This thread is completely unofficial and features no asterisks.

The fixtures have been released, kickoff is August 11th. Some of the new kits for this year have already come out. If the power goes out wherever Chelsea is on the road, don't worry because they'll still be able to play.

6/15/2007 10:49:06 AM

what sport is this?

6/15/2007 10:51:58 AM

chelsea is being investigated for the cech, drogba, and essien transfers

6/15/2007 11:04:56 AM

le futbol

6/15/2007 11:22:55 AM

I think it's hilarious that Big Sam got called out for bungs at Bolton...... and then jumps ship to Newcastle, the other bung capitol

[Edited on June 15, 2007 at 6:04 PM. Reason : and those fucking dayglo kits are atrocious]

6/15/2007 6:03:56 PM

that is a ridiculous pose they are all in

6/15/2007 9:06:03 PM

go newcastle!

6/15/2007 9:08:35 PM

6/15/2007 9:15:43 PM

Quote :

"Premiership - Charlton striker Darren Bent is a wanted man. But after he turned down the chance to go down the road to West Ham, where is he going to go? Here eurosport.yahoo.com brings you a rundown of ins, outs and rumours in the English top flight. ARSENAL In: Lukasz Fabianski (Legia Warsaw, undisclosed) Out: Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City, undisclosed), Mart Poom (Watford, undisclosed) Rumours: David Trezeguet (Juventus, £5m), Ryan Babel (Ajax, £6m), Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona, £25m), Fernando Torres (Atletico Madrid, £20 million), Florent Malouda (Lyon, £17m), Thierry Henry (to Barcelona, £15m) ASTON VILLA In: None Out: Juan Pablo Angel (New York Red Bulls, free), Gavin McCann (Bolton Wanderers, £1 million), Jlloyd Samuel (Bolton, free) BIRMINGHAM CITY In: Stuart Parnaby (Middlesbrough, free), Fabrice Muamba (Arsenal, free) Out: Bruno N'Gotty (Leicester City, free) Rumours: Diomansy Kamara (West Brom, £6 million) BLACKBURN ROVERS In: None Out: None Rumours: Chris Baird (Southampton, £3 million), Francis Jeffers (to Ipswich, £500,000), Andy Todd (to Coventry, £750,000) BOLTON WANDERERS In: Gerald Cid (Bordeaux, free), Blerim Dzemaili (FC Zurich, free), Zoltan Harsanyi (FC Senec, undisclosed), Gavin McCann (Aston Villa, £1 million), Jlloyd Samuel (Aston Villa, free) Out: Quinton Fortune, Cesar Martin, Henrik Pedersen, David Thompson (all released), Tal Ben Haim (Chelsea, free) Rumours: Gokdeniz Karadeniz (Trabzonspor), Stephen Hunt (Reading, £1.5 million), Thomas Buffel (Rangers) CHELSEA In: Steve Sidwell (Reading, free), Claudio Pizarro (Bayern Munich, free), Tal Ben Haim (Bolton, free) Out: Nuno Morais (APOEL Nicosia, free) Rumours: David Villa (Valencia, £30m), Carlos Tevez (West Ham, £30m), Florent Malouda (Lyon, £17m) Fernando Torres (Atletico Madrid, £20 million); Claude Makelele (to PSG, free) DERBY COUNTY In: None Out: Paul Peschisolido, Seth Johnson, Paul Boertien, Lee Grant, Morten Bisgaard, Steven Cann, Lionel Ainsworth, Tom Cumberworth (all released) EVERTON In: Tim Howard (Manchester United, undisclosed) Out: Alessandro Pistone (released), Richard Wright (released) Rumours: David Nugent (Preston, £6 million) FULHAM In: None Out: Claus Jensen, Tomasz Radzinski, Mark Crossley (all released) Rumours: Diomansy Kamara, Jason Koumas (both West Brom, £7 million for the pair), Chris Baird (Southampton, £3 million), Mido (Tottenham), Marlon Harewood (West Ham) LIVERPOOL In: Lucas Leiva (Gremio, undisclosed), Andriy Voronin (Bayer Leverkusen, free) Out: Robbie Fowler (released) Rumours: