ponsaelius Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 (edited) Good shouts. Although I think Arshavin was already in the sights of a lot of clubs after Zenit that season. Pavlyuchenko definitely though - he only started that tournament because Pogrebnyak got injured. Edited June 14, 2021 by ponsaelius Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Arshavin was mint. And crazy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Phillipe Albert? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 11 hours ago, joeyt said: Was thinking earlier about players who have been signed after great international tournaments? Players like a James to Real Madrid, El Hadji Diouf to Liverpool. Think kleberson joined Man Utd after WC2002 Shearer… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papavasiliou Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Royston Drenthe went straight to Real Madrid after an insane U21 Euros. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Cant quite remember the timeline now but Guivarch? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 22 minutes ago, Lazarus said: Cant quite remember the timeline now but Guivarch? Signed before the tournament iirc. Inexplicable if it was after, like Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 22 minutes ago, Sima said: Signed before the tournament iirc. Inexplicable if it was after, like Just checked and the transfer was announced just before the tournament and he joined just after. So, er.... Hamann? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Think we signed Janmaat after a good WC2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Šuker? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 26 minutes ago, joeyt said: Think we signed Janmaat after a good WC2014 I actually thought he was pretty poor in that World Cup. Think he got dropped in favour of playing Dirk Kuyt right wing back Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJ Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 12 hours ago, Disco said: Liverpool have good form for this: Salif Diao, Patrik Berger, El-Hadj Diouf, Anthony Le Tallec and Florent Sinama-Pongolle all spring to mind. Ah, the great TLT as he’s known. Don’t think a journalist has ever been so badly wrong about a player as this scouse whopper. 19 August 2003 : by Chris Bascombe, Liverpool Echo Why Le Tallec will be our Ronaldo In most cases, paying £12m for a teenager would be considered rank stupidity, over-indulgence or, at the very least, a gamble which even Chris Kirkland's dad would shy away from. When Manchester United do it, it's a stroke of transfer genius. According to everyone who they make listen, United have just signed the best teenager in the world. By God are we hearing about it. I'm not doubting Ronaldo's abilities. Clearly he's a talented kid who may be on the threshold of greatness. It just strikes me as rather odd that no-one has given the same attention to Liverpool's equally stunning new teenage recruit. It seems Gerard Houllier's mistake with Anthony Le Tallec was to buy him early rather than delay until everyone in Europe wanted him. Obviously, Liverpool should have waited until Le Tallec's value was £12m. Soon enough, the rest of the nation will wake up to the fact Le Tallec and Ronaldo played in the same world youth championships not so long ago and it was the Liverpool new boy who was voted the best player. No doubt both Gerard and Sir Alex watched those same youth championships in Malaysia a few years back and noticed the same players. Indeed, Liverpool had already signed Le Tallec by then and were strongly linked with Ronaldo themselves, but can't afford to splash out like United. Time will tell who's got the better deal, but for value for money I know who I'm backing. It's a bit like Houllier and Ferguson have both dined at the same top class restaurant and had their pick of the best main courses on the menu. Houllier has managed to get his dish at a quarter of the cost Ferguson has paid, and yet it's his rival who is getting all the praise. Indeed, I'm getting an eerie sense of deja vu when it comes to the man dubbed TLT who's about to explode onto the Premiership. I remember how slow our London based number one writers were to realise who Steven Gerrard was a few years back. The Kop Magazine I once wrote even launched a campaign to get him in the England squad, so little attention was he receiving. Then, when the rest of the country noticed a year later, they decided to make him their own property. It was a similar story with Wayne Rooney at Everton. A friend of mine who works on a national newspaper tried to get a feature on Rooney into his paper in the summer of 2002. They were having none of it. How times changed three months later when "Rooney Opens Crisp Packet" stories were making the front page. Le Tallec won't get the same attention as Rooney, Gerrard or Michael Owen because he ain't English. But the few glimpses I've had of him remind me so much of the first time I saw Gerrard. So young, yet so full of class. So clearly ready to play at the highest level and begin the learning curve which will take him to the top of the game. One of the most encouraging, but sadly overlooked parts of Sunday was Le Tallec's being named a sub. Pity he didn't get on, although Houllier said he was prepared to play the youngster if the circumstances of the game had been different. The career paths of Le Tallec and Ronaldo are sure to cross regularly over the next decade. Should the French gem prove himself the better player, you never know, maybe the manager who signed him will get a bit of credit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57188304 123/125. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Not the person you want to be setting the bar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 A lot of it is quite easy tbf. The clues are massive giveaways for most while two of the rounds are basically identical. I got one of the footballs wrong by a tournament, and stupidly didn't get one of the scorers in 1992. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 This is great Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 19 minutes ago, Ben said: This is great That’s class that like! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowlingcrofty Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Semis and final to have 40,000 crowd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 2 hours ago, bowlingcrofty said: Semis and final to have 40,000 crowd Last 16 also. Gives me a great chance to get my tickets back if they stand by the priority access promise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizza Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 No 2pm kick off today Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 (edited) Chris Coleman hasn't been terrible with his analysis on the ESPN coverage. Edited June 15, 2021 by cubaricho Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie_b Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 (edited) 20 hours ago, Froggy said: Last 16 also. Gives me a great chance to get my tickets back if they stand by the priority access promise. Edited June 15, 2021 by geordie_b Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Zaius Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 1 hour ago, cubaricho said: Chris Coleman hasn't been terrible with his analysis on the ESPN coverage. Any excuse to post this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 Forgot how erect Clive gets when talking up footballers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 3 minutes ago, Doctor Zaius said: Any excuse to post this never seen that before! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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