Gerry

Yankee Stadium $1.6 billion

Citi Field $600 million

Giants Stadium $1.3 billion

Think you've kinda answered your own questoin there haven't you?

This guy

http://www.soccerclips.net/en/videos/play/?504E2f54A4f

 

I think we will find that Arbeloa will go back to Spain in the summer, just a hunch

For some reason I thought you were talking about Michael Johnson.

There has been talk of Arbeloa wanting to go back to Spain for a while. Could happen. Not sure whether Johnson is defensively sound enough for us though. Good going forward, but prone to being caught out at the back. Won't come cheap either as he's signed a new contract.

Barry, Johnson & Villa in.

 

Arbeloa, Dossena, Voronin out.

So who exactly plays RB?

John Salako trotted out the line that Rafa "insists on playing Gerrard down the right constantly" last night. Makes you wonder whether he's actually watched us play in the last year or so.

All in all though, it makes me laugh. There's hardly a pundit out there with a worthwhile comment to make about any team, so it's not worth getting worked up about.

It's only fair that I bring up this thread.

 

Well, not quite 'fair', but I figured I should anyway.

haha No names of course but....

"anyone wanting Torres ahead of Villa need their head testing, Torres is a showpony. "

"Torres is a poser"

"bet you any money we don't sign either of them. "

"So I am not the only one who thinks that Torres is very overrated."

really? i thought he was poor last night and has been for the past 4 months......seems to have lost the ability to beat his man and get to the line, more often that not...he cuts inside and loses the ball.

 

Reira has worked out exactly as i thought he would...decent start, yet once defenders know how to set up against him...pretty easy to defend against.

Judging by his previous posts I would guess there's a certain level of sarcasm involved. Not sure why he thought it was necessary though.

We haven't been able to (or been managed properly) extend Anfield or build a new stadium because we didn't have the money. Where were we to get the money from?

As has already been pointed out Man Utd had recently floated on the stock exchange and had a financial windfall from that. Over and above that I'm sure they simply loaned the money from a bank - that's what banks do, help you finance projects like this if you ask them (or did do until recently).

The reason we haven't built a new stadium is because we didn't have the balls to take on the required debt. That and delay after delay after delay, which saw the project costs soar. The Millennium Stadium was build for not much more than £100M. Debts from the construction of that stadium have recently been reduced to £20M. It pains me to think if we'd have had the foresight to build something in the same timescale we could be in a similar position. And we'd have filled out the stadium 25 times a year.

But getting back to the main point, I will be delighted to see Parry gone, because he has sat on his hands and hasn't been able to run the club successfully enough to use our following around the world to maximise every pound/dollar/yen in order to pump that back into the TEAM, and therefore giving our great manager the funds to compete with our main rivals in England and in Europe.

If he had done his job properly, I don't think United would be catching up on our 18 league titles or would those 2 idiots from the US be sitting in their leather chairs in our boardroom.

Premier League teams make money from overseas fans by

a) selling broadcasting rights to their TV networks (something which is out of our hands) and

b) going on pre-season tours to their countries (and isn't that popular with us)

Shirts sales and the like are a pretty trivial revenue stream.

The main reason we're financially well behind Utd is the stadium and match-day revenue. The amount that Man U/Arsenal/Chelsea make on corporate seats is astronomical. Parry should certainly take his share of the blame for not getting the stadium project up and running however.

Gray was desperate for that to go in

 

"how many times do you see a goal scored by a team just after conceding....etc"

On that note, I'm sure this was dealt with in some study last year. They analysed all the goals scored in football games since the dawn of time (well, close enough) and found that statistically you were no more likely to concede just after scoring than at any other time.

All our bookings were a load of old b******s last night. The ref was conned.

f***ing hell, sorry for going off topic here but... should we go through to the QFs my feeling is we are not very likely to face Sporting Lisbon

haha You're not joking.

Gerrard for Riera.

Riera misses the return leg with that booking.

Get in!!!

From what I remember, Hamilton uses a terrible "dues ex machina" ending to one of his big trilogies which put me off him for life. My favorite stuff is early Banks, "Use of Weapons" being a particular favorite but also really enjoyed, ""Player of Games" and "Consider Phlebas" etc. The Reynolds stuff I never really got in to. Think I read two maybe but just found them a little too dry. Enjoyed some of Morgan's stuff but don't think it has the literary punch of the better Banks stuff

The ending to the Night's Dawn trilogy is a bit on the limp side, that's for sure.

 

That's what I am doing

Aye. I'd heard that this was an issue with the game, so made sure I had a saved game before the final mission started.

Just seemed to take eons to get to anything slightly interesting TBH. Maybe the next few books are better, but I've found Banks and Asher far more accessible.

Hamilton does have a tendency to perhaps over-indulge on the cast-list somewhat. His longer books tend to have scores of characters thrown at you with each getting their own 10 pages or so to set them up. Worth persevering with though.

I've also tried reading the Peter F. Hamilton novels (Reality Dysfunction etc), but found them very hard going.

Really? The Reality Dysfunction is hardly what I'd call 'hard' SF - it veers more towards space opera that anything else. It is long though, I'll give you that.

Charles Stross is worth a shout as well.

I'm just re-reading Revelation Space. All his books are very good and I'd certainly recommend at least reading through the whole revelation space series.

Reynolds, Banks, Asher, Morgan and Hamilton are probably the five biggest UK-based SF authors at the moment. Each excellent in their own right.

A promising short review is up in the Times Online.

Here.

What does my head in is that he shows glimpses of what he can do. Even yesterday, he clipped the ball past Bridge (?) and left him for dead. Trouble is he then ran 20 yards with ball, cut back inside, then cut back again, then got tackled. He must have been caught in possession 3-4 times in his brief appearance. He appears to select the wrong option time after time after time. You'd think he'd learn from his mistakes, but it's not looking likely at the moment.

Babel is utter s****.

That was a particularly dire cameo performance from him it has to be said.

Bad foul by Dossena. City don't even get a free-kick.

Torres skews a half-chance well wide.

Shame Wales only try was a forward pass though!

You'd have still lost.

we probably have Euros stashed in a Euro account, so when buying players from abroad, we don't need to convert GBP.

 

We must hedge. If not - sack Parry. Sack everyone

European clubs only have an "advantage" in that list over last year because all the values quoted are being converted to euros. So Bayern, given that their revenue is in euros, will appear to be in a better position than last year simply because converting that figure to pounds yields a bigger number than it would have previously.

Don't think it's anything more complicated than that.

I'm pretty sure clubs don't deal with each other & leave the FX to the mercy of the markets. I'd be pretty sure LFC would hold a Euro balance so it only comes into play as far as unrealized gains or losses are concerned

Come again?