Pedro

[mark1975]

Is this like the new thing in football, let your wife decide?

 

[Jack D Rips]

There seems to be a lot of it about

 

[Athens]

So, even footballers don't want to listen to their wives moan and whine on and on about things.

 

[Best Believe It]

Actually the Guardian and Express are suggesting that it was Fabregas and his partner who sold the London idea to Pedro's wife.

They're not really, they're saying that it played a part, along with a number of other factors - that Chelsea steamed in and didnt fanny about trying to negotiate payments for the best part of a month, that Mourinho hadn't mistreated a good mate of Pedro's (Valdes I'm on about here), that Fabregas gets on well with Pedro, that they were willing to pay him as much as the mancs were. Lots of different things. It's symptomatic of the bullshit sky sports hyperbole that it all gets boiled down to 'His wife decided'.

 

[Jack D Rips]

Well even playing a part is a lot different to "the square root of fuck all"

 

[ChastenedMUFC]

They're not really, they're saying that it played a part, along with a number of other factors - that Chelsea steamed in and didnt fanny about trying to negotiate payments for the best part of a month, that Mourinho hadn't mistreated a good mate of Pedro's (Valdes I'm on about here), that Fabregas gets on well with Pedro, that they were willing to pay him as much as the mancs were. Lots of different things. It's symptomatic of the bullshit sky sports hyperbole that it all gets boiled down to 'His wife decided'.

The reality is nobody had a clue what happened or why Pedro is heading to Chelsea rather than United.

We can all speculate as to the reasons and quote certain articles that confirm our own guess. But we are all only guessing.

Don't think LVG mistreated Valdes at all.
We signed him when he was searching for a club, paid him good wages and allowed him to train with Hoek.

He was always going to be backup to De Gea so LVG asked him to play some crappie u21 games and apparently he refused. Again I've no idea if that is the exact sequence of events but I don't see how we have treated him badly.

Valdes and LVG and both stubborn men with a long history hard to know who was really at fault.

http://m.sportskeeda.com/football/manchester-united-outcast-victor-valdes-difficult-person-work

“I am a very difficult person to work and live with. My wife deserves the biggest of trophies,”

I drifted and then just left, I’m sure people expected much more from me.”

Valdes: I wouldn’t be a football goalkeeper

Valdes has six La Liga, three Champions League, two Copa del Rey, and one Fifa World Cup winners’ medal to his name, but says that he would pursue a different path if he was born again

“If I was born again, I wouldn’t be a football goalkeeper,” said Valdés.

“They convinced me I had a lot of talent but it’s not an easy path and it hasn’t made up for all the years of suffering. There have been many days when I haven’t wanted to be there, but I do it since I was convinced when I was young.

“I have walked the path with discipline but it has brought me thousands of moments of suffering.”

 

[Best Believe It]

Well even playing a part is a lot different to "the square root of fuck all"

My point was that Talksport know nothing, they just hop on the nearest headline that is potentially attention-grabbing. The most tabloid aspect of the transfer is the fact that pedro's wife was spoken to by Fabregas' girlfriend. So they've hopped on that. It's not based on any particular insight they have, it's based on them reading the stories in the papers and ramping up whatever aspect they can use to hook in listeners/website traffic.

 

[ChastenedMUFC]

My point was that Talksport know nothing, they just hop on the nearest headline that is potentially attention-grabbing. The most tabloid aspect of the transfer is the fact that pedro's wife was spoken to by Fabregas' girlfriend. So they've hopped on that. It's not based on any particular insight they have, it's based on them reading the stories in the papers and ramping up whatever aspect they can use to hook in listeners/website traffic.

+1

 

[Oliver Twist]

“I am a very difficult person to work and live with. My wife deserves the biggest of trophies,”

I drifted and then just left, I’m sure people expected much more from me.”

Valdes: I wouldn’t be a football goalkeeper

Valdes has six La Liga, three Champions League, two Copa del Rey, and one Fifa World Cup winners’ medal to his name, but says that he would pursue a different path if he was born again

“If I was born again, I wouldn’t be a football goalkeeper,” said Valdés.

“They convinced me I had a lot of talent but it’s not an easy path and it hasn’t made up for all the years of suffering. There have been many days when I haven’t wanted to be there, but I do it since I was convinced when I was young.

“I have walked the path with discipline but it has brought me thousands of moments of suffering.”

If those quotes are real, then that's really quite ridiculous. Walk away from it, you dolt. No-one's holding a gun to your head.

 

[Mystic]

If those quotes are real, then that's really quite ridiculous. Walk away from it, you dolt. No-one's holding a gun to your head.

Indeed, what an arrogant arse, in a country where there's 25% unemployment and an economic crisis, he has the audacity to suggest he's been hard done by in his line of work, the line of work that pays him obscene amounts of cash to play football. Either the guy has no grip on reality, or he really is as self centred as they come.

 

[Athens]

Almost as bad as that player who compared himself to a slave.

Was that Ronaldo? Who was it?

 

[cloggypop]

Almost as bad as that player who compared himself to a slave.

Was that Ronaldo? Who was it?

The artist formally known as Prince?

 

[Athens]

The artist formally known as Prince?

Did prince play football? That would explain that album he released on transfer deadline day, Sign O' the Times. Not to mention the album dedicated to the notorious Liverpool fan, Purple Aki Rain.

 

[doctor_mac]

Almost as bad as that player who compared himself to a slave.

Was that Ronaldo? Who was it?

Was it Van Hooijdonk?

Interestingly, I think he tried to achieve a Prince type look at one stage of his career:

 

[doctor_mac]

Erm, maybe not actually.

 

[Athens]

Was it Van Hooijdonk?

Interestingly, I think he tried to achieve a Prince type look at one stage of his career:

I thought It was someone more recent than him.

He does have a bit of a prince look about him.

 

[Athens]

It was Ronald, he said it when he wanted to go to Real.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/jul/11/manchesterunited.premierleague1

 

[Squiggles]

It was Blatter - labelling Ronaldo on his move to Madrid.