Skrtel and Agger aren't as good as Kompany when all are on top form, but they are both better than Lescott hence City having offers rejected for both of them. Even Barca had an offer turned down for Agger. I think both the above is pretty strong evidence that both of our centre backs our top players and fair minded people with no bias or agenda would go along with that I'm sure. Joint 3rd best defence in the league last season despite having a poor campaign, which also is a good reference point.
See what I mean about far minded non partisan people. This is what most neutrals, not Spurs fans with axes to grind, would say. Considering how **** we've been the last 3 seasons we've done really well to keep hold of our best players, with Suarez, Skrtel, Agger all signing new long term deals. Given the circumstances we find ourselves in and with how selfish modern players are I thinks that's great credit to the club. The only time we've lost one of our best since dropping out the top 4 is Torres.
There are two obvious answers to this. The first is that you still fork out a very large amount in wages, considerably more than ourselves or even Arsenal, IIRC. The second is that you've kept most of your best players precisely because you've been relatively crap, as the clubs above you generally don't see them as value targets. I personally don't think that Skrtel's that great a defender. He's not bad and he's the sort of basic stopper that most teams need one of, but there's quite a few similar players available. Agger's more cultured and more comfortable on the ball, but he's pretty injury prone and teams wouldn't go after Lucas because of his absences. Suarez has severe image problems. Johnson's had two big money moves which haven't really worked out for the teams. The most obvious target would probably have been Reina, in my opinion, but he's started to look quite error prone recently. Enrique's gone backwards badly, too. Don't get me wrong, Liverpool are not a bad side, by any means. Anyone looking to sign players from you would have to fork out a large fee and big wages though, so most of your players are unattractive targets.
Sorry, but there isn't one single player at 'Pool that is better than the equivalent player at £ity. It is pure delusion to say otherwise.
One of my friends is called andy carroll - poor sod wanted to hang himself when he joined that shower. Now he can't go anywhere without some smart arse asking hwy he's in the pub or whatever rather than playing for his club. On the decent players they sold front - what about Meireles?
Agger would play Arguably Glen Johnson is better than Zabaleta, also. Lucas, Gerrard, Sahin or Allen would surely play ahead of Barry/Rodwell. Was disappointed and surprised when he left. Apparently he was wanting a better deal than the one the previous owners signed him on (or they had promised him a better deal). Still, he hasn't been playing for Chelsea anything like as well as he did for us. Hard not to like him when he played for us though, would rather have him than not.
Only other English side to be held to a draw in Slovenia and not by the champions in that case? Liverpool.
We were the first British side to win a European competition and have won more than every other British side, bar yourselves, Man Utd and Chelsea, who are level on 3. As you got everyone banned though, I don't think yours count...
Comparing Heysel to Hillsborough? That's disgusting, frankly. Goes to show how great your side is though, as you're on this board whining, rather than watching them or commenting on the game on your own.
It doesn't matter how safe the stadium is if there's a bunch of twats kicking off inside it - who then have the nerve to try and palm the blame off on Chelsea fans with some cock and bull story about hearing cokney accents in the ground. Come to think of it, your fans didn't exactly cover your club in glory in 2005 or 2007, did they? Turning up without valid tickets - or without tickets at all - or even stealing valid tickets from other supporters. Also, you managed to highlight the utter idiocy of pointing the finger solely at South Yorkshire Police for Hillsborough: The ground's safety certificate expired in 1979, and wasn't renewed until after what happened. You can't blame SYP for that - but you can blame The FA, the Football League and Sheffield Wednesday for a decade of staging games at a ground that, legally, shouldn't have been used. Why do they escape the anger?
Hm. Bale scoring a hat-trick against the world's elite. That was exciting. More so than anything 'Pool has ever offered in its entire history. You've always won things (in your glory days of the 70s and 80s) with boring defensive-play-the-ball-from-the-back tactical games. You can't even do that today.
A cup winners cup and a UEFA cup - yeah you're right their fans must have been gutted to have won those .
