Rival Watch™ 2012/2013

Do you think that's what Downing needs to start banging them in regulary... an afro?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19336519

Fair play to him. Not many players like that these days.

 

See Adebayor has gone to spurs for £5mil!?! Now that is cheap. Apparently according to the BBC City are also paying the difference between his current wage around £80k and what he was on at City! Surely if we are going in for Adam Johnson then we should try and get him for a knockdown price of around the same amount, especially if they get Sinclair and he is surplus to requirements.

City seem like they are happy to accept a massive loss on players

 

Hmmm...do I add Ade into my FL team?

 

Everton tend to play one up top nowadays, can he get in the side ahead of Jelavic...?

 

Earlier in the week, someone asked for suggestions of possible forwards that would be good for us, I said Adebayor. Looking at this deal, we have missed an absolute steal but suspect he would have still joined Spurs if we had made a move because of last season.

I am going to add that I don't particularly like Adebayor but he is certainly a decent player that gives you something different, IMO he would have been a superb target man up top for us with Suarez, Gerrard and one of Downing, Borini, Sterling or Assaidi playing off him. Ah well...

 

This weeks Rival Watch fixtures:

25 Aug 12:45 Swansea v West Ham
25 Aug 15:00 Aston Villa v Everton
25 Aug 15:00 Man Utd v Fulham
25 Aug 15:00 Norwich v QPR
25 Aug 15:00 Southampton v Wigan
25 Aug 15:00 Sunderland v Reading
25 Aug 15:00 Tottenham v West Brom
25 Aug 17:30 Chelsea v Newcastle
26 Aug 13:30 Stoke City v Arsenal

 

Are the rivals in black or red...

 

Villa, Fulham, West Brom, Newcastle and Stoke.

 

They aren't our rivals, we're better than that.

 

This is the exact reply I was on about on the banter thread.

Hello Alan.

 

Realistically Zingy is bang on ( although I suspect he has his tongue firmly in his cheek). If we re saying we are not going for the title or a CL place and we are not (fingers xed) fighting relegation.

 

My wishful rival list.

 

Really hoping WBA can beat Spurs today. Think I might pop over to their board if it happens. Probably wont though.

 

Swansea 1 - 0 West Ham

Hope Swansea smash fat Sam's hoof ball.

 

I'd prefer if the just smashed him

 

Swansea have a nice kit... Real Madrid-esque. Their away kit last weekend was nice too.

 

2-0 Swansea.

Mistake by Tomkins

However, Michu got it

 

Michu! **** I knew I shouldn't **** about and just put him in my FL team.

 

Swansea look very strong and Laudrup seems to have really hit the ground running, Michu could be the bargain of the season if he continues how he's started. They could certainly be ones to watch out for, though as we all know, things can go pear-shaped very quickly