Delima
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RVN >>> Batistuta. If RVN isn't picked why should Batistuta.
I also object against picking roberto Carlos and cafu ahead of maldini n zanetti. People understandably tend to pick very offensive teams, with supremely talented attackers who don't do much pressing. We need defensive fullbacks. Plus, all those attackers would be vying for space and advance forwards frequently, last thing they need are fullbacks competing flanks with them
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Schmeichel
Zanetti Cannavaro Thuram maldini
Makelele Zidane
Ronaldo Messi Ronaldinho
Henry
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No Ligue 1 thread so I would borrow this space
Why don't Lyon just sack Claude Puel - he had been underperforming for a while ..?
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Lille scored, pretty much created by Gervinho. What a run he made.
I think they'll actually take this title. I can't see OM or the others putting together enough of a run. Just a completely awful Ligue 1 season, imo. Everyone is so average and/or under performing. Gignac is finally looking good, though. So, this is nice.
Like premiership then !
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I find it funny people are still berserk about Carroll being sold without prior replacement. As if any body will do to replace Carroll.
Well now that we got Kuqi, why are people still moaning ?
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Is Neymar a bigger talent than nilmar ?
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But does he make transfers, or is it that tx whatever name director of football ? I do not believe that pep would have found time to discover the Ukraine defender, I do not believe he would be involved in the ibrha eto barter details. Most likely he only pay lip service to dof, or he specify players but leave the bargaining to others.
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How much are people willing to pay for bendtner ?
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Why doesn't the president just sack the director
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To be honest I think 10M for him is a bit expensive.
Vidic
Smalling
Skrtel
Vermaelen
Koscielny
Alex
Ivanovic
Kompany
Hangelaand
Samba
Cahill
Bassong
Jagielka
Heitinga
Johnson
Dann
All of these (maybe a few errors) are cheaper than 10M. I know they are not traded this year but the Market has been a bit flat. In my opinion we should buy a top young championsip defender instead. Top young championship defenders have a good historical track record to do well in the premiership. And they normally cost between 5M to 10M. Affordable n reliable
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Hanngelaand hasn't really performed well though this season. How much would we pay for him, n would filial accept the bid ??
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I can aee Fergie regretting letting him go
Needed the move though, would never have got the games at OT.
£750k wasn't it? Got to be worth 10 times that now.
What the f***. Rafael is much more talented n better than Simpson.
You're biased though
Also he can't spell.
Nah not biased. He is the player that forces Neville to retire early, n displaces oshea n brown
I m typing from the phone mostly nowadays with single digit. So pardon the spellings
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I guess Nigel pearson
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I can aee Fergie regretting letting him go
Needed the move though, would never have got the games at OT.
£750k wasn't it? Got to be worth 10 times that now.
What the fuck. Rafael is much more talented n better than Simpson.
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Ha ha ha
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Barton has matured that much
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You are now arguing the politics of replacement, not the politics of young hungry + resale value
I appreciate your concerns n I can understand where u r coming from, but we got Ireland to replace eoutkedge. N I m of the opinion that it's a gamble worth taking to delay procurement of striker till summer
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Tiote, Ben arfa, Williamson, simpson, Enrique, guiterrez, Guthrie, routledge, krul, ranger
Best wasn't expensive in absolute terms
Smith was a mistake
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Are they bad things ? Both Henry n young hungry players with resale values ?
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South Americans with foreign passports are hot potatoes in other leagues. Competition for them is fierce. Easier way to go is to learn from steve Bruce n roberto Martinez to buy established national team players from small nation. Palacio, Valencia, riveros, Da silva, Figueroa, Rodallega, alcaraz
It's ridiculously easy to get a Spanish passport if you're a south-american living in Spain. Two years working legally allows you to start the process (which can be slow or fast depending on how you grease the wheels). We have and have had a shitload of latin american players sporting Spanish passports in La Liga. Kun Agüero got his last week, Forlán has had one for a while, Dani Alves, Robinho, Messi... Marcos Senna even managed to become a Spain regular because of this.
Also every Argentinian player in the world seems to have an Italian passport.
Yeah but the names you quoted are all highly sought after by others ? If there is an easy way to sign cheap south Americans I expect the likes of redknappe, Bruce etc sucking them up like how we scourge cheap French players of minority ethnic origin. To Bruce's credits he is the first to take full advantage of established players in lesser countries. I really think we ought to do the same, hoovering up national players from Korea, japan, Paraguay, Colombia, USA, poland etc
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The Secret Footballer: Why do they blame us for the high wages?
