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Anybody know any thing about Julian Speroni? He's a Argentine Goalkeeper who plays for Dundee and Palace are going to sign him for £750,000. Can anybody tell me if he is any good?
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What football websites do you people look at? I always use www.teamtalk.com
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skysports.com and icteesside for boro news (basically this one saves me going out to buy the local paper)
Bayern are set to let hargreeves go! this news comes on the same day liverpool have announced they will make a major announcement very soon. could be related! also Leeds have finnally signed someone good. they have signed Craig Hignett (my all time fav boro player seriously when i was 14 & robson took over hr tryed to get rid of him, i was one of people who offered to put money towards his wages just to keep him- that £10 pocket money per week would have made a difference) anyway hope he does good for them ! |
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I hope we get Hargreaves, I rate him as a player.
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Stevie G just announced that he WON'T be leaving the greatest place on Earth this season. |
Kinda glad and kinda sad. On the plus side Lampard wont get pissed at another player being on a huge wage (125k reportedly), but on the bad side Gerrard is a great player who plays with lots of passion and we will probably bring in some dickhead who cares about his salary and not the club.
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is there any truth about scott parker being loaned to charlton?
i think you should keep him and lampard as your central midfielders and dump claude as think he is very over rated from what ive seen. whats the news on jimmy fh has he gone or still there? |
Jimmy is still there, if anyone bid for him I bet we would sell him. Makelele is solid but he is a cheat so I would like him to be sold. I doubt Parker being loaned to Charlton would happen, the fans would hardly be pleased to see a player who turned his back on them return on loan. Although Curbishley reckosn Charlton would have finished the season much better had they had Parker.
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ive been impressed by parker since the macdonlds adverts, think he has got better and better as the seasons have gone on.
i can and cant understand why he joined chelsea, he joined as they are one of the so called bigger clubs but why sign when they have such a squad you will struggle to get into and when you do play its out of position so not showing what you can do best. i think this was another chairman signing rather than manager. i wouldnt mind seeing jimmy come to boro as think he has a few years left in him yet! |
It was Abramovich, Ranieri didn't endorse any of our winter signings, I doubt he had much say on Cole or Veron either.
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I read a while back Charlton were meant to be in the market for both Rommedahl (seems likely) *and* Kezman from PSV. If he could settle in England then Kezman would be a fantastic signing for them, since they badly need a decent goalscorer if they're ever going to get into Europe.
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I have heard about Rommedahl, thats on Teletext today, Kezmen has been linked with a number of clubs.
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True but I can't see Arsenal, Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool (signing Cisse) or Newcastle (supposedly signing Beattie and Milner) going for him, so Charlton would probably be his best bet.
Unless he wants to go warm the bench for Forssell at Birmingham :lol: |
I think Spurs should go after him, with Kanoute going, they need someone to compete with Defoe and Keane, but I hate Spurs so I would rather he went to Charlton.
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Super Helder Postiga ;)
That's if he survives his crucifixtion when he gets back from Portugal :o |
Oh yeah how could I forget about him :$. I guess Charlton is about the only side he might join, I doubt Everton or the Saints will go for him, having said that if Beattie leaves Southampton will want a replacement.
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To answer your question oxstar Speroni is a decent keeper in the SPL. I am not sure if he is a premiership quality player but we will see.
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Yeah I forget which keeper in Euro 2004 did it, but it reminded my of former Germany keerp Andrea Kopke, he always punched the ball.
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niemi came from spl as an unkown quantity and he seems to have done well so this keeper may be the same. |
Mayeb it was the Czech keeper. and I had heard of Neimi, I'm pretty sure others would have.
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<s>None of your business</s> I dunno but he fell out with Spurs because he wants to play for Mali and they don't want him to.
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Yup still waiting for some good old Newcastle signings.
We are gonna blow next season unless something is done. |
STEVEN GERRARD :love:
All we need now is £25 million for Owen, and things'll be cushty. |
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Ere Dave fella, are Boro gonna be paying to keep Zenden or are we letting him go back to Chelsea?
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Letting him go back to Chelsea? Yeah like you have a choice, it's if we are letting him be at you next year. Apparently he has said he wants another season in the Premiership, with us having Duff and Robben, we don't need Zenden, I think he will be with you next year.
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zendens dad has (apparently) said that once euro2004 is over he is coming to listen to our offer along with others, he has turned down a turkish team as wants to stay in england.
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Apparantely Millwall are said to want Les Ferdinand. He'd better stay :'(
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We've got a few players. Robinson, Steve Caldwell, Stephen Elliott, Liam Lawrence, Dean Whitehead. Tommy Smith rejected us for Derby.
