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Yup. It really was a pleasure watching him when he was with us. Ridiculously good footballer.
I can't watch Arsenal, they annoy me. Everything about them makes we want to puke.
Yup! Love the guy. Strange that I don't hold any ill will toward an ex-red. He seems to be flourishing at Barca and I'm delighted for him. When we get to the CL next year I just know we'll be playing Barca. Then I might feel differently....
That volley, how he set himself so quickly and barely had to adjust to hit it. Unreal
Ha ha ha, an Arsenal thread turns into a Suarez love fest.
I think this thread should be renamed CL footy or something like that.
I watched Porto vs Dynamo Kyiv. Tried to follow Ruben Neves, but Porto were so awful overall that nobody really stood out. Surprising since Porto didn't lose at all this season until this game, if I'm not mistaken. Dynamo dominated for long stretches and should have scored a couple more. Yarmolenko just tore up their right flank, I was thinking that he plays like a more mature version of Ibe – very hard to stop when he runs with the ball with so much pace and power, but he also delivers the end product consistently – something Ibe still needs to learn.
My new favorite Rybalka won the penalty that Yarmolenko converted.
I watched Porto vs Dynamo Kyiv. Tried to follow Ruben Neves, but Porto were so awful overall that nobody really stood out. Surprising since Porto didn't lose at all this season until this game, if I'm not mistaken. Dynamo dominated for long stretches and should have scored a couple more. Yarmolenko just tore up their right flank, I was thinking that he plays like a more mature version of Ibe – very hard to stop when he runs with the ball with so much pace and power, but he also delivers the end product consistently – something Ibe still needs to learn.
My new favorite Rybalka won the penalty that Yarmolenko converted.
I block him out. He ceased to exist for me when he left. I've no interest at all in what Barca do, at least unless they finally get done for corruption.
I don't hold ill-will towards any ex-Red just because they're an ex. The ones I do dislike are those who messed the club around before leaving. Sterling tops that list, with McMoneyman pretty close behind. Owen and Torres are on the list as well, but not the absolute dregs like the first two.
But Suarez REALLY messed the club around one summer, then next summer he was adamant he wanted to leave, and did.
It has to be his fighting spirit on the field, however he felt (together with his genius) that makes us have a soft spot for him.
It has to be his fighting spirit on the field, however he felt (together with his genius) that makes us have a soft spot for him.
Suarez wanted to go to fucking arsenal. He was a cunt.
But before he left he'd got his head straight and nearly dragged us to a title. Not the same thing at all in my book.
They're all wankers. Suarez signed a new contract and claimed he was committed to the club in the long run. No doubt the club, with its sad obsession with PR, was complicit in that, but he's an odious poppet of puss who no doubt is now only happy because he's living in driving distance of his dear old mouthy dad-in-law. He's now playing in a league of about four competitive teams with the Spanish Harlem Globetrotters and I couldn't give a rat's arse how the toothy twat feels about the ease of his excellence.
Fucking Macca sitting on the fence again. 🙂
Wasn't Mcmanaman set to sign until the club screwed him over and withdrew their offer at the 11th hour only to come back with a much lesser offer?
That wasn't the way it went down. It was Uncle Roy's individual fault, not the club's - the poor sap was totally dominated by McMoneyman and made an initial offer without getting it approved by the board, who refused to sanction it and made a lesser offer. You might argue it's understandable that McMoneyman should see his @rse over it (though his own behaviour towards Uncle Roy was largely to blame for the way things happened, and incidentally was probably the reason why the board refused to back the initial offer) but the way he then kidded on he might sign a new deal when he had already signed a pre-contract with Real, and cheated the club out of a fee altogether in the process, was despicable. I'm staggered we've taken him back on the staff now TBH.
No. We offered him a contract (which in the end the club weren't prepared to back) and he dragged his feet, so we offered him to a few clubs and he used this to justify screwing us over and going for fuck all.
Intriguing little snippet from Souey's recent interview with Graham Hunter: when asked why he left Liverpool for Italy when he did, he said, 'My wife, at the time, was coming into an inheritance and needed to spend time abroad'. Was that widely known at the time as the reason???
I certainly don't recall anything of the kind being said at the time.
What do you make of Hunter BTW? Spanish football expert or not, he clearly has a very personal bee in his bonnet about Suarez for some reason, to the extent of contriving never even to mention his name when discussing Barca.
What do you make of Hunter BTW? Spanish football expert or not, he clearly has a very personal bee in his bonnet about Suarez for some reason, to the extent of contriving never even to mention his name when discussing Barca.
I do remember the thing about her inheritance. As I recall she was a very wealthy woman in her own right. Never heard that it was a factor in the transfer though.
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