Players at the WC

Any that you're particularly looking forward to seeing?

For me;

Nicolas Lodeiro
Ozil
Subotic
Gourcuff
Hamsik
Alexis Sanchez
Kwadwo Asamoah
Higuain
Pato (if he goes)
Pastore (ditto)

Sure they'll be one or two who I'm not yet aware of who may surprise as well.

Messi - he'll have such huge expectation on his shoulders but I firmly believe he'll stand up and be counted. It's always a pleasure to watch him play though isn't it?

Milan Jovanovic - I want to see if he's fit to play in a reds shirt

Malouda

Pedro (if he goes, which IMO he should)

Siphiwe Tshabalala

I'm looking forward to seeing Victor Valdes.

Jaime wrote:I'm looking forward to seeing Victor Valdes.

You might get your wish...apart from his indirect assist yesterday for Pedro's goal, there's also this in Sid Lowe's latest column:

Vicente del Bosque was in Getafe to see them beat Villarreal 3-0 and to see Diego López gift the first goal; the campaign for Valdés to make the Spanish squad gathers pace. How nice it must be to have a furious debate over the third-choice keeper. Some can't even chose a first-choice one. Or a striker.

kas wrote:

Jaime wrote:I'm looking forward to seeing Victor Valdes.

You might get your wish...apart from his indirect assist yesterday for Pedro's goal, there's also this in Sid Lowe's latest column:

Vicente del Bosque was in Getafe to see them beat Villarreal 3-0 and to see Diego López gift the first goal; the campaign for Valdés to make the Spanish squad gathers pace. How nice it must be to have a furious debate over the third-choice keeper. Some can't even chose a first-choice one. Or a striker.

"Indirect assist"

You mean "punt that went to far and was poorly cleared by Aranzubia"?



No surprise that Sid Lowe is leading the campaign for VALDES SELECCION. Anyhow, De Gea has a better chance of going than Valdes.

Jaime wrote:

kas wrote:

Jaime wrote:I'm looking forward to seeing Victor Valdes.

You might get your wish...apart from his indirect assist yesterday for Pedro's goal, there's also this in Sid Lowe's latest column:

Vicente del Bosque was in Getafe to see them beat Villarreal 3-0 and to see Diego López gift the first goal; the campaign for Valdés to make the Spanish squad gathers pace. How nice it must be to have a furious debate over the third-choice keeper. Some can't even chose a first-choice one. Or a striker.

"Indirect assist"

You mean "punt that went to far and was poorly cleared by Aranzubia"?



Anyhow, De Gea has a better chance of going than Valdes.

Of course! Valdes is so good at kicking that he fully intended for the ball to bounce in such a confusing manner that Aranzubia had no option but to mis-kick it.

True about De Gea...or maybe Palop, he seems to have disappeared off the Spanish NT radar now that Sevilla's form is crap.

Its not only sid a lot of other writers, see that VV is the best keeper in spain.


How much longer can Spain's coach Vicente del Bosque resist the claims of Victor Valdes?

The Barcelona goalkeeper again had an outstanding game, stopping everything that came his way, even if some of the Real efforts were rather tame.

Valdes has only conceded 19 goals this season, admittedly helped by some improved defending over last year, but against Real he demonstrated that he is certainly the best goalkeeper in Spain on current form. He may even be the best goalkeeper in Europe at the moment.

Del Bosque was watching the game from the director's box and is unlikely to ditch Real's Iker Casillas as his first-choice keeper with the World Cup so close to hand but even the Madrid-based media were agreeing on Sunday that the time has come to give Valdes his long-overdue first cap.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philminshull/2010/04/buoyant_barcelona_close_in_on.html

one of many

Eto'o
Xavi
Iniesta
Messi
Di maria

I want to see whether or not Messi lives up to the hype on the very biggest stage.

Adam Johnson

özil
ballack
klose
poldi
schweinsteiger

they never disappointed me

from other countrys:

xavi (think he will end as best player at the tournament)
robben
messi (wanna see him fail)
fat frank (see messi)
rooney (see fat frank)
gourcuff (good player, crap coach, maybe we will see some zidane moves)

Karim Matmour
Andres Guardado
Keisuke Honda
Nicolas Lodeiro
Peter Odemwinige
Taye Taiwo
Milos Krasic
Gojko Kacar
Mesut Ozil
Somen Tchoyi
Simon Kjaer

I realise some of these players might not go

Montolivo
Gilardino
Kolarov
Quaresma
Marchionni
D. Milito
J. Zanetti
Pastore
Di Maria
Aimar
Samuel
Veloso
Rooney
Rio (watch him fuck up)
Pato
Adriano
Lavezzi
Robben
VDV
Sneijder
Gourcuff
Stankovic
Krasic
Xavi
Villa
Guardado
Suarez
Gargano
Forlan
Recoba/Chevanton ?
Lugano
Kjaer
Yaya Toure
Suazo

Özil wrote:özil
ballack
klose
poldi
schweinsteiger

they never disappointed me

from other countrys:

xavi (think he will end as best player at the tournament)
robben
messi (wanna see him fail)
fat frank (see messi)
rooney (see fat frank)
gourcuff (good player, crap coach, maybe we will see some zidane moves)

You are looking forward to the world cup to see players, english players it seems, fail? You ve really captured the essence of the world cup, the coming together of people from around the world, bringing down divisions, straddling the shackles of politics.

