I remember that. Charlie Nicholas had one of the great seethes after the game.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
In terms of his contributions to my life though, it's a distant second to the time he put himself out of commission for a month trying to poach an egg in the microwave. I still laugh now when I picture it.
Reports United are signing Serge Aurier with "only a fee to be agreed!"
Which, to me, generally means it's a bunch of bullshit when they "agree personal terms" before the actual fee. I'm sure there's been cases where this has come off but I honestly feel like it never actually happens when the personal terms are first in the papers.
Feel it's usually just club/agent media tactics to speed up a potential deal.
If United bring in both Rose and Aurier whilst managing to solve Aurier's attitude problem we might just be okay this season.
Just avoid relegation tbh.
When me and @Baz went to watch the Belgian Super cup last summer he was boss. Scored and was the best player on the pitch.
Aurier still hasn't even been confirmed to be able to enter the country.
Does that mean it's off? Woodward out.
Dortmund have fined and suspended Ousmane Dembele for missing training today - Sky reckoned he was flying to Barcelona today instead.
If true can we just ban Barcelona from transfers forever? Mes Que Un Academy will see them right.
Dembele has been at Dortmund one year, of presumably a 5 year contract, and decides he's had enough already. Ballsy.
Don't they want £135m for him? Fucking lol if they get anywhere near that. He's played about a season's worth of football in his life and it's not like he's the next Cronaldo. I can only assume this is the Mbappe effect, just without the eye-catching season.
Dortmund would be idiots to turn that sort of money down, so they can only be after more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40851164
Fosu-Mensah has joined Palace on loan.
Hope he gets a lot of games.
He could well be. He makes Aubameyang look like Chicarito.
I'm a twit
Dembele had a pretty eye-catching season. He was probably the second highest rated teenager in europe after Mbappe last season.
Barca(mate)s opening bid for Dembele was £82m.
What is even going on any more?
Dembele is an unreal talent but yeah, crazy that he'll end up going for the second highest fee ever.
Coutinho or Dembele aren't going anywhere for less than £100m, possibly even £120m, because both Liverpool and Dortmund don't need to sell, have their players under long contracts and, importantly, know that Barca have over £200m to spend.
I can now see Dembele moving but I don't think Coutinho will rock the boat too much this summer. Maybe next year after the World Cup.
At this point you've got to ask if the money isn't better spent paying 20M each for Brazils and Argentinas supposed top 10 players and hope one of them is the NEXT MESSI.
Twenty million wouldn't get you much from the South American leagues now either. Real Madrid have paid forty million quid for a kid who's played about eight minutes of first team football.
Barcelona must have tested that approach to death before ACTUAL MESSI came through.
Money should just be reinvested in youth facilities. Bring over a boatload of Africans every summer and house them until you figure out if they're any good or not.
And then loan them to us.
Wouldn't Barcelona be better served buying an actual (and entire) defence rather than another outlandishly expensive attacker?
I think Wengers right in his thinking that all players are going to start going to the end of their contract and using Bosnians. Who wants 10% of 120 million quid when you could net yourself 100% of 20 million.
Edit: I'm keeping that autocorrect.
Defence is no good for the brand.
It's going to end up approaching the free agency model they have in the US. Either that or everyone has to have a release clause.
Oleguer doesn't shift too many instant noodles.
I'm doubtful as to the actual value of any of those things, and, even if they are important, that base is already well and truly covered by having the best player ever already.
What in the name of fuck is this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40699431
So Sergio Aguero is actually rubbish?
His xG is not as good as others, no.
Lukaku looks like a bargain.
So you expect me to score? No, Mr Bond etc.
Further unwelcome Americanisation of the game.
That will bring Bruh in here soon now, thanks.
At least it will end up in more abuse directed at Magic though.
Why is no one bothering to buy Diego Costa?
It's odd, isn't it.
I mean, he's a rabid twat, but that's never stopped clubs in the past and he does score goals.
From that article:
What? Can we?"Expected goals" is just someone else's opinion.
In fact, it's worse than that. The list of things it's based off doesn't account for so many things.
Imagine if someone went back and did Andy 'Andrew' Cole's expected goals.
When you look back now you wonder whether half of those weird post-2008 United transfers were early examples of this sort of bollocks at work. That said, they could equally have been late examples of not using any statistical approach at all.
It could have just been brown envelopes as well.
I read he only wants to go back to Atletico, who obviously can't register him til January. Perhaps there's an advantage for him in hanging around at Chelsea before being bought by them in January as compared to them buying him now and registering him January. Higher wage and at least the possibility of some game time, maybe
I've got a feeling that post is a bit of a mess structurally but I've had a general anaesthetic today so I'm probably not at my best.
On THE DEBATE Phil Neville said Liverpool should flog Coutinho for £100m+ and then buy Costa.
He'd be perfect for them. Another grotty little cunt for them to channel their victim complex through.
Woah, listen to the general anaesthetic spouting off.
That year we could have had a forward line of Costa and Suarez.
Is THE DEBATE just people spouting off random opinions like that? The Verdict died for this.
Costa wants to go back to Atletico as only they can match his true gypo aspirations.
Plus in true hard cunt manner, crazy cunts like him ever only seem to be controllable by even crazier fuckers like Simeone. It's like some sort of prison-like hard cunt respect hierarchy.
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