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Spikey M
07-07-2017, 07:34 PM
He may be abbot flabby, but I dare say Rooney does a fair bit of exercise.
Magic
07-07-2017, 07:35 PM
Yeah but Phelps was swimming a fuck ton every day. I heard that he needed around 10,000 calories a day.
Mental, can't imagine what it's like to eat that much.
@Mahow ?
Lewis
07-07-2017, 07:38 PM
Them World's Strongest Man lads are all doing about eight to twelve thousand a day, and they're on every substance known to man, so a fourteen stone swimmer requiring those sort of numbers - even if he lives under water - ought to raise a few eyebrows.
BREAKING!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40540231
Spikey M
07-07-2017, 08:23 PM
:harold:
Magic
07-07-2017, 08:26 PM
:lol:!
If he has been smashing nuggets for a decade then he must have been living like this when he was actually good, when he used to run about like an idiot, so how much of his state is actually down to having already played 750 games at the highest level (and in the fastest league)?
It obviously will be trickier to maintain your level if you've been overplayed (whether he has is arguable), but it's taking the piss turning up to pre-season training alarmingly overweight and has undoubtedly hurt every season of his since it was clear he wasn't taking care of himself. The best professionals (Maldini, Giggs and co.) make the extra effort.
Sir Andy Mahowry
07-07-2017, 08:57 PM
"However, they are not willing to match the fees Lukaku's agent Mino Raiola would earn if the forward joins United."
He's ours.
Spoonsky
07-07-2017, 09:08 PM
Mino Raiola is everywhere, isn't he? He's the agent of Donnarumma, the Keane lad at Juventus born in 2000, and Lukaku now too. Must be the sneakiest bastard.
EDIT: And Pogba, Ibra and Mihkytarian. Lol.
Spoonsky
07-07-2017, 09:11 PM
Born 20km from Naples, there you go.
Giggles
07-07-2017, 09:14 PM
Chelsea showing who's boss.
Have United really been 'chasing Lukaku for most of the summer'?
Lewis
07-07-2017, 09:32 PM
It obviously will be trickier to maintain your level if you've been overplayed (whether he has is arguable), but it's taking the piss turning up to pre-season training alarmingly overweight and has undoubtedly hurt every season of his since it was clear he wasn't taking care of himself. The best professionals (Maldini, Giggs and co.) make the extra effort.
He is clearly predisposed to a certain amount of fatness, which, whilst making it more difficult to stay in shape as he has got older, also enabled him to have played first team Premiership football at sixteen. But this isn't a new thing. He said himself (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/sep/05/wayne-rooney-training-seven-pounds-overweight) he turned up to pre-season in 2009 half a stone overweight, and that was his best season. With that in mind, the fact he likes a bit of crap food strikes me as being less of a factor for his current state than the fact he has played - and played hard - 755 top, top flight games by thirty-one (and that he still wears strapping on his ankle from his 2010 injury). Ryan Giggs didn't reach that amount of games until he was thirty-five. Paolo Maldini likewise. Didier Drogba has only recently surpassed it. He's just worn out.
niko_cee
07-07-2017, 09:33 PM
Fair play to Chelsea (to the extent that one removes any knowledge of the existence of Jorge Mendes* from one's mind) for balling in with an offer like that. It's probably the only way the proper parasites are going to be rid from football (arf, as if).
*I was going to call him Pedro Mendes and then confused myself with a bit of wiki'ing, wait, the guy that Ben Thatcher put into a coma/advertising hoardning is the arch nemesis super agent?
Lewis- I agree he was always chubby but he was also unusually explosive as a young player and played at a quick tempo in every match. I'm not sure which season it was (more recent than 2009) but he was much more than half a stone overweight then.
I'm not suggesting my tennis matches without ball boys are on the same level as a World Cup, but as an amateur player I can say from experience how important diet is.
If memory serves he's been taking the piss for over 5 years. There's a clear correlation between his diet going to shit and his decline as a player.
By the way how does being 'predisposed to a certain amount of fatness' help him play football at sixteen?
niko_cee
07-07-2017, 09:50 PM
He was as big (heavy) as a man by that age, which is perhaps rare (and important).
Have United really been 'chasing Lukaku for most of the summer'?
According to Sky, who obviously have nothing to gain from hyping up nonsense, the Lukaku transfer has "so many twists and turns."
Which proves it must be a SAGA because the bits I've seen of it goes thusly: He wanted to leave, United made a bid, Chelsea matched it.
You truly couldn't write it.
Shindig
07-07-2017, 10:00 PM
Man torn between the manager that ditched him and the club that ditched him. I say torn, he's probably just looking at their respective personal terms.
Players who are playing top flight football every week from sixteen or seventeen usually break down physically by about thirty, if not before. Current examples that come immediately to mind; Rooney, Kompany, Aguero, Torres. Mario Gotze and Jack Wilshere are both fucked already. Past examples include Michael Owen and Robbie Fowler.
Lewis
07-07-2017, 10:10 PM
Lewis- I agree he was always chubby but he was also unusually explosive as a young player and played at a quick tempo in every match. I'm not sure which season it was (more recent than 2009) but he was much more than half a stone overweight then.
I'm not suggesting my tennis matches without ball boys are on the same level as a World Cup, but as an amateur player I can say from experience how important diet is.
If memory serves he's been taking the piss for over 5 years. There's a clear correlation between his diet going to shit and his decline as a player.
By the way how does being 'predisposed to a certain amount of fatness' help him play football at sixteen?
He was a manchild, which enabled him to physically compete with actual men at a young age. He could well have handled himself better, but he was never going to go much longer than he has done. Think about it. With the exception of freaks like Ronaldo, how many all-action attacking players actually get to this many games at the absolute highest level? Thierry Henry had played a similar amount of games at a similar age, and he was realistically done by thirty-two.
Lofty
07-07-2017, 10:16 PM
Being fat at 16 meant he was 'solid' as opposed to weak, look at Fabregas when he was 16 compared to Rooney. The difference between paella and pie.
Shindig
07-07-2017, 10:21 PM
If only we could combine the two into some sort of super dish. Pie-ella. No, that'll just confuse people.
He was a manchild, which enabled him to physically compete with actual men at a young age. He could well have handled himself better, but he was never going to go much longer than he has done. Think about it. With the exception of freaks like Ronaldo, how many all-action attacking players actually get to this many games at the absolute highest level? Thierry Henry had played a similar amount of games at a similar age, and he was realistically done by thirty-two.