Suarez, Hamsik, Messi (duh), Honda, Özil, Robben, VDV, RVP, Zamora, Cambiasso (if he still makes the team), Pato, Spain as a whole.

...for starters

Gourcuff has always been terrible for NT (much rather Malouda with the kind of form he is in). Apart from maybe few random instances. Lower your expectations.

Ribery has been crap for a while apart from few moments too.

Benzema hasn't settled in at all..

Henry is a pensioner.

Anelka is also in terrible form for chelsea offlate

Without Gallas, our defence is in tatters

Lloris is the only French player to look upto. Also perhaps Toulalan (if Lass is played next to him in a defensive 4-2-3-1, I will throw up. No, I will actually get .44 magnum and shoot Domenech point blank)

I look forward to seeing Ronaldo and Nani in the same team.
I look forward to seeing Nani destroy Brazil
I look forward to seeing Di Maria out perform Messi
I look forward to seeing Rooney crush some balls
I look forward to seeing who the hell Hernades is
I look forward to seeing Suarez show how overated he is
Ozil is an interesting one he's talented and looks very good but is so ungerman that he'll ruin their team should he play.
Klaer also
But Lennon i hope if he's fit as well.

Jonas and Rooney. I can't say i'm particularly bothered about individual players, this isn't tennis.

Di Maria is getting outperformed by bunch of players in Benfica week after week and he is doubt to start for Argentina NT. But then maradona has done crazier stuff...
Nani was in Salgado's back-pocket against mighty Blackburn.. Would love to see him getting buttfucked by Maicon

Fenomeno wrote:Di Maria is getting outperformed by bunch of players in Benfica week after week and he is doubt to start for Argentina NT. But then maradona has done crazier stuff...
Nani was in Salgado's back-pocket against mighty Blackburn.. Would love to see him getting buttfucked by Maicon

Di Maria is their most valuable asset and has even scored a hat trick in a match ffs...he always starts for Argentina in the last year so not sure what you're on about.

Nani had Salgado all over the place just he had nothing to work with.

when was the last time you watched Di maria play?

Think it was around when i asked you something about Benfica and you said ''I don't know i don't watch them ever''

What i do know is Cardoza Aimar Garcia? Saviola are not outperforming him so you're probably talking out of your ass whether it's intentional is up for debate.

Against liverpool, he looked absolutely wank and was nowhere to be seen. you could ask pool fans how threatening he was, or if at all they remembered him. He was benched and Reyes outperformed him the previous season..

Higuain is going to be the most likely player to overshadow Messi. You heard it here first..

Missed the second game but saw the first he was pretty damn good...believe he hit the post. The second game was 3 days after another game in the league which i believe he scored in not surprised he was a bit off and needed a rest.

Not sure what Reyes or last year has to do with anything....anyway lets leave it there you're clearly not talking from a knowledge point of view.

Chevanton - no chance of going.

Its hard to find out about his injury as he doesn't have a high profile now (if he ever did) but going off after 30 mins the other week and the missing the next 3 doesn't sound good for a man who is playing catchup on the other strikers as it is.



For comedy purposes:

Bendtner, Walcott, Henry, Chris Killen and Frank "central midfielder" Lampard.


Under close scrutiny: Messi, Kaka


Looking forward to the following:

Tchoyi
A.Johnson
Pantelic
Milijas
Lodeiro
Lugano
Demerit (gutsy/heroic or a masterclass in shit positioning and generally brainless defending ? Could go either way)
H.Suazo
D.Suazo
Xavi
Rooney
Pirlo
Big Vince
Hamsik
Samaras
Bougherra
Honda
Nakamura
Tulio Tanaka

Might Killen go?

That would be fucking amazing.

borocooper wrote:Might Killen go?

That would be fucking amazing.

It'd be even funnier if they call up Kris Bright of Shrewsbury Town, a striker who's been sat on the bench all season & don't think he's scored a goal.

Messi
C Ronaldo
Robinho
David Luiz(if he goes)
Yannick(if he goes)

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Neymar (Dunga please make it happen)

Kuyt
RVP
Messi
Jaizinho
Babovic
Tomasson
Cisse
Kalou
Vlaar
Del Piero
Xavi
Honda

And of course
Benzemanasribery and ben arfa!