

to take it to the extreme - imagine a player comes in for the last 10 or so min of the game. In that case scoring 5-6 goals will be more than enough to make his stats look amazing but that doesn't mean he is anything more than a good option to have on the bench.

All in all, it takes a lot more than good average stats to make a player a WC one and RVP has, so far, shown he could be called that only over the span of a season, a season and a half ... before that he was nothing but a player with great potential, which it seemed was taking him forever to realize.

 

[Xperd]

There are rumors that Aguero could be out for 6 months.

 

[Gabriel]

Well, they still have Tevez, Balotelli, Santa Cruz, Adebayor, Dzeko and Guidetti.

 

[JuveJay]

Fergie undercover today.

 

[Trequartista]

 

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[Martin]

He looks younger. Good makeup?

 

[Juventino[RUS]]

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Is that you?

 

[Juventino[RUS]]

You can't be that stupid, child

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

It's just how I would imagine you.

 

[Red]

Good to see the EPL hasn't changed at all over the summer.

The hilariously bad defending and irresponsible midfield play continue to make it The Best League In The World™.

 

[Juventino[RUS]]

It's just how I would imagine you.

You don't have to image me because you know how i looks like

 

[Nicholas]

Rodwell today

 

[Pablo]

Brendan Rodgers said he was "here to make history." Well he's done it! That's their biggest opening day defeat in 75 years for Liverpool

 

[Trequartista]

Rodwell today

Indeed

 

[Maddy]

Everton fans' inferiority complex towards Liverpool is almost as funny as seeing Liverpool fail.

 

[Juventino[RUS]]

Sahin to Gunners