When Henry was approaching 30 he was playing world class football and earned a transfer to Barcelona. Rooney, meanwhile, was looking like this (https://static.sportskeeda.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wayne-2044499.jpg). He's done at 31 and his level has dropped every year for the last 5 years. You can be 'pre-disposed to fatness' but you can also take care of yourself.
The guys John mentions were done by injuries. What do you associate Rooney with? Injuries or being a bit fat?
Henry went to Barcelona at twenty nine and was in the MLS at thirty two.
It's an observable trend. Players who play loads of football really early tend to burn out early, unless they're particularly well made.
It's definitely a trend, yeah, but Rooney's contributed to his decline.
Anyway I'll stop because it sounds like I'm way more passionate about this than I am, and we need more "Lukaku decides on Chelsea after his girlfriend buys a goldfish from London" rumours.
How's the "Rooney to Everton" SAGA going on?
randomlegend
07-07-2017, 11:01 PM
Seems done and dusted.
Lewis
07-07-2017, 11:23 PM
The guys John mentions were done by injuries. What do you associate Rooney with? Injuries or being a bit fat?
Both, but mainly just being worn out.
How do Chelsea expect to sign somebody without paying their agent off? Presumably the fees they receive are in their contracts, so somebody has to pay them, which will mean Everton losing out or the player stumping up. I used to refuse to do it on Football Manager and all of the agents hated me. :cool:
Lewis
07-07-2017, 11:32 PM
The deal will be worth an initial £75m plus a further £15m of easily attainable add-ons linked to achievements and appearances. Rooney, who is notionally valued at around £10m (lol), would also return to Merseyside after a glittering 13-year career at United, swelling the whole value of the deal on the table to nine figures.
That is quite a lot of things. If Alex Ferguson was still in charge Bill Kenwright would have caved at forty after a few drinks and a Billy Connolly story.
I was going to ask earlier which fat scouser Chelsea were throwing in to 'match' United's offer, but I didn't realise he really was a part of the deal.
Danny
08-07-2017, 01:07 AM
He is clearly predisposed to a certain amount of fatness, which, whilst making it more difficult to stay in shape as he has got older, also enabled him to have played first team Premiership football at sixteen. But this isn't a new thing. He said himself (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/sep/05/wayne-rooney-training-seven-pounds-overweight) he turned up to pre-season in 2009 half a stone overweight, and that was his best season. With that in mind, the fact he likes a bit of crap food strikes me as being less of a factor for his current state than the fact he has played - and played hard - 755 top, top flight games by thirty-one (and that he still wears strapping on his ankle from his 2010 injury). Ryan Giggs didn't reach that amount of games until he was thirty-five. Paolo Maldini likewise. Didier Drogba has only recently surpassed it. He's just worn out.
Giggs passed 750 games in the 2006-2007 season so right around turning 33 and played until he was 40.
Maldini got there in 2001 right before turning 33 and played until he was 40.
Rooney got there at 31 (and a half) and looks shot.
Clearly his physiology doesnt help him but he hasnt helped himself at all. We all knew he was going to fall off a cliff. United should have let him go to City and let him be their problem.
Shindig
08-07-2017, 07:41 AM
Vurnon Anita to Leeds. Hope he does well there.
randomlegend
08-07-2017, 08:27 AM
http://i.imgur.com/E5VP4A1.gif
Lewis
08-07-2017, 08:41 AM
Giggs passed 750 games in the 2006-2007 season so right around turning 33 and played until he was 40.
Maldini got there in 2001 right before turning 33 and played until he was 40.
Rooney got there at 31 (and a half) and looks shot.
Clearly his physiology doesnt help him but he hasnt helped himself at all. We all knew he was going to fall off a cliff. United should have let him go to City and let him be their problem.
I must have worked it out wrong, but they're different beasts (and exceptions in their own right). Samuel Eto'o was doing badly in Russia by thirty-two, David Villa was on the slide by that age, Gabriel Batistuta was gone... I think his lifestyle has taken months off him rather than years.
Haystacks Horace
08-07-2017, 08:45 AM
Actually I think he's still good just not as good as when he was in his prime.
Rooney has been a shadow of his former self for a good five years now. The odd moment of brilliance or run of form but he hasn't been a top level player for 5 years.
His decline started at 25/26 and a huge part of that has to be the way he looks after himself. I'm sure the amount he's played is a factor too.
He was awful in 2012/13 when RvP was donning it and has been shit ever since.
Spikey M
08-07-2017, 09:00 AM
I've never really got what he was good at. I mean, he's scored a lot, sure, but he's been a first teamed since his head popped out of his mothers growler. All we hear is 'he's not a striker', well what is he then? Long diagonal passes does not a midfielder make.
John Arne
08-07-2017, 09:06 AM
I've never really got what he was good at. I mean, he's scored a lot, sure, but he's been a first teamed since his head popped out of his mothers growler. All we hear is 'he's not a striker', well what is he then? Long diagonal passes does not a midfielder make.
That's the key point, 'did' score - his record over the past 5 season has been average, at best - with a slight exception in 13/14.
https://gyazo.com/384e90604fc39ae6119b1612e743966d.png
Weaver
08-07-2017, 09:06 AM
Wolves have broken the Championship spending record again this morning, paying around £15m for Ruben Neves of FC Porto. Five year deal, Jorge Mendes is of course the agent.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEMmsVXXoAABOXS?format=jpg&name=large
Spikey M
08-07-2017, 09:25 AM
That's the key point, 'did' score - his record over the past 5 season has been average, at best - with a slight exception in 13/14.
https://gyazo.com/384e90604fc39ae6119b1612e743966d.png
Yeah, he has scored a lot regardless. He's England's top scorer of all time and I imagine he's pretty far up the Utd rankings. Again, a lot of that will come down to him playing top level football before he could even drive legally.
His best season was about 6 years ago. This isn't a "he's 31 and suddenly can't play" , this is a steady descent. Lost his pace, motivation and ability to control the ball.
Anyway, big Rom Is in the house.
That Ruben Neves deal is deeply bizarre. He's the youngest captain in that club's history and has about a hundred games by the age of twenty. There must be a serious underlying issue if fucking Porto are letting a player go on the relative cheap.
There is. They have massive financial problems.
Porto's manager is Mendes' best mate and got him into the agenting game. If it was just a case of needing a few quid sharpish I'm sure Mendes could have found a bigger club to take him for a load more money.
Sir Andy Mahowry
08-07-2017, 10:04 AM
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Lingard must be heartbroken.
