It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

Joint 2nd from bottom this late in the season.. your doomed I tell ya doomed.

"That could be the point that clinches promotion come May".. You must be on the pop -):

Draw away win at home , write off 8 points (bad day at the office) and we win the league with 84 points.

See you up there next year , PL I am now a WBA and Burnley fan so good luck to both.

"PL I am now a WBA and Burnley fan so good luck to both.".. Welcome to fan base -):

Rooney Captain gf, all your nightmares have come true. LOL!!!!

Decent choice. Ideally I would have preferred it the other way round, Fletcher as captain and Rooney as vice-captain but happy either way. An in-form Wayne Rooney is as good as any player in the PL so hopefully being awarded the captaincy should get the best out of him. Congrats Wayne.
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Xmartinez59 • 34 minutes ago
and Wayne's reaction was: 'There is a captain-related bonus, right?'
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HotAirConditioning • 34 minutes ago
The Emperor's New Clothes have had a new elasticated arm accessory added.
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steelwheelsandflattyres • 35 minutes ago
If they are that desperate that they have had to appoint a man with a bad wig as team captain then it seems the Dutch mercenary may be out for most of the season again. I Knew they should have offered £40 million for Ricky Lambert.
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mike1222 • an hour ago
Rooney captain? How low will this club sink?
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thelastsatrap • an hour ago
Hahahaha!
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berrypatel • an hour ago
Not that it matter to a Team heading for league 2 but with the oil glut I predicted some months ago now a reality. http://www.ukcig.info/
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powerup berrypatel • an hour ago
Are you broke berry?
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powerup • 2 hours ago
Must have been a clause in his contract. I blame Moyes.
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Christopher Mooney • 2 hours ago
Only reason Rooney is there is United blocked his moves. Let's be honest.

He'd have left years ago, if he could
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Christopher Mooney • 2 hours ago
What a joke - how many times has Rooney tried to get out of United!?
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Marago • 2 hours ago
Anyone who watches football after what we saw this summer, deserves to be ripped off and I have no sympathy for those who lose......(Unfortunately someone has to win...)
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rbags • 2 hours ago
He is the best of a bad bunch. Rewind tens years and Van Gaal would have been spoilt for choice
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carollie • 2 hours ago
Just because granny lover is captain it does not make him any more committed to Utd. Remember Vidic?? It's all about money. A committed Rooney is absolutely NOT one of the World's best players. It just means he runs about more.
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slugmandrew • 2 hours ago
Translation: "Wayne Rooney's ego is so big that if I don't make him captain he'll probably throw a hissy fit and have a crap season".
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Dave • 2 hours ago
"It is a great honour for me to be named captain of this fantastic club.......now can I have some more money". The United Way.
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yoyoegg • 3 hours ago
Canny, a fan-pleasing puppet as 'captain' without a thought in his head, while van Gaal keeps total control
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Nobby • 3 hours ago
Smart move to make Fletcher vice captain.
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carollie Nobby • 2 hours ago
why? he's utter pony
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Artorius Revisited • 3 hours ago
Surprised he didn't choose RVP but I respect LVG's decision. A committed Rooney remains one of the world's best players.
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afterglow Artorius Revisited • 2 hours ago
Exactly - like the ball he committed to Row Z from the corner flag at the World Cup.

Pure class.

Less.
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NiPar Artorius Revisited • 2 hours ago
His only other competition was the injury prone duo of V Persie and Fletcher, so it doesn't surprise me. I just think that the extra responsibility will take an edge off his game which he needs to have to be in his best form.
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anfield5 Artorius Revisited • 3 hours ago
Rooney is only committed to Rooney.
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Sparzo • 3 hours ago
Fantastic. Another spot on decision by L. Van Gaal. Rooney will take any opposition by the jugular and shake them until they give in.
Personally I had thought uncle Roy would have made him captain when he got the England job, instead he went for the safe, pass sell by dates. Bland is what we got.
Hopefully he would not be looking at Lampard or Carrick for the England Captaincy.
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steelwheelsandflattyres coges • 33 minutes ago
Not if it makes my tram late.
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coges • 3 hours ago
Not that it matter to a Team heading for league 2 but with the oil glut I predicted some months ago now a reality, it will be interesting to see the Qatars scramble to try and get some money out of their noisy neighbours, City as the price of oil drops below $80.
I wish I was a Liverpool fan-------- "pinch"--------- oh I am am,Goodie ,Goodie Gum drops.
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Chris, theirs a lot of discontent among the UTD fans, we wanted Van Persie. Hes got a brain and is loyal.

Looks like hel get England job aswel, thats it then we are relegated to the 3rd division of International footbal with a bird brain like Rooney running the show.

LOL which numpty said this?????????????

"An in-form Wayne Rooney is as good as any player in the PL".......ends

Now thats just an example of why English football is on its knees.