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any idea why tommt 'the new kevin phillips' smith decided to go to derby ? |
Hasselbaink has been released on a free :o
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Middlesbrough confirm interest in Hargreaves and are said to be ready to make a £6.5 million bid. Middlesbrough are said to have a great chance of signing him as he has worked with manager Steve Mclaren in the England setup and is said to be a big fan of Mclarens coaching and managerial style.
Wooooooooooooooooot for the Boro :love: |
Not so wooot the way he played in Euro 2004 :$
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Looks like Novo is going to turn Celtic down according to the Daily Record. He has said that he wants to hold out for a move to Rangers since that is his prefered option. This is kind of old news but ****ing delighted that Scott Severin has signed for Aberdeen. With Calderwood now as manager I see a much better season coming up than last which was just plain awful.
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I heard that Valencia were preparing to sue Benitez...:-\
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yes i can confirm you have heard that valencia were preparing to sue Benitez! is it just me or is anyone else going to miss houlier? there here :roll: there there :eek: there every f**kin where :shifty: houliers eye's :wtf: houliers eye's well thats what ill miss about him every time he got interviewed noone knew where the interviewer was stood coz he couldnt keep hiss eyes still ! |
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did mclaren not see how he played in that position over in portugal? he'd be a good signing but not in that position, id play him in centre mid with boatang. also i dont know if im easily pleased or was drunk watching holland match last night but either way i was impressed by reizeger, he kept ronaldo quite until they switched wings with him and was attacking well in second half. think dipite his age he might be a decent signing for us. (only thing that worries me is the size of his mouth and lips, if we get a strong wind coming off the tees then he'd but f**ked trying to run against it with the wind resistance theyd cause) |
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Middlesbrough signing Kluivert on a free, :eek: I predict that this transfer will not go through.
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We've signed Jason Wilcox :(
We need some younger players please Micky :mad: |
Man U have signed one of Barcelona's young defenders, Gerard Pique Bernabeu (oh the irony)
Viduka looks set to move to Boro for £4m Milner looks set to move to Newcastle for £3.6m Davids has said he likes the offer he's had from Tottenham :| :eek: |
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what why not ? are we not good enough for him, after the way he played in portugal they must be queing up for him now! when he does actually put the effort in and plays then he is good & if he did this then he would be a good signing. personnly id like to see us go for jimmy fh as dispite his age he is a proven scorer in our league and has at least 2-3 years left in him. also viduka is set for a medical today, only thing that worries me is that i remember him getting sent off during his last few games for leeds. does anyone know if he served a ban or if he still has to serve one? |
I think Viduka would miss your first game, he was sent off at Bolton and missed their last 2 games after that, probably due to suspension for both. I would think it's a 3 game ban, so just the first game for you.
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There's also the fact that he's free. In other news, Bryan Hughes has gone to Charlton from Birmingham on a bosman. |
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If we get Kluivert and Viduka and Hargreaves I will be happy with The managers Summer signing for the first time since the summer we bought Juninho, Ravenelli and Emerson.
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Newcastle have officially signed Milner for £5m. Should be a good signing for us, Nicky Butt is supposed to be following by the end of next week.
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Boro have been linked with a stupid number of huge names for years, way back to the Bryan Robson days. Partly why I hate Bryan Robson, every f</>ucking week he'd come out and say "Yes, we're interested in *world class player*" when they would NEVER move to Middlesbrough. Besides which who have Middlesbrough signed recently who's world class? :wtf: |
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Ambrose needs to learn to cross. Right now he's just a player who runs up and down and occasionally does a wonder shot.
