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Jimburst

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Best avatar, ever. That kid in the red reminds me of someone.

 

As for Yakubu to Everton... they are looking more and more interesting by the transfer.

 

Here's hoping 'Boro splash it on someone utterly toss.

 

wullie? :lol:

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Villa have, according to local media, agreed a fee - 8m - with the Stripeyfilth Tesco bags for Curtis Davies. Discussing personal terms now

 

Of course, the lad must be gutted, everyone knows he'd set his heart on Spurs.

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Villa have, according to local media, agreed a fee - 8m - with the Stripeyfilth Tesco bags for Curtis Davies. Discussing personal terms now

 

Of course, the lad must be gutted, everyone knows he'd set his heart on Spurs.

 

Good player. :D

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Villa have, according to local media, agreed a fee - 8m - with the Stripeyfilth Tesco bags for Curtis Davies. Discussing personal terms now

 

Of course, the lad must be gutted, everyone knows he'd set his heart on Spurs.

 

Good player. :D

 

Thank fuck you'll shut up about him now. :lol:

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Villa have, according to local media, agreed a fee - 8m - with the Stripeyfilth Tesco bags for Curtis Davies. Discussing personal terms now

 

Of course, the lad must be gutted, everyone knows he'd set his heart on Spurs.

 

You've been ripped off.

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Villa have, according to local media, agreed a fee - 8m - with the Stripeyfilth Tesco bags for Curtis Davies. Discussing personal terms now

 

Of course, the lad must be gutted, everyone knows he'd set his heart on Spurs.

 

Will he get a game, Brum? Not until ML gets injured?

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Villa have, according to local media, agreed a fee - 8m - with the Stripeyfilth Tesco bags for Curtis Davies. Discussing personal terms now

 

Of course, the lad must be gutted, everyone knows he'd set his heart on Spurs.

 

Good player. :D

 

Thank fuck you'll shut up about him now. :lol:

 

You wish. :D

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Baggio

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R. Madrid's Emerson joins AC Milan for an undisclosed fee.

 

Madrid fans don't like him anyway, Capello only played him away from home for a large part of last season because the fans gave him too much abuse.

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Villa have, according to local media, agreed a fee - 8m - with the Stripeyfilth Tesco bags for Curtis Davies. Discussing personal terms now

 

Of course, the lad must be gutted, everyone knows he'd set his heart on Spurs.

 

Will he get a game, Brum? Not until ML gets injured?

 

Problem is, although he is the best CB we have, Laursen's knees will never manage a full season (although now I think about the last time we had a CB with famously fucked knees ...), so he will get his chance. Mellberg is definitely on a downward slope, to be honest.

 

I think he sees Cahill and Davies as our future first choice partnership.

 

re the price - a bit on the high side, yes, but so have all prices been this summer.

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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/08/21/agent_anderson_the_man_behind.html

 

Agent Anderson the man behind City revolution

 

Forget about 'Frank' Shinawatra and Sven: the reason City are top of the league is because of agent Jerome Anderson's 'unprecedented job'.

 

David Conn

August 21, 2007 11:59 PM

 

In Thaksin Shinawatra's revolution, which has launched Manchester City to the euphoric, unforeseen position at the top of the Premier League, the agent Jerome Anderson has been a central figure. During the breathless three weeks after Thaksin's £21.6m takeover and the appointment of Sven-Goran Eriksson as manager, Anderson was key to sealing the deals for City to sign eight players, all foreign, between the July 13, £8.8m signing of Roland Bianchi from Reggina, and August 3, when Valeri Bojinov joined City from Fiorentina.

 

In an echo of the role played by Pini Zahavi when Chelsea began signing players with Roman Abramovich's oil millions in 2003, Anderson is said to have been working almost full-time on City's behalf to help rapidly secure the players to form Eriksson's new side.

 

Anderson's involvement with Thaksin began before the City takeover; he was brought in to advise when the former Thai Prime Minister, in exile in London, was first considering buying a football club. In a series of connections which trace the global links of football, business and politics, Anderson's introduction came from Thaksin's most important football contact in London, Philippe Huber, a Swiss media entrepreneur.

 

Huber's company, Kentaro, which has an office in Chelsea Harbour, holds the TV rights for matches played by Thailand's international team, and Huber is a close friend of the Thai FA's president, Worawi Makudi, an influential figure in world football and Fifa executive committee member. Through Makudi, Huber came to know Thaksin while he was prime minister, and Huber advised in 2004 when Thaksin tried to buy Liverpool on behalf of the Thai government, a proposal which fell through.

 

When Thaksin stayed in London last year after the Thai military moved against him and deposed him in a bloodless coup, he is understood to have been approached by several English football clubs looking for investment. Although Thaksin and his advisers say he bought City purely because he loves football, not for PR purposes, his acquisition is another textbook lesson in the phenomenal boost football club ownership provides - as it did with Abramovich - to the public standing of controversial figures previously relatively little known outside their home countries.

