Atlanta Soccer News: Art, Music and Culture: July 2009

5.) Defense

Toure from Arsenal was looking at dumping him. Ever since he came back from the African Cup of Nations a couple of years ago, he was never the same.
They let in too many goals last year and haven't done anything about it.

4.) Midfield

Shaun Wright-Phillips is throwing away his career. He was a waste at Chelsea and will not start here.
Kompany should be playing defense. Will he ever get healthy?
Berry is an ok buy. With the money they are splashing, they could have done better.

3.) Offense

Lots of buys but these are all second tier players.
They sold their best young prospect Daniel Sturridge. We are seeing a pattern here.

2.) Chemistry

All of the buys have been known head cases.
Lets list them: Robinho; Bellamy; Adebayor; Tevez. All of these guys are going to be disruptive in the locker room.
His only hope is that they hate each other bad enough that they rally around the coach. More likely is that they will stab him in the back.

1.) Coach is what seals the deal.

#1 in the sack race.
He hired all these head cases. City is top heavy with strikers and that wasn't their problem last year.
He has executed one bad move after another.
They need to hire Moyes, then they will break top 5. And the owners will realize this early in the season.

City #6 only because they hire Moyes half way through the season with a Ronaldo size deal.

8:46 PM

I have been satisfying my euro soccer cravings by checking transfer updates, playing fifa, and getting ready for Galaxy-Barca. I would like to get some opinions from Atlanta soccer nutz about EPL predictions. I have seen some threads about big name transfers and man city...which pretty much go hand in hand these days. I am going by current rosters, IMO the only transfers that may go down before here and August 15th that would have a severe inpact would be if city get some defense, lescott and terry in particular, but for now here is how I see it playing out...let me know what you think.
1-Chelsea-Drogba is fit, Essien is fit, Lampard is steady, Terry will be back, Mikel is more mature, Ballack is a good sub, ACole and Bosingwa are deadly coming from the back, Peter Cech is playing better and their bench is strong...did i mention Anchellotti???
2-ManU-They will be strong but will not be able to match Chelsea's hunger and ferocity. They will also miss Ronaldo and Tevez. They will beat out Liverpool because of a superior bench. They will certainly beat out Liverpool's fragile starters and Subs. Their defense will get them to second place. they are getting old in the midfield
3-Poor Liverpool....very fragile. We saw what happened to them when Torres went down. Liverpool IF they hold onto xabi AND masch they take it, especially if they add A. Young, for the first time in a long time it seems as though it could be players leaving the top 4 rather than coming in that is going to determine things, All Liverpool is done is managed to turn away Real and secure their D by adding Johnson.
4- Man City-too many strikers will disrupt harmony but they should beat Arsenal...Toure will help the D and Ireland will continue to drive the motor
5-Good bye Arsenal...maybe Arshavin and Fiberglass is pull them up I doubt it. Good luck in The Europa cup

What do you think?