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...

Lol , good luck mate but it's more fun in the Championship and the refs don't give every decision in favour of the top teams.

Didn't realise how biased they were until last season. Some of the decisions we had go against us including not sending off Gerrard or Rooney in the first half for red card tackles was atrocious.

Jimmy Greaves: Ex-England and Spurs striker out of intensive care

Two very competitive games last night.
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In the end Stan, Ings came good but the final outcome was out of your team's hands.

Congratulations to Chelsea........not a bad season at all......time to bid for Bale.....(at a discount I presume)....

Just a quick farewell to Gerrard....tremendous player.....England needed a few more like him to have made an impact.......I fear Liverpool might struggle next season.....I wouldn't like to say relegation candidates.....mid-table perhaps....but it's not looking good for them.....

(I do excellent obituaries as well).....(for a fee of course).....(;))

Mystery team Crystal Palace....capable of beating any of the big boys.....never underestimate them.....might end up with silverware one year....I can just imagine them winning the cup or something.....

Norwich back in the top tier ?.....the thing is to remain in the premiership......not easy for sides not on massive budgets....

See Sterling has put in a transfer request to leave Liverpool.

Jamie Carragher tells Liverpool's Raheem Sterling to 'keep mouth shut' and 'get on with playing football'
Liverpool legend is angered by 20-year-old's rift with club over new deal and accuses winger of going missing in big matches



By Telegraph Sport7:03AM BST 19 May 2015 Comments26 Comments
Jamie Carragher has told Raheem Sterling to "keep his mouth shut" and "get on with playing football" with the Liverpool forward expected to tell the club this week that he wishes to leave.
The Liverpool legend had some strong words for the 20-year-old who is said to be feeling "bullied" into agreeing a new deal at Anfield.
“For a 20-year-old kid to be taking on Liverpool Football Club over a contract. To the pit of my stomach that just winds me up, it angers me,” Carragher said on Sky’s Monday Night Football.


Carragher even accused the England international of going missing in Liverpool's big matches this season.
Liverpool have failed to qualify for next season's Champions League, but Carragher feels the player didn't turn up in this year's competition.


“The lad is from London and he obviously wants to go back home. It might not be about money. It may be about trophies or playing in the Champions League. If it’s about trophies, Liverpool had a chance for a trophy this year, in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley against Aston Villa. Where was Sterling?


"If you want trophies, they don’t get given to you, you have to earn them, you have to play well in big games. What did Liverpool do in the Champions League? Nothing. What did Sterling do? Nothing.


“To do what he’s done now. There’s nothing worse than that. You keep your mouth shut - get on with playing football.”
Manchester City are among those known to be monitoring Sterling’s situation on Merseyside with interest, but it will not be easy for them to wrestle him out.
The player still has two years remaining on his £35,000-a-week deal, with club owner John W. Henry unwilling to sell to a rival this summer.
If Sterling does not sign a new deal he faces the next 12 months at least on the same salary.



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if he doesn't sign a new contract its simple, keep him here for the next 2yrs on his £35k a week....in that time we'll have new signings....he's a talent no doubt but if he doesn't improve as an all round player it wont matter then cause lets face it he is far from the finished article.


Why do the press make so much of this, A kid who has won nothing and is still to reach his potential(if ever)...let him go......looks like another Rodwell in the making.


Sell him. Take the money and be rid of him.


What money, he's crap, can't shoot and goes missing in big games , according to every Liverpool poster on here ...


Just proves the madness league football has become. A twenty year old youth with no skills other than playing football, thinks he is worth over £100,000 a week?
Its time we all got real and turned off the Sky matches, then see where these footballers fit into society.

Norwich have to beat Middlesborough....which might prove tricky! I think Norwich are the only club in the top two divisions which is totally debt free. The problem is that they refuse to pay mega salaries to attract top players, so they will always be a yo-yo club.

My Wales v Belgium tickets have arrived.

France here we come !

Ah well, that means Delia doesn't have to write any more cookery books for a while! On the day I reckon (even though I am biased) that Norwich played the better football and seemed to want the promotion more.

Fifa arrests: 'Football's never seen anything like this'

Huge corruption scandal......Is anybody surprised about it ?.....nobody......Sepp Blatter for all his charming ways is probably in an untenable position as the head of a rotten organisation......he might not be as guilty as the others but if all these others heads have to roll : his would surely follow as well as in any normal company such a scandal would end up with the boss departing.....this will only be the tip of the iceberg of course because you have to have proof and the laws of liable and such mean the prosecutors will have to tread carefully......if the Swiss enquiry digs up more corruption with the world cup bids.....Fifa would be perhaps disbanded and the next world cups annulled.....really serious stuff.....shame that people are so greedy....anyway bravo Sevilla tonight....super teams these Spanish sides....the premiership has some catching up to do.....

Will he take the fall this time?

Andy King :( Bubblegum cards, Shoot, and Match Of The Day.



By required field - 17 May 2015 20:20 - 4433 of 4445
Just a quick farewell to Gerrard....tremendous player.....England needed a few more like him to have made an impact.......I fear Liverpool might struggle next season.....I wouldn't like to say relegation candidates.....mid-table perhaps....but it's not looking good for them.....

Too often showed a lack of discipline; one man band - hence Stevie Me. Seemed great when it worked, when it didn't the team suffered and he looked a fool - against Germany in South Africa he kept leaving the full back exposed, the game he became Slippy G he spent the rest of the match shooting - ignoring teammates in better positions, and so on. The trait contributed to what turned out to be a year long comedy tour. If he wasn't English, the media wouldn't have been so lenient.

Cheers,
KidA

Am I missing something, but what are the Americans doing involving themselves in soccer and FIFA? The corruption has happened in a sport in which they are barely involved and presumably in countries which are outside US jurisdiction?