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Originally Posted by Cactus Sid I could reply for him. 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 bullshit. 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 shit (sorry MMM ) Your defending a team who have done precisely fuck 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.

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!