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SSN says England got 2 votes.

What an awful choice for football. Putting aside everything else, they are going to get destroyed in all their games. They've never been any good, even within Asia. They're 113th in the world.

Australia makes the most sense since they haven't had it, but I would love it to be USA again. Qatar makes no sense and it seems like Korea/Japan just had it.

Altidore should have scored on Eric's cross, he served it in at the perfect height for him but Altidore hit it right at the keeper.

At the minute it's Ashley Young keeping him out of the side. Young's playing so well in behind Heskey. I'd love to see Ireland in there with Young back on the wing but at the moment it's working well.

I could see that happening tomorrow since Bale is such a key player for them. Albrighton has done well but he's not as good defensively as Ashley and Luke will need help. There were indications against Vienna that Heskey and Ireland could work well together, if Ireland played a more advanced role than he was asked to in that game.

Did we score 71 goals 3 years ago in the League, only 3 less than Arsenal? Was that not entertaining? I love the rewriting of history that goes on.

That was a fun season, especially the run at the end. Unfortunately it was never the same once Barry got tapped up by Benitez.

Slight poll edit.

I take it your the undecided one

Shouldn't it be indécis?

im optimistically happy

Daily Mail reporting Houllier will be appointed on Thursday.

According to the BBC it's Wednesday.

The Mirror

How on earth can there be someone with such an AMAZING managerial record, with a brilliant knowledge of the English, European and World game, who speaks great English and yet people say they want a reserve-team coach who hasn't a contact in the game?!!!

if he flops the pay off will be huge

he flopped at mexico and ivory coast and the football at city wasnt that great. would be better than curbs or macdonald though. would take houllier over him

He was a huge flop with Mexico, due to him not knowing the league or country, but how was he a flop for Ivory Coast? Drogba was injured and they were unlucky to be in a group with Portugal and Brazil. It came down to Portugal playing North Korea before them and then they just had to get a bore draw with Brazil to make it through.

Bob Bradley has been given a 4-year extension as coach of the US.

That link is now well and truly over.

It was never started. Bad move for the USA.

News related to two names that have been speculated about in the Villa search- USSF has been talking with Klinsmann about being Bradley's replacement.

Bob Bradley is a dire manager from what I've been told by a few Americans on the Football Manager forum who follow the game a lot and one of them a sports journalist, mainly centered around football. I just don't want him here.

If I was to given any name which I haven't done so far in this thread, I'd say Garth Crooks.

He's not dire, he's just not good enough for USA or Aston Villa. Most USA fans want to see a change. He is a good motivator but not much of a tactician. He stubbornly stuck to his 4-4-2 while it was obvious that the best formation for the USA squad was 4-5-1. It was the same formula every game, open with 4-4-2, play poorly and give up early goals, bring in an extra midfielder in the 2nd half and start to play well. That's why we ultimately lost against Ghana. You can't keep giving the opponent an early advantage, that was his downfall.

Has he ever produced for Bialystok?

I don't know, but I really feel he could bloom as a Villa player.

It's hard to judge Leonardo.

Either he's

a) tactically clueless and a poor manager, as evidenced by poor result after poor result in Milan or

he was seriously unlucky to walk into the Milan job at a time when their squad was deceptively poor and aging, but the amitions hadn't yet changed and anyone would have failed under the circumstances.

Think it's a combination of both, wouldn't want him.

It's B, plus they had a ridiculous amount of defenders get injured last season. In the end, they did about as well as the previous season under Ancelotti, with the 2nd best defensive record despite the injuries. He lost Kaka and wasn't really given much of the money to improve the squad either. They should have been more patient with him.

Randy did state that deals would still go through before the transfer window closes so has anyone considered that he might actually be going to Milan to seal the deal for Mathieu Flamini? we have been linked with him quite a bit during this summer!

Or maybe he just sent his private jet to pick up Flamini (and Ronaldinho. )

He never does that either.

Didn't he do that with Baros/Carew or am I imagining things?

Randy did state that deals would still go through before the transfer window closes so has anyone considered that he might actually be going to Milan to seal the deal for Mathieu Flamini? we have been linked with him quite a bit during this summer!

Or maybe he just sent his private jet to pick up Flamini (and Ronaldinho. )

Bradley will be fired/not retained and have to find a job in MLS. He's not good enough for USA or Aston Villa. Don't worry about this, Lerner isn't stupid.

Money has never been the problem for Lerner with the Browns. He probably pays more to coaches and executives than any other team because most of the names on the payroll have been fired and replaced.(that may not be very reassuring) He has gone for the "hot" name in the past and it hasn't worked out. He finally hired both a very experienced and successful team president and GM in December.

Bob Bradley isn't a real candidate...the bookies just need an American candidate to entice the conspiracy theorists. OMG Randy iz American he must b hiring an American!

NRC and Petrov complement each other well.

Keane looked really bad last night. He's well past his best and would be a poor buy. I expect them to offload him and bring in another striker asap so they are ready for the Champions League. Spurs overall played poorly and should have been down by 3 goals by half time. They came back thanks to 2 bad mistakes by the Red Bulls backup defense.

Lebron was a free agent.

They allegedly met and made a pact to team up together in '08, then they met again in June before the end of their contracts.

Is Petrov undroppable? Whenever someone mentions a CM possibility, someone else says something like "oh, he couldn't play with Stan." Petrov is slow and he's going to keep slowing down. His passing is pretty simple and he does not offer much else to the team in terms of goals or creating chances. I still like him as a squad player but hopefully we get someone more dynamic.