Thread: 2007/08 English Premier League Season

Originally Posted by redxalonso

Former Arsenal director David Dein sold the remaining of his shares to Usmanov, not surprisingly another shady Russian oligarch.

Alisher Usmanov, potential Arsenal chairman, is a Vicious Thug, Criminal, Racketeer, Heroin Trafficker and Accused Rapist
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archive...r_usmanov.html

This will not end well...

Originally Posted by Mr. Irreverent

This will not end well...

I wonder if they would be allowed to buy any American sports franchises.

Originally Posted by redxalonso

I wonder if they would be allowed to buy any American sports franchises.

Somehow I don't think so... shady corporate dudes would be okay, heck even mafiosos would have a better chance to buy a sports team than some Russian dude.

Originally Posted by redxalonso

The Germans are efficient, but Juergan Klinnsman and Rudi Voller did not rely on brut strengths when they were helping Germany last win major tournaments.

In WC 2006, Klinsmann changed the German into a more attacking squad and exceeded all expectations.

Klinnsman led a very different German squad but he also had a new generation of German players to work with(Podolski, Schweinsteiger, Lahm, etc.)

But Voller's 2002 team was very much a German throwback team. Klose up front as a traditional target man, but a very packed midfield. With pretty much 2 destroyers in Jeremies and Hamman leaving Ballack to roam. Anyways, remembering their games, the only won they really won with style was the Saudi game. Against the US they won from a header off a free kick. In the semi's they just put in about a billion crosses against South Korea(great strategy since the German team was on average probably 5 inches taller than the Koreans) and Ballack ended up heading one home.

It was a very efficient team, that didn't take many chances with the ball. Very traditional German squad.

Originally Posted by ASUcruz

Klinnsman led a very different German squad but he also had a new generation of German players to work with(Podolski, Schweinsteiger, Lahm, etc.)

But Voller's 2002 team was very much a German throwback team. Klose up front as a traditional target man, but a very packed midfield. With pretty much 2 destroyers in Jeremies and Hamman leaving Ballack to roam. Anyways, remembering their games, the only won they really won with style was the Saudi game. Against the US they won from a header off a free kick. In the semi's they just put in about a billion crosses against South Korea(great strategy since the German team was on average probably 5 inches taller than the Koreans) and Ballack ended up heading one home.

It was a very efficient team, that didn't take many chances with the ball. Very traditional German squad.

Had Klinnsman played the traditional German style, they wouldn't have gotten out of group stages. It's not like the squad was given to him. Both his team selection for the World Cup 2006 and his decision to be more attacking were heavily criticized by his countrymen.

As a player, Klinnsman took plenty of chances with the ball and Germany benefitted because of it.

Rudy Voller as a player had some creativity and skills to his game. I wasn't talking about his management for Germany.

Nobody ever criticizes the World Cup winning Brazilians or Argentinians, or their star players for taking too many chances with the ball. Ditto Zidane, Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp or George Best etc.

If you're confident about what you're doing, and are not afraid to TRY, then there's no such thing as taking chances. In other words, only a bunch of p*ssies and defeatists would stay away from "taking chances".

Nice rant, but I wasn't critisizing players for taking chances. Merely pointing out that the 02 German team was very much a traditional German team. I thought you had said that Voller led a very attacking thought.

Redxalonso loves to rant when he thinks someone disagrees with him. Take it easy, if you answer the points I make and don't go on these endless tangents your posts would make more sense.

For example what does any of the following have to do with what I posted. What was the point of bringing it up.

Originally Posted by redxalonso

Nobody ever criticizes the World Cup winning Brazilians or Argentinians, or their star players for taking too many chances with the ball. Ditto Zidane, Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp or George Best etc.

If you're confident about what you're doing, and are not afraid to TRY, then there's no such thing as taking chances. In other words, only a bunch of p*ssies and defeatists would stay away from "taking chances".

Originally Posted by ASUcruz

For example what does any of the following have to do with what I posted. What was the point of bringing it up.

Because you made it sound like a fair amount of skill/creativity(which is how I interpret taking chances with the ball) is not needed to win.

The German teams with a good mix of robots and skilled players are the ones that won trophies in the past.

Originally Posted by ASUcruz

Redxalonso loves to rant when he thinks someone disagrees with him. Take it easy, if you answer the points I make and don't go on these endless tangents your posts would make more sense.

Coming from a guy who actually thinks Lampard is a box to box player and that Benitez is overrated, of course it doesn't make sense to you.