On the Eve of the new Season...

[vansmack]

even assuming that tevez has gone, you replace 2 with 3. valencia is know to be quality in england, ribery has delivered all over the place and benzema is the high potential kid. i'd kind of like to see them add maybe another cmf

edit: maybe a rb too

Well, I think there's high hopes for the return of Owen Hargeaves for central mid (myself included).  But I don't like taking the chance with the elders Giggs and Scholes as the only backups to Fletcher, Carrick and Anderson should Hargreaves not meet fitness after double knee surgery or whatever it was...

The Tevez thing is all about the discomfort United have for the secretive arrangement with his agent.  It's been made quite clear to him that they will sign him if he can seperate himself from Kia Joorabchian. 

As for right back, it's all about the twins now.  I understnd there's some interest in a17 year old Brazilian Central defender too.

[vansmack]

hahaha...awesome

Sadly, it was changed back.

[Frank Gallagher]

HEY! Just think....we sell Ronaldo and we can buy Newcastle United!!!!

The solution is simple....dump Ronaldo for 80 mil....a great player but not a united blue collar player. We also dump that lazy bastard Berbatov to some money heavy moron like City or Chelski then get Ribery at a discount coz he's 26 years old so at the twilight of his prime. Sign Tevez as long as he dumps his ambulance chasing agent and look for a successor to Ferdinand to partner Vidic in the near future. Put Rooney and Tevez up front (why put Rooney out of his natural position???) game after game and we'll put the fear of god into every defense in Europe. We also take Henry from Barca as as short term solution seeing as Barca don't seem to appreciate the talent they have there.

BTW, Congratulations to Barca. Totally outplayed United in the final. Talk about men against boys???

[vansmack]

I am not man.  I am Cantona.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi358679321/

[godsshoeshine]

spain didnt even bother to toy with the kiwi's today

[Frank Gallagher]

spain didnt even bother to toy with the kiwi's today

Bullies!!

[godsshoeshine]

i set the dvr for the usmnt vs italy today. i hope its less boring than i think it will be.

[vansmack]

i set the dvr for the usmnt vs italy today. i hope its less boring than i think it will be.

I was thinking about this while sitting on the beach this morning.  Having been in attendance for what was probably the US's greatest single game performance the last time these teams met, it's very frustrating for me to see just how far they've fallen recently.  Today will likely not be pretty, and Egypt are not exactly going to be a walkover in the second game either.

[vansmack]

Man Utd start new season home to Birmingham

Newcastle face West Brom away on opening day

[godsshoeshine]

west brom and reading is as tough a start as you can have in the ccc

just hope we have an owner, a manager or at least some players by then

[Frank Gallagher]

Shoeshine...I know it must suck that your team was relegated but believe me the Championship is more fun than the premier league. When I was living back in Cork there was a 'match of the day' for the championship and it really was much more entertaining than the premier league sometimes...no prima donnas, no diving, just good honest football like it's supposed to be played.

I'm just disapointed I won't see Keano go up against McCarthy, now that would've been interesting. Ipswich are my Championship team for obvious reasons.

[godsshoeshine]

dont get me wrong, itll be nice for the toon to not be completely outmatched like 40% of the time, but i wont be able to watch any of these games on tv

[vansmack]

Premier League decides to end Setanta deal

[godsshoeshine]

so espn should snag the prem matches, then make a deal with the beeb for the ccc

[vansmack]

so espn should snag the prem matches, then make a deal with the beeb for the ccc

That of course is about broadcasting rights in England.  That doesn't speak to the American broadcasting rights...

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