Lewis
08-07-2017, 10:36 AM
Who do you think takes all of their pictures?
He's furiously learning French this summer.
randomlegend
08-07-2017, 10:38 AM
Need to drop ITKiko down a tier after his Morata declaration earlier in the week.
Sir Andy Mahowry
08-07-2017, 10:45 AM
Who do you think takes all of their pictures?
One of Pogba's brothers so he can say he's 'involved in the bantz' probably.
Need to drop ITKiko down a tier after his Morata declaration earlier in the week.
Seems things rapidly changed to go towards lukaku. Not to say Morata isn't still inbound.
Sir Andy Mahowry
08-07-2017, 11:09 AM
Know when you're beaten, Kiko.
John Arne
08-07-2017, 11:22 AM
If it's Lymm McDonald's ITK you need, however......
Lofty
08-07-2017, 11:45 AM
I'd say Rooney shouldn't be starting for any team in the Premiership so whilst I understand the move for Everton and Rooney I do think it's terrible business.
Lewis
08-07-2017, 12:55 PM
lol at this (https://twitter.com/DrawtyDevil/status/883662014324908032) (not even accurate) Scouse Accounting. His 'effective transfer fee'. Brilliant mate. They just gave Morgan Schneiderlin away. Football Twitter is like the best/worth reality programme imaginable.
Magic
08-07-2017, 01:48 PM
Bit late to the party but wolves signing someone for £16m.
Wtf.
If it's Lymm McDonald's ITK you need, however......
Chicken nuggets fyi.
Raoul Duke
08-07-2017, 02:53 PM
lol at this (https://twitter.com/DrawtyDevil/status/883662014324908032) (not even accurate) Scouse Accounting. His 'effective transfer fee'. Brilliant mate. They just gave Morgan Schneiderlin away. Football Twitter is like the best/worth reality programme imaginable.
From what I read earlier, it's £75m + £15m in likely achievable add ons + £20m (?) to Raiola + wages. That's a fuckton of official noodles/traffic cones/teapots
Gray Fox
08-07-2017, 03:12 PM
Looks like at least 3 of the top 6 will have a new marquee striker signing. Possibly even 4 if City do end up trying for someone like Aubameyang.
We could be in for another season of the top 5/6 being clearly better than all below.
Sir Andy Mahowry
08-07-2017, 05:15 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40545516
Lukaku arrested in LA.
Partying too hard with Pogba probably.
Browning
08-07-2017, 07:07 PM
lol at this (https://twitter.com/DrawtyDevil/status/883662014324908032) (not even accurate) Scouse Accounting. His 'effective transfer fee'. Brilliant mate. They just gave Morgan Schneiderlin away. Football Twitter is like the best/worth reality programme imaginable.
That is brilliant. I'm not even sure what the worst part of it is.
Giggles
08-07-2017, 07:10 PM
I zoned out at the Rooney valued at £25m bit.
lol at this (https://twitter.com/DrawtyDevil/status/883662014324908032) (not even accurate) Scouse Accounting. His 'effective transfer fee'. Brilliant mate. They just gave Morgan Schneiderlin away. Football Twitter is like the best/worth reality programme imaginable.
:face:
How do you come across that shit on Twitter, Lewis? :D
Lewis
08-07-2017, 09:13 PM
It just came up under 'Lukaku' thanks to a load of wallies re-tweeting it. Elsewhere, the ever-reliable Sun reckons that United want to sneak in and sign Tiemoue Bakayoko. Do it for the lolling Jose lad.
Sir Andy Mahowry
08-07-2017, 09:20 PM
I'd love Bakayoko.
Although I'd rather we HIJACK Liverpool's bid for Naby Keita.
Lewis
08-07-2017, 09:25 PM
I've never seen him play, but that would obviously be funnier. Sign Alexis 'Alexis' Sanchez too and it's all good.
Sir Andy Mahowry
08-07-2017, 09:27 PM
We were never after him
Klopp knows best
Lucas Leiva is coming back, like a new signing
Who?
Sheyi Ojo :drool:
YNWA
The SEETHE from the self-proclaimed hardcore fans if that happened would be spectacular.
Lewis
08-07-2017, 09:41 PM
Speaking of which, Sky Sports News did well to find the only five Everton fans (all loitering near the ground as it happened) who haven't spent the past thirteen years absolutely SEETHING at all things Wayne Rooney to call him a legend and welcome him back to the club.
Raoul Duke
08-07-2017, 10:08 PM
Just saw that RAWK Meltdown has closed. Shame that, but there's a career opportunity there Lewis, la
That Ruben Neves deal is deeply bizarre. He's the youngest captain in that club's history and has about a hundred games by the age of twenty. There must be a serious underlying issue if fucking Porto are letting a player go on the relative cheap.
It's Mendes. That said, couldn't give a hoot if it benefit wolves.
Speaking of which, Sky Sports News did well to find the only five Everton fans (all loitering near the ground as it happened) who haven't spent the past thirteen years absolutely SEETHING at all things Wayne Rooney to call him a legend and welcome him back to the club.
See, I thought his going back was an odd one (didn't he basically bottle a Goodison away game under Ferguson who didn't select him?) because of the reception he tends to get. I know he was clapped and whatever at that testimonial he was in but that's a fucking testiomonial, it's not quite the same thing.
He's guaranteed to score against us anyway. Bastard.
Mellberg
09-07-2017, 09:42 AM
The only think Rooney's going to score is a free coke when he finally gets Old Kent road.
Disco
09-07-2017, 09:57 AM
What?
Giggles
09-07-2017, 09:58 AM
What?
Yeah, this.
Sir Andy Mahowry
09-07-2017, 09:58 AM
The McDonald's Monopoly.
Come on.
Magic
09-07-2017, 10:08 AM
Football is fucked. Harry Kane and Mbappe are the only ones remotely close to that sort of figure.
I was so sad when Totti retired. Football is broken.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/everton-legend-claims-wayne-rooney-10760687
Looks like Ken is the reason behind Rooney. Apparently he's not very well so this is his last hurrah.
Giggles
09-07-2017, 11:21 AM
Is Lionel Messi really just gone on to £1m a week?
In Googling it to find out (Metro said £500k p/w and I realised I didn't care enough to Google for more sources) I discovered that Barcelona have a manager I've never heard of. Though he seems to have managed some other teams rather than having been picked because he once set out training cones for Xavi's La Masia intake so that's probably more my dwindling interest in football.