Fans may think we are overpaid or not worth what we are said to earn but we are just part of someone else's grand design
'When I think back to when I was kicking a flat ball around a council estate, I was just as curious about players’ wages' Photograph: Getty Images
The Guardian, Sat 5 Feb 2011 00.06 GMT
Money? It's a crime. Apparently. At least according to Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame it is. That was before he made it on to the Sunday Times Rich List (number 763, estimated wealth £85m, since you asked) so maybe he's changed his mind by now.
I have always been of the opinion that talking about money, especially what one earns, might be considered, by others at least, a little vulgar, especially if nine times out of 10 the person you are talking to can only dream of earning what you do. Strangely, however, I find that fans want to talk about the subject more and more. As the seasons slip by, it seems fans want to talk about little else, often to find out if all the zeros they counted on the back of the paper on Monday really are being deposited in players' bank accounts on the Friday. And, let's be honest, there has been a lot of counting going on this week.
It seems a little alien to me now, but when I think back to when I was kicking a flat ball around a council estate with holes in my Nike hand-me-downs, I was just as curious about players' wages. Now that I am a footballer and I earn some of those zeros that curiosity has gone. But for a fan, those feelings and questions remain. So let's talk money.
Be honest. How many of you, when berating a player either in the pub or in the stands, bring up money? Most, I'll bet. "Overpaid!" "Not worth it!" Not many say the owners were mad to give him the wage in the first place. Instead, most of the anger goes towards the player, for seemingly having the sheer nerve to accept it. And this is what I don't understand, because in any walk of life, how many people say: "You know what, I think you're paying me too much." And there aren't many of us who would turn down the opportunity to leave a place of work and do the same job for somebody else if it meant a higher salary and a better standard of living for our families and ourselves. So I try not to feel guilty – although I sometimes do – and I try not to feel that I have been greedy in any way.
That is not to say that I don't "get" the argument of "How much is enough?" when people question why a player earning tens of thousands of pounds a week needs to ask for 10k, 20k or 30k more. But, as far as I'm aware, it is still illegal in this country for a player to hold a gun to a chairman's head. Shame, really.
The point I am trying to make is that football club owners, as much as players, drive wages. After all, a player can ask for as many zeros on the end of his salary as he wants but the only way he will get that money is if an owner is willing to pay it. And, by the same token, none of those players sold on deadline day would have left their clubs, no matter how much they wanted to get away, without a chairman signing a huge cheque at the other end. It seems to me that on deadline day "no" is the hardest word.
To let you into my mind, when I find myself the subject of a transfer and subsequent contract negotiations, I try to remove all of the emotion and work on this simple principle: a group of business people have taken the decision that their club can afford to make me an offer of X amount of money over Y amount of years. If their business falls in to decline, it is because those same people got their figures wrong or misjudged the market. Players can, of course, fail to live up to expectations, but can one bad signing bring down a football club?
Before I stand accused of portraying all footballers as the good guys, let me share a few things. Between you, me and the rest of the world, there are some players out there moving clubs every year to earn contract pay-offs and signing-on fees. Some players see football purely in financial terms, exactly like people do in other professions. They play the game simply because it's a well-paid job. I have lost count of the number of times I have heard: "If I could get the same money doing something else, I'd be gone in a flash." Sometimes they sound almost believable.
Every job has its perks, so why not try to enjoy the ones that come with playing football for millions of pounds? As the song goes, I like new cars, caviar and four-star daydreams but as for buying a football team, I'll leave that to the billionaires that spent eight-figure sums on players last month. And who cares where their money comes from? Not players and not many supporters – at least not until it goes wrong.
So what do fans really want? Players to give 100 per cent? That's the easy answer. How about every trophy, every great player and the best coach possible? And it isn't enough to just win, if the football gods could throw in relegation or financial strife for your biggest rival, well that would be even better.
So who is greedy? Not me. The owners? In some cases, definitely. You? Well, I wouldn't say greedy, just super ambitious and there is certainly nothing wrong with that in life. But the next time you go to punch your pin in on the debit machine to buy three tickets to watch your team play, ask yourself what really makes you happy? Because those of you who want the very best talent that enables your team to compete and win trophies will know that somebody has to pay for it, and those same people will also understand that if it all ends in tears, it isn't necessarily the players that need shooting because, for the most part, we're just playing our role in somebody else's grand design. Those who don't understand that argument, take your card out of the machine and take the kids to the park. Either way, the real power still belongs to you.
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South Americans with foreign passports are hot potatoes in other leagues. Competition for them is fierce. Easier way to go is to learn from steve Bruce n roberto Martinez to buy established national team players from small nation. Palacio, Valencia, riveros, Da silva, Figueroa, Rodallega, alcaraz
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I always find it ironic that players get paid souch more than chairmen, managers etc. Chairmen manage the whole club n managers manage thesquad. They have biggest responsibilities, so they should be paid most.