He also suffers a lot of pressure, being Nobby's replacement. That and his inexperience really show up in his performances. People are still angry about Nobby being sold and so he needs to develop into a seriously good player to earn forgiveness for something that's not his fault. |
Trabelsi is joining the arse for 3m apparently. Stupid Gunners being a more attractive club than us :mad:
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No kick-off time has yet been confirmed but the game is likely to be scheduled for either before or after the Community Shield match. :cool: |
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paragraph b - ok we have been linked with a stupid number of players over the past few years, no more than any over team though! come on all i read last summer was wolves are chasing *insert name*,wolves are in talks with, wolves have bid x amount for x player as they look to strenghten their side in hope of premiership survival. i can say i read the same about boro, charlton, newcastle, spurs, hell i even occasionally read chelsea were chasing people. come on its the same for every club and when robson said we were interested id say at least 6 times out of 10 when he said it we were and had contacted the other club about the player. the last bit on paragraph b where you say they would NEVER (never being in capitals, clearly stating to myself that you are jelous of the signings boro have made over the years & have also never been to the area to see whats on offer to the players) sign for boro. i will say some names for you: Bryan Robson - noone said he'd come here but he did. Juninho - star of umbro cup, we got him Ravinelli - european cup winner would never sign for boro, o hang on he did and scored 31 goals that season. Paul Merson, Emerson,Southgate,Ince,Gazza,Geremi,Boksic etc. none of these players would ever play for boro but somehow they all did. can you explain this please Mr. MondayMorning ? Paragraph c - please define world class as i havent seen wolves sign anone of this calibre unless you count carl cort :shifty: as SRS said mendieta is a world class player well lazio paid £28m for him so he must have something right? in history there have only been about 2-3 players id say were world class - Pele, Usabio, Bobby Moore. now if your talking who have boro signed that is good then juninho, zenden, doriva (world cup winner so could be classed as world class) etc. your comments please MMM |
-Mendieta is good but not the player he was. If he was truly that good Lazio would never have let him go, or more to the point Barcelona would have signed him after he went on loan there. He wasn't even in the Spanish squad for Euro 2004 when he would've been an almost certain starter 2-3 years ago, so that tells you something.
-We were never linked with anyone who would be an unrealistic target for this club. When Robson was in charge all I ever read about was him being 'interested' in signing god only knows how many players *that were beyond Middlesbrough's means* - Man United get linked with a ton of players but they can buy almost anyone because they're a huge club...examples off the top of my head include the De Boer brothers (when they were still at Ajax and could've moved to any club in Europe), Sol Campbell, Kluivert (again when he had the pick of teams in Europe), Shevchenko, and I'm pretty sure at one point he might've mentioned Zidane :| The point is he made himself look like a prat by even thinking they would ever go near Middlesbrough. -If you think I'm jealous of Middlesbrough you must be on a different planet. -Bryan Robson - a mini Chelsea years before Abramovich came along. Threw money at a team and hoped some of it stuck. Won nothing. Eventually got found out. His fantastic management skills sure worked at Bradford this season didn't they? -Juninho - wow, the Umbro Cup :| Seriously, he had a good season when he first arrived (lord knows why he did, I'll never understand it) but then his form dipped. Sold, broke his leg, couldn't get a regular place in a team back home, came back still good but not the player he once was. -Ravenelli - booted out of Juventus as part of their revolving door of strikers in the late 90s. Lasted just over a season, mainly because of the fantastic paypacket he was picking up. -Merson - good player but you can't honestly tell me he would slot into a major European team. -Emerson - came for the money, lost interest in the 2nd half of the season, sold. -Southgate - booted out of Villa as part of Deadly Doug's annual costcutting. Not the player he once was but still a decent defender. Best years are behind him though. -Ince - see Southgate, replace Villa with Liverpool and costcutting with managerial fallout. -Gascoigne - please. The man is and has been for years a walking joke. Besides which we had him last season so don't be so proud ;) -Geremi - loan signing, doesn't really count. Could've come back but showed how much he liked the place by signing for Chelsea. -Boksic - as before with Ravenelli, except Ravanelli wasn't a broken down cripple. Has flashes of his old self but time and injuries pretty much destroyed him as a player. -World class, i.e. someone who could play for any team in the world. Dunno why you mention Wolves cause it's not about us, the last world class player we had was probably Billy Wright back in the 50s. Mendieta used to be very good, but he isn't the player he was. Zidane isn't world class? Nedved? Raul? Ayala? Shevchenko? Maldini? The list could go on. -Zenden isn't your player, he's Chelsea's and he knew he wouldn't get a game this season if he hadn't moved somewhere. Doriva isn't all that - Roque Jnr is a world cup winner as well, and he didn't exactly set the world on fire at Leeds did he? |
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Middlesbrough are ALWAYS linked with big players. Ok, a lot of the time its just the media fishing for a story, but aside from the top 5 clubs in the Premiership you have been linked (possible exception being Tottenham) with more players than anyone else, and so often it turns out to be bullsh</>it. Also, why are you having a go at Wolves? Wolves (probably by MMM's own admission) are not a big club. They'd just been promoted, they were linked with plenty of players, because the media were playing up to the fact that they had just been promoted and that they needed to build the squad up. There is a marked difference between "linked with players because you need more" and "linked with players because people are trying to take a poxy north eastern club and make it look bigger than it actually is". Honestly, take this from anyone who is not a Middlesbrough fan, its not hating you, because to be honest no-one (bar Sunderland/Newcastle) has any reason to hate such a poxy small club. It is just the truth, Middlesbrough are linked with everyone, and Bryan Robson is notorious for