Well its all a matter of opinion anyway, I just find it humorous that some people change their attitude towards a player just because that players shirt changes.
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Well its all a matter of opinion anyway, I just find it humorous that some people change their attitude towards a player just because that players shirt changes.
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Any United signings yet?
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I was surprised he went in the first place considering how average he was last season, that's documented in here.
But after seeing Walcott in the friendlies it was clear that he wasn't as bad as him so pretty much had to go.
What ever happened to that Surprise signing that Wenger went on about, was it that Koscielny guy in the end?
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Haven't they signed the french guy 
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Kosecielny.
Haven't they signed the french guy
Koscielny..who is a centre back isn't he? And that Chamakh.
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Any United signings yet?
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Aside from Chris Smalling and Javier Hernandez? If they don't count then nope, I don't believe Utd have signed anyone.
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who is going to play left back for pool this year? And a good sign of liverpools chances this year is if they get rid of zonal marking for corners and the likes.
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So far, Spurs have signed Sandro... and that's about it...
And I have a sneaking suspicion 'Arry thought he was signing Sandra Redknapp.
And I have a sneaking suspicion 'Arry thought he was signing Sandra Redknapp.
I'm not against the zonal marking myself, many teams use it and nobody complains about them using it. Also nobody complained about it when we used it and beat people, the whole zonal marking thing is something which the media latched onto as something to repeatedly harp on about as "proof" of what was going wrong (only it was only ever mentioned after something had gone wrong and not when something had gone right).
Personally I think there is a time and place for zonal and a time and place for MM, wouldnt like to see either option got rid of.
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I wonder if Liverpool are going to be using Hodgson as a manager and not just as a trainer.
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A player makes a mistake when zonal marking it's because of zonal marking. A player makes a mistake when man marking it's because of man mark...
...oh wait.
Zonal marking gets picked on because most commentators and pundits are too retarded to understand how it's used.
...oh wait.
Zonal marking gets picked on because most commentators and pundits are too retarded to understand how it's used.
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I agree with that. But benitez was so stuburn that he only did zonal and teams clocked on to it and the amount of goals conceeded later on was just to much.
'Zonal marking' was just a stick used to hit Benitez with. It never gets mentioned that other sides use it, nor is it mentioned that our record at defending corners was consistently one of the best in the league over the 6 years we used it.
I always remember the 5-1 game at St James Park where we conceded from a great cross and header and Andy Gray and his pet chimpanzee banged on about zonal marking. They failed to mention that we scored twice from corners, including a header from Hyypia where Newcastle had 2 players marking him, and without exaggerating, we could have scored another 4 goals from corners that day.
As for LB's; we've got no senior lb's at the club. Hodgson did say that signing a LB is his priority now though.
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