*Official* English Football Season 2015-16

[Tangles]

Maybe I'm alone here but LVG spending tons and ignoring the youth doesn't exactly excite me. I'd much rather see Periera play and see how he goes, or others, than see the constant spending of small nations GDPs.

 

[sledger]

BBC Sport - Euro 2016 qualifiers: Wales above England in Fifa rankings

The dubious nature of these "rankings" notwithstanding, this is pretty funny.

 

[MW1304]

Jesus. It's not as if we've even gone that low or anything, it's that Wales are 9th.

 

[Ikki]

Romania is #7 and Spain isn't even in the top 10. Fifa rankings are the joke of the sporting world.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

1	Germany	2086
2	Argentina	2052
3	Brazil	2005
4	Netherlands	1988
5	Colombia	1984
6	Chile	1953
7	Spain	1943
8	England	1910
9	France	1901
10	Portugal	1883

 

[duffer]

Where did you get that from? From Fifa.com

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Where did you get that from? From Fifa.com

Yeah those are the rankings using a sane system

 

[sledger]

Can't be that sane if England are still ranked as one of the top ten teams in the world tbf.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Ashley Cole hasn't even made Roma's 25 man Champions League Squad. If he nearly crashed his car and threw up in disgust when Arsenal only offered him £120,000 week I wonder what he did this time.

 

[sledger]

Put a phone up his...

Nevermind.

 

[duffer]

Ashley Cole hasn't even made Roma's 25 man Champions League Squad. If he nearly crashed his car and threw up in disgust when Arsenal only offered him £120,000 week I wonder what he did this time.

When I heard my agent repeat the figure of £55,000 [per week], I nearly swerved off the road. "He's taking the piss, Jonathan!" I yelled down the phone. I was trembling with anger (2006)

Heh, what a shame. He would've made a great Arsenal captain.

 

[sledger]

And there it is. Everything that is horrible about modern (depressing that the quote is actually nearly a decade old, mind you) summed up in one nauseating sentence.

 

[Eds]

Fairly sure they've gone one better than leaving him out the CL squad and actually told him to **** off. Think he's a free agent.

 

[duffer]

Fairly sure they've gone one better than leaving him out the CL squad and actually told him to **** off. Think he's a free agent.

I'd love to laugh at him but god he's had an incredible club career. Was truly world class for a long time.

 

[duffer]

I'd love to laugh at him but god he's had an incredible club career. Was truly world class for a long time.

+ Cheryl.

Lucky ****.

 

[GIMH]

Fairly sure they've gone one better than leaving him out the CL squad and actually told him to **** off. Think he's a free agent.

Did they release him before the deadline?

If so I'd expect to see him in the prem within a month or two

Maybe he can be that signing you gooners crave

 

[Cabinet96]

I don't believe that but if true I can understand Wenger keeping his powder dry and making sure he has available money in case another Ozil, Cech or Alexis type of deal comes up. If that's all we have to spend after a decade of having to sell and our new sponsorship deals of last season then it's pretty depressing.

I think it is the sad reality. Not financially hindered means we don't have to sell all our best players and break even. Our net spend over the last two and a half years is near £150m. The only clubs who can consistently spend more than that are United, City, Chelsea, Bayern, PSG, Barca and Madrid. Basically the ones with super rich owners or the super clubs who have won CL's and multiple leagues in the last 10 years.

Did they release him before the deadline?

If so I'd expect to see him in the prem within a month or two

Maybe he can be that signing you gooners crave

Monreal is literally Maldini these days. If QPR were still in the Prem I'd guess them.

 

[sledger]

BBC Sport - Danny Welbeck: Arsenal striker 'out for months' with knee injury

Oh dear.

 

[Cabinet96]

Not particularly surprising, though still annoying. Mostly annoyed that it's taken 5 months of faffing around to decide surgery was needed.

 

[sledger]

Yes, agreed.