Giggles
09-07-2017, 11:42 AM
He was a legend on one of the old CM games.
https://www.sportsjoe.ie/amp/football/former-manchester-united-player-is-ordained-a-priest-129553
Disco
09-07-2017, 12:05 PM
The McDonald's Monopoly.
Come on.
Still none the wiser.
It has it's own Wikipedia page and everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_Monopoly
Giggles
09-07-2017, 12:12 PM
Was think meant to be thing? Or did he mean it like people say sumfink?
He's gone. Remember being enthralled by the boy wonder at home to Fenerbahçe. Totally unplayable. It's a shame he couldn't hit the heights post 2010 but at least he's got himself a move which keeps him sort of relevant. Good luck ysb.
Giggles
09-07-2017, 12:39 PM
It's like getting back together with a hot ex girlfriend after a long break, only to find all the good has been ridden out of her and her gowl is like a clowns pocket. Won't end well.
Magic
09-07-2017, 12:42 PM
Stock the fat cunt up front, no captaincy, no midfield. Just let him score goals.
He can't even do that as we saw with Mourinho.
Lewis
09-07-2017, 01:23 PM
He's gone. Remember being enthralled by the boy wonder at home to Fenerbahçe. Totally unplayable. It's a shame he couldn't hit the heights post 2010 but at least he's got himself a move which keeps him sort of relevant. Good luck ysb.
I saw a Twitter poll recently asking people whether they would rather have peak Paul Scholes or peak Wayne Rooney in their team. The result was something like eighty per cent Scholes, but I went with Rooney on the basis that his 2009/10 season is the best that anyone has put together in the Premiership. I think they would have more than likely beaten Chelsea in that April SIX POINTER had he not been injured, and got to another Champions' League final as well. He was legitimately the third best player in the world that year.
Yaysus
09-07-2017, 01:29 PM
Players who are playing top flight football every week from sixteen or seventeen usually break down physically by about thirty, if not before. Current examples that come immediately to mind; Rooney, Kompany, Aguero, Torres. Mario Gotze and Jack Wilshere are both fucked already. Past examples include Michael Owen and Robbie Fowler.
götze had massive thyroid issues which he now apparently has sort of under control after half a year of therapy
Spikey M
09-07-2017, 01:31 PM
He meant 'stick' Giggles.
Weaver
09-07-2017, 03:16 PM
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Rudiger to Chelsea for £35m. Five year deal.
I saw a Twitter poll recently asking people whether they would rather have peak Paul Scholes or peak Wayne Rooney in their team. The result was something like eighty per cent Scholes, but I went with Rooney on the basis that his 2009/10 season is the best that anyone has put together in the Premiership. I think they would have more than likely beaten Chelsea in that April SIX POINTER had he not been injured, and got to another Champions' League final as well. He was legitimately the third best player in the world that year.
Both bold statements.
Ronaldo was the best player in the world in 07/08, so why wouldn't that be a better Prem season?
Bernanke
09-07-2017, 03:36 PM
Jesus christ these Twitter announcements.
Lewis
09-07-2017, 03:42 PM
Both bold statements.
Ronaldo was the best player in the world in 07/08, so why wouldn't that be a better Prem season?
Ronaldo wasn't behind an even better Ronaldo and 'The Little Genius' in 2007/08, and, although he was brilliant that year, have a look at the United squad statistics for 2009/10. The amount of injuries around him out to have written the season off, but he carried the side.
Gray Fox
09-07-2017, 05:06 PM
Have all of these clubs just suddenly realised that Twitter exists?
People are most likely getting paid to think up new ways to announce a signing which is a bit lol. I miss the days of plain old holding the shirt up at the ground/training ground.
Disco
09-07-2017, 05:21 PM
I suspect marketing agencies have just realised that they can make stupid people pay them lots of money to come up with them.
Giggles
09-07-2017, 05:40 PM
Even worse is that BBC sport felt the need to describe the video in their article on the transfer.
Magic
10-07-2017, 12:42 PM
https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/884352063106404352
:D
bruhnaldo
10-07-2017, 01:15 PM
Have all of these clubs just suddenly realised that Twitter exists?
People are most likely getting paid to think up new ways to announce a signing which is a bit lol. I miss the days of plain old holding the shirt up at the ground/training ground.
I'm still waiting for a team to go full Ultimate Team and do a fake "walk-out" bit with an updated FUT card showing the new club.
Have fireworks and all them things in the ground, drop the players' flag from the rafters, the entire bit just played out in real life.
For those who don't play FIFA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg4FC4jZmS4
Max Power
10-07-2017, 01:43 PM
£40m bid for Sigurdsson rejected wtf
phonics
10-07-2017, 02:06 PM
TBF, they'll get relegated without him and that's 120 million quid.
SincereTheRebel
10-07-2017, 02:13 PM
I'm still waiting for a team to go full Ultimate Team and do a fake "walk-out" bit with an updated FUT card showing the new club.
Have fireworks and all them things in the ground, drop the players' flag from the rafters, the entire bit just played out in real life.
For those who don't play FIFA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg4FC4jZmS4
Easily done with a green screen.
bruhnaldo
10-07-2017, 02:19 PM
Easily done with a green screen.
Ohhhh no I want them to do the whole nine in real life. Green screen would be way too cringe.
Mind you, the idea is cringe to begin with, but I'd at least applaud the EFFORT otherwise.
Max Power
10-07-2017, 03:11 PM
TBF, they'll get relegated without him and that's 120 million quid.
Yeah fair enough. I guess a big chunk of the "wtf" was us whacking £40m bids in.
phonics
10-07-2017, 03:16 PM
When you're bidding 30 for Troy Deeney, anything is possible.
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Dear God.
phonics
10-07-2017, 04:10 PM
Should have just used Stormzy
SincereTheRebel
10-07-2017, 04:14 PM
Should have just used Stormzy
Looks like somebody already has
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40556229/irish-newspaper-mistakes-stormzy-for-new-manchester-united-player-romelu-lukaku
bruhnaldo
10-07-2017, 04:32 PM
Is that the same pool that they've been hanging out at all day? For fuck sake.
He's a mug.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/fans-spot-huge-flaw-romelu-10767531
Lewis
10-07-2017, 04:43 PM
They didn't have Eric Bailly in 2014.
Danny
10-07-2017, 04:59 PM
TBF he was wrong in 2014
Raoul Duke
10-07-2017, 08:40 PM
Yeah fair enough. I guess a big chunk of the "wtf" was us whacking £40m bids in.
Spending the Mahrez money. Like why Everton spunked millions all over the place - they knew the Lukaku cash was coming
Giggles
10-07-2017, 08:56 PM
Where's Mahrez gone?
