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Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:35 am
by Dartfrog
It's always more fun when we give everyone a massive head start.
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:29 pm
by Randall
as crazy as the statement sounds, isnt 35 million a bit cheap?
Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:37 pm
by Knots & crosses
Scandalously. Liverfool must feel daft paying that for Carroll now.
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:39 pm
by Randall
given ronaldo was 80 mill i think 35 seems like horrible business.
Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:47 pm
by Knots & crosses
Cesc is nowhere near as good as ronnie though. Arsenals problem was there was only one team bidding & everyone knew that was where cesc wanted to go. Limits the flexibility of negotiations.
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:49 pm
by M H
How long was left on his Arsenal contract?
Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:50 pm
by Knots & crosses
5 years I think. Maybe 4.
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:51 pm
by gazman
Knots & crosses wrote:Scandalously. Liverfool must feel daft paying that for Carroll now.
I was thinking the exact same thing when I was coming home from work and heard it on the radio.
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:51 pm
by M H
Blimey, that does make it good business for Barca
Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:54 pm
by Knots & crosses
M H wrote:Blimey, that does make it good business for Barca
If you want to think it's amazing business, consider that nasri will go to citeh for 25m with one year left on his deal.
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:56 pm
by M H
I think it is good business Knots, it's not like Arsenal had to sell or get nothing in a years time as is the case with Nasri.
Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:20 pm
by Knots & crosses
And now wenger has 2 weeks to get the sweetie packet & the fixident out, & everyone knows he's desperate. Inflated prices......
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:24 pm
by Randall
how much did they pay for fabregas?
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:34 pm
by hang the dj
Let's see how Arsene spends the money, I expect him to bring in an unknown 17 year old French winger
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:35 pm
by Randall
if he turned out henry theyd be ok.
Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 5:13 pm
by Knots & crosses
Paid 2.5m for cesc.
Ah, but Henry cost them a fortune. & was already an established player.
He needs Cahill defensively.
He has Ramsey & wilshere for the middle of the park, so creatively they shouldn't suffer going by his logic. They need a destroyer in there though. Oh, and a striker not made of glass.
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 5:29 pm
by M H
Knots & crosses wrote:Paid 2.5m for cesc.
Ah, but Henry cost them a fortune. & was already an established player.
He needs Cahill defensively.
He has Ramsey & wilshere for the middle of the park, so creatively they shouldn't suffer going by his logic. They need a destroyer in there though. Oh, and a striker not made of glass.
Agree Knots. Arsenal for the last few years have heeded what Alf Ramsey used to call the spine of a team. Keeper, centre back, solid midfielder and centre forward. I don't think the game's changed that much since his time to make that theory redundant.
Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 5:51 pm
by Knots & crosses
Every successful team has that. Leadership.
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:44 pm
by Randall
Re: Weekend football thread
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:44 pm
by M H
Mancini don't look happy at the moment!