sniffer
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Completely disagree.
The pendulum has swung swell over to the point that the player and his agent dictate virtually all dealings. If a player wants to go,the contract is meaningless. The buying club knows the seller will fold except in very rare circumstances.If a player wants to see out the length of the contract, he stays and bleeds the club dry as the club is tied.
Contracts these days are farcical. Only somebody with their head up their arse would think otherwise.
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Just lucky I guess. When I've been having a bath and making toast at the same time, the toaster has never fallen in.
Which bit on contracts do you not agree with? Enlighten me.
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Surprised you don't get yourself over for the funeral HF.
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Contracts mean fuck all these days except for preventing a club getting rid of a player who proves to be shite.
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I still can't believe that Wenger has become so out of touch with French football that he missed out on these players. It just beggars belief.
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I think they are probably all spoken for.
Which is good.
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Shit. Very bad news.
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I thought ameobi had a decent game for a change in a non-threatening way. He held the ball up and put himself about a bit. He looked a lot more useful than Cisse but thats not saying much.
Saying that,it was a strange sort of game IMO. I thought they always looked capable of scoring, had plenty of chances but not much luck plus Krul was amazing. Just as well with the number of crosses we allowed them to get in.
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I wouldn't. I doubt he is anywhere near facing a decent premiership winger like Lennon, for example, who'd go past him at will.
He's maybe one for the future but he looks like he has a lot to learn.
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Aye, great days when we were the toast of Europe.
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Unlike arsenal, we have been conditioned to have low expectations. And tbh, apart from the cup runs and a very brief flirtation with the big boys over ten years ago, you have to go back to Edwardian times for us to be considered a big club. If arsenal don't get their finger out and spend some cash, they'll be also, also rans like us and groom players to sell on as they've done recently. It all starts at the top with a vision to win, we don't have that and neither do they at the moment.
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I hear it takes, on average, three days for the french worker to make one of these flags.
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Not over here in "Soccer" country. DAMMIT. Seriously pissed off...if ESPN is carrying it over there, why aren't they streaming it on ESPN3 online at least? This is all I get: Moreirense vs Benfica. Fantastic.
It sucks over here sometimes. Every place in the world has it's drawbacks, and the US is no exception. And it might seem like an idiotically small thing in contrast to other issues, but the whole "bag on football" thing is pretty irritating...people openly scoff at football fans, and I don't get it. The game is scintillating...it's the beautiful fucking game for god's sake! I mean...if baseball (which I do enjoy) isn't too boring, then how can someone say that football is with a straight face? Watch the 3-2 victory over Chelsea this year, and tell me it isn't thrilling. (Or the Cisse goal Chelsea game from last year, for that matter. Still pissed about that Tiote cheap shot!)
Bah. I'm preaching to the choir here. But the first half of this year was brutal...no two ways about it. Now all of the sudden we have all kinds of cause for hope. Obviously the French imports and Sissoko, but also Cabaye coming back and Ben Arfa (finally!), Krul continuing to show why he's worthy of international respect with consistent upper tier form. Cisse continues to sputter a bit, but this Newcastle club is a hell of a lot more fun to watch. Aston Villa and Chelsea were rousing, and really, you can't get that mad about Bale performing magic for the Spurs in that loss. So I want to watch every single game. I feel like the second half of league play and what is hopefully another handful of additional European matches will show us evolve and become increasingly more cohesive, paving the way for a dangerous squad next year. (Disclaimer: I am prone to optimism that occasionally might not be ironclad but screw it, I prefer that to only focusing on flaws.
)Our midfield, if we retain everyone, is scary. Cabaye, Sissoko, Ben Arfa, Tiote? That's a rough looking assignment. If we can nab a dangerous striker (preferably a few viable scoring threats) and maybe shore up some defensive depth, and, obviously, keep Krul...damn. That's pretty solid. And winning today would be another huge step forward...this team has legitimate talent. Just need to keep nabbing some positive results to help reinforce that and bolster confidence among the players.
Worst of all: Tottenham, Chelsea, and Atletico Madrid all have their Europa games on TV over here. (Naturally.) I'm seriously considering just trying to find a pay stream just so I can watch, and I'm broke as shit.
EDIT: I wrote that like Sissoko isn't one of the French imports, which obviously isn't the case. I just singled him out for what I tentatively would call fairly obvious reasons. He's that good and only 23? Yeah...nothing not to like there.
Dear pissed off in the US, every Newcastle game this season has been shown on the telly. Today is no exception as the game is live on FS+. Along with all the english clubs involved.
Nowt like a rant when you don't know what you are on about to make yourself look stupid.
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I'm willing to bet anybody on this board would give up any qualifications to play in the premier league for any team that would have them.
Or the championship. Or the...
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That's a nice spin, but I don't recall it being the case.
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He probably should not have said it, but he is right. Ambrose was shite.
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First time I've watched FF play for the 'tic. Poor game TBH. I thought he was a lot better than that so maybe it was a one off.
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That one was very close. I'm sure I read somewhere that Salako was in the car practically on his way up when he was told not to bother after all.
Didn't we get a cut-price Ginola as compo after PSG used us to ramp up the fee from Milan for George Weah?
IIRC, Salako turned us down. Biggest mistake of his career.
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Ameobi probably told him footballers didn't need insurance.
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I hope so as well. He needs to get back to winning the ball and doing the simple thing in laying it off. He may well have been trying to do too much.
I'd also think about giving him a valium or ativan before the game.
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Tiote will be a better player if he is capable of understanding what you can and can't do on the pitch. Until the light goes on, he'll just be a good player who can all too often turn into a liability. Question is whether he is smart enough to get it.
Surprised that some people can't see that.
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Aye, that worked out well for him.
No doubt they'll have a few drinks to celebrate his return.
I wonder if he got his old room back?
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Good enough to make him one of the best all-round centre forwards there has been IMO.
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Roberto Carlos was faster, but its fair to say not with the ball at his feet. Roberto Carlos could break 11 seconds for 100m.
Malcolm MacDonald is the fastest player I have ever seen. I think he'd outpace any of these players.
Moussa Sissoko signs for Spurs for like £30m or WatEVA
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Oh, Aye. That would be you.