Well, I have not been on a lot of forums. To be fair, it is kinda hard to find examples from you as your previous incarnations used to get banned within 4 weeks 😉 and I haven't kept track of all of your usernames.
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Well, I have not been on a lot of forums. To be fair, it is kinda hard to find examples from you as your previous incarnations used to get banned within 4 weeks 😉 and I haven't kept track of all of your usernames.
It could be worse, you could be named Chris Bascombe and written an article for the world to read
Soon enough, the rest of the nation will wake up to Le Tallec's talents. Let's not forget who was named Player of the tournament in the World Youth Championships two years ago," says Chris Bascombe
In most cases, paying #12m for a teenager would be considered rank stupidity, over-indulgence or, at the very least, a gamble which even Chris Kirkland's dad would shy away from.
When Manchester United do it, it's a stroke of transfer genius.
According to everyone who they make listen, United have just signed the best teenager in the world. By God are we hearing about it.
I'm not doubting Ronaldo's abilities. Clearly he's a talented kid who may be on the threshold of greatness. It just strikes me as rather odd that no-one has given the same attention to Liverpool's equally stunning new teenage recruit.
It seems Gerard Houllier's mistake with Anthony Le Tallec was to buy him early rather than delay until everyone in Europe wanted him. Obviously, Liverpool should have waited until Le Tallec's value was #12m.
Soon enough, the rest of the nation will wake up to Le Tallec's talents. Let's not forget who was named Player of the tournament in the World Youth Championships two years ago.
No doubt both Gerard and Sir Alex watched those same youth championships in Argentina a few years back and noticed the same players.
Indeed, Liverpool had already signed Le Tallec by then and were strongly linked with Ronaldo themselves, but can't afford to splash out like United.
Time will tell who's got the better deal, but for value for money I know who I'm backing. It's a bit like Houllier and Ferguson have both dined at the same top class restaurant and had their pick of the best main courses on the menu.
Houllier has managed to get his dish at a quarter of the cost Ferguson has paid, and yet it's his rival who is getting all the praise.
Indeed, I'm getting an eerie sense of deja vu when it comes to theman dubbed TLT who's about to explode onto the Premiership. I remember how slow our London based number one writers were to realise who Steven Gerrard was a few years back.
The Kop Magazine I once wrote even launched a campaign to get him in the England squad, so little attention was he receiving. Then, when the rest of the country noticed a year later, they decided to make him their own property.
It was a similar story with Wayne Rooney at Everton. A friend of mine who works on a national newspaper tried to get a feature on Rooney into his paper in the summer of 2002. They were having none of it. How times changed three months later when "Rooney Opens Crisp Packet" stories were making the front page.
Le Tallec won't get the same attention as Rooney, Gerrard or Michael Owen because he ain't English. But the few glimpses I've had of him remind me so much of the first time I saw Gerrard.
So young, yet so full of class. So clearly ready to play at the highest level and begin the learning curve which will take him to the top of the game.
One of the most encouraging, but sadly overlooked parts of Sunday was Le Tallec's being named a sub. Pity he didn't get on, although Houllier said he was prepared to play the youngster if the circumstances of the game had been different.
The career paths of Le Tallec and Ronaldo are sure to cross regularly over the next decade. Should the French gem prove himself the better player, you never know, maybe the manager who signed him will get a bit of credit.
Ouch ... reading that brings so many memories of hope.
A cheeky £10M bid perhaps? A good back-up?
Fact is, and this is really depressing, he prob would've been no worse than Origi for the past half year. The state of our strikers..
If it's any help, you are not alone. I wouldn't have gone quite as far as to say that nobody could do it, but I thought the King would be a waste of money. Imagine.
Well, he does score around 10 or 11 a season. If you count all competitions. That would mean he's scored about the same as Coutinho.
You could score 10-11 in a line up with Sane, Silva, De Bruyne & Aguero.
I think a lot of us were on the Aquilani train. We'd seen him be excellent for Roma and the fee was reasonable. The injuries were not much of a concern then.
Reading through the thread after his first performance for the reserves made me want to hide underneath the table in shame.
