Contender? Sure, I think they will be a factor in the title race if they sign him. Will they win it? I highly doubt it.

Even if they spend that much money on Suarez they are still miles behind City in terms of spending. They've spent 90 million this summer already in addition to all their previous additions.

7/25/2013 3:49:04 PM

I think Suarez makes them a really scary team to play against. But he's going to miss the first 7 or 8 games or whatever and then I fully expect him to meltdown at some point and miss more games later in the season with the English media all over him. I really, really think he does not not want to be in England anymore.

7/25/2013 4:05:01 PM

I dunno; you would think if he wanted out of England he would have no problem finding a club to bid on him. Real Madrid comes to mind. Suarez's issues seem to stem from completely losing his mind on the pitch, but I haven't heard that much about him being a horrible teammate or anything like that. In a way Arsenal could use a player with that kind of fire as long as they can keep him from fucking biting someone or using racial slurs.

The key for Arsenal is that it would appear that for the first summer in ages they aren't going to bleed off their best players. Actually keeping the team intact plus adding some quality could break them out of the perpetual 3rd/4th place battle.

7/25/2013 4:19:53 PM

Yeah from all accounts Suarez is a great teammate off the field.

7/25/2013 6:51:52 PM

What would Liverpool do with the money?

7/25/2013 7:51:45 PM

Renovate fenway park?

7/25/2013 8:30:46 PM

haha I actually lol'd at that.

7/25/2013 9:27:11 PM

^^lol

Soldado?

7/25/2013 11:01:09 PM

This is for Ribs who loves getting his transfer news from twitter

7/26/2013 11:07:39 AM

LOL

7/26/2013 11:16:40 AM

lololol

7/26/2013 1:56:21 PM

Lol, how many rumors start out that exact same way.

7/26/2013 3:30:46 PM

Tottenham turning down a world record (86 million pound) bid for Gareth Bale from Real Madrid.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jul/27/gareth-bale-real-madrid-tottenham-hotspur

All things considered, I think I'd take the 86 million pounds and move on.

It'd be pretty sick to have Bale on the left, and be able to move Ronaldo to the right.

7/28/2013 2:36:56 PM

NBC TV schedule is out! http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/29/premier-league-tv-schedule-for-nbc-sports-group-released/related/

Quote :

"STAMFORD, Conn. – July 29, 2013 – Following the Premier League’s announcement of the first three months of the 2013-14 schedule on July 11, NBC Sports Group today released its television schedule for that time period featuring live coverage of all 130 matches, beginning Saturday, August 17 at 7:00 AM ET on NBC Sports Network with the Liverpool-Stoke matchup. A total of 69 Premier League matches – at least five games each week in the season’s first three months – will be presented on NBC Sports Network, NBC and CNBC with all games preceded and followed by Premier League Live pre- and post-match shows from the NBC Sports Group International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn. The 61 remaining Premier League matches will be made available on Premier League Extra Time, a bonus television package available to MVPDs at no extra cost for customers who receive NBC Sports Network. In addition, 27 matches in the season’s first three months will be telecast in Spanish by Telemundo and mun2. All Premier League games will be streamed on NBC Sports Live Extra, NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices and tablets. Games airing on NBC Sports Network will be live streamed via “TV Everywhere,” the media industry’s effort to make quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms."

7/29/2013 4:44:04 PM

Quote :

"All Premier League games will be streamed on NBC Sports Live Extra, NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices and tablets. "

Unless you have Time Warner Cable because they suck all the dicks in the world.

Quote :

"AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox, DIRECTV, DISH, Suddenlink and Verizon"

You're cool if you got these.

7/29/2013 4:54:50 PM

god damn, FUCK TWC.

7/29/2013 8:22:47 PM

The US is absolutely terrible when it comes to accessing content when you don't have cable. Now TV in the UK is an amazingly flexible app that lets you pay as you go. You get most premier league and champions league matches on a monthly subscription. NBC could have easily done that with their Live Extra online tool but have their hands tied by the monopolistic cable companies. Cable and mobile deals in America are useless and complete shit compared to the rest of the world. Its about time people stopped dealing with this crap.

7/29/2013 9:59:02 PM

I'll be able to watch any Premier League game I want this year through my cable provider thanks to NBC.

Kudos to them.

[Edited on July 30, 2013 at 2:42 AM. Reason : .]

7/30/2013 2:42:02 AM

someone give me your id/password

7/30/2013 7:10:26 AM

I wonder if this means there'll be more streams available.

Regardless, I'm calling DirecTV today.

7/30/2013 8:19:50 AM

Stoke's Mark Hughes furious after Brek Shea hurt during MLS friendly

Quote :

"CHESTER, Pa. (AP) -- American midfielder Brek Shea injured his left knee in his first game of the preseason for Stoke, two days after scoring the U.S. goal that beat Panama in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final. Shea helped set up Michael Kightly's goal in the fourth minute and scored in the 19th minute of Stoke's 2-0 exhibition win at Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union Tuesday night. The 23-year-old American was hurt from a tackle by Philadelphia's Matt Kassel and left the game in the 33rd. "It's incredibly frustrating and hugely disappointing to lose Brek, especially in a game like this where you would expect players to look after their fellow professionals,'' Stoke manager Mark Hughes was quoted as saying by Stoke's website. "I really have no idea what the lad was thinking about by going in for the challenge like that. Maybe he was trying to make a name for himself. I have no idea, but whatever he was thinking, it was totally wrong.'' Hughes said Shea was to have an MRI on Wednesday. "We know that we will definitely be without him for a number of weeks,'' the manager said."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130731/brek-shea-injury-stoke-city-mls.ap/

7/31/2013 4:31:58 PM

Me: I'm canceling because I want to watch all the Premier League games for free on NBC's app.

