:o
It’s not My Lidl Pony’s fault.
I just hope no one contracts Mad Horse Disease off these burgers.
I made my self hoarse laughing at that one.
Irish people buying Perrier water :rolleyes:
to beef or not to beef; that is equestrian
The inside of Ian Ayre’s head is wrong.
[font=Arial][size=3]Managing director Ian Ayre believes Liverpool have the best balance of any team in the Premier League.
Ayre cited the mix of club stalwarts Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, world-class stars like Luis Suarez and rising young talents including Raheem Sterling.
Liverpool again seem unlikely to break into the Champions League places this season, with Brendan Rodgers’ side currently lying eighth in the table, nine points adrift of the top four.
The Reds’ relative lack of success on the field has prompted speculation about the future of some of their big-name players and Ayre told the Liverpool Echo: “Of course we have to progress to be able to hang on to our world-class talent.
“You need to have a mix in your squad and we have probably got the best balance in terms of any team in the league.
“We’ve got people who understand what this club really means and have enjoyed success here. We’ve got young players breaking through, learning and getting experience from them.
“Then we’ve got international players like Luis Suarez who could be playing anywhere in the world – but he’s playing at Liverpool FC.
“We will continue to add to the group and improve it. Daniel Sturridge signed recently and has made an immediate impact.
“We may or may not add to that further before the end of January. That’s something we’re still working on and considering. We will only buy when the right deal is there at the right time.”
Sturridge became the first big mover of the January transfer window when he left Chelsea to join Liverpool for a fee believed to be around £12m.
Buying the 23-year-old fitted with the Reds’ policy of recruiting players under 24, but Ayre insists older players are not off limits if they would be a good fit for the club.
He said: “It’s not a policy which is set in stone but it’s an aspiration. If we feel there’s a particular position or player who can contribute to the group and is over that sort of age limit, it doesn’t mean we won’t consider that player.”
The focus on young players played a part in Rodgers being left extremely short of strikers in the first half of the season after the club declined to meet the asking price for Fulham’s Clint Dempsey, who eventually went to Tottenham.
Andy Carroll had already been loaned to West Ham and, when Fabio Borini broke his foot in September, the striking burden fell solely on the shoulders of Suarez.
Ayre insists the club made the right choice, saying: “People may feel they want to criticise the fact we didn’t have an additional striker.
“But at what price would you sacrifice spending for something that is not in the long-term interests of the club versus what we just did, which was getting a great price on a great player in Daniel Sturridge?
“It may have left us short, but the pieces just did not come together. We’ve come through that period now. I still feel it was the right decision.”[/size][/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font]
The opening line in an email I’ve just been sent from some hotshot in a recruitment agency. Bandage would be horrified.
Hi Horsebox,
I trust that your well I have been passed your details from a candidate who have recently employed.
Some of the worst puns in here iv ever seen. Time for the admins to fetlock the thread
What do you have on a Tesco burger?
A tenner each way.
Ken Early on Off The Ball, ridiculing Pep with chicken noises earlier for picking Bayern Munich. What a wanker! :rolleyes:
saw the Tesco ‘head lad’ on the news just now
Ken Early is an EPL merchant. Roy Keane was asked about the move on ITV. Seemed to think that Guardiola would end up at Utd but Bayern Munich would enhance his reputation in the interim.
He sounded an utter cunt. :shakefist: Bayern have been in 2 Champions League Finals recently. They will let him manage as he wants, he will be paid well & not live in fear of the media. All in all a good choice i think and a sure sign that he is Fergie’s replacement in waiting.
Ken is a tosser with a childish attitude to football outside England which makes his position as a Soccer journalist laughable really.
Agreed with all of that but not sure on the media bit. The attention on Bayern in the national German media is massive. Bild won’t make it any easier an environment than the English tabloids. But the idea that joining a storied club who aren’t spending beyond their means but are still very close to winning the Champions League is a cowardly move is obviously laughable.
Are you not contradicting yourself a bit there giving out about Early while you seem to be saying that Pep is using the Munich job as a stop gap before making the step up to United? Surely Munich are as big a club as United?
Maybe i am naive to the behaviour of the German media Rocko, but the idea that he chickened out picking Bayern is insulting bordering stupid by Ken.
Bayern have finished 2nd & 3rd in their league for the past 2 years, so Peps aim will be to win the National Title while also aiming to get the team a Champions League trophy too. He has clear targets to achieve there alone. If Bayern win the CL under Pep his tenure would be lauded as Bayern as a European force are largely ignored.
Early’s ignorance earlier very wrong!
Anything Guardiola does is cowardly, he knows he would fail in Italy. We uncovered him as a cheat before and would do so again.
Maybe, but i admire the fact that he is choosing Bayern over Chelsea. He must see Chelsea as a job not worth any amount of dough & is going for the potential he sees at Bayern. Fair play to him.