Reading through the thread after his first performance for the reserves made me want to hide underneath the table in shame.
Hansern - pick a name of a shit signing, i guarantee you were on the bandwagon.
Luis Alberto being one for example. LeTallecWiz even attempted a Xavi and Iniesta comparison in this thread:
http://sixcrazyminutes.com/index.ph...you-doc-mac-fuck-you-right-in-the-face.32737/
Luis Alberto being one for example. LeTallecWiz even attempted a Xavi and Iniesta comparison in this thread:
http://sixcrazyminutes.com/index.ph...you-doc-mac-fuck-you-right-in-the-face.32737/
Looking at it positive when in comes to some of our signings is cool in my book. I've been negative towards several of our signings aswell. Thats just the way it is when you rate a player or not and actually say something positive, instead of taking the easy way out and saying everything is shite.
After remembering your comments about Niasse, its nearly a crime having a go at others for rating players like Origi and Karius.
Judging talent my arse.
I was obv talking out of my arse when I suggested we should be in for Bendtner (even though it was as back-up/competition) and I am not proud of it today because boy he's been wasting his talents.
I've also really bigged up Viktor Fischer and he's now struggling to get time with the highly average Boro team, and I have honestly not got a clue what that is about. Has he completely lost it? Is he injured? Does their manager hate him? Don't know, but it seems I was wrong there as well. Højbjerg is also struggling for playing time with Soton but I am still utterly and completely confident he'll be a master class someday. But fact is, I could be wrong. Again.
I don't mind being wrong though (if it's not happening too frequently that is, then I fucking hate it), and I even try to learn from it somehow, but it's all part of the fun isn't it. Sticking your neck out. Watching @Rosco having a field day, jumping up and down on your predictions, heavily.
*You still shouldn't have mentioned Lee Cattermole though @manwithnoname.. there simply must be some borders that shouldn't be crossed. (Him and Bendtner would make a truly charming couple though).
I've also really bigged up Viktor Fischer and he's now struggling to get time with the highly average Boro team, and I have honestly not got a clue what that is about. Has he completely lost it? Is he injured? Does their manager hate him? Don't know, but it seems I was wrong there as well. Højbjerg is also struggling for playing time with Soton but I am still utterly and completely confident he'll be a master class someday. But fact is, I could be wrong. Again.
I don't mind being wrong though (if it's not happening too frequently that is, then I fucking hate it), and I even try to learn from it somehow, but it's all part of the fun isn't it. Sticking your neck out. Watching @Rosco having a field day, jumping up and down on your predictions, heavily.
*You still shouldn't have mentioned Lee Cattermole though @manwithnoname.. there simply must be some borders that shouldn't be crossed. (Him and Bendtner would make a truly charming couple though).
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Lee Cattermole was just another on my long list of "Surely better than Lucas" players. Poulsen was probably even on that.
I really liked Peekay's post. At the end of the day it's a football forum. It can be used to host outlandish claims to big up your players with potentially like minded fans from time to time. It's easier to be negative on a player right from the off. It's a win-win situation for a poster.
My comments about Niasse ?
This:
String me up.
Your post is as it always is, it is absolutely expected that people are hopeful about signings. It is another thing entirely to justify a bad signing / deal based on the information available.
In that Alberto thread - all the red flags were identified by a few posters. To ignore them all and claim it'll be a great signing is just retarded.
Its not easier to be negative because you actually have to consider all aspects.
Its much easier to be a massively incorrect over positive idiot.
Look at shit i get to deal with for pointing out the obvious - and almost word for word you typed the same supercillious post in the Alberto thread.
Imagine that we actually managed to buy a Dane, that I had not even once suggested we should be in for. That is just asking for trouble.
PS I've also rejected the ideas of buying the likes of Nicolaj Jørgensen (the Feyenoord dude), Lucas Andersen, Peter Løvenkrands and Dennis Rommedahl when suggested on here. I am not totally insane, allegedly.
How do you feel that at the time we bought Aspas and Alberto we could have bought Eriksen instead ?