Raoul Duke
10-07-2017, 08:57 PM
Nowhere yet, but probably Arsenal if rumour gibberish is to be believed
Max Power
10-07-2017, 08:58 PM
Spending the Mahrez money. Like why Everton spunked millions all over the place - they knew the Lukaku cash was coming
Made £65m from Champions League alone last year. Don't see us needing to sell Mahrez to spend big money.
Raoul Duke
10-07-2017, 09:00 PM
£65m wouldn't even get you Jonathon Spector's left nut these days
Max Power
10-07-2017, 09:01 PM
Well it probably ain't getting Gylfi Sigurdsson anyway.
Iheanacho incoming though which is good. More excited about what weird and wacky way we'll announce it tbh.
Giggles
10-07-2017, 09:02 PM
Keep it quiet and parachute him into the centre circle during the first home friendly.
Disco
10-07-2017, 09:13 PM
Have him dress as the mascot then have a big reveal when you sub him on.
Jimmy Floyd
10-07-2017, 09:29 PM
Dress him up as a steward and see how long it takes before the good people of Leicester recognise him at a game. My money is on never.
Waffdon
10-07-2017, 09:47 PM
Spending the Mahrez money. Like why Everton spunked millions all over the place - they knew the Lukaku cash was coming
Everton are minted these days. Think they'll still be splashing it about a little bit yet.
phonics
11-07-2017, 08:05 AM
Newcastle are after a player called Alphonse Areola which sounds like something we would have made up and sent into TalkSport.
Spikey M
11-07-2017, 08:28 AM
Sounds a right tit.
Spikey M
11-07-2017, 08:29 AM
Keep us abreast of the situation
Spikey M
11-07-2017, 08:29 AM
I'll stop there, I don't want to milk it.
Boob puns are great, but I just suck at them.
Doubt he'll be a Alan Shearer type signing. More like a Titi Camara.
Byron
11-07-2017, 01:02 PM
He's pretty good if mammary serves.
bruhnaldo
11-07-2017, 01:21 PM
£65m wouldn't even get you Jonathon Spector's left nut these days
You leave my boy Specs alone.
http://mediaweb.wftv.com/photo/2017/02/23/Jonathan%20Spector%20sporting%20the%20new%20kit%20 that%20includes%20Orlando%20Health%20as%20the%20ki t%20sponsor%20for%20the%20seventh%20consecutive%20 season._20170223183052761_7384294_ver1.0_640_360.j pg
wullie
11-07-2017, 01:42 PM
He reminds me a little too much of one of the Trump kids there.
SincereTheRebel
11-07-2017, 01:49 PM
http://www.skysports.com/share/10944636
James joins bayern on loan
Squad player for a huge club --> squad player for another huge club. Hmm. One of the few that can afford his wages, I guess.
"He made 111 appearances for Real, scoring 36 goals and producing 41 assists."
I didn't realise he'd played that much. Impressive stats.
niko_cee
11-07-2017, 02:05 PM
He's been there three seasons though and they must play about 70 games per season.
phonics
11-07-2017, 02:27 PM
I see Slimani getting linked around to West Brom and Newcastle, I thought he was quite good last year?
Jimmy Floyd
11-07-2017, 04:00 PM
I've just been looking through the list of summer transfers to see what I've missed (almost all of them, as it turns out) and the one that sticks out as :sherlock: is Barcelona buying back Gerard Deulofeu. Is this in preparation for the newly independent Catalan league demanding 8 home grown players?
They have no depth after neglecting their B team and don't have the option of changing a game using the bench or playing two different sides in two different competitions like Real.
They have no depth after neglecting their B team and don't have the option of changing a game using the bench or playing two different sides in two different competitions like Real.
Looking back on Barcelona's transfers over the last 3 years is quite startling. They've had a nightmare.
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-barcelona/alletransfers/verein/131
phonics
11-07-2017, 05:09 PM
3 years? It's been awful since Rijkard.
Lewis
11-07-2017, 05:26 PM
That loan sounds a bit crap from Madrid's perspective. If he is great for Bayern than they will lose him for less than he is worth, and if he is crap then they will also end up with him back at the club with no suitors and probably not long left on his contract. They should have just taken forty million off somebody and written it off.
niko_cee
11-07-2017, 05:32 PM
These multi-year long loans are just creative accountancy (of some sort) aren't they? They are actually transfers. He's not going to be going back, like Cuadrado wasn't going anywhere once that absurd 4 year loan or whatever it was would have ended. I'm sure the Delofeu thing is a mix of him being available fairly cheaply (by the standards of the today's market) and them thinking they'll be able to sell him for more in the near future (a Morata deal). In short, everything's fucked.
Lewis
11-07-2017, 06:43 PM
Dani 'Daniel' Alves going to PSG is a bit lol. Daniel Levy must be rubbing his hands together in a very stereotypical way.
Jimmy Floyd
12-07-2017, 09:16 AM
I see Eric Dier is agitating. Surely United will have to break the world transfer record by a considerable margin in order to wrest him away from Levy.
Giggles
12-07-2017, 09:21 AM
They've needed a new John O'Shea for a while now.
phonics
12-07-2017, 09:43 AM
Eric Dier is massively over-rated. He's a pretty good CB but offers absolutely nothing in midfield apart from an ability to not get booked for professional fouls.
John Arne
12-07-2017, 09:49 AM
Agreed. He's a decent player, and nothing more.
Adamski
12-07-2017, 10:37 AM
It is the nature of a DM I guess, being decent at everything without being fantastic. Don't rate him particularly.
Giggles
12-07-2017, 10:51 AM
Even Wanyama looked a lot better doing that for them last season.
phonics
12-07-2017, 10:55 AM
It is the nature of a DM I guess, being decent at everything without being fantastic. Don't rate him particularly.
This would be true if you didn't have to play another DM that's just as limited next to him to do half his job for him. Gilberto Silva was pretty average at everything but you only needed 1 of him.
These multi-year long loans are just creative accountancy (of some sort) aren't they? They are actually transfers. He's not going to be going back, like Cuadrado wasn't going anywhere once that absurd 4 year loan or whatever it was would have ended. I'm sure the Delofeu thing is a mix of him being available fairly cheaply (by the standards of the today's market) and them thinking they'll be able to sell him for more in the near future (a Morata deal). In short, everything's fucked.
Even more absurd, Juventus started shopping Cuadrado around for thirty odd million the moment he'd signed for twenty.
