England v Brazil, Cashley 100 caps

[N1Goon]

Wilshere and Oscar probably the best players in the first half... Ronald McDonald looks completely past it.

[Top Londoner]

Jackie boy is playing rather well, which means he'll probably get crocked soon.

He got all the mentions on the wireless tonight, first half.
It means that Arsene will be rubbing his hands and looking up the number of SAF on his mobile at half time.

[QuartzGooner]

How did we shaft him over 5K a week? He wanted the extra 5K a week to pay his agent. Dein offered Cuntley £55,000 a week plus commission and an Executive Box at the club's new stadium. Cuntley demanded the extra 5K a week for his agent and Arsenal rightly refused when they learned of it. Cuntley then met the Chavs behind our club’s back, breaching FAPL rules and the trust that Arsenal (the club that developed him as a star player and were employing him at the time) placed in him. Let’s not forget that the little toe rag still had two and a half years to run of a five-year contract when he met them.

We did not "shaft" him, but we did mess up the negotiations.

He was offered an amount, agreed verbally, then this amount was lessened by five grand per week, and he was verbally told to take it or leave it.

Of course he had the option to hang around and re-negotiate, he had ages left on his deal.
The club felt strong enough to play hardball because they had faith in Clichy, who was very good when he took over from Cole.
Cole's form dipped when he first went to Chelsea, in the aftermath of an injury.

No doubt Cole chose money over love of the club, no doubt he did not need to leave.
But he felt he was not being paid what he was worth, and that is correct in terms of what other players were being paid.

[Dan_85]

Arsenal board rubbing their hands with glee, pound signs in their eyes. Jack's value increasing with every game.

[Thierry 3-8-99]

cock up by Cahill and the defence starts to look well dodgy - Rooney sprints back to give them an earful - he'd be knackered if he played for us

[brazilianGOONER]

Jack is so fucking good at football that it's hard to believe he's English!!!

[SurreyGooner]

We'd be lost without jack

All scores stay like this please!! all teams in my accumulator winning and put a fiver on 2-1 England

[brazilianGOONER]

and a comment on brazil's side: it's really sad to see the Seleção playing luis fabiano and fred up front. players who on their peaks (a couple of years ago) were never good enough for the bench. a sad generation of brazilian footballers, lots of weight on neymar and oscar's shoulders.

[rodders999]

That "band" is doing my fucking head in

[officepest]

Have to say Mr Walcott is running Adriano ragged 2nd half.

BG: WTF happened to Fred? He seemed to do OK at Lyon but nothing special, but he's scored for fun back in Brazil. I never thought he was international class though.

Is Scolari looking at domestic players more than European based?

[SurreyGooner]

That "band" is doing my fucking head in

And mexican waves

[LDB]

Malta v Northern Ireland in an international friendly. A classic fixture to get the adrenaline pumping imo

[brazilianGOONER]

BG: WTF happened to Fred? He seemed to do OK at Lyon but nothing special, but he's scored for fun back in Brazil. I never thought he was international class though.

Is Scolari looking at domestic players more than European based?

our national league is piss poor mate. we just don't have any good central striker anywhere, try to think of any in europe.

fred and luis fabiano are not bad players, but none of them would be starters at any of the top clubs in england for example. or spain. or germany.

this is scolari's first game though, i'm sure he'll rotate quite a while before deciding who his squad is.

[officepest]

and a comment on brazil's side: it's really sad to see the Seleção playing luis fabiano and fred up front. players who on their peaks (a couple of years ago) were never good enough for the bench. a sad generation of brazilian footballers, lots of weight on neymar and oscar's shoulders.

I didn't see this post, you've already answered my Fred question. I thought Luis Fabiano (at his peak) was a pretty decent finisher though.

Time to dig up Garrincha, I reckon he'd still get in this Brazil side, If that's not too offensive.

[officepest]

BG: WTF happened to Fred? He seemed to do OK at Lyon but nothing special, but he's scored for fun back in Brazil. I never thought he was international class though.

Is Scolari looking at domestic players more than European based?

our national league is piss poor mate. we just don't have any good central striker anywhere, try to think of any in europe.

fred and luis fabiano are not bad players, but none of them would be starters at any of the top clubs in england for example. or spain. or germany.

this is scolari's first game though, i'm sure he'll rotate quite a while before deciding who his squad is.

Do you think he'll give Willian or Rafael Carioca a go, or are neither of these good enough?