Fenham Mag Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 She knows a lot more than those 2 other clowns. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Guess who joins Nixon over at espnfc.com as the new NUFC blogger? http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/newcastleunited/id/1003?cc=4716 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 I feel bad for Nixon having to share webspace with that silly cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Pretty good writeup from an Italian journo about the Pozzo footballing empire: (transfermarkt warning though) http://labottegadelcalciofilo.com/2013/07/26/pozzos-italian-job/ Pozzo’s Italian job At the dawn of the second season of Watford with the Pozzo family to the ownership, I think it’s appropriate to make a point on the situation and try to illustrate how the network of teams that the Italian entrepreneurs are building around Europe works. Their project giving is arousing on the one hand controversy, on the other hand great enthusiasm. Giampaolo Pozzo was born as an entrepreneur in the wood and metalworking industry. In 1986 he bought the football team of Udinese and brought in Friuli two world champions, Fulvio Collovati and Francesco Graziani, besides the Argentinian Daniel Bertoni; but the nine-point penalty for match-fixing scandal of the previous season condemned the club to relegation. Years of seesaw between Seria A and Serie B, until the promotion in 1994-95: from then on, stated the exponential growth of the Bianconeri, with eight qualifications reached in Uefa Cup and two in Champions League. In the last three seasons Udinese collected a fourth, a third and a fifth place in Serie A. They are now firmly in the elite of Italian football, getting ahead, from time to time, teams like AC Milan, Inter, Roma and Juventus. This result has been achieved in spite of the club’s policy to sell each year the brightest talents discovered and valued by the team, as Alexis Sanchez sold to Barcelona for € 37.5 million. The secret of the Udinese’s continuous success? Soon said: a network of scouts around the world who bring every year dozens of young talents in Friuli. These players have the opportunity to grow up in Italy, in a peaceful location that does not ask them immediately for results, with the hysteria typical of the big teams. Udinese can afford, because of this, the luxury of missing purchases, of buying many young talents, of abrading. All of this in order to bring out from each brood two or three future international players. Pozzo changes his game in 2009. The family business are concentrated mainly in Spain, at Barcelona: the president of Udinese tries to take over Espanyol, the second team of the Catalan capital city, but he can’t. He changes direction, as well, to Granada, driven by his collaborator and former football player Quique Pina: he buys the majority of the Andalusian team in the Spanish Third Division and uses it as a training to test the talents he buys around the world in a league more competitive than Primavera (Under 21 Italian championship). The Italian businessman buys some players from the lower leagues in Spain and takes some other directly from Udine: in 2009-10 10 players of Granada are branded Udinese. The result? Immediate promotion to the Spanish Second Division. And the following year, with 12 players sent to Andalusia, the team regains the La Liga for the first time after 35 years. Among the stars of that team there is a certain Luis Fernando Muriel, today a target of Liverpool. Since, as we say in Italy, the appetite comes with eating, in the wake of the successes reached in Spain, understanding that the new model works, Pozzo buys Watford in the summer of 2012. The Hornets are in Championship. He sends again 11 players from Udine to England: under the steering of an Italian coach who knows very well English football, mister Gianfranco Zola, they arrive to play the playoff Final for the Premier League against Crystal Palace. Watford lose the match, but the project goes on: indeed, the purposes of Pozzo, as evident from the transfer market session in progress, are to strengthen even more the team to point to the direct promotion. The Premier League would mean a sea of money. But, in addition to successes, comes the controversy. Someone in England tells about unfair competition, because of the big availability of loans for Watford taken from the enormous reservoir of Udinese and Granada, while local teams, who don’t have satellite teams abroad, can take only two loans in England. So, the Football League decided to draw a line at the number of loans, five players per team. This has not proved an obstacle to Pozzo, who has done nothing that make players signing for definitive transfer to Watford. Purchases, to all intents and purposes. To this day, the assets of players controlled by the Pozzo’s network is huge. Udinese have registered 34 players, with an estimated market value (source Transfermark) of 104 million euros, Watford 26 players with 27 million euros, Granada 34 players with 58 million euros. The Italian ownership, therefore, has 94 players under contract for a total value of 189 million. The potential of the phenomenon is enormous. So far so good: Udinese locates players around the world and sends them to Spain and England to play in high level championships, also hoping to find emergent talents from Watford and Granada to do the reverse path. But what will happen the day that Udinese, Watford or Granada will qualify together for the European Cups? The ENIC case of the early 2000s, with the multinational that owned a lot of teams in all Europe, like Vicenza, AEK Athens and Tottenham, has led to a European regulation: you can’t enter the same European competition two teams of the same owner. However Pozzo goes on to weave his huge canvas. It’s just started a sports cooperation (for now) with the Hercules of Alicante in Spain and there is talk of a strong concern for FC Koper in Slovenia. A network that wants to grow. To get to win: with Udinese, Watford or Granada? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Nah that implies he spends his spare time in the gym ruining the impression Berbatov smokes watching french new wave cinema all the time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Shit myself for a second then, thought I had my webcam turned on when I scrolled down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Cronaldo and Mou's feud is raging on ahead of Summerslam their friendly match this week. http://www.london24.com/sport/chelsea/ronaldo_responds_to_mourinho_jibes_and_insists_chelsea_clash_another_game_1_2317423 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBG Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 #selfie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Fear of spending the rest of your career at Spurs is known as Jermainedephobia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Watching the 5-1... The complete and utter joy the players had beating them knowing how much it mattered. The piles of players on Nolan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Didn't even know I missed Carroll, but watching this match fills me with sadness, not joy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Watching the 5-1... The complete and utter joy the players had beating them knowing how much it mattered. The piles of players on Nolan. Even though we now have better players, I would have Nolan back, just for his passion, you could tell wearing the shirt meant something to him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11678/8855497/newcastles-greatest Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Bailey Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11678/8855497/newcastles-greatest SBR way out ahead. Voted Harvey myself. Not sure if any of us would have 1st hand knowledge of Watt Looking at that 3 makes you proud though. Harvey, Keegan and Robson. What players and entertainment we had. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 http://i.imgur.com/XVbTIh1.png Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 most out of date i have ever seen nufc.com at the minute Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrettNUFC Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Anyone care to moan? Naaaaa we've just signed Remy. Fuck England. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 http://www.manutd.com/en/Club/FAQs/Ticketing/Question-15.aspx Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattypnufc Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Thought that was widely known? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Thought that was widely known? Not by me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 http://www.manutd.com/en/Club/FAQs/Ticketing/Question-15.aspx They've been doing that for a few years now. They played Barnet or somebody at home in one of the cups and about 12,000 turned up so now all season ticket holders get stung for cup tickets wether they want them or not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Pretty harsh that. Don't see why people who also fork out a fortune for a season ticket should be forced to buy games they don't want to go to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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