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irishgoldberg · 04-02-2016 07:54PM

GT_TDI_150 wrote: »

Hopefully the people ordering the drive bys will have confirmed the person doing the driving isnt on a driving ban for traffic offences or on a provisional license without a qualifid driver beside them!

And that the car has a valid NCT!

richieffff · 04-02-2016 07:55PM

So, anyone selling a right mid? Anzhi here

swoody · 04-02-2016 08:14PM

irishgoldberg wrote: »

And that the car has a valid NCT!

eh i dunno · 04-02-2016 08:34PM

Good 3-1 win. 8 points from 12. Decent start for the villa

GT_TDI_150 · 04-02-2016 08:39PM

Unless my mind is playinhg tricks on me ... a rare win over Arsenal for me ... winning goal by a Spurs player

FC Porto beat Arsenal 1 - 0 in their Division 1 fixture.
Bentaleb scored the winner for FC Porto and was later voted Man of the Match for his performance.

Colemania · 04-02-2016 08:47PM

Yay another loss.... 1 point from 4 games now.

GLaDOS · 04-02-2016 08:49PM

SL Benfica slumped to a 2 - 1 defeat against SSC Napoli in their Division 1 fixture.

Džeko scored the only goal for SL Benfica and was later voted Man of the Match for his performance.

1 point from the opening 4

Aims for the season: avoid setting a record low points total

irishgoldberg · 04-02-2016 09:10PM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

1 point from the opening 4

Aims for the season: avoid setting a record low points total

Well you have 1 point more than me!!!

Comic Book Guy · 04-02-2016 09:12PM

A come from behind win against Udinese.

Feared the worst going down to a very early Shaqiri goal but illaramendi and dragovic goals get us our second win in Division 2.

Now to try and open our goal scoring account away from home......

Oh great it's only last seasons play-off runners up Anzhi next

Division 2, the division that keeps on giving!!

richieffff · 04-02-2016 09:13PM

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

Oh great it's only last seasons play-off runners up Anzhi next

Division 2, the division that keeps on giving!!

Huntelaar is injured ðŸ˜¥

Ordinary man · 04-02-2016 09:17PM

Panathinaikos beat Celtic 4 - 0 in their Division 3 fixture.
Meier had an impressive game and was voted Man of the Match.
Douglas, Koo and Lemoine were amongst the goalscorers.

4/4 so far and yet we're 6th from bottom in attendance, tough crowd to please. Newcastle up next to inject some reality into us

tupac_healy · 04-02-2016 09:24PM

1-0 win vs Leverkusen, even without Messi...

Thank god I have him available for the next game then!

swoody · 04-02-2016 09:35PM

tupac_healy wrote: »

1-0 win vs Leverkusen, even without Messi...

Thank god I have him available for the next game then!

was there an agreement to not play players? cause mac played griezmann and he scored......

tupac_healy · 04-02-2016 09:53PM

swoody wrote:

was there an agreement to not play players? cause mac played griezmann and he scored......

There was and there wasn't...

There was a call for me not to play Messi but nothing mentioned about Griezmann or Laporte (strange that.......) I said no bother if my players don't play, Messi won't.

So, that's the end of that, I said I wouldn't and I didn't. In fairness to Mac he never agreed, it was a somewhat overly enthusiastic third party whom insisted on it. I made good, but my conditions were not met....

Unlucky man

swoody · 04-02-2016 10:04PM

tupac_healy wrote: »

There was and there wasn't...

There was a call for me not to play Messi but nothing mentioned about Griezmann or Laporte (strange that.......) I said no bother if my players don't play, Messi won't.

So, that's the end of that, I said I wouldn't and I didn't. In fairness to Mac he never agreed, it was a somewhat overly enthusiastic third party whom insisted on it. I made good, but my conditions were not met....

Unlucky man

tbh i couldn't care less, t'is only a game at the end of the day and i ain't gunna lose sleep over a random selection game.......but i was robbed i tell ya, ROBBED!

GT_TDI_150 · 04-02-2016 10:06PM

WOW ...

Chinese side Jiangsu Suning have signed Alex Teixeira from Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk for €50m euros, according to L'Equipe.

tupac_healy · 04-02-2016 10:10PM

GT_TDI_150 wrote:

Chinese side Jiangsu Suning have signed Alex Teixeira from Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk for â‚¬50m euros, according to L'Equipe.

Was just going to post! Wow!!! Nobody is safe from the drop! Crazy stuff

Comic Book Guy · 04-02-2016 10:12PM

GT_TDI_150 wrote: »

WOW ...

Chinese side Jiangsu Suning have signed Alex Teixeira from Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk for €50m euros, according to L'Equipe.

So much for his aim of getting into the Brazil squad. $$$£££€€€

Mourinho · 04-02-2016 10:15PM

With China having gone through and still kinda in its own Celtic Tiger mode, it will be interesting to see what will happen should it burst like over here in the West, be tough to be paying those big wages then!

GT_TDI_150 · 04-02-2016 10:28PM

Will it be considered a strong league if they keep hoovering up talent from around the world?

tupac_healy · 04-02-2016 10:30PM

GT_TDI_150 wrote:

Will it be considered a strong league if they keep hoovering up talent from around the world?

They won't consider it a strong league on SM for a very very long time....

If your player ends up there it's pretty much a drop zone!

Hercule Poirot · 05-02-2016 01:02PM

GT_TDI_150 wrote: »

Will it be considered a strong league if they keep hoovering up talent from around the world?

My guess is unless the Chinese national team start qualifying for World Cups, winning AFC titles then no - regardless of who is playing there

richieffff · 06-02-2016 11:11AM

Yilmaz off to China now too, madness.

tupac_healy · 06-02-2016 11:23AM

It does seem as though nobody is safe... anyone know do they operate a window or what? At least if they do we can rest when it closes!

Edit.... Kakuta gone now as well apparently!

redzerdrog · 06-02-2016 11:30AM

Window closes the 28th of Feb I think

richieffff · 06-02-2016 12:06PM

A recent enough summary of the Chinese transfers from reddit

https://i.imgur.com/WCBzNLp.jpg

GLaDOS · 06-02-2016 12:10PM

Didn't realise Guarin had moved, balls. Had been very close to selling him in the close season before the other manger changed their mind.

tupac_healy · 06-02-2016 12:35PM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Didn't realise Guarin had moved, balls. Had been very close to selling him in the close season before the other manger changed their mind.

He's gone ages I think? Wasn't he one of the first big names, with Gervinho

GLaDOS · 06-02-2016 12:37PM

27th jan according to that image. I haven't been paying a massive amount of attention to transfers this window.

tupac_healy · 06-02-2016 12:44PM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

27th jan according to that image. I haven't been paying a massive amount of attention to transfers this window.

Thought it was earlier than that. Either way, this whole new Chinese aspect will have a real impact on the game, pretty much no such thing as a safe player anymore between China and the MLS...

Will make things more interesting going forward

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