**** OFFICIAL Premiership 2007-08 season Thread!*****

[ledders07]

lol i'll make Portland Timbers my US team whoever the [censored] they are! yeah, i go to most games

[ThaSaltCracka]

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lol i'll make Portland Timbers my US team whoever the [censored] they are! yeah, i go to most games

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The Portland Timbers play in the USL Div 1, which is similar in stature to the Championship. MLS is the US's top flight. However, the quality of USL Div 1 is most likely more akin to league 1. The Timbers recently beat Preston North End in a friendly 2-1, so take that for what its worth. Portland is also currently in first in the USL-1 ahead of bitter rival Seattle.

Sorry for the tangent.

[KJS]

Who do people think will be the highest impact newcomers this year? Last year's crop included Sheva, Ballack, Julio Baptista, McCarthy, Berbatov, Martins, Kuyt, etc.. Some did very well, some blew.

Candidates: Torres (Pool), Da Silva (Arsenal), Roque Santa Cruz (Blackburn), Nani (Man U), David Nugent (Pompey), Malouda (Chelsea), Bianchi (Man City) and others.

KJS

[gusmahler]

Rumors are flying that Arjen Robben will be going to Real Madrid pretty soon. Not really that big a loss since Chelsea now have Malouda and a healthy Joe Cole.

[beset]

I am not sure if this has been discussed already.

We really should have a weekly premiership thread. I am not a forum regular but I come during the EPL season to read the discussion. The thread gets a lot of traffic, why make it such a long unmanageable mess?

[ThaSaltCracka]

about 1/4 of the way through the season it is basically only 4 or 5 people posting. Weekly seems to clunky IMO.

KJS, my votes would go for Eduardo, Malouda, and probably Hargreaves. I don't know how successful Nugent will be, but we will see. As for last year, it had to be Berbatov.

[gusmahler]

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about 1/4 of the way through the season it is basically only 4 or 5 people posting. Weekly seems to clunky IMO.

[/ QUOTE ]And the thing about the EPL is that the games are pretty much weekly anyways, so all discussion about last week's games are all easy to find. This isn't the NBA, with 30+ teams playing 3 games a week.

[daveymck]

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Who do people think will be the highest impact newcomers this year? Last year's crop included Sheva, Ballack, Julio Baptista, McCarthy, Berbatov, Martins, Kuyt, etc.. Some did very well, some blew.

Candidates: Torres (Pool), Da Silva (Arsenal), Roque Santa Cruz (Blackburn), Nani (Man U), David Nugent (Pompey), Malouda (Chelsea), Bianchi (Man City) and others.

KJS

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Its always impossible to say although I expect some of the blowing players from last year should make a much bigger impact this year.

[EmpireMaker2]

Think pool will take it this year for some reason

[KDawg]

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KJS, my votes would go for Eduardo, Malouda, and probably Hargreaves. I don't know how successful Nugent will be, but we will see. As for last year, it had to be Berbatov.

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Hargreaves should have a good year this year, but I really think that Nani could be a real revelation. Granted, it's extremely hard to base much of anything off of the pre-season meaningless matches, but he really looks like the real deal and should fill in great as Giggs' replacement in the next few years.

as far as nugent, I think he'll be great for pompey. Will he score 20 this year, that I can't say, but this is a guy with serious talent that could find a great pairing for england with Rooney(and hopefully in the future at ManU [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]). There is a reason he cost 7m GBP not having spent a single season in the top flight. I think we'll also be hearing the same kind of stuff about Billy Sharp at Scunthorpe very soon too. Back to Nugent, if you haven't seen him play, get ready to just giggle in delight at some of the great stuff he is capable of doing