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Orlando Engelaar looked like someone we could use in our midfield. Any thoughts on our chance of getting him?

 

Very impressed with him too. Where does he play his club football - this is the first time I've seen him.

Feyenoord

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Orlando Engelaar looked like someone we could use in our midfield. Any thoughts on our chance of getting him?

 

Very impressed with him too. Where does he play his club football - this is the first time I've seen him.

Feyenoord

 

Dunno, but wiki says he plays for Twente

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Orlando Engelaar looked like someone we could use in our midfield. Any thoughts on our chance of getting him?

 

Very impressed with him too. Where does he play his club football - this is the first time I've seen him.

Feyenoord

 

Nah.

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Engelaar is loyal to his old coach and credits Rutten with his transformation from a journeyman in the Belgian league to the role of fulcrum in the most elegant of international midfields. As a second striker with Genk, Engelaar was going nowhere. Rutten seduced him into playing in defensive midfield with talk of the Oranje jersey. And his promises weren't false. The Dutch midfield is filled with gifted ball players but is also pretty puny. With Rino Gattuso foaming in the opposition changing room tomorrow, it will be reassuring to the timid Robben that Engelaar, at 6ft 4in and weighing more than 14st, is on bodyguard duty. The beauty for Van Basten is that he has found an enforcer whose passing ability will enhance the Dutch side's preference for rapid interchange of the ball.

 

At 28, Engelaar has enjoyed a spectacular late development to a career that was trundling along in mediocrity. This season he captained FC Twente to Champions League qualification ahead of Ajax and Feyenoord. Fred Rutten, the Twente coach, moved to Schalke last month and made it a condition that they brought Engelaar along too, paying £6.4 million for him. He knew he had to move swiftly, because after the Euros Engelaar will be on the English and Spanish radar.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/06/08/sfngui108.xml

 

 

 

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Didn't Roeder get offered Radoi and Rat for peanuts, and refused to have them as he was told by one of his mates that they weren't any better than what he already had?

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Didn't Roeder get offered Radoi and Rat for peanuts, and refused to have them as he was told by one of his mates that they weren't any better than what he already had?

If you believe the Chronicle then yes.

 

There were quotes from Roeder iirc.

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Didn't Roeder get offered Radoi and Rat for peanuts, and refused to have them as he was told by one of his mates that they weren't any better than what he already had?

If you believe the Chronicle then yes.

 

There were quotes from Roeder iirc.

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Worth having another look at Dragutinovic? You know for a fact if we don't, he'll end up going to Blackburn under Allardyce and he'll be immense.

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If he wanted mad wages to join us from Seville, you think Blackburn will pay him "Good" wages to leave a big side like Seville.

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Worth having another look at Dragutinovic? You know for a fact if we don't, he'll end up going to Blackburn under Allardyce and he'll be immense.

 

He wanted to be the second-highest paid player at the club.

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Chimbonda available for 2 million according to his agent

 

anyone go for him at that price?

 

I definitely would.  Yes, he's an arse, but he'd be an upgrade on Beye and for that price he'd be one worth getting.  Can't see Spurs letting him go for £2m though, probably double that, so it's probably a non-starter.

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Chimbonda available for 2 million according to his agent

 

anyone go for him at that price?

 

I definitely would.  Yes, he's an arse, but he'd be an upgrade on Beye and for that price he'd be one worth getting.  Can't see Spurs letting him go for £2m though, probably double that, so it's probably a non-starter.

Upgrade on Beye?  Wtf.  Beye was by far our best player.  Even if he is better than Beye is there any point have your 2 best players in the same position?  Plus he'd want mega wages.

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