What a great stat.
Since October 1937 Manchester United have featured a youth player in every game bar one!
A run of 3,516 competitive matches.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
You don't win anything with kids.......
How do Sanchez and Fabregas fit in?
Article on how European champions Barcelona will integrate their latest acquisitions:
How long can Spain’s reign last?
Great article on Spain and their footballing dynasty........
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/aug/16/the-question-spain-football-dynasty
The dearth of English talent......
Taking a look at those players that were eligible to play for England’s U-21 those who either played or made the match day squad numbered only 35% (7 out of 20) saw any match time.
Out of that 35% that played, 57% were from Manchester United, roughly 29% were from Liverpool, and final piece of the pie was Steven Caulker at Swansea. Manchester United also boast the highest ratio of English players in their squad out of the ‘top 4′ teams from last season.
This compares very unfavourably with Spain, Germany and France. No wonder Capello is bailing out after next year – he won’t have players available for a squad come the next World Cup!!!!
FFL Season 2011/12 Week One
Well what can I say? An outstanding debut. The lad has settled in immediately and looks like he will be a big hit this season. Well done Gary Neville...........
Aside from Gaz Nev's brilliant Sky Sports debut there was very little to shout about on the opening weekend of the Premier League. Putting aside Monday night's bitter blue wankathon against the might of Wales (results and points added to week 2) FFL managers will be busy looking at transfer possibilities - injuries, players left out, suspensions..............
Fabregas has gone - thank fuck for that. What will three-time champion McNick do?
Vidic is out for three weeks - over to you Sid
Ferdinand was always only ever going to play a maximum 20 games -DP?
Poor Rafael - another one who is out for a while. McNick? Lucky 8 transfers this season eh?
Gervinho (what a spam head) and Sturridge both suspended -no attack for me for two weeks!
No Luiz for Chelsea - what will Stathi do who also has Kolarov and Milner.
Etherington has fucked his shoulder - what will Rico do?
And finally Carrol - Harry rumour has is that new Sunderland signing Wes Brown was arrested after the match as he was suspected of leaving with £35m in his pocket!!!!
Anyway, here is the first table of the new season.
DP is quickest out of the traps and with points from Monday's game (Clichy and Dzeko) it looks like Don is intent on making it three FFL titles. But take note, Aguero's 8 points and other city clean sheets leave the table very differently after Monday!
Aside from Gaz Nev's brilliant Sky Sports debut there was very little to shout about on the opening weekend of the Premier League. Putting aside Monday night's bitter blue wankathon against the might of Wales (results and points added to week 2) FFL managers will be busy looking at transfer possibilities - injuries, players left out, suspensions..............
Fabregas has gone - thank fuck for that. What will three-time champion McNick do?
Vidic is out for three weeks - over to you Sid
Ferdinand was always only ever going to play a maximum 20 games -DP?
Poor Rafael - another one who is out for a while. McNick? Lucky 8 transfers this season eh?
Gervinho (what a spam head) and Sturridge both suspended -no attack for me for two weeks!
No Luiz for Chelsea - what will Stathi do who also has Kolarov and Milner.
Etherington has fucked his shoulder - what will Rico do?
And finally Carrol - Harry rumour has is that new Sunderland signing Wes Brown was arrested after the match as he was suspected of leaving with £35m in his pocket!!!!
Anyway, here is the first table of the new season.
| Diff |
| Total Points | |
|
| 1st | Don | 9 |
| 1 | 2nd | Nick Ach | 8 |
| 1 | 3rd | Sid | 8 |
| 2 | 4th | Theo | 7 |
| 3 | 5th | James | 6 |
| 3 | 6th | Rico | 6 |
| 3 | 7th | Mike | 6 |
| 3 | 8th | Stathis | 6 |
| 6 | 9th | Nick Ath | 3 |
| 7 | 10th | Harry | 2 |
DP is quickest out of the traps and with points from Monday's game (Clichy and Dzeko) it looks like Don is intent on making it three FFL titles. But take note, Aguero's 8 points and other city clean sheets leave the table very differently after Monday!
Harry has the dubious honour of having the first negative player points courtesy of Foster's -1.
It's a long season. A marathon, not a sprint. Some managers will be over the moon with their teams, others sick as parrots. But, most will take it one week at a time.
'Till next week, your August / September chairman
Pieri
PS - one transfer from me. Osman OUT, Larsson IN (James you were right!!!!)
Friday, August 12, 2011
Interesting transfer data..........
taken from:
http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2011/08/12/arsenals-net-spending-of-48m-in-a-decade-puts-them-9th-in-premier-league-120802/
Arsenal fans frustrated by lack of activity in the transfer market know their club have not been big spenders in recent times but might be shocked to realised their net transfer spend over the past decade places them only ninth among the 20 clubs who will contest the Premier League in 2011-12, which begins on Saturday.
A year by year assessment of net spending shows Arsene Wenger has spent only £47.6m net in the past 10 years, or £467.9m less than Chelsea’s net spend in the same period (£515.5m).
Year by year net spend for each club is in the table below.
Chelsea have been the No1 spenders followed, in order, by Manchester City, Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester United.
Sunderland come next, with Aston Villa and Stoke both outspending Arsenal.
On the one hand this indicates Wenger has worked miracles to make his side top-four contenders (and title winners) during the period. On the other it shows Arsenal are not matching their peers in outlay and haven’t for some time.
At the bottom of the table are Blackburn Rovers, with net income of £42.5m over the 10 years – making them the only club with no net spend.
Manchester United are ranked only fifth primarily because of the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo, which netted them such a bumper sum (£80m) two years ago.
Without that freakishly large chunk of income for one deal, United would be No3 in the list below, behind only the Abramovich-backed Chelsea and the Sheikh-fuelled Manchester City.
All transfer sums have been sourced from the transfermarkt website; while 100 per cent accuracy in such matters is never guaranteed, using the same source for all clubs over a long period at least brings some degree of relative consistency.
http://www.sportingintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PL-decade-spending.jpg
http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2011/08/12/arsenals-net-spending-of-48m-in-a-decade-puts-them-9th-in-premier-league-120802/
Arsenal fans frustrated by lack of activity in the transfer market know their club have not been big spenders in recent times but might be shocked to realised their net transfer spend over the past decade places them only ninth among the 20 clubs who will contest the Premier League in 2011-12, which begins on Saturday.
A year by year assessment of net spending shows Arsene Wenger has spent only £47.6m net in the past 10 years, or £467.9m less than Chelsea’s net spend in the same period (£515.5m).
Year by year net spend for each club is in the table below.
Chelsea have been the No1 spenders followed, in order, by Manchester City, Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester United.
Sunderland come next, with Aston Villa and Stoke both outspending Arsenal.
On the one hand this indicates Wenger has worked miracles to make his side top-four contenders (and title winners) during the period. On the other it shows Arsenal are not matching their peers in outlay and haven’t for some time.
At the bottom of the table are Blackburn Rovers, with net income of £42.5m over the 10 years – making them the only club with no net spend.
Manchester United are ranked only fifth primarily because of the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo, which netted them such a bumper sum (£80m) two years ago.
Without that freakishly large chunk of income for one deal, United would be No3 in the list below, behind only the Abramovich-backed Chelsea and the Sheikh-fuelled Manchester City.
All transfer sums have been sourced from the transfermarkt website; while 100 per cent accuracy in such matters is never guaranteed, using the same source for all clubs over a long period at least brings some degree of relative consistency.
http://www.sportingintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PL-decade-spending.jpg
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