Comments on: Faux International Week!

By: IceMel

IceMel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:34:01 +0000

Mother knows best Kevin,

Dinho Shirts sales have plunged (or at least they had as of Nov) :

http://www.soccerway.com/news/2007/Nov/21/ronaldinhos-poor-form-hits-shirt-sales—report/

…and while we’re dispensing motherly advice: Friendlies/International duties Blow!…it’s like a freaking MLB allstar week every other month. Seems like they could work out a schedule with an extended winter break for Southern hemesphere touneys and friendlys etc.

…maybe I just don’t understand these things.

I think it’s probable both Ronnie and Rijky go. A shame they’re such nice boys.

By: ballbeav

ballbeav — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:52:45 +0000

so many threads///

latest in the injury dept:

milito is out against Betis. they hope to have him ready for Schalke. Puyol is doubtful — the tests show his bone and ligaments are fine, so its just a “contusion” to the right ankle. it will be wait-and-see.

could we have thuram and abidal in the middle, flanked by sylvinho and zamby?

toure and henry trained with the group today, sothat is good news/

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:51:59 +0000

Bojan’s goal was Ronniesque. I propose Ronniesque as a new word to the language of football. It can be used in a multitude of ways (inventive footballing, big smiles or all night partying). Like, I bar hopped all night, stayed up until 6 in the morning with 10 chicas and requested 400 condoms, it was Ronniesque. It will be interesting to see what happens in the offseason this year. Who goes, Ronnie or Frank or both? And who do we bring in with the massive amount of euros recevied from Ronnie’s transfer?

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:01:26 +0000

Bojan’s goal against Kaz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpzgvnvlWI

The kid is unreal.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:30:59 +0000

this is absolutely a stupid time for FRIENDLY matches….

By: ballbeav

ballbeav — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:57:19 +0000

“oh, crap” department.

after the news about milito, turns out puyol came off after only 16 minutes cos he hurt his right ankle (in the match against italy). we’ll know on thursday the extent of the injury. and that bastard aragones made xavi and iniesta go the full 90, though he made 6 substitutions during the match. even fabregas came off after 67 minutes.

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:41:46 +0000

I think that Thiago from BarcaB will be a first-teamer. He has that Deco aura about him. Wouldn’t it be sweet if he turned out to be THAT good.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:50:41 +0000

I know. You’d think just from the shirt sales that we would want to keep Ronaldinho. My informal polling at matches tells me that he is still, even with the ascendancy of Messi, far and away the most popular shirt.

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:43:59 +0000

I’ll believe the Ronnie rumors when the deal is signed, Kevin.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:22:16 +0000

At the 60 minute mark, Les Bleus are up 1-0 on England. Thuram is showing very well, but he always does. His style is made for international football and Champions League.

Henry is why he isn’t playing in the France side. It’s a friendly, and he’s really focussing on us.

I fear that Ronnie is done for us. Those Inter rumors were pretty specific, particularly the Nike sponsorship of the deal.