TWC rep: We have a Sports Pass with the Big Ten Network.

8/1/2013 2:15:30 PM

lol

8/1/2013 2:42:14 PM

8/1/2013 2:44:20 PM

Mission for the weekend to hunt down this subway car

8/1/2013 3:10:31 PM

lol. Was it grafitti? The city can't have allowed that?

More importantly.

Bayern are playing like crap. Guardiola is basically bringing in the Barca tiki taka and has taken away the exciting direct attacking football that Bayern had played last year. Players look lost really. Still pre season but I wouldn't be surprised if Dortmund take the Bundesliga next year. Bayern is going to take some time getting acquainted with this system.

8/1/2013 3:25:45 PM

oh nvm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2382426/Manchester-United-Manchester-City-Spurs-Arsenal-colours-make-New-York-City-subway.html

Lol no chelsea?!

[Edited on August 1, 2013 at 3:27 PM. Reason : .]

8/1/2013 3:26:43 PM

NBC is definitely going all out with this. It's great to see.

8/1/2013 3:27:53 PM

Surprising there's no Chelsea. Liverpool, too.

Pretty awesome though. NBC is going to be awesome.

[Edited on August 1, 2013 at 3:33 PM. Reason : AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME]

8/1/2013 3:32:57 PM

It makes sense though because the theme is derbies; the slogan they are using is "Keep calm and pick a side." So one car is the North London Derby with the car divided into Arsenal/Spurs and the other is the Manchester Derby with United/City.

8/1/2013 3:34:59 PM

oh, I didn't even catch that. Thought each team had a car.

8/1/2013 3:41:55 PM

Did not see the cars on the 4, 5, or 6 yesterday. But I wasn't looking.

8/1/2013 3:58:59 PM

Should be on the Times Square shuttle (which you probably have no reason to ever ride); that's the only line that the MTA does ad wrappings on.

8/1/2013 4:03:57 PM

Liverpool bid £21m for Diego Costa. Surely they don't make that if they are confident Suarez stays.

Also, Costa had as many yellow cards as goals last season.

8/1/2013 8:24:14 PM

Quote :

"Costa is a controversial figure in Spain with a chequered disciplinary record."

Great.

8/2/2013 7:57:32 AM

Spurs has spent £50m now and that's before Bale is sold to Real for a world record. Wonder how much of that money was spent looking forward to having Bales fee. If not, they could be odds on for fourth without Bale even.

With Bale they can challenge for the title and are MILES ahead of Arsenal.

8/2/2013 8:01:59 AM

Paulinho was bought with TV money.

Besides that purchase, the owner Joe Lewis granted the club a 50 million dollar interest free loan at the beginning of the window looking to put the club in the CL spots so that money has nothing to do with Bale.

There will still be incomings. Maybe another striker and LB but definitely a CB still to come.

8/2/2013 8:49:26 AM

I am still not convinced Spurs can challenge for the title with their defense, especially now that they have sold Caulker. They keep Bale they can finish top 4 but Arsenal have the best manager in England now and that really should be enough to get them top 4. I expect Giroud to have a much better year. If Wilshere stays fit that may be enough.

8/2/2013 8:51:37 AM

Kaboul/Vertonghen/Dawson can stand up to anybody's centerbacks

Caulker didn't think 18 appearances was enough and wanted to be an every week starter which he wasn't going to get at Spurs.

Plus, his mobility, or lack thereof, proved to be a liability last season which is why he was 4th in the pecking order to begin with.

Wenger the best manager in England? C'mon dog, don't be so blatant with your trolls. Amateur hour over here.

8/2/2013 9:10:51 AM

by best manager, if he mean balancing the books and selling all his best players, yes he is

8/2/2013 9:14:16 AM

Wenger's record on CL is amazing and he may be the best manager in England now that SAF is gone (well, if Mourinho didn't exist) but the talent is not there..

8/2/2013 9:24:41 AM

Mourinho anyone?

I'd take AVB over Wenger if given a choice too

[Edited on August 2, 2013 at 9:39 AM. Reason : prolly Laudrup too]

8/2/2013 9:35:50 AM

Quote :

"I'd take AVB over Wenger if given a choice too"

Well, let me just say that I am SHOCKED to see this from you Ribs.

8/2/2013 9:45:42 AM

I just wanted to be the first to say that Soldado is a stud and I think he is going to run rampant this season.

8/2/2013 10:14:53 AM

and by that he means, lots of yellow and red cards

8/2/2013 10:21:08 AM

Just sell me already, you assholes.

8/2/2013 10:34:06 AM

Dempsey to Seattle Sounders. Wut????

8/2/2013 5:57:48 PM

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2013/08/02/night-twitter-convinced-us-clint-dempsey-was-going-seattle-sign-sounders-exc

8/2/2013 6:02:29 PM

It's on espn front page now.

8/2/2013 6:05:04 PM

what the shit

8/2/2013 6:06:49 PM