Florent Malouda (Lyon £17m), Simao (Benfica, £12m), Fernando Torres (Atletico Madrid, £20 million), Yossi Benayoun (West Ham, £3 million) MANCHESTER CITY In: None Out: Sylvain Distin (Portsmouth, free), Trevor Sinclair (released), Joey Barton (Newcastle, £5.8 million) MANCHESTER UNITED In: Owen Hargreaves (Bayern Munich, undisclosed), Nani (Sporting Lisbon), Anderson (Porto) Out: Tim Howard (Everton) Rumours: Fernando Torres (Atletico Madrid, £20 million), Fabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria, £10 million), Eidur Gudjohnsen (Barcelona, cash plus Gerard Pique), Jermaine Defoe (Tottenham), Alan Smith (to Sunderland £7m) MIDDLESBROUGH In: Jonathan Woodgate (Real Madrid, £7 million) Out: Malcolm Christie, Danny Graham (both released), Stuart Parnaby (Birmingham City, free), Mark Viduka (Newcastle United, free), Abel Xavier (LA Galaxy, free) Rumours: Tuncay Sanli (Fenerbahce, free), Ayegbeni Yakubu (to Portsmouth, £12m) NEWCASTLE UNITED In: Mark Viduka (Middlesbrough, free), Joey Barton (Manchester City, £5.8 million) Out: Scott Parker (Charlton, £7 million), Titus Bramble, Antione Sibierski (both Wigan Athletic, both free), Olivier Bernard, Craig Moore, Pavel Srnicek (all released) Rumours: Ludovic Giuly (Barcelona, £1.5m), Nicky Shorey (Reading, £5m), Gokdeniz Karadeniz (Trabzonspor) PORTSMOUTH In: Sylvain Distin (Manchester City, free), Herman Hreidarsson (Charlton, free), Sulley Muntari (Udinese, undisclosed) Out: None Rumours: Curtis Davies (West Bromwich, £7m), Ayegbeni Yakubu (Middlesbrough, £12m), Nwankwo Kanu (to Ajax) READING In: Kalifa Cisse (Boavista, undisclosed) Out: Steve Sidwell (Chelsea, free), Greg Halford (Sunderland, £3.5m) Rumours: Nicky Shorey (to Newcastle, £5m) SUNDERLAND In: Greg Halford (Reading, £3.5m) Out: Kenny Cunningham, Tommy Miller (both released) Rumoured: David Nugent (Preston, £6 million), Alan Smith (Manchester United, £7m) TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR In: Gareth Bale (Southampton, £5 million), Adel Taarabt (Lens, undisclosed) Out: None Rumours: Curtis Davies (West Bromwich, £7m), Ludovic Giuly (Barcelona, £1.5m), Darren Bent (Charlton, £17 million), Jermaine Defoe (to Manchester United), Mido (to Fulham) WEST HAM In: Scott Parker (Newcastle United, £7 million) Out: None Rumours: Darren Bent (Charlton, £18m), Carlos Tevez (to Chelsea, Internazionale, Real Madrid, £30m), Hayden Mullins (Charlton, part/ex for Bent), Nuno Gomes (Benfica), Marlon Harewood (to Fulham) WIGAN ATHLETIC In: Titus Bramble, Antoine Sibierski (both Newcastle United, both free) Out: Arjen de Zeeuw, David Unsworth, Matt Jackson (all released) Rumoured: Danny Murphy (Tottenham, £1.5 million), Michael Brown (Fulham, £1 million), Rob Hulse (Sheffield Utd, £2.5 million), Andy O'Brien (Portsmouth), Thomas Buffel (Rangers)"

[Edited on June 15, 2007 at 10:30 PM. Reason : ]

6/15/2007 10:29:57 PM

It's not just that Chelsea kit that looks horrible. Liverpool has an ugly away kit (although it can't get worse than that yellow one last year) and a disgustingly bad black 3rd jersey. What I've seen of ManYoo's home next year is just plain red, even more so than this year, almost like a t-shirt. Spurs has like 5 different shirts next year, but they're all exactly the same, just different colors. The only new kits I've seen that I like are Fulham's, they're dropping those gay Airness ones and getting retro Nike ones, white home and red/black stripes away.