While you might have a point in fans sometimes hoping to much that the new signing is actually going to do well, there are too many examples on negativity towards players that actually are good. But being good is obvisously not good enough, you have to be fantastic in all areas it seem. A player like Firmino or Wijnaldum, that for big parts of the season have been great is branded useless shithouses when they dip in form, while a good 20 mins from Sturridge is proof that he is much better thanwhat else we got, when the Extreme poor performances he put in early season suggest that it is not necessarily true.
So in that respect you are wrong, it is much easier to be negative as every player will have poor games or even a period of form for different reasons. Then it is easy to gloat in a "told you so" manner.
Use Baros as an example. On here he is remebered as a thick tool, while he won a CL medal and was topscorer in the Euros as well.
Add Simon Kjaer to the list too.
Christ Ross, don't encourage him.
I know this. Eriksen is a good shout. The Danes have always had good technical players, so it's always worth listening out for the next rising star, even if they haven't quite been an international force for a while.
The most negative I've ever been about a signing (I am normally mostly optimistic and hopeful our scouts have done a great job) was when we signed that Jovanovic bloke.
I was truly bewildered as I could not fathom how on earth an about 30-year-old forward, with more or less no real pedigree whatsoever, playing for a Belgium team could ever improve us - especially at that stage of his career?
Voronin was also a very weird signing and I was pretty angry about us opting for Aspas and Alberto instead of Eriksen but I had no real clue about who they were so I was still expecting them to be good/promising.
But I did however totally look forward to see the amazing Senegalese Serialkiller set the Premier League on fire. What a let down that was.. *spits*
I was truly bewildered as I could not fathom how on earth an about 30-year-old forward, with more or less no real pedigree whatsoever, playing for a Belgium team could ever improve us - especially at that stage of his career?
Voronin was also a very weird signing and I was pretty angry about us opting for Aspas and Alberto instead of Eriksen but I had no real clue about who they were so I was still expecting them to be good/promising.
But I did however totally look forward to see the amazing Senegalese Serialkiller set the Premier League on fire. What a let down that was.. *spits*
Ha, I managed to squeeze that into my last post, before even seeing you mentioning it here.
Yeah, that was obv a bit of a let down for me, but as I really didn't know who they were, I kinda thought they were going to be good. I mean, if we chose them ahead of that lad I was convinced would be a star, they'd better be.
They weren't. And now I feel like crying. Again.
DAMN YOU ROSS!!
Yeah, I have to say though, Kjaer has never been one I rated as much as say, Agger. He's a bit more rough around the edges, a more physical character, the no-nonsense type. But I have suggested him as a foil for Agger but I don't think he would've really taken us forward (or even would've been better than Skrtel) as he's not developed as much as one could've hoped.
On his way to AC Milan or Inter btw, according to rumours over here so he's not totally off the grid.
Yeah sometimes I stick up for the massively incorrect over positive idiots but my posting style is rarely supercilious in nature.
EDIT : I found my posts in the same thread. They aren't that bad at all.
I'm pretty sure we all think that 7 million was a substantial wedge of money for an unproven player. No one is saying we got a bargain. No one is saying he is worth the money. We don't know anything about the player bar a few clips and a few stats. We honestly cannot judge him yet. We have to presume that the scout/manager thinks the juice is worth the squeeze and this guy has the potential to be a very good player for us.
Do I think he's worth 7million right now? No idea. Probably not, but that's guesswork on my part.
Of course I could wade in and lambast the signing and attack the player from the off. That way, if he fails I can claim to have been right all along and bask in the glory of being correct. That is a not a win-win situation for me or the club IMO.
Ross, you are turning into Brendan, and I don't mean Rogers.
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So should we all just turn on him now Ross? I couldn't be arsed arguing against people calling him a waste of money when I really hope he isn't. It isn't a position I want to make right now. I don't know how you have the motivation.
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There's 34 pages there - at quote and shame as I'm not going through 34 pages!
Amazing how I turned from not seeing the player play to comparing him to those two!
Blind as a wombat.
Thankfully, I still own 4 banks. Fifth on the way!
Fucking hell mate - that's so low. You could fucking push him to kill someone with a comment like that ...
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