getting the hopes of the fans up, and failing them. Hey, you might have had a good team, but he still got you relegated. Yes, Boro have signed a fair share of good players, but where has it got you? Bryan Robson,Juninho, Ravinelli, Paul Merson, Emerson,Southgate,Ince,Gazza,Geremi,Boksic You mention this lot. Notice that they are all either WAY past there best, or were instrumental in getting you to the great heights of nowhere. Bryan Robson is an absolute failure as a football manager. Besides, you seem to forget one of the major reasons anyone would play for a team like Middlesbrough. You're a big club???? NO. Its the almighty dollar my friend. Each of them will have been earning £50,000 a week. If you wanna define World Class, how about players who are highly regarded around the world as top footballing talent. You could take World Class as the biggest compliment in football standards today, while the players you mention would come under the category of Legendary footballers. Again, stop hating on Wolves. They can't help being sh</>it (sorry MMM :'( ) Your defending a team who have done precisely fu</>ck all after spending millions and millions of pounds only players who are looking for a payday. The club has gone, and is going nowhere. You have a track record for paying ridiculous sums of money to players who are often past their best. You have a track record for saying you are going to sign player after player, you are linked with some top-quality players, who afterwards don't sign for you. Don't have a go at someone for stating the truth. Also, if your thinking about having a go at Liverpool, purely as a means of retalitation, don't bother. |
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firstly i wasnt having a go at wolves i was simply pointing out that they have been linked with numourous players as have middlesbrough. the reason for this being like you said the PRESS trying to get a story. for fuck sake the sun advertised about 4 years ago that liverpool were in talks with a player called didier baptise! this player is a fictional person from the sky 1 soap dream team. so the press make things up all the time. we are not a poxy noth east club nor are we a big club. what we are is a premier league team who are looking to mobe on and become one of the big clubs. it is a word called ambision and that is what we are selling to the players that come here. thus proving effective last season by winning the league cup and getting into europe. bryan robson contributed to getting us relegated, look up the facts moron it was keith lamb, boro's cheif executive who advised him and the players we had available that we didnt have to travel to blackburn as he'd sorted it with the F.A, thus proving to be a lie and we had 3 points deducted, had they not been deducted facts show we would have stayed up! all bar boksic the players i mentioned have helped the club in some way, including gazza, on his first full season he got more man of match awards than any other boro player! i am defending a team that has spent millions in the past, now have a wage structure which gibson will not break and are in europe! |
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<font face=verdana size=3 color="#ff6600">Wasn't Boksic the premiership's highest paid player at one point? :o
I dunno, I like Boro but it has also annoyed me that they're always linked with these great players. I understand that your Chairman loves the club and wants to take it forward but sometimes, a bit like Roman, it seems he has more money than sense. With the amount of money that Gibson and McLaren have spent, id be asking why you were finishing behind the likes of Charlton and Bolton. Big names and expensive players dont make great teams.</font> |
I didn't say Robson threw money into the team, I said he threw money at the team. He spent millions on either transfer fees or wages and for a time it worked, but then he got found out because as a manager he is not much cop. He managed to get Bradford relegated this season as another example of his 'skills', so it very much is relevant.
Ravanelli signing for Middlesbrough for the money doesn't 'defeat my opinion' :wtf: it's the whole point. It's like old players signing for teams in Qatar or Saudi Arabia or wherever...they get offered stupid sums of money, of course they're going to take it. The whole point about Merson was that he was a spent force when Arsenal let him go. At that point in his career (and since) he has not been the player he was at his peak for various reasons. If he hadn't had his drugs/booze/gambling habits and had looked after himself, you wouldn't have had a chance of signing him. The thing about Geremi signing for Chelsea for money is ironic as that is the major reason behind people like Southgate and Ince signing for you years before. Middlesbrough had (not any more, I will give you that) a well-deserved reputation for paying out stupid sums of money to players. Gascoigne should never have gone to the World Cup in 98, Euro 96 was the last time he was ever any good as a player. Just because he wins a player of the game award doesn't mean he's any cop...Paul Butler and Jody Craddock won player of the game awards for us this season, doesn't mean they weren't shite :| Boksic was deemed a world class player 2-3 years before he signed for Middlesbrough. By the time he did he wasn't one any more. Similar theme with most of the players listed. Saying Zidane isn't world class doesn't exactly help your stance :| Raul has played in the Real Madrid team for the last 8-9 years without ever being displaced, considering the amount of talent that has gone through that club that is an amazing feat. As for internationals, I'm almost certain he's Spain's top goalscorer of all time (or close to it)...just because they as a team choke doesn't mean he isn't a world class player who could play for any team (which is the criteria I already stated). Same for Ayala and Shevchenko...just because Argentina and Ukraine haven't won anything doesn't mean they're not outstanding players. Nedved is not 'on his way out' :wtf: If he was Juventus would be rid of him...you might stand a chance of signing him then :lol: And Maldini is a better defender than your entire back 4 put together. |
Boro piss on Wolves. Just had to say that even if it's not the arguement :D
And when Boro signed Juninho the first time, he was easy top 10 best players in the world and was the best player in Britain by the end of the season (yes, better than Cantona). |
And Porto piss on Man U :p
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"A small Portuguese child laughed at my moustache, saying his was thicker and more bushy. I held him down and knuckled his head until he said that Manchester United are the best team in the whole wide world and Paul Scholes' goal against Porto was definitely a goal which means that Porto are poo."
