Re: Cunt
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[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=34487.msg900038#msg900038 date=1246686259]
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[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=34487.msg899991#msg899991 date=1246665596]
If this wasn't so sad it would be fucking hilarious, as said previously I can't really blame him, but he has well and truly burned his bridges now, I never really thought it would happen, and then to say he did it without a thought, at least he could have said he had to wrestle long and hard with his feelings, even if he didn't mean it :-X
regards
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If he'd said that, no one would believe it anyway.
I admire the way you've stuck up for him, and your claims that he is the victim in all this do have some merit; even if I think he should take some of the responsibility.
Now I just hope he breaks something and is put out of the game forever.
Sorry if that makes me callous.
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What happened yesterday does not alter my view on the circumstances of his leaving . At the risk of repeating myself, I don't believe he ran down his contract with the sole intention of leaving, he saw changes ahead and wanted to keep his options open.
Rafa was not keen on him and made luke warm attempts to keep him, as he wanted Morientes who was available at that window in time from Madrid. Yes, he went over to visit the Liverpool players at the Euro's and saw Cunt too, and for the politics made it into a mission to get him to stay.
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Where do you get this from Vladders? Because it sounds suspiciously like made-up nonsense- and you've been repeating this story for years, without a shred of anything more than conjecture to support your argument. Rafa would have been crazy to have wanted rid of a proven top class striker after arriving at Anfield. He even wanted to keep Heskey, God forgive him. All this 'luke warm' business is bollocks. He wanted Owen to stay, but he also wanted the situation resolved, one way or t'other. You have decided that because he wanted Morientes he didn't want Owen, which is not entirely convincing as an argument.
As to the situation when he went to Newcastle, Rafa had clearly given the deal the thumbs up, considering Parry was negotiating the deal. It was Parry, ultimately, who decided that we couldn't meet Owen's demands, with Owen apparently phoning him, and asking him to offer a deal as good as that offered by Newcastle. Remember, it was Parry, not Rafa, who made the call on such matters. Parry wasn't asking Rafa "is he worth so much a week" or whatever. But again, somehow, you have managed to construe all this as Rafa's dislike of poor Mickey. I don't have any truck with this argument at all.
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My theory carries just as much weight as everyone else's, it is all speculation. It's just that the version I (and some others) subscribe to does not fit what people wanted to think at the time.
Oh and cut out the nonsense and bollocks stuff
regards
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=34487.msg900067#msg900067 date=1246695174]
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=34487.msg900038#msg900038 date=1246686259]
[quote author=Avmenon link=topic=34487.msg900015#msg900015 date=1246674162]
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=34487.msg899991#msg899991 date=1246665596]
If this wasn't so sad it would be fucking hilarious, as said previously I can't really blame him, but he has well and truly burned his bridges now, I never really thought it would happen, and then to say he did it without a thought, at least he could have said he had to wrestle long and hard with his feelings, even if he didn't mean it :-X
regards
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If he'd said that, no one would believe it anyway.
I admire the way you've stuck up for him, and your claims that he is the victim in all this do have some merit; even if I think he should take some of the responsibility.
Now I just hope he breaks something and is put out of the game forever.
Sorry if that makes me callous.
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What happened yesterday does not alter my view on the circumstances of his leaving . At the risk of repeating myself, I don't believe he ran down his contract with the sole intention of leaving, he saw changes ahead and wanted to keep his options open.
Rafa was not keen on him and made luke warm attempts to keep him, as he wanted Morientes who was available at that window in time from Madrid. Yes, he went over to visit the Liverpool players at the Euro's and saw Cunt too, and for the politics made it into a mission to get him to stay.
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Where do you get this from Vladders? Because it sounds suspiciously like made-up nonsense- and you've been repeating this story for years, without a shred of anything more than conjecture to support your argument. Rafa would have been crazy to have wanted rid of a proven top class striker after arriving at Anfield. He even wanted to keep Heskey, God forgive him. All this 'luke warm' business is bollocks. He wanted Owen to stay, but he also wanted the situation resolved, one way or t'other. You have decided that because he wanted Morientes he didn't want Owen, which is not entirely convincing as an argument.
As to the situation when he went to Newcastle, Rafa had clearly given the deal the thumbs up, considering Parry was negotiating the deal. It was Parry, ultimately, who decided that we couldn't meet Owen's demands, with Owen apparently phoning him, and asking him to offer a deal as good as that offered by Newcastle. Remember, it was Parry, not Rafa, who made the call on such matters. Parry wasn't asking Rafa "is he worth so much a week" or whatever. But again, somehow, you have managed to construe all this as Rafa's dislike of poor Mickey. I don't have any truck with this argument at all.
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My theory carries just as much weight as everyone else's, it is all speculation. It's just that the version I (and some others) subscribe to does not fit what people wanted to think at the time.
Oh and cut out the nonsense and bollocks stuff
regards