Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit.

[Munchies]

Apparently the document was received at 12.01!

MUFC claiming it was done on time. Spanish press claiming MUFC did it on purpose.


Now we are hearing that United did send the documents on time but in a format that couldn't be opened at the LFP.

[Niall_Quinn]

That's too narrow an argument to ever work. People can't just walk away from their passion, their escape at the drop of a hat. That doesn't work. That's why TV and the clubs have been able to manipulate themselves into the current position they have. Taking advantage of people's emotions and willingness to sacrifice in order to escape. You are also judging everyone else by your own standards, forgetting that the people who sacrifice so much to go to home and away games do so for far more than just their love of watching football at any level. You may be able to get your kicks elsewhere but what about those who can't, where do they go? It's a safe argument to lob around on the Internet because everything begins and ends with the opening/closing of a browser. It can't exist in the real world because the emotional and psychological entanglement associated with those decisions are far more complicated.

And where do you draw the line? Because these wankers are coming for your TV and your XBox and your rights to watch a film and your bookshelf too if they can find the angle. Eventually when everything has been perfectly commoditized, then what? 2 million TV channels all pay per view, episodes 1, 3 and 5 of GOT on Channel 555, episodes 2, 4 and 6 on Channel 556 which is only available if you subscribe to channel 999. XBOX games that stop every 30 seconds to allow you to buy the next scene - just as soon as the sponsor's meaningful messages have run their 20 minute course. It all sounds ridiculous but look at football, look at so many sports. If we had jumped straight to this parody without all the small steps in between there would be uproar. But by the little steps people get led along and eventually every obscenity is commonplace. People who give a shit need to stick around not disappear.

[Niall_Quinn]

£10m in Jan?

Still a big hit

Problem they have is Navas was coming the other way as part of the deal. Double whammy.

Still think it will be quietly wrangled and the deal will go through though.

[Munchies]

How good is this Navas fella?

And yeah, I imagine it'll cross the line by the morning, happens all the time here

[Niall_Quinn]

How good is this Navas fella?

He was ace for Costa Rica in the WC and Copa, don't know anything about him at Madrid though.

Also:

Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor has been offered to Manchester United as a solution to their striking problems at Old Trafford.

[Munchies]

Just saw the John Cross Oxlade to Gala rumours



LMAO!

[Niall_Quinn]

Our big deal is so secret that not a newspaper, TV station, Twatter or anyone has got wind of it. Absolute silence everywhere.

[Munchies]

He was ace for Costa Rica in the WC and Copa, don't know anything about him at Madrid though.

Also:

Ah I thought he looked quite decent at the Copa America. Oh well



LvG Awlful manager

[Niall_Quinn]

Just saw the John Cross Oxlade to Gala rumours



LMAO!

He's going as part of the Monreal deal and Alexis is off too and so is his mum.

[Injury Time]

Just saw the John Cross Oxlade to Gala rumours



LMAO!

Do keep up at the back there.