Lewis
12-07-2017, 12:17 PM
Eric Dier is rubbish, but it could be worth it to see just how much of a petulant shithouse he can become under the right management.
Danny
12-07-2017, 12:31 PM
He's not off anywhere. How would he and Dele keep up their love in at that distance?!
Lewis
12-07-2017, 01:20 PM
Jesse Lingard needs a new mate, so it works out perfectly. Elsewhere, ten million quid for Adnan Januzaj isn't terrible. The waster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RIPHsxYuVk
bruhnaldo
12-07-2017, 01:31 PM
No way we're in for Dier. Feel like that's a United counter to Chelsea supposedly trying to leak to the press that we're "in for Bakayoko" so they can "save face" over the Lukaku "robbery".
Jimmy Floyd
12-07-2017, 01:41 PM
Save face? This isn't the mafia.
Lewis
12-07-2017, 02:03 PM
It was a good theory though if you assume that Antonio Conte is constantly on the verge of SEETHING himself unemployed.
bruhnaldo
12-07-2017, 02:17 PM
Am just going off what I've heard on the interwebz, Jimbo.
Lewis - I mean there's deffo been a bunch of little rumors that he's doing just that.
Jimmy Floyd
12-07-2017, 02:48 PM
Every Chelsea manager from about 2013 onwards has been doing that / will be doing that, the board won't buy them all the players they want.
Lewis
12-07-2017, 03:03 PM
Am just going off what I've heard on the interwebz, Jimbo.
Lewis - I mean there's deffo been a bunch of little rumors that he's doing just that.
Yeah, which is why the idea of the stiffs in the Chelsea hierarchy leaking those stories as if he's an idiot is lol (and entirely believable).
Weaver
12-07-2017, 06:11 PM
That loan sounds a bit crap from Madrid's perspective. If he is great for Bayern than they will lose him for less than he is worth, and if he is crap then they will also end up with him back at the club with no suitors and probably not long left on his contract. They should have just taken forty million off somebody and written it off.
And Bayern buying him outright is now probably dependent on Juventus signing Douglas Costa from them, as he has now joined Juve on loan with an option to buy at the end.
At least Dier is a bit more exciting/interesting than Matic. And he's English, which they're lacking.
phonics
12-07-2017, 07:16 PM
Now the Bayern/Juve relationship, that is the definition of bent. There is some massive, massive corruption going on there. Players move back and forth between them but no transfer fees ever seem to change hands.
Lewis
12-07-2017, 07:30 PM
It will all be in Argentine bank accounts.
Gray Fox
12-07-2017, 08:36 PM
Rumours afoot that the Keita deal is essentially done.
By the sounds of it the commitee tried, got quoted a high fee. They then went back to Klopp who has told them to pay whatever it takes. Kid wants the #8 shirt too.
Encouraging if true.
Jimmy Floyd
13-07-2017, 08:12 AM
This morning I read we're in for 'PEA' as he will no doubt be dubbed by the lazy. That would be a truly dismal signing.
niko_cee
13-07-2017, 08:32 AM
Yeah, I feel someone is going to suffer badly in signing him (the fear was [is] it would be us).
Jimmy Floyd
13-07-2017, 09:19 AM
That said, I've just seen a picture of Willy Caballero holding up an orange goalkeeping jersey at a press conference with Michael Emenalo, so I suppose it could be worse.
Weaver
13-07-2017, 09:47 AM
Gylfi Sigurdsson has decided that he's 'not in the right frame of mind' for Swansea's trip to the USA, and has subsequently stayed at home as he's unsettled.
Everton have now had £40m rejected.
He's a match winner but potentially £50m for Everton to sign him seems a madness.
phonics
13-07-2017, 10:26 AM
Someones got to score the free kicks now Leighton Baines is dog shit.
SincereTheRebel
13-07-2017, 10:30 AM
For swansea, i can see why it has been rejected. He, is the only reason he they are a premier league football club. Without him, they would be relegated 100%
Adamski
13-07-2017, 10:44 AM
For swansea, i can see why it has been rejected. He, is the only reason he they are a premier league football club. Without him, they would be relegated 100%
Not if they've got an extra £50m to spend.
He's a good player but he's not Maradona ffs.
SincereTheRebel
13-07-2017, 10:54 AM
Not if they've got an extra £50m to spend.
Spending an extra £50m on players is a gamble, when you have a player who will keep you in the league if you keep him.
-james-
13-07-2017, 12:32 PM
I read somewhere that Lukaku used to be Everton's highest earner, on £90k/week. They're now paying Keane & Pickford that, Klaasen & Ramirez £100k odd, and Rooney £150k.
Can only end well.
Giggles
13-07-2017, 12:34 PM
I read somewhere that Lukaku used to be Everton's highest earner, on £90k/week. They're now paying Keane & Pickford that, Klaasen & Ramirez £100k odd, and Rooney £150k.
Can only end well.
They're loaded.
John Arne
13-07-2017, 12:42 PM
Klaasen is such an average player, a la Classie.
randomlegend
13-07-2017, 02:04 PM
Man City apparently paying £50m for Kyle Walker.
Fkin 'ell.
Sir Andy Mahowry
13-07-2017, 02:07 PM
I'm surprised that Levy only got that much out of them tbh.
These prices really are absolutely fucking ridiculous.
phonics
13-07-2017, 02:14 PM
If Kyle Walker is 50 million, I'd drop double that on Siggy.
Spikey M
13-07-2017, 02:18 PM
£50m is par for the course these days really. Surprised Levy didn't beat the Bale deal really.
Jimmy Floyd
13-07-2017, 02:32 PM
Somebody's pointed out that Nottingham Forest was sold for the same amount this summer.
When the bubble bursts, it's going to be fucking hilarious.
It's not like it's going to go "pop" one day with nobody suspecting it. It will be gradual if anything with dozens of employees at clubs monitoring any change.
Jimmy Floyd
13-07-2017, 02:54 PM
It'll happen when TV rights values (which I suspect are not infinite) go in the other direction and suddenly everyone's got all these massive contracts on their books.
The market is entirely driven by TV rights. Literally no other factor involved.
ITV Digital is a decent precedent for what happens when you overpay for TV rights.
The consumer isn't prepared to pay ever-increasing sums to watch Stoke City v Swansea.
Lewis
13-07-2017, 03:18 PM
If telly disappeared tomorrow the Uniteds and the Bayerns of the world would just launch their own streaming services, and everyone else would suffocate.
