Choose the best strikers for you 2008 CL XI
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So here we are. All week you’ve been picking your favourite players to make up the Readers Annual Offside XI. Today you get the chance to vote for the striker who you want to lead the line. You can do that here.
So, will SuperPippo breaking Gerd Muller’s European Cup goals record be enough to get him a place? The highest scoring striker is Didier Drogba, will he nab a spot? Or will Fernando Torres or Adebayour pip him to the post? Its all, all up to you.
You can only vote one striker, but the two with the most votes will find themselves in your team of the season. Third will only get a place on the bench.
All the other votes:
Chelsea try ‘cheeky’ Torres bid
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With Didier Drogba seeming likely to get the move out of London he’s wanted since the day after he arrived, and Chelsea’s general unwillingness to play Andriy Shevchenko, they need a striker. Apparently Roman Abramovich has decided that Fernando Torres is the answer, and has reportedly tabled a £40m offer for him.
The Readers CL XI - Central Midfielders
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We’re begining to get to the buisness end now. If you haven’t been paying attention, at the CL Offside, we’ve been offering you the chance to vote for players in each position to decide who will make up the Offside.com’s first annual offical Champions League 11. We’ve gone through various positions, where the voting is still open, but today we move on to possibly the hardest - the centre of midfield.
Whereas strikers used to be the glory position, this season has season a plethora of talented central midfielders in the Champions League. Cesc Fabregas spectacularly came of age in the group stage, and led brilliantly in the San Siro against Milan. Alex speaheaded Fener’s amazing run grabbing himself more assists than anyone else. Steven Gerrard grabbed goal after goal as he dragged Liverpool to another semi final. Frank Lampard overcame incredible emotion to score against Liverpool just after his mothers death.
But why am I rambling? If you CLICK HERE you can choose yourself who has been the best midfield player this season.
Previous Votes Which You Can Still Vote On:
Comments, Debate and Bribary is always welcome.
Day 4 of the Readers CL XI - Wingers
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All wekk we’ve been giving you the chance to vote in your CL team of the season. On paper this might be the most one (well two) sided battle of all time (fittingly perhaps for wingers). With two of the best players in the world playing on the wings, maybe this will be a forgone conclusion. But maybe not, because YOU the humble reader decides, not me. And if you all want to vote J.S Park ahead of Lionel Messi then thats the power of democracy. CLICK HERE to have your say.
Previous Votes that Are Still Open:
Keepers
Centre-Halves.
Wenger to sue Hleb?
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I’ll let you re-read that title. It seems that Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has finally snapped. Annoyed at the potential exodus at the Emirates, starting with Matthieu Flamini and heavily rumoured to include Hleb, Fabregas, Gallas, Lehman, Giberto Silva and Theo Wallcott, the frenchman has decided he’d rather sue Hleb than let him just leave.
Day 3 of Voting for your Champions League XI - Today, Wingbacks.
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All week here on the Champions League Offside, we’ve been giving you the chance to vote in the players you want to appear in the first ever Offical Offside Champions League Readers Team Of The Season (snappier name needed.) Two days ago it was keepers (currently a dead heat between Cech and Van der Saar, change that HERE) yesterday, Centre-halves (HERE) Today, that less glamourous, but equally important position, wingbacks.
So CLICK HERE if you want to have a vote and tell us who you think the best wingback of the season has been. You only get one vote, but the two best will get voted into the XI. So will Maldini make it at what could be his last opputunity? Did Wes Brown impress you enough? Or will Micheal Essien’s incredible performance against Liverpool be enough to give him a space at right-back? Only you can decide.
Tags: Champions League, Team of the Season, Maldini, Essien, Puyol, Evra, Brown, Cole, Chelsea, Manchester United, Barcelona, AC milan, Vote, poll, Tag IndexPick the Centre-Halves for the first Offside Readers CL XI
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Yesterday, we gave you the chance to vote for who you think has been the best Goalkeeper in this season’s Champions League. That poll is still open HERE. Now you have to chance to pick the best Centre-Halves of the tounament so far, by clicking HERE. You get to chose the defender you think has been the best this season, from a shortlist we have drawn up. If you don’t agree, there’s an ‘Other’ option. Don’t go for Maldini though, he’ll be in the wing-back section tomorrow.
The two defenders with the most votes will make the XI while the third will make the subs bench.
Who will you choose. Will you put Chelsea’s charge to the final down to Carvalho? Or has Terry been fit long enough to demand a place? Has the goal-repelling Vidic and Fedinand combination done enough to get into the CL XI? Or will an outsider from the final, like the often outstanding Mexes or the solid Toure make it in? The choice, is yours. Just click that link to vote, it’ll make your life better. Before you fill it in, you might want to check here to see which defence has conceeded the least.
Debate away in the comments section, you might be able to convince someone to vote for your favourite.
Check back tommorrow and we’ll debate wingbacks.
Do you remember when transfers had rules?
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A couple of days ago, when I was talking about Arsenal’s impending exodus, I mentioned that Real were eyeing up Cesc Fabregas. Now though, in an effort to completely flout the transfer rules, they have told the Catalonia Kid that he has to make the first move. Now ignoring entirely that they have effectively made the first move now, what the hell has happened to transfers? Why does Cesc have to come out and say “I’d like to go to Real” for them to bid? This kind of gamesmanship in the transfer market is rife at the moment, it doesn’t seem that long ago that transfers weren’t a murky buisness at all, and if they were you didn’t know they were so it didn’t matter.
Tags: Cesc Fabreags, arsenal, Transfer News, Real Madrid, Inter, Roma, Lyon, Flamini, Arsene Wenger, Big Four, Champions League, Arsenal, Tag IndexWe want YOU to help pick the first annual Readers CL XI
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So yet another Champions League season is coming to a close. Soon we’ll know if Chelsea or Manchester United are champions of europe. There’s been some fantastic moments, and its been a pleasure to be here. So rather than us picking a team and telling you who has been the best*, we want you to help pick a readers 11.
So we’ve done is devolop a questionnaire, which we will give you in parts. Part One today, is goalkeepers. We’ve drawn up a shortlist you just have to pick the best. There’s even an ‘other’ option in case we’ve missed someone. Although votes for Dida will be disqualified. If you click here you can choose who you think has been the best goalkeeper this season. The player with the most votes will be the goalkeeper in the team of the tournament. Tomorrow we’ll go through the defenders.
So has Petr Cech played enough games to make the side? Did Real Madrid get knocked out too early for Casillias to be mentioned? Or has Van der Saar just been better than the rest. Have your say. The Champions League Offside Needs YOU!
*we may do this anyway.
Category: Final, Real Madrid, Team of the Season, Inter, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Champions LeaguePhotos of the Day: Or In Soviet Russia Photoshop Edits YOU!
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Over on the Guardian they’ve got you the people, to photoshop lots of amusing images to celebrate the upcoming Chelsea/Man United Champions League final. Most follow a Communist artwork route as the final is in Moscow, so if you want to see Drogba as a cossack dancer, Jose get into voodoo, or a genius parody of Rocky IV, clicky here.
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