6/16/2007 1:30:48 AM

Reason number 3,234 that soccer will never take off in America:

They call their uniforms 'kits'.

6/16/2007 3:10:49 AM

all uniforms are called kits in england




so you fail





anyone seen Aston Villa's Nike kits yet? I've been trying to find em for a week or so now.



Tottenham needs to focus on getting their shit straight on the field before they release 600 shirts. I'll admit the Chocolate and Gold kits they had for the UEFA cup last season were beautiful, but they really do need to worry about other things.

6/16/2007 8:58:28 AM

^ But we're not in England, we're in the U.S. So we are allowed to call it a uniform, yes?

I like soccer, I'm a season ticket holder to the Railhawks, but the sheer arrogance of some soccer fans toward soccer culture is a big turnoff for me. This whole Eurosnob opinion that they turn their nose up in the air if you don't pronounce derby as "dar-bee", it's a kit and not a uniform, it's a pitch not a field, it just makes me shake my head. If a person want to spell checkered like "chequered" or spell recognize like "recognise", or call a uniform a "kit", you're living in the wrong country. (Not saying this to you per se, it's just a general statement.)

The purpose of language is to communicate, and no one here knows what a kit is unless you're talking about a model airplane, so what's the point of using the word? When in England, you would say "NC State has a fine gridiron kit this year", so in America you would say "Chelsea has a nice soccer uniform this year."

[Edited on June 16, 2007 at 11:49 AM. Reason : .]

6/16/2007 11:39:22 AM

Quote :

"When in England, you would say "NC State has a fine gridiron kit this year""

Actually, I would imagine people in England discussing American football would say uniform.

You tend to use the language that is associated with the league or sport. I don't see what the issue is here.

6/16/2007 11:49:47 AM

^ But if you have to explain for five minutes what "kit" means when you could've just as easily used the word "uniform", why not just use "uniform"?

6/16/2007 11:51:36 AM

because athletes were wearing 'kits' before they were wearing 'uniforms'

Quote :

"You tend to use the language that is associated with the league or sport. I don't see what the issue is here."

[Edited on June 16, 2007 at 11:54 AM. Reason : ]

6/16/2007 11:52:17 AM

Quote :

"But if you have to explain for five minutes what "kit" means when you could've just as easily used the word "uniform", why not just use "uniform"?"

For people posting in an English Premier League 07-08 thread, using "kit" shouldn't be an issue because I'm assuming most people here are soccer fans and can understand terms commonly associated with the sport. Nobody's saying you can't use the word uniform anyways, I have just always associated soccer jerseys/shorts/socks with the word "kit."

Quote :

"anyone seen Aston Villa's Nike kits yet? I've been trying to find em for a week or so now."

Here's what I've seen... nothing official or anything though.

[Edited on June 16, 2007 at 2:30 PM. Reason : villans]

6/16/2007 2:22:27 PM

looks like they used the same pattern as this year's manu kit

6/16/2007 4:51:29 PM

stop gaying up the thread

6/16/2007 7:29:21 PM

who?

6/16/2007 9:57:32 PM

tune into soccernet on espn.com...la liga has come down to today's matches....real is trailing 1-0 while barca is up 3-0...those matches determine the title

6/17/2007 4:10:47 PM

Mallorca just handed Madrid the title via a Moya OG

6/17/2007 4:36:27 PM

if real doesnt score, it's going to be nuts
score right now is 1-1 for real, and barca are thrashing the other team 4-0

It sucks that they don't show these games on FOX SOCCER CHANNEL

6/17/2007 4:36:57 PM

^ score is 2-1 Real


Jose Antonio Reyes tied it up and Moya bobbled the ball into his own net

6/17/2007 4:37:58 PM

how are you watching this

6/17/2007 4:39:15 PM

and no sooner than I say that than JAR scores again

[Edited on June 17, 2007 at 4:41 PM. Reason : gametracker, although I'm sure it's on livefooty]

6/17/2007 4:39:25 PM

3-1 to real
they win !!



