League Cup 2013-14

Oooooooooo

Capital One Cup Draw

Manchester United v Liverpool

Sunderland v Peterborough

West Ham v Cardiff

Manchester City v Wigan Athletic

Burnley v Nottingham Forest or Millwall

Newcastle v Leeds

Southampton v Bristol City

West Brom v Arsenal

Swindon v Chelsea

Tranmere v Stoke

Watford v Norwich City

Aston Villa v Tottenham

Hull City v Huddersfield Town

Leicester City v Derby County

Birmingham City v Swansea City

Fulham v Everton or Stevenage

OMG Kone is awful.

Ouch, and Gray slides right into the post, takes it straight to the General and Two Colonels.

Suarez's first game back

Everton  

Good win. Death to Spurs.

@chelseafc: Team v Swindon: Schwarzer; Azpilicueta, D Luiz, Cahill, Bertrand; Essien (C), Van Ginkel; De Bruyne, Mata, Willian; Torres. #CFC

both Villa & Spurs made a lot of changes.

Steer
Lowton-Vlaar-Baker-Bennett
Bacuna-Sylla-ElAhmadi
Albrighton-Kozak-Tonev

vs

Friedel
Walker-Chiriches-Vertonghen-Fryers
Sandro-Paulinho-Holtby
Lamela-Defoe-Kane

Interested to see how we look without any of our usual front 3.

I can tell you how you look if you want Debbie

Luis wrote:I can tell you how you look if you want Debbie

Okay.

What a ball from that German Holtby... 1-0 Defoe

Defoe scored. inevitable. Lowton fell asleep.

This Paulinho chap is quite decent.

Torres and Willian combine. Possibly the most expensive double miss of League Cup history?

Incredible to see the difference between Villa and Spurs in the last 4 years. A cautionary tale for any aspiring club. in 2009 you could say both clubs were on the same level.

Wasn't this the difference last night, a penalty that was not given?

Deluded F*ck wrote:Incredible to see the difference between Villa and Spurs in the last 4 years. A cautionary tale for any aspiring club. in 2009 you could say both clubs were on the same level.

these things go in cycles & Villa is clearly quite early in a rebuilding after the post-DISGRACE years of upheaval. the gulf in cost & experience between the two sides last night was vast & all of Villa's best players were missing.

Spurs have the squad to start winning trophies/reaching top 4 now, but all that said, in terms of concrete achievement all Spurs have on Villa since 2009 is European qualification.

how much did last night's Villa starting XI cost in money?

Short answer: less than Lamela.

Long answer:
Steer £1m
Lowton £2.5m
Bennett £3m
Vlaar £3m
Baker £0
Sylla £1m
El Ahmadi £2m
Bacuna £2m
Albrighton £0
Tonev £1.5m
Kozak £7m
=~£23m total.. (some of these are a bit unknown but I don't think those figures are far off)

+ subs: Helenius £1.5m, Bowery £1m, Robinson £0

well there you go

betcha Doctor Trueman™ brings up net spend

will.i.glenn wrote:well there you go

betcha Doctor Trueman™ brings up net spend

I remenberr you telling us not so long ago that all Spurs did was replace their squad as opposed to improve it. Considering that was a team peppered with so called second stringers (8 changes from Saturdays side) I'm taking some satisfaction from how foolish that argument really was from the get go. Now we're onto how much the squad cost, and of course avoiding the 85million pound elephant in the room who I believe was not sold by Villa.

which of last nights team are 'second stringers' then?

Are Spurs seeking new rivals with everyone right now? Multiple front war!! OMG they are Nazi-Germany!

Tonight  

Suarez

@LFC: Confirmed #LFC team v #mufc: Mignolet, Toure, Sakho, Skrtel, Enrique, Henderson, Lucas, Gerrard, Moses, Suarez, Sturridge

what's the fucking deal with playing Toure at right back? He's atrocious there.

Do Toure and Sakho have 'must play' clauses in their contracts?

will.i.glenn wrote:what's the fucking deal with playing Toure at right back? He's atrocious there.

Do Toure and Sakho have 'must play' clauses in their contracts?

Yeah that's a bit annoying....Kelly clearly will never play again for us and Wisdom is a bit hit and miss.

But Suarez!!!!

I would have started Kelly, there's no need for hyperbole I'm sure once he gets on the field he'll move up the pecking order again. 

It's the same team I'd have picked, except for Kelly in for one of the 3 centrebacks. 

Moyes has blinked, and decided to rotate which makes us look a bit like the kid who turns up in his school uniform on non-uniform day.

#mufcteam v #lfc: De Gea, Rafael, Evans, Smalling, Buttner, Nani, Jones, Giggs, Kagawa, Rooney, Hernandez

What a tool, Giggs and Jones at CM...okay. The problem I have with Giggs, no way that twonk Moyes is ever gonna bench him when he needs to.