The Barclays Premier League thread 2015/2016

[stokeriño]

Shaun Wright Phillips was hardly Man City's fault, it was Chelsea who broke him and stagnated his career.

It's not like he didn't play: roughly 40 appearances per season in all three of his years at Chelsea. He was just shit.

[TCO]

More that he wasn't first choice and starting every week, which he needed to be at that point of his career. Not that he should've been in ahead of Duff or Robben or anything though.

I fucking loved the Chelsea team of that era, so many fantastic players.

[brenchill]

I never understood why Chelsea just let Robben go so easy.

[The Lusophone]

I never understood why Chelsea just let Robben go so easy.

Injuries (including a cancer scare of all things) and he had, in his words, won all there was to win in England. Plus 35 million euros isn't to be sniffed at.

[brenchill]

I thought he went for peanuts. Something like £16m?

[Baddar]

Wiki says 24m, but would have been roughly 16 to Bayern.

Edited July 16, 2015 by Baddar

[METALMAN]

You're thinking of Michael Jordan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015ygxd

[DavidMarrio]

Sakho and Lineker chilling. 

[Colly]

He's properly whoring himself today.

Edited July 16, 2015 by Ultra Rare Colly

[Rich]

No wonder Lineker supports so many clubs with all these hugs

[Cheeky Hughes]

Jack Rodwell, Scott Sinclair, Joleon Lescott, Micah Richards - I'm sure there's more.

EDIT: Looked at Joleon's wiki and he got way more games than I thought he did so maybe I'm being harsh on that one.

Swap Lescott for Adam Johnson and you have yourself a decent list of players who fit that description.

Rodwell was always injured, Micah was unfortunate to get injured at the same time when Zaba decided he was really fucking good, Johnson was alright but the less said about him now the better I guess, Lescott was one half of the pairing the won the league a few years back and Sinclair couldn't get games at West Brom when we sent him off so it's hardly just a City thing there. 

SWP the second time around wasn't very good but it was a nostalgia run so fuck it.

[METALMAN]

Let's put all the Liverpool fans and all the Spurs fans in the stocks and pelt them with rotten fruit.

Except David Marrio I guess. He has good manners.

[Colly]

I vote pardon Hammy.

[METALMAN]

Only if you take his place.

[Hobo]

If anyone gets puts in the stocks it's Lineker.

 

[Jimmy]

Let's put all the Liverpool fans and all the Spurs fans in the stocks and pelt them with rotten fruit.

Except David Marrio I guess. He has good manners.

:/

[Hobo]

I'm enjoying Sakho in pre-season thus far. He scored against the Thai All-Stars and went mad with his celebration and then he got in amongst fans in Australia and tricked Adam Lallana into signing his training bib.

 

Edited July 16, 2015 by TLHobo

[Colly]

Only if you take his place.

[TCO]

So what's Hatem Ben Arfa been up to since January? Seeing as he couldn't play for Nice until now, eating is the answer.

 

[Lineker]

Malky Mackay and Iain Moody will face no further action over those text messages.