Wainy316 Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Yep, Dempsey is at the Spurs training ground. Does that mean the Moutinho deal is off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukes Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Like it or not we are where we are, Can't you just leave it and get behind the team ? Getting behind the team is going to games and cheering them on. I do enough of that. I don't class writing on the internet that everything will be great as an important aspect of getting behind the team. In my view Big John, you are under estimating the power of the internet. Instantly, such views have an audience of potentially millions of people. How many views has this thread received? Constantly airing negative views, time and time again, infects a fan base and negativity spreads like wild fire. Within a crowd, a negative voice can be drown out, if, it is a minority view. On an internet forum, it is so much more difficult for such views to be drown out, even if the views are that of the minority. I am not solely pointing out your posts and I am not saying that people do not have the right to air any view they wish. However, getting behind the team on an internet forum is an important aspect of 'supporting your team' and it isn't just the fact that you turn up every week that makes you a 'good supporter'. This ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Poor Wiggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCAM Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Nah, it'll be just like Piennar, he'll never play and they'll sell him in a year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Well if one game of FIFA is anything to go by Bennet will be the greatest left back in the prem Westwood can't shoot for shit And Benteke makes heskey look graceful. I was just thinking, can anyone give an example of a player coming from league 1 or 2 into the premiership and being good straight away? Because we've signed 3. Now i'm sure i'll be called negative but i'm being realistic, what are the chances of these players having a real impact on THIS season? When someone as highly rated as delph at that level struggles are we not expecting a bit much from these players? Its alright to say Lambert wanted them, but not everything he touches will turn to gold. Like i said can anyone throw out any examples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Only an hour left for Whittingham to sign on the dotted line... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bully Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Dempsey signs for spurs, how stupid do the scallies look?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I bet CI is praying at his Nzonzi shrine as we speak Never say never CI he may still come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Liverpool shot themselves in the foot with Dempsey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordanderve Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Well if one game of FIFA is anything to go by Bennet will be the greatest left back in the prem Westwood can't shoot for shit And Benteke makes heskey look graceful. I was just thinking, can anyone give an example of a player coming from league 1 or 2 into the premiership and being good straight away? Because we've signed 3. Now i'm sure i'll be called negative but i'm being realistic, what are the chances of these players having a real impact on THIS season? When someone as highly rated as delph at that level struggles are we not expecting a bit much from these players? Its alright to say Lambert wanted them, but not everything he touches will turn to gold. Like i said can anyone throw out any examples? Top of my head but Dean Ashton? McLean last season for Sunderland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Dempsey great signing for Spurs, They WILL get champions league this Year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted August 31, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted August 31, 2012 Well if one game of FIFA is anything to go by Bennet will be the greatest left back in the prem Westwood can't shoot for shit And Benteke makes heskey look graceful. I was just thinking, can anyone give an example of a player coming from league 1 or 2 into the premiership and being good straight away? Because we've signed 3. Now i'm sure i'll be called negative but i'm being realistic, what are the chances of these players having a real impact on THIS season? When someone as highly rated as delph at that level struggles are we not expecting a bit much from these players? Its alright to say Lambert wanted them, but not everything he touches will turn to gold. Like i said can anyone throw out any examples? well from lower leagues in the past, how about david platt, gareth barry, jagielka, ian wright, tim cahill and ashley young. i'm sure someone who's smoked a lot less weed than me can point out a couple of dozen to you though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehardvillan Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Aston Villa FC@AVFCOfficial Christian Benteke has completed his move to Villa from Genk. More soon on http://AVFC.co.uk. #AVFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepDish Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I was just thinking, can anyone give an example of a player coming from league 1 or 2 into the premiership and being good straight away? Paul Lambert signed Anthony Pilkington last summer. He played in League 1 the season before with Huddersfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted August 31, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted August 31, 2012 missed the obvious one in grant holt, oh and going back a long time, how abotu malcolm macdonald? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted August 31, 2012 Moderator Share Posted August 31, 2012 Don't really know about "straight away" but players who've come from those sort of divisions include Oxlade-Chamberlain, Bertrand, Tim Cahill (now in MLS though), Hart, Jagielka, Chris Smalling, that other lad from Crewe that Man Utd signed, Keiren Westwood, Jonjo Shelvey, and pretty much the whole squads of Southampton and Norwich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 can anyone give an example of a player coming from league 1 or 2 into the premiership and being good straight away? Top of my head but Dean Ashton? McLean last season for Sunderland? David Platt. His near-namesake David Pleat was saying on R5 earlier that our signing of Westwood is an example of what more managers should have the courage to do - give promising young players from the lower leagues a chance. Lambert seems to have done that fairly successfully before, and will also have better first-hand knowledge of lower league players than most Prem managers. I'm quite content to see him trust his judgement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 just woke up... Messi signed? Good news about Benteke.. just watching SSN.. they showed him at the ground.. he looks massive! Absolute beast. No news on getting rid of Warnock or Hutton? We would sell them for 100k... noone offered? not even on loan? Wheres MON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 SSN reporting that Huddlestone is leaving tonight. But where? Where god damn it? Tell me you Scottish mother ****!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steell Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Huddlestone....yes please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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