REAL MALLORCA
17' 0 - 1 F Varela
68' J Reyes 1 - 1
80' M Moya (og) 2 - 1
83' J Reyes 3 - 1


[Edited on June 17, 2007 at 4:44 PM. Reason : SCORES]

6/17/2007 4:43:07 PM

was sad to see JAR leave london but if he can keep the title away from camp nou he is fine by me...that was unbelievable SUPER SUB for becks

6/17/2007 4:51:55 PM

wikipedia has already updated information about REYES' crucial goals. I can't see any reason why Real wouldnt make his loan permanent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Antonio_Reyes

6/17/2007 4:59:38 PM

Quote :

"The commentary was hilarious. "There is going to be lots of loving in the bedrooms of madrid Tonight!!!" and "Stop talking about tennis, we are in the land of the bull fighters!!" were my personal favorites."

6/17/2007 5:08:07 PM

henry to barca



http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=440831&cc=5901

6/22/2007 4:16:11 PM

wow that's a lot more than they wanted to pay for him...hopefully this means eto' to milan

btw...i'm liking the new arsenal away kits





[Edited on June 22, 2007 at 4:27 PM. Reason : ]

6/22/2007 4:21:08 PM

looks like this classifies as a throwback now

6/22/2007 4:33:11 PM

indeed it does

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=440831&cc=5901

Henry to Barca

6/22/2007 4:52:03 PM

bon voyage henry

6/22/2007 5:03:32 PM

^^ look 3 posts up from yours

6/22/2007 5:07:09 PM

perdon, senor

6/22/2007 5:18:12 PM

haha, its ok

6/22/2007 5:22:05 PM

who to arsenal now...maybe they can steal huntleaar and bring in saviola...if eto'o stays barca can field a whole team a strikers

[Edited on June 22, 2007 at 5:26 PM. Reason : ]

6/22/2007 5:25:51 PM

if eto'o stays at barca

...

oh lord

6/23/2007 3:39:01 AM

who knows what will happen...they can't possibly field all those players right???

deco, dinho, eto'o, henry, giuly, iniesta, xavi, edmilson, gudjohnsen, motta, maxi lopez, messi

dinho and eto'o have both been linked with milan, and giuly linked with newcastle, gudjohnsen is probably out...that is a murderers row of attackers though

6/23/2007 5:19:13 PM

Giuly will never be a starter at Barca, nor will Gudjohnson

and Deco, as gifted as he is, is Rikjaard's center mid, and not really considered an attacking player


Honestly, I think Eto'o is gone, and has been gone for months. I would not be surprised to see him at Milan, nor would I be surprised to see Kaka on a plane to Madrid.

[Edited on June 23, 2007 at 11:50 PM. Reason : also, why is Fabregas wearing those dirty-ass boots? he looks like a bum.]

6/23/2007 11:49:15 PM

FYI for you guys that haven't been to Soccer Post yet:


their prices are rediculous.

6/24/2007 4:37:43 PM

i need to buy a holland jersey

6/24/2007 5:46:47 PM

buy it anywhere but there unless you like overpaying



just bought my black Man U "We are the Champions" shirt with 16 on the back

6/25/2007 7:54:19 PM

here's to that number staying 16 for awhile

6/25/2007 8:31:42 PM

ahhh, bitter wine

6/25/2007 9:27:27 PM

what is everybody's thoughts on recent transfers?

Torres to Liverpool? eh, I don't know what to think about it... he's okay, but I think they overpaid. He reminds me too much of Morientes who I didn't particularly like.

And the recent rumors of Tevez to ManYoo for 20 mil, incredible if true... adding Hargreaves/Tevez/Nani/Anderson and getting Ben Foster back from loan to a team that dominated the league, wow.

7/5/2007 9:26:58 AM

Manchester Utd is known for purchasing alot of flops. Biggest example is Veron.
Why change a winning formation? Only thing i would like to see is carrick being replaced by tevez. Being a Leeds utd fan though, i wanna see ALAN SMITH BACK IN THE TEAM!!

7/5/2007 12:21:51 PM

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"Only thing i would like to see is carrick being replaced by tevez."

what?

7/5/2007 2:23:07 PM