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MMM if you go back to your original point you said that boro are linked with players that would NEVER come to middlesbrough. all the formentioned players were said by many in the press to not consider us. reguardless of wether we paid them £63k a week (ala boksic) or they lived in manchester (ala robson for first seson as manger) the point my friend is they said the players wouldnt come and play for us yet they did. you are only peed off because you read that boro are chasing this player then that player that aint our fault if you have a problem with it take it up with the newspaper you read it in or dont read that artical. i get pissed off reading chelsea are set to sign who ever but i aint bitching about it. 2 other things for you MMM a) robson may have got bradford relegated but that had nothing to do with the fact of your point about middlesbrough not being able to sign people because they would NEver play for us. You say he's a bad manager i disagree, he's not the best but he's not the worst and i think bradford were doomed along time before he took over. b) i never said nedved was on his way out, i said he was on his way to being a world class player. Raul may be spains top scorer but when it really matters i.e world cup he just doesnt do it. Zidane is a good player but i also think he is a bit lazy. Malidini was brilliant, i am talking paulo & i assume you are too, if he's better than the boro back 4 then he's better than the full wolves squad! |
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Zinedine Zidane scored 2 goals in a World Cup final to win it for his country. He also inspired his team to win the European Championships in 2000. He has also scored the winning goal in the Champions League final for Real Madrid and has won the two strongest league titles in Europe, Serie A and La Liga. Now I don't really give a shit about the rest of your argument, but to deny either of those two are world class players...you need to have a little word with yourself. |
Acording to The People newspaper Crystal Palace are weighing up a move for West Ham midfielder Steve Lomas, while the Eagles have tabled a £500,000 bid for Leicester striker James Scowcroft. Also in another newspaper I read that Palace are close to signing Everton Forward Wayne Rooney??? only joking :lol: I read that Palace are close to signing Everton Forward Kevin Campbell if this is true :mad: :mad: :mad: At all of it.
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He just didn't have the best season last year, i wouldn't go as far as saying he's worse than Shipperley though ;).
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I always thought Scowcroft was a striker. Connolly is a brilliant player I still can't work out why Palace got Shipperly instead of Connolly. Williams is a good player too. Maybe Palace will sign them.
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Williams has joined us from Forest already.
When we had Scowcroft as a right or left midfielder in division 1 last time it worked well, but not in the premiership.He did do quite well towards the end of the season though.If you used him as an out and out striker then he could link well with Johnson i suppose, he's just not very prolific. |
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<font face=verdana size=3 color="#ff6600">Shipperly is a scummer. Derry wont cut it either. You'll need to just completly gut your squad and sign a shit load of new players.
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Sir Les has gone to Bolton :'(
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like i said previously id say at least 6 - 10 were genuine intrest in players when robson was manager which he followed up on. only thing is if there is a good player who may became available you get numourous managers saying they would be interested but have no follow up (example of this is young wayne rooney - how many managers have said they would like him since euro 2004) i only mentioned robson as he was still a player when he came to us and we made him a player manager also my bad about nedved as i could have worded it better, everyone has different opinions about players and i think Zidane is a good player again he is on his way to being world class but i still think he can be lazy and thats why i dont class him in that catagory YET. raul is famous for doing it in any competition for any club except spain at major competitions so that is why i dont class him as being WORLD class as he scores in friendly's but always lets you down in major competitions. Maldini was quality and was also prob better than the boro squad! |
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