Giggles
13-07-2017, 03:22 PM
Once it comes near collapse we'll see the Euro superleague (played in the US) and everyone else will go back to semi pro.
Jimmy Floyd
13-07-2017, 03:24 PM
If telly disappeared tomorrow the Uniteds and the Bayerns of the world would just launch their own streaming services, and everyone else would suffocate.
Exactly, the very richest would be fine but anyone who's currently being subsidised by TV (i.e. most clubs) would die instantly.
phonics
13-07-2017, 03:27 PM
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Next World Cup is ours.
Jimmy Floyd
13-07-2017, 03:30 PM
Trying to work out if there's a country at the next World Cup it would be more comical to get bummed out by than Iceland. Uzbekistan might be a good sleeper candidate.
Lewis
13-07-2017, 03:37 PM
Tottenham will hopefully be closed for business if Kyle lolker is going for that much.
Sir Andy Mahowry
13-07-2017, 03:41 PM
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/manchester-city/alletransfers/verein/281
The amount of money they've thrown at defenders is mental.
Otamendi
Mangala
Stones
Walker
£161m of 'talent' there.
Lewis
13-07-2017, 03:44 PM
It goes under the radar because of United attempting to buy the title.
Sir Andy Mahowry
13-07-2017, 03:45 PM
Bailly was cheaper than all of them too :cool:
Amigo
13-07-2017, 03:49 PM
How are Everton lining up next season if they do end up getting Gylfi? Is Rooney playing upfront?
Jimmy Floyd
13-07-2017, 03:49 PM
I like to think Daniel Levy lives his entire life with the bass line from Pink Floyd's 'Money' going round and round his head.
'Dom dom-de-dom - dom - dom - dom - dom - no, Amanda, we're not flying business class.'
Since they bought Kompany for fifty pence they've done about three hundred and fifty million trying to find a partner for him.
Weaver
13-07-2017, 03:51 PM
And Benjamin Mendy will make it over £200m if he signs.
Lewis
13-07-2017, 05:24 PM
This gets even loller with Leonardo Bonucci about to join Milan for - wait for it - thirty-five million. What is going on there? What are Juventus doing? What is he doing? What are Chelsea and City doing?
niko_cee
13-07-2017, 05:27 PM
Inter probably found out they part owned him when he was 15 or something.
Magic
13-07-2017, 05:58 PM
How are Everton lining up next season if they do end up getting Gylfi? Is Rooney playing upfront?
£10 on Rooney getting 30+ goals.
phonics
13-07-2017, 06:00 PM
I can't link it from mobile properly but the Southampton post is so good.
https://twitter.com/southamptonfc/status/885551913856630784
Danny
13-07-2017, 06:21 PM
£10 on Rooney getting 30+ goals.
You are too skint to waste that kind of money.
Shindig
13-07-2017, 06:23 PM
It's the only way he'll win her back.
Magic
13-07-2017, 06:24 PM
You are too skint to waste that kind of money.
Long term investment.
Disco
13-07-2017, 06:38 PM
Shedding cash before the settlement.
niko_cee
13-07-2017, 06:53 PM
That Southampton thing is good, but the real wonder is that Stuart Taylor is still picking up Premier League wages despite, I believe, never having actually played a game of football.
£50m for Kyle Walker. What a world we live in.
Obviously silly money as always but he's no mug. Team of the year last season. I think he's one of the best right backs.
I've never got it. He's fast and he's not a disaster or anything (he wouldn't be a key player for a team at that end of the table otherwise) but even taking into account the "English tax" I think that's too much and that he's much overrated.
It falls into the same category as any of the proper rich clubs where the fee isn't really especially relevant, but still.
Do Man City even have an official tractor?
Giggles
13-07-2017, 07:29 PM
Obviously silly money as always but he's no mug. Team of the year last season. I think he's one of the best right backs.
He wasn't even Spurs best right back by the end of the season. He'll be very useful for Guardiola though.
Kyle Walker's concentration is 0.
Raoul Duke
13-07-2017, 07:36 PM
He wasn't even Spurs best right back by the end of the season. He'll be very useful for Guardiola though.
Trippier > Walker :nodd:
Kyle Walker's pace covers up the fact that he has the tactical discipline of a pitch invasion. He'll only have to get about ten percent slower and he'll immediately be a complete liability.
If this move goes through the most expensive back four of all time will consist of Luke Shaw, John Stones, David Luiz, and Kyle Walker. :D
Spikey M
13-07-2017, 07:58 PM
Aren't City trying that tiki-taka stuff? Walker is miles from having the brain for that.
Kyle Walker's pace covers up the fact that he has the tactical discipline of a pitch invasion. He'll only have to get about ten percent slower and he'll immediately be a complete liability.
If this move goes through the most expensive back four of all time will consist of Luke Shaw, John Stones, David Luiz, and Kyle Walker. :D
Only 27 so pace should be alright for a while. Not going to be someone like Dani Alves but he's not just pace. Apparently he was their first choice.
Magic
13-07-2017, 08:02 PM
Aren't City trying that tiki-taka stuff? Walker is miles from having the brain for that.
Tika-taka-spaka shit pass it to the fast brown one.
Spikey M
13-07-2017, 08:07 PM
Walker has pretty much 'earned' his reputation from recovering possession that he lost in the first place. His pace is basically an undo function and he has the delivery of a buttered up midwife.
Sir Andy Mahowry
13-07-2017, 08:09 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCYhZa49gBc
He's back.
Gor Mahia FC didn't know what hit them.
He won't be slow for a long time yet, but he won't have to be slow for his utter lack of positional sense to become a problem. The moment he doesn't have the pace to offer just about any player in the league a three yard start in a ten yard race he's done. That could be in six years but it could also be in two. Obviously the fee has as much to do with the English premium and taking a starter off a rival as it does the player himself, but for a player with so little to his game it seems like a particularly absurd amount of money.
Magic
13-07-2017, 08:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCYhZa49gBc
He's back.
Gor Mahia FC didn't know what hit them.
That bet looking good now. :drool:
Giggles
13-07-2017, 08:17 PM
Kyle Walker's pace covers up the fact that he has the tactical discipline of a pitch invasion. He'll only have to get about ten percent slower and he'll immediately be a complete liability.
If this move goes through the most expensive back four of all time will consist of Luke Shaw, John Stones, David Luiz, and Kyle Walker. :D
That's gold. I'm robbing that.
phonics
13-07-2017, 08:37 PM
Kyle Walker is very much not a good player. He is a right footed Gael Clichy (who we managed to mug off 15 million back in the day when that was actually a decent transfer). Cannot wait.
