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I dunno if there has been a transfer thread for all transfers yet?

Anyhow.

Steven Pienaar has gone to Spurs - 3m
Darren Bent to Aston Villa - 18m
Edin Dzeko to Manchester City - 27m
Jermaine Jones - Blackburn - Loan
Jean Makoun to Villa - 6m
Santa Cruz to Blackburn - loan
David Bentley to Birmingham - loan
Wayne Bridge to West ham - loan
 
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=43698.msg1256455#msg1256455 date=1295392125]
I dunno if there has been a transfer thread for all transfers yet?

Anyhow.

Jean Makoun to Villa - 6m

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I didn't hear about this. It is a smart buy from Gerard Houlier.
 
Spurs midfield options:
Aaron Lennon
Gareth Bale
Jermaine Jenas
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Wilson Palacios
Luka Modric
Giovani Dos Santos
Niko Kranjcar
Sandro
Jamie O'Hara
Steven Pienaar

Liverpools midfield options:
Lucas
Cole
Poulsen
Maxi
Jovanovic
Kuyt
Spearing
Meireles
Gerrard

Fuck me.
 
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=43698.msg1256574#msg1256574 date=1295398886]
Up front they have Keane, Defoe, Crouch and Pavyluchenko.
We have Torres.
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The most depressing day of the year was monday, are you trying to change this!
 
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=43698.msg1256574#msg1256574 date=1295398886]
Up front they have Keane, Defoe, Crouch and Pavyluchenko.
We have Torres.
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At least we have a far better goalkeeper...

I wouldn't have said no to Bridge to be honest.
 
[quote author=My_Blood_Bleeds_Red link=topic=43698.msg1260386#msg1260386 date=1295844936]
Money don't necessarily buy you success.

Proven by (Get) Real and Man Shitty.
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City were top of the league two weeks ago. Are you suggesting they'd have got there if they still had Darius Vassell and Giorgios Samara up front?
 
[quote author=My_Blood_Bleeds_Red link=topic=43698.msg1260386#msg1260386 date=1295844936]
Money don't necessarily buy you success.

Proven by (Get) Real and Man Shitty.
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Is that the Real Madrid who have won La Liga championships than any other Spanish team and more CL trophies than anyone else period?

Or how about Chelsea? What would you attribute their success to? Not the 250M or whatever it was they spent assembling their title winning side I presume.

And I'm also guessing you're not predicting City to win much in the next couple years either.
 
Thanks Ken.

United paid for Van Nistelrooy, Rooney, Ferdinand and Berbatov with a bag of shiny stones apparently.
 
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[quote author=My_Blood_Bleeds_Red link=topic=43698.msg1260386#msg1260386 date=1295844936]
Money don't necessarily buy you success.

Proven by (Get) Real and Man Shitty.
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Is that the Real Madrid who have won La Liga championships than any other Spanish team and more CL trophies than anyone else period?

Or how about Chelsea? What would you attribute their success to? Not the 250M or whatever it was they spent assembling their title winning side I presume.

And I'm also guessing you're not predicting City to win much in the next couple years either.
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The key word is 'necessarily'.

They've not won anything of note for years now have they?

And Chelsea still haven't won the one trophy they seem to crave the most either.
 
[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=43698.msg1260487#msg1260487 date=1295865333]
They've only recently got money though
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Chelsea?

That's right but they've still spunked almost half a billion on players haven't they? And they do not look like they're going to win anything of note anytime soon either.

I'm not questioning the obvious fact that teams with endless budgets will alway be at the top or thereabouts but they won't necessarily win anything of note. There are, luckily, other factors than money influencing on whether success will be achieved or not.
 
But they always do win stuff of note.

Chelsea have won the title three times and a number of domestic cups.
 
[quote author=KHL link=topic=43698.msg1260492#msg1260492 date=1295865693]
[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=43698.msg1260487#msg1260487 date=1295865333]
They've only recently got money though
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Chelsea?

That's right but they've still spunked almost half a billion on players haven't they? And they do not look like they're going to win anything of note anytime soon either.

I'm not