 

Thaksin had appointed the world's third largest PR company, Edelman, with a brief to rehabilitate his profile and enable him to return to Thailand as a private citizen, but buying a football club is not understood to have been part of their strategy. Huber and Anderson, advising separately, told Thaksin that City was the best prospect.

 

"People think an operation like this must be very complex," Huber explains, "but it is not rocket science, really. It was quite easy to come up with Manchester City; it is a huge brand with a lot of potential, and we felt it was a great opportunity. Dr Thaksin was not motivated by PR; he had time and money and he loves football."

 

Anderson, too, considered City one of the English game's true sleeping giants, and at £21.6m, plus £17.5m for the loans of the former major shareholders John Wardle and David Makin, very good value. Unlike West Ham, for which the Icelandic buyers paid £85m last December, Spurs, Everton or Liverpool, all clubs sweating on difficult stadium moves or expansions, City came with a new 48,000-seat stadium built by the local council along with their army of desperately loyal fans.

 

Anderson then introduced Thaksin to Keith Harris, the merchant banker whose firm, Seymour Pierce, went on to act for Thaksin on the takeover. Once the deal was done, the speed with which City bought players and replenished the club has astonished football.

 

Anderson's role in the recruitment of Eriksson became public when Eriksson's own agent, Athole Still, appeared unaware that discussions were taking place; then on the day Eriksson was unveiled as City's manager, Anderson publicly discussed the scale of the job required at City. After that, he marshalled his energies and contacts book to help deliver the players.

 

Some observers wondered whether so many new players could gel, and whether City had overpaid, for example paying £8.8m for Bianchi, but Anderson and the club believe they have done excellent business. They have concentrated on foreign players because they believe prices here have become inflated - the strikers Bianchi and Valeri Bojinov combined cost £2m less than the £16.5m Spurs paid Charlton for Darren Bent, and Elano, the midfielder capped 15 times by Brazil, cost £8m, about the same as Aston Villa paid for Nigel Reo-Coker.

 

Nobody at City wanted to discuss the precise role Anderson has played in these signings, and Anderson himself was unavailable. One well-placed source said only: "He will be paid for the unprecedented job he has done."

 

The other advantage is that City can pay over time. English clubs usually insist that 50% of a transfer be paid immediately, 50% a year later, whereas deals with European clubs can be strung out in three or four instalments over two years or the length of the contract. City have signed a dressing room of talent without Thaksin having to spend enormously up front.

 

For the new owner himself, who has said of his acquisition only that he "dreamed of owning a club for many years," the outlay has provided transformative PR. Edelman, until their engagement ended in the spring, are understood to have concentrated, via their Brussels and Washington offices, on building political relationships for Thaksin in Europe and the US, and influencing newspapers' comment pages. Yet all their efforts could surely never come close to the impact made by buying City, hiring Sven and winning nine points.

 

Back in Thailand, the supreme court last week issued an arrest warrant against Thaksin and his wife, Potjaman, after they failed to appear to answer charges of criminal corruption relating to a Bangkok land sale. A government-appointed Assets Examination Committee has been picking over the Shinawatra family fortune for almost a year and announced investigations into 12 more instances of alleged corruption, while the government froze $1.5bn of the family's assets. Human Rights Watch, meanwhile, continues to protest that Thaksin's 2003 "War on Drugs" involved widespread killings of alleged drug dealers without legal process.

 

Thaksin's position is that he was a democratically elected and popular prime minister removed by the military, and he rejects all allegations of corruption and human rights violations. Now, though, he need say nothing to fix a benign image in the public mind; he already has iconic status, televised around the world gazing down on his new, attractive team, blue and white scarf round his neck.

 

"The publicity is incomparable," explains one senior PR source. "In that situation, the public figure does not have to do interviews or face difficult questions. The glamour of football does the talking for him."

 

One week in, and Thaksin is instantly recognisable - here, across the world where the Premier League rules on TV, and, significantly for him, in Thailand, where millions devour English football. And with his team, facilitated by the seasoned agent Jerome Anderson, having held out for their 1-0 victory against United last Saturday, in the blue half of Manchester Thaksin is a god already.

 

Jerome Anderson: A life in football

 

Jerome Anderson has been best known for years as the agent to a stable of players at Arsenal, from representing the striker Charlie Nicholas in 1984, one of the first clients of his SEM company, to acting for Thierry Henry this summer in his move to Barcelona. Anderson trained in banking, and was well connected at Highbury where he was the stadium announcer, but his and SEM's reach now extends well beyond north London, into other sports and managing the media career of former playing client Ian Wright. Anderson has long nurtured contacts in Spain, Italy and in eastern European football, an association for which the Brazilian Elano, plucked from Shakhtar Donetsk for a headline £8m, now has reason to be truly grateful. SEM has also established soccer schools in Ghana and Nigeria and, the company says, a "world class scouting team throughout the African continent, to search for and unearth the next Roger Milla, Michael Essien or Samuel Eto'o".

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