Cassano scores on his debut

[HeeAirO]

I think Sound is right, this deserves it's own thread. Cassano's first steps to greatness were taken last night.

(3 minutes after being introduced).

Lets see the thread take off and hit the 100 replies mark.

Ahem.

[Sound]

La Liga quivers! Barca are trembling! Ronnie cant do more than 3 keepie- ups due to the fear!

Real need Cassano like a fish needs a bike.

[dotty]

La Liga quivers! Barca are trembling! Ronnie cant do more than 3 keepie- ups due to the fear!

Real need Cassano like a fish needs a bike.

ah it was a super finish though...

think cassano fits into the whole ethos of real madrid where the most important thing is you have the biggest names in world football on your team,fuck the whole concept of teamwork or even a recognisable formation,cassano is a selfish,spoilt troublemaker and will fit in well with raul et al

[HeeAirO]

La Liga quivers! Barca are trembling! Ronnie cant do more than 3 keepie- ups due to the fear!

Real need Cassano like a fish needs a bike.


with Ronaldo and Raul injured Real do need Cassano.
Have been playing with Robinho and Baptista up front - like utd playing with their Ronaldo and Scholes up fornt or Kewell and whoever....
Have been brining on young Soldada who has been scoring.
But Cassano should be well received and is badly needed.

(ps - dont go into in depth analysis of my comments on the English teams there, I was trying to give a comparison, not a tactical coup de grace)

[Sound]

with Ronaldo and Raul injured Real do need Cassano.
Have been playing with Robinho and Baptista up front - like utd playing with their Ronaldo and Scholes up fornt or Kewell and whoever....
Have been brining on young Soldada who has been scoring.
But Cassano should be well received and is badly needed.

(ps - dont go into in depth analysis of my comments on the English teams there, I was trying to give a comparison, not a tactical coup de grace)

Here is a word for Florentino to consider 'defender'. Casillas has to be the most over-worked keeper in football with that bunch of key-stone cops in front of him. Granted Real have injuries at the mo but the board weren't to know that. This is yet another comedy signing for what remains a comedy club.

[HeeAirO]

Here is a word for Florentino to consider 'defender'. Casillas has to be the most over-worked keeper in football with that bunch of key-stone cops in front of him. Granted Real have injuries at the mo but the board weren't to know that. This is yet another comedy signing for what remains a comedy club.

Cicinho,
Sergio Ramos,
Woodgate,
Samuel (bought and sold),
Diogo.
All defender bought in last 2 years.... off the top of my head.
Salgado, Helguera, and Carlos make up the regulars, all transfers in to the club.
Pavon is about the only defender not transferred in - & Raul Bravo....

[Sound]

Cicinho,
Sergio Ramos,
Woodgate,
Samuel (bought and sold),
Diogo.
All defender bought in last 2 years.... off the top of my head.
Salgado, Helguera, and Carlos make up the regulars, all transfers in to the club.
Pavon is about the only defender not transferred in - & Raul Bravo....

..yet they are still a sieve.

[HeeAirO]

..yet they are still a sieve.


do some checks on goals conceded this year so far (annual year - ahem).

[Sound]

do some checks on goals conceded this year so far (annual year - ahem).

Are you, seriously, going to try to tell me that Real dont have a rubbish defence?

[BlueSkies]

Sergio Ramos is terrible (very young though, may have potential), as is Raul Bravo. Cichino is basically a winger.

[Coin]

Its not just the players. The formation (or lack of one) has a lot to answer for as well. There are too many players with the freedom to wander the pitch, so every now and then everyone wanders at the wrong time and the back 4 (back 3 if Carlos is a wanderer at the time) are left horribly exposed with people running at them. The fault for this lies with the manager not being able to put his foot down and control the players. The fault for the lack of an authoritative manager lies squarely with 'ol Flor. As long as Pres Perez refuses to allow managers to call the shots on players, that authoritative manager will take a job elsewhere. Nobody wants to see Madrid turn into Chelsea, but a young midfielder with a decent engine and a more settled formation and they'd magically start leaking less.

In the interests of entertaining the rest of us through pure stupidity though, long may Snr Perez continue.

[HeeAirO]

Its not just the players. The formation (or lack of one) has a lot to answer for as well. There are too many players with the freedom to wander the pitch, so every now and then everyone wanders at the wrong time and the back 4 (back 3 if Carlos is a wanderer at the time) are left horribly exposed with people running at them. The fault for this lies with the manager not being able to put his foot down and control the players. The fault for the lack of an authoritative manager lies squarely with 'ol Flor. As long as Pres Perez refuses to allow managers to call the shots on players, that authoritative manager will take a job elsewhere. Nobody wants to see Madrid turn into Chelsea, but a young midfielder with a decent engine and a more settled formation and they'd magically start leaking less.

In the interests of entertaining the rest of us through pure stupidity though, long may Snr Perez continue.

Here here.
Been supporting the team for quite a while and have not heard a more true analogy.
And finished in thre style as it is after all - all about entertainment.
They could be great or shite, any given day, either way theres fuck all I can do about it sitting in a pub on our island here - so I just enjoy the entertainment.
(Id love if they did cop themselves on yet though - still in theory - in all competitions, nothing lost yet...)

[Fat Tom]

As with United there when leaking goals Reals problem lies more in the attacking nature of their midfield than defence. Which is shit too though.

But a lot of the blame lies with an overly attack minded midfield.

[ho chi feen]

Here is a word for Florentino to consider 'defender'. Casillas has to be the most over-worked keeper in football with that bunch of key-stone cops in front of him.

It's 'Keystone Kops'.

Not 'cops'



That is all.

[ho chi feen]

ah it was a super finish though...

think cassano fits into the whole ethos of real madrid where the most important thing is you have the biggest names in world football on your team,fuck the whole concept of teamwork or even a recognisable formation,cassano is a selfish,spoilt troublemaker and will fit in well with raul et al


Cassano Fitz?

Now there's an idea.






By the way, having looked at the game, last night belonged to the kid.

[Del]

So here we have a team who are trying to entertain the world by buying as many attack minded players as possible and people on here are criticising them for it. Wouldn't it be worse if they played like Chelsea? Some people are just never happy!

[ho chi feen]

So here we have a team who are trying to entertain the world by buying as many attack minded players as possible and people on here are criticising them for it. Wouldn't it be worse if they played like Chelsea? Some people are just never happy!

I think you'll find that there's a happy medium... United in the 90's, Real before they bough Beckham, Early 90's Milan (And indeed Milan 2002-2004), and so forth...

[Sound]

So here we have a team who are trying to entertain the world by buying as many attack minded players as possible and people on here are criticising them for it. Wouldn't it be worse if they played like Chelsea? Some people are just never happy!

Pfft! Defending is football too.

[ho chi feen]

Pfft! Defending is football too.


Can I just say, TYPICAL!