LionOfGosforth

Holding being a right cunt on 2 separate occasions with Son and not getting booked for it

They rioted earlier in the season against Marseille, was mental, players scrapping and laying out fans. Fucking medieval weirdos

Shameful behavior, utter wankers https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61414185

Some Nice fans in being complete cunts shocker https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61414185

Bet he's spent some time on there like

And they're adding one of the most ruthless pure strikers on the planet who is only 21 to all that for next year

He wouldn't cost a whole lot less tbh but aye, I like him as well. Nunez has a "pacy Berbatov" style to him but no clue if he'd work in this league, Abraham is PL ready, just can't see him leaving Roma yet.

I swear Rodrigo looks like that kid from Grange Hill

Someone compared Ayling's red the other day to Barton's in 09, bang on. They might have lost the stomach for the fight it seems.

Hair Criminals

No idea if he'll "flop" (my guess is he'll score a boatload) but at around 51m, there's almost no risk really. I'd guess even if he doesn't quite fit in with their style or meet expectations there, they'd get their money back from someone. I mean he's an instinctive finisher, fast and physical and probably good enough for most leagues, even if it turns out, not quite PL perfect. Also, didn't realize Haaland is still only 21. Jeez, bloke is still 5 or 6 years from his peak

Loved that Fiorentina team he played in. They'd win games 5-2 and lose 7-3. Think they got relegated but he probably, ya know, missed chunks of the season that year

Loved Redondo, what a player man. Was so jealous of Madrid being able to sign players like that in that era.

Djorkaeff. Zidane was obviously brilliant but seemed to get every plaudit going, while Youri skulked in the shadows

This is pretty much gonna end up being lists of players generally revered by fans of the clubs they played for, but not so much outside those clubs. One that always stood out for me was Mijatovic at Madrid. There was a media wankathon around Raul being a class player who was Spanish and played for Madrid, you could understand that. But Mijatovic was class in his own right.

Damn, that's sad. Had no idea or recollection of that at all.

Gianluigi Lentini has to be in here. Signed for Milan around 92. At a time when big fees in the UK were around 3-4m, he cost 13m and was rubbish for them. Developed a big rep at Torino but flamed out, don't know the back story though. He was pretty much the poster boy for daft Serie A expenditure in the 90s.

I like this theory. I never ever saw him do anything beyond the basics in a game and he cost like 40m when good players were going for half that.

Thought Kaka was a magnificent player, just seemed to glide around the pitch, brilliant finisher too. Class hair as well, had it all. Pato is a good call though.

Definitely. He was one of those players (I think Hulk was another) who were signed by Russian teams for astronomical amounts in an era when players didn't go for that kind of cash. Never got Witsel at all.

I loved Predrag Mijatovic in that mid-90s Madrid team and I have vivid recollection of Morientes "stealing" his place so disliked him and thought he was a overrated

Damn, I definitely am not getting many likes on this one

Yeah was more a comment on watching him every week at Boro and wondering how/why he was in the Spanish team constantly and not seeing it. I'm sure his trophy haul stands against many though

McManaman. Not a great player, definitely overrated at least by the English media. Part of that whole spice boys era at Liverpool. Somehow got a move to Madrid, the skinny floppy haired sod. Shit pundit an aal.