ScousePig
13-07-2017, 09:05 PM
Sunderland have signed Aiden McGeady and James Vaughan permanently, and Galloway and Browning on loan. Decent championship signings?
Gray Fox
13-07-2017, 09:06 PM
The Everton connection.
Rumours that Zlatan is staying with us and re-signing in January. I'd absolutely love it if that happened.
Magic
13-07-2017, 09:10 PM
Sunderland have signed Aiden McGeady and James Vaughan permanently, and Galloway and Browning on loan. Decent championship signings?
Larry is the best signing you could have ever made.
#TOOSG
Giggles
13-07-2017, 09:20 PM
Sunderland have signed Aiden McGeady and James Vaughan permanently, and Galloway and Browning on loan. Decent championship signings?
McGeady has done well at Preston. Needs to be just let do his thing and take the bad that comes with doing that, which can work ok at that level.
Shindig
13-07-2017, 09:39 PM
I swear this is the first time in my life I've had to look up who's managing Sunderland. :|
Magic
13-07-2017, 09:50 PM
Clown.
phonics
13-07-2017, 09:54 PM
Chalobah has joined Watford permenantly and Loftus Cheek is at Palace on loan. Bertrand Traore has moved to Lyon, Solanke has gone to Liverpool, Ake is at Bournemouth, Izzy Brown looks on the verge of going to Brighton or Huddersfield, Tammy Abrahams has gone on loan to Swansea and they're looking at spending 10 million quid on a back-up goalkeeper. That's the spine of their 4/5 time FA Youth Cup winning squad gone.
At this point, why would you ever sign for Chelsea as a youngster?
So 6 out of the 7 players you mention are at, or will be at, Premier League clubs. How many Arsenal, Man City or Man Utd youths actually genuinely make it at those clubs?
mugbull
13-07-2017, 10:01 PM
Chalobah has joined Watford permenantly and Loftus Cheek is at Palace on loan. Bertrand Traore has moved to Lyon, Solanke has gone to Liverpool, Ake is at Bournemouth, Izzy Brown looks on the verge of going to Brighton or Huddersfield, Tammy Abrahams has gone on loan to Swansea and they're looking at spending 10 million quid on a back-up goalkeeper. That's the spine of their 4/5 time FA Youth Cup winning squad gone.
At this point, why would you ever sign for Chelsea as a youngster?
That's what makes Tottenham so special :happycry:
Giggles
13-07-2017, 10:07 PM
Chalobah has joined Watford permenantly and Loftus Cheek is at Palace on loan. Bertrand Traore has moved to Lyon, Solanke has gone to Liverpool, Ake is at Bournemouth, Izzy Brown looks on the verge of going to Brighton or Huddersfield, Tammy Abrahams has gone on loan to Swansea and they're looking at spending 10 million quid on a back-up goalkeeper. That's the spine of their 4/5 time FA Youth Cup winning squad gone.
At this point, why would you ever sign for Chelsea as a youngster?
You've just listed off the best reasons.
phonics
13-07-2017, 10:10 PM
So 6 out of the 7 players you mention are at, or will be at, Premier League clubs. How many Arsenal, Man City or Man Utd youths actually genuinely make it at those clubs?
Man City are a similar level of joke. United I don't know. Our youth team got relegated to Dividon 2 - few years ago and hasn't recovered.
That's what I mean. It's worked out well for those Chelsea guys.
At United it's been pretty much the same deal in terms of numbers coming through. Before Rashford it had been a while.
Not a huge fan of Walker, but tbf to him he's been part of the best defence in the league over the last couple of seasons. I think he'll thrive at City.
This Bonucci deal is madness. :cab:
SincereTheRebel
14-07-2017, 04:00 AM
I can't link it from mobile properly but the Southampton post is so good.
https://twitter.com/southamptonfc/status/885551913856630784
Being a third choie is the most secure job in the world
Taylor shows no improvment or progession in his life.
Shindig
14-07-2017, 05:28 AM
I even think calling him experienced is pushing it.
Apparently Bonucci and Alves fell out with Alegri at half time of the Champions League final. Something to do with Dybala.
Juventus decided they had to get rid of Alves and Bonucci. Bonucci was/is adamant that he's not leaving Italy and Milan are the only club who where interested at 35m.
Walker and Mendy are well worth 100m to City at this point. Great signings and would make them favourites to win the league and probably puts them in the mix for Europe as well.
Gray Fox
14-07-2017, 07:34 AM
Abdelhak Nouri of Ajax collapsed in a friendly the other day because of heart rhythm problems. They managed to save his life but having done tests after he was stable, they say he has suffered serious and permanent brain damage and his chances of recovering are nil.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40595416
John Arne
14-07-2017, 07:39 AM
Abdelhak Nouri of Ajax collapsed in a friendly the other day because of heart rhythm problems. They managed to save his life but having done tests after he was stable, they say he has suffered serious and permanent brain damage and his chances of recovering are nil.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40595416
Yeah, that's crazy.
As with these things, it's pretty grim viewing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYqhyxdTV1g
SincereTheRebel
14-07-2017, 07:47 AM
Speaking about heart issues, this female has claimed on different occasions when she has her head on my chest.
1) My heart has skipped a beat
2) You can see my heart beating outside my chest
Ive never had any issues regarding this, but im probably going to get it checked out based on all these strange heart cases recently.
Take care Sincere, it always seems to be black lads that have heart trouble.
Gray Fox
14-07-2017, 04:52 PM
This Keita situation is strange. We are confident of landing him and he has supposedly agreed to terms. Even some of the Leipzig staff are seeing it as a formality. Yet the RBL ownership view it completely differently. They got into contact with Liverpool yesterday to declare the player not for sale. We then returned later the same day with a £57m bid, which they have today rejected. It's expected to take about £10m before me get around their valuation.
He also has a clause in his contract which means we could buy him in a years time for half the amounts being thrown about. That's not active until next year though and I imagine RBL would push him to sign a new contract to remove that. You'd expect we should give up and wait for that clause, but Klopp has provided no alternative targets. He wants Keita and has told the money men to pay whatever it takes.
If we do end up getting him, it's going to be a little tough to predict a Liverpool line-up. You'll have Firmino, Coutinho, Mane, Salah, Lallana, Wijnaldum, Keita, Henderson, Emre Can, Sturridge, Ings, Solanke and Origi all vying for the 6 spots ahead of the defence. That's not even including Milner or Lucas, with the former now seen as a left back and the latter expected to move to Lazio.
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