All this four years to the very month he was almost shipped out to Birmingham for 3million...
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All this four years to the very month he was almost shipped out to Birmingham for 3million...
They've paid several world record fees down the years so if they've got their mind on someone you can be sure they'll get their man.
Pity we haven't sold anyone to them since Anelka. Not that the money would have been spent of course...
I wonder what he'd have become under Big 'Eck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rors
I still think he is being dined out on as a result of THAT showing in the San Siro. You know the one, his team lost...
There'd be none of that going-forward malarkey.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Yeah and the return game where he tore their OAP's apart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rors
His explosive style is the attraction, there aren't many players like him at the moment.
theirry's performance at the san siro was better :coffee:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rors
The italian job :bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by ollie the optimist
Sky Sports website saying they understand Marketing have bid £85 million for Bale. :lol:
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
SSN also saying this bid has been on the table for over a week.
Sky Sources are getting slow...
Well Twitter did go down once or twice in that time period...Quote:
Originally Posted by Suarez Is Boss
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23526530
They are in talks apparently.
26m fee for Soldado agreed.
I love you, Dr Zaius!Quote:
Originally Posted by GayPete
I hate every chimp I see, from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z!
Gone a bit quiet on the Bale front. :whistle:
Who?Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Done deal and announced on the scumsite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Football clubs in signings shocker!
and all this in the waiting period too, is that allowed?
mirror syaing that madrid have agreed a 105 million pound deal for gareth bale.
if it wasnt for arsenal, football would be dead to me. 105 million for bale? fuck that
He's top quality but the leap to a club like Real Madrid is huge, there will be a lot of pressure on him to succeed. Even Ronaldo has his detractors there and he's been different class for years now.
You can't please them.
Back at Sperz within 3 years tbh.
He'll be in Manchester in 2
I don't think he'll be expected to reach Messi and Ronaldo freak figures instantly. But if he doesn't at least match his output of last season and doesn't become hugely influential by his second season, the knives will naturally be out. He's obviously not worth even a quarter of the insanely high figures mentioned, but money is irrelevant to a club operating on their own hallowed, yet extremely scummy, ground. If Bale does succeed there, then all credit to him, because he'd be in very exclusive company. He might be a cheating, diving shit on the pitch, but he's obviously worked hard, much like Ronaldo did in becoming a great athlete who can simply overpower defenders with his physical attributes. He hasn't done anything off the pitch (as far as I'm aware) to make him a despicable human being like Wazza, Gazza, Stevie Me, Saint Giggsy, Big Man, RVC or Cisc either.
I hope he dies in a horrible fire.
With Aaron Ramsey.
Wait and watch, he's not top quality at all. He a partial player, unnaturally good at a couple of things and dire at all the rest. He'll be found out badly in Spain. But who's complaining, Marketing waste a fortune and the spuds lose their only player - although admittedly they did that weird thing and got a replacement, what's that shit about? Is that legal?Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Not top quality? :blink:
This guy was the best player in the country last season and has done it for a couple of seasons.
Wish him all the best in Madrid.
Spuds :pal:
The season before he scored 12 goals. That's hardly setting the world alight. He's had one good season amd is going to cost 105 million. OutrageousQuote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
Didn't he win the player of the year award a couple of seasons back as well?
He's not worth that much. No one is but he's brilliant
His goals per season go 23,12,11,6,3,0,3Quote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
Hardly brilliant, hardly setting the world alight, look at what ronaldo had done and won when he moved to Madrid amd now this guy is going at 100 million? It's bullshit
You'd think he'd be more concerned with our shocking summerQuote:
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes Financial Fair Play would be made a 'joke' of if Real Madrid were to pay £105million to sign Gareth Bale from Tottenham.
Spurs claim they have no intention of selling their star man but the Spanish giants are said to be ready to test that resolve with what would be a world-record fee.
Wenger feels such figures would go completely against the new UEFA-driven regulations aimed at making sure all clubs balance the books.
"It makes a joke of it. It's quite amazing that in the year where the Financial Fair Play comes in, the football world has gone completely crazy," said the Arsenal manager, who has yet to make a marquee summer signing despite having significant funds available.
"You wonder what kind of impact and effect it has on the football world. It looks like it has made everybody worse than before."
Despite the fierce rivalry between the two north London clubs, Wenger would not like to see Bale - whose stellar performances earned him the PFA Player and Young Player of Year gongs last season - leave the Premier League.
"It is never good to lose a big player," the Gunners boss added.
"He is a British player and I believe it is important that the Premier League keeps the best players."
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Wenger is self appointed global spokesman for sensible transfer fees so it's his role to speak here. Sounds like neither club ran the fee past him for approval, so I can see why he's pissed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
he was asked a direct question on it just as the press conference was ending.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
A simple "It's got f all to do with me" would suffice
you given your opinion on it, why cant wenger?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
Because all that stuff about other clubs is a snowjob to cover his own refusal to spend at the market rate. In essence he's absolutely correct, the transfer fees are crazy. But if that's the state of the game right now there's no advantage (on the field anyway) to backing out of the transfer market and complaining about it as an alternative strategy. We're either competing, crazy fees and all, or we aren't. This year we have some money, apparently, so penny pinching and listening to Wenger go on about what city and the spuds are up to isn't acceptable. Action needed, not more bullshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by ollie the optimist
As insulted as i am that you put me in the same bracket as Wenger, he is unfortunately the Arsenal manager
Dempsey off to Seattle apparently. :lol: