Ex Players going to the WC

[downunder]

Following on from the team team of current players going to S Africa. I noticed we have a lot of ex players too.

 

Off the top of my head I can think of

 

James

 

Arbeloa

Warnock

Song

 

Alonso

Kewell

 

Anelka

Crouch

Heskey

 

 

Can we get a whole team?

[Stevie H]

mark gonzalez is going. so is alou diarra. djibril cisse. carl medjani is in the algeria squad. there are quite a few.

[downunder]

mark gonzalez is going. so is alou diarra. djibril cisse. carl medjani is in the algeria squad. there are quite a few.

 

With Cisse that is 4 forwards, all of whom are better than N'Gog. It's a shame at least one of them wasn't still with us.

[Hassony]

With Cisse that is 4 forwards, all of whom are better than N'Gog. It's a shame at least one of them wasn't still with us.

 

Rafa obviously thinks that Ngog is better than all of them combined

[Kahnee]

Cisse can do two things - run fast and hit the ball hard, and he didn't do the second one well.

[downunder]

Cisse can do two things - run fast and hit the ball hard, and he didn't do the second one well.

 

I wouldn't have chosen to keep Cisse but I still think he is better than Ngog. Anelka left a long time ago, so cant really say much about keeping him, Heskey was good when paired with Owen, Crouch we should have kept and still have.

[Noel Street]

I wouldn't have chosen to keep Cisse but I still think he is better than Ngog. Anelka left a long time ago, so cant really say much about keeping him, Heskey was good when paired with Owen, Crouch we should have kept and still have.

 

 

and pay him more than portsmouth were offering and guarantee him a first team place?

[Kahnee]

and pay him more than portsmouth were offering and guarantee him a first team place?

 

Exactly. This myth that Crouch wanted to stay but was shown the door is ridiculous. And Cisse wasn't all that either. Ngog may have struggled in front of goal this season, but he's got a good first touch, can hold the ball up, beat a man - any of those things sound like a Cisse trait?

[Gomez]

Exactly. This myth that Crouch wanted to stay but was shown the door is ridiculous. And Cisse wasn't all that either. Ngog may have struggled in front of goal this season, but he's got a good first touch, can hold the ball up, beat a man - any of those things sound like a Cisse trait?

 

The problem is not that we sold Crouch, Heskey, Anelka (who we never owned) and Cisse etc. Nor is the problem that Ngog is poor.

 

The problem is that Ngog shouldn't be our second choice, he should be 3rd or 4th, we shouldn't have to rely on a £1.5m kid as much as we have. Specially when we have raised so much money from sales of strikers.

[_00_deathscar]

Cisse can do two things - run fast and hit the ball hard, and he didn't do the second one well.

 

If football were like rugby and you just had to get to the other side to score, Cisse would have been a boss player. Kick *smack* run, kick *smack* run...

[Hassony]

Following on from the team team of current players going to S Africa. I noticed we have a lot of ex players too.

 

Off the top of my head I can think of

 

James

 

Arbeloa

Warnock

Song

 

Alonso

Kewell

 

Anelka

Crouch

Heskey

 

 

Can we get a whole team?

 

Reina

Johnson

Skrtle

Agger

Carragher

Maxi

Masch

Gerrard

babel

Kuyt

Torres

 

will thrash that team easily

[surf]

you'd think they could beat 9 men

[Hassony]

you'd think they could beat 9 men

 

will make it easier

[Rory Fitzgerald]

Following on from the team team of current players going to S Africa. I noticed we have a lot of ex players too.

 

Off the top of my head I can think of

 

James

 

Arbeloa

Warnock

Song

 

Alonso

Kewell

 

Anelka

Crouch

Heskey

 

 

Can we get a whole team?

 

Drop Heskey to right back.

[Zoob]

Surprised that Rigobert Song is still playing tbh, thought he was older than 33....

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Cisse vs N'Gog?

 

We couldn't have afforded to keep Cisse - it's not a comparison

 

Isn't Kewell f***ed?

[Epic Swindle]

I quite liked Djib. Not the brightest spark but his heart was in the right place. I'd take him over any of our back up strikers.

[johngibo YPC]

I quite liked Djib. Not the brightest spark but his heart was in the right place. I'd take him over any of our back up strikers.

 

All one of them?

I wouldn't swap him for Pacheco if you count him. At least Pacheco might turn into a footballer

[Epic Swindle]

I have high hopes for Pacheco but I wouldn't class him as a striker. Ngog and Kuyt are our only real back ups to Torres.

[Raj]

I have high hopes for Pacheco but I wouldn't class him as a striker. Ngog and Kuyt are our only real back ups to Torres.

 

You're a bit dim

[anfield11]

Cisse can do two things - run fast and hit the ball hard, and he didn't do the second one well.

 

:lol: you just described Babel

 

If it had been "lumber along and mis*** the ball" you would have had Heskey.