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I have no idea but somebody told me that that team of the year thing is voted for by players, and it happens that neither the Germans nor the Brits care that much about it. As much as I hate Suarez, it's horsetrout he isn't in the team though. trout, I know it's Ronaldo and Messi, but smurf it, play with four forwards. With those up front you don't need a defence.
I don't know how the team is voted for, but the Balon d'Or is a mixture of national team captains, coaches, and media:Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Manus
The full votes are available online. (:hattip: Grauniad)
Steven Gerrard, as England's captain, gave Suarez his third choice, while the other two English voters were Henry Winter for the media, and Roy Hodgson. Only two PL players between their nine votes - Suarez by Gerrard, and Hodgson picked Van Persie as his third choice.
As far as I can tell, each country is weighted equally.
Also: Gareth Bale in 'coming top in two out of three sets of Welsh votes' shocker.
Essentially, all the PL clubs need to do in order to really get things moving towards a PL member being in the running is to start bringing in a lot of international captains to the PL, meaning those that favour players in their own club/league will vote for PL players.
So, let's bring them all in, starting with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Actually, might just leave it at that.
I agree with Nolan but you can go tae smurf with Schweinsteiger and ToureQuote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
On a random note, Final Fantasy Football - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia gave me quite the chuckle.
"WAGs stands for White-mages And Girlfriends"
"For instance, many of the best players are unaffordable early on, and traditionally every team must include at least one Cid."
"Back Row (DF) - The back row are your defenders, and thus, you may want to give them your best armour. The most overlooked of football players, they spend much of the game hanging around at the back, relaxing. Their only real skill is steal, which allows them to steal the ball, though at later levels they can also use mug, a technique that is not supported by the Football Association."
The team of the year is a joke and has been for the past few seasons. It's just basicly players voting for their team-mates, yet the English players don't even seem to take it seriously. Delighted Ronny won though he deserved it.
Lets pick our own teams of the year:
GK: Neuer
DF: Alaba, Kompany, Koscielny, Lahm
MD: Messi, Bale, Ozil, Ronaldo
FD: Suarez, Van Persie
That was just off-hand. :p
GK: De Gea
DF: Evra, Vidic, Smalling, Raphael
MD: Young, Carrick, Cleverley, Valencia
FD: Rooney, Van Persie
Glad to see Newcastle play and not have a bad decision off the ref deny them a potential game changing goal.
That last minute free kick from Cabaye was glorious and more importantly I must ask what's wrong with Andy Carroll :( what have West Ham done to him?
Oh and what's with the name change? XD
It seems that clearly and obviously diving when being challenged by a keeper is now not only perfectly acceptable, but even the right thing to do according to football commentators.
Liverpool weren't at their best yesterday but also, that's the best I've seen Villa play all season. A draw was probably the right result even though that was never a penalty.
Today feels weird already. It's the first time for as long as I can remember watching Utd that I give us no hope of coming away with any points. The best we can hope for is to try and stifle them, maybe catch them on the counter with Valencia, Wellbeck and Januzaj. Honestly though, we 're not solid enough at the back to stop them from scoring.
I'm just going to put on my mid-80s white away kit again. Yea it's a boys size but smurf he consequences I'm already back there mentally.
Every season hoping for a decent cup run...Moyes. What a smurfing clueless wanker.
Oh, that cruel moment when you think you've won it with an injury time winner and the goal is (rightfully) ruled offside. :(
Finally! Something more exciting in this transfer window than Grant bloody Holt! £35m for Mata? Iiiiiiinteresting. I did say United needed to splurge in this transfer window! However, I wonder if he may be Kagawa 2.0. Great player but I can't help but wonder where he'd play in United's system and think they'd be better off buying a more central midfielder in the mold of Yaya Toure so that they never have to play Tom Cleverley again! Either way, I'm glad SOMETHING of note is happening.
I think Mata is more versatile than Kagawa, and certainly more acclimatised to the English game. Twice player of the season at Chelsea is nothing to turn your nose up at, and we do need a quality winger and a consistently creative midfielder which is something he can cover both of. Would still like to see an amazing central midfielder but I actually agree with Moyes that if they simply aren't available right now then we shouldn't rush anything through.
My only concern with Mata is that it seems he is frustrated at a lack of first team opportunities and I always question when we buy someone because they can't get a game elsewhere. It becomes a question of whether we are looking for not the top players but the next level down. Still, I think Mata being 25 years old with two player of the seasons in the bag for Chelsea means that he's not "lost it" just yet.
I still would like to see some other signings than Mata, but I can accept that sometimes these things just aren't that simple, particularly during the January transfer window and particularly when many are cup tied in UEFA and many are simply wanting to wait and see where United end up after 38 games.
I can see Chelsea simply shrugging and saying "no" throughout this transfer window at the very least, though.
EDIT: In other news, 6-8 weeks out for Lucas is a massive blow for Liverpool considering how they struggled without him in the recent Villa game, he really turned them around. In other other news, Mancini gives a massive gift to headline writers around the world as he writes everything but "on Rock and Roll" out for them.
This could be Chelsea's Fabregas/Nasri. Why sell one of your best players to a rival who only needs one or two big players to usurp you? I don't think Chelsea need the money.
That said, unlike Arsenal with Fabregas, Chelsea seem to be doing just fine with him picking out splinters. I'm also interested to see how Moyes would fit him into his system. If AVB, Benitez and Mourinho couldn't figure out what to do with him, I don't hold out much hope for David Moyes.