Captain related bonus remark tickled me :0)

Must have been tounge in cheek chris..........surely.

Liverpool 0 Burnley 2 (Sordell2). Game played yesterday behind closed doors at their place.

Plus it was only against the Burnley development squad!.. They panicked and brought on Sterling and Gerrard at half time but to no avail!

From my local rag:

Brendan Rodgers has been slammed by Trevor Francis for lacking balance in his Liverpool transfer business this summer.

The Anfield boss was given excessive funds to strengthen the squad following the £75m sale of Luis Suarez and has since bought no less than six players with more set to follow. The total paid is approaching the £100m mark with Alberto Moreno set to take it over the threshold.

According to former England international Trevor Francis, Rodgers still has not done enough to ensure the loss of Suarez will be compensated. He says that more money will have to be spent between now and the transfer deadline if Liverpool are to mount a title challenge.

He told Sky Sports: "There’s £100m spent and only £4m put aside for a striker, that being Rickie Lambert.

“If they get the left-back Alberto Moreno then I think that’s going to cost close to £20m and that will take the spending up to £110m and £10m of that was spent on Divock Origi who has gone back on loan to Lille.

Hey Dil, this is your team + subs for your game at Coventry tonight:

Cardiff City
33 Moore
12 John
55 Barnum-Bobb (Harris - 66' )
16 Connolly Booked
28 Théophile-Catherine
17 Gunnarsson
13 Kim Bo-kyung
30 Burgstaller (Daehli - 66' )
21 Ralls
15 Wolff Eikrem
23 Maynard

Substitutes
20 Daehli
35 Velikonja
40 Harris
42 Wilson
44 James
45 O'Sullivan
53 Owen

Is that a reasonable selection of your 1st team squad?

That's near our second team Stan with a couple of development players thrown in. My first team when all are available :

Marshall
Brayford
Cala
Turner
Fabio
Pilkington
Adeyemi
Dikcagoi
Daehli
Le Fondre
Jones


Moore
Whittingham
John
Catherine
Connelly
Macheda
Burgstaller

Which still leaves the likes of Noone (injured). , Maynard , Hudson , Kim-Bo , Eikrem and Guerra not even in my match day squad but all likely to start at least 10 games each with the exception of Hudson who could be sold.

Oh yeah I forgot Gunnarson plus we hoping to sign at least one new centre half plus Keane on a season long loan from Man U. Danny Gabbidon who was out of contract with Crystal Palace and has left is training with us and could be offered a 1 year contract if we don't get the players in that we want.

Really strong squad but Ole seems clueless as to what his best 11 are so we'll be lucky to see the same starting 11 two games running and to me the lack of a settled side could cost us come the end of season.

On the plus side we are going to have to have a lot of injuries / suspensions before they'll have any real effect on us.

Thanks for that, a very good result at Coventry then?

The reason I ask is because I'm eyeing up a possible anti-post/handicap double with my lot and yours.

Wouldn't Cardiff be a rubbish handicap bet as they are already favourites with most bookies to win the league ?

I'd be looking at someone like Bournemouth or maybe Brentford who both seem capable of doing better than the bookies reckon.

Morrison a centre half from Reading is in Cardiff with his agent having talks about a possible move along with another un named player , should have enough for a third team if this carries on :)

Well you've certainly got numbers.. but you need the quality of course?

Yeah your right about other teams as a better bet, I'll think about that cheers.

The quality is there Stan that's part of the problem. Me and my mate who I'm going to game with tomorrow were discussing it last night and came to the conclusion that if every fan had to hand his own team sheet in at the gate tomorrow as they went in then it would be possible that the estimated 23,000 crowd could each come up with a unique combination and highly likely that there would be at least 5000 diffrerent combinations even after assuming that Marshall is chosen by everyone as our goalkeeper.

To me and a lot of others that is a problem and not an advantage unless Ole can settle on a core team and sooner rather than later.

I think no matter how many players a manager has it ultimately comes down to the managers ability, it must be better to have a smaller then a large squad I would have thought.

He can then always prune and then get his own men in as the wage level will be less with fewer players on the staff to begin with.

If Ole has a load of inherited players who he doesn't rate then a fair bit of culling sounds on the cards.

I am amazed at the improvement in Northampton this season.

Out went tons of dross from last season and we just managed to stay up. We have also had a mini-revolution behind the scenes with the Chairman putting in an investment of £7m of his own money. Obviously, the fans love this guy whose name is Cardoza.

Anyhow, things have worked and we seem to be getting good results and are now in joint 4th spot in League 2.

Our last match was an 'away' and we beat Wolves 2-3.

Up go the gate receipts and the atmosphere. Everyone is now behind the club and really willing them on.

I might even take wifey along so we can see what's happening for ourselves. Gulp. %-q