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Would agree with that tbh. I don't think the Premier League is as attractive as it's fans think. Fact neither player agreed to the deal says a lot. Plus Napoli fans > Spuds.

Amazingly, it can be easily hunted down on Google for anybody interested

Cannit believe this could have skipped by without any NUFC fan hearing about it like.

Ben Alnwick, Chris Brown and Liam Lawrence aswell iirc. Weren't they all moved on on the back of it? or just because they're generally not very good players?

Aye, he was

Probably more that he just didn't want to go to Spurs, tbh.

Aye, nee way I'd be swapping with mackems like.

Played against us for Donny last season. Only had a handful of games for the mackems iirc.

They're fucking useless.

Going looking for certain players is disappointing, especially considering that Blackpool are hardly a million miles away from Liverpool atm. But say, swapping with the player that you were up against during the game, or even the person nearest to you at the match is fair enough imo. Like Nixon says I think it's a good momento of of your career, when you've got all the money in the world to buy material goods then it's probably quite satisfying to collect something that can't realistically be purchased. I've always though van Persie was an arrogant dick (and he probably still is) but I thought that collection of his was quite humble of him. The Twitter thing from Shelvey is a bit sad and weird, but then again he's only 18 and has probably grown up watching Ferdinand as a kid. He would have been what, 10 when Ferdinand was excellent at the 2002 WC?

:lol:

That is cool I know, a grenade with wings! Seriously though, I don't agree with the way you're looking at it. As fellow professionals I think it'd be quite humbling and self-grounding to be willing to swap shirts with your opposition, for instance van Persie clearly treasures his collection whether they're from Cronaldo or Martin Woods.

Meh, the twitter post is a bit weird like. Still don't think there's owt wrong with common professionalism between players and swapping shirts after a game. For example, I think this from van Persie is great: http://i552.photobucket.com/albums/jj340/moemoe703703/persie_04_516x350_46693a.jpg

Fuck off man you dick. Nah, welcome on board mate.

Don't see what's wrong with that to be honest.

HTT complaining about physicality being promoted before technique, and then producing a list of quick, strong but limited footballers. All of them black. Shameful!

He is, he may not have gone through the full system but he still played for us and trained at Academy level for a short period. Well aye, technically, but drafting him in for a compensation fee at 17 is cheating a little bit like. Kadar and Vuckic are also technically academy grads, but, well aye.

Worth noting that Ranger isn't even an academy graduate.

I actually think Ranger is a decent player for 19, tbh. Though for the 45675th time, I'll utter those words: "Needs a loan".

Didn't do David Beckham's career any harm after the '98 WC. Which was also bang out of order.

First real upset with Syria beating Saudi Arabia 2-1.

loan to buy? money problems? Correct. Palermo are a small club, Napoli are a big club. Transfer dealings in Italy don't generally follow the same normalisms of everywhere else, so weird loan and co-ownership deals are usually just accepted rather than actually trying understand the logic behind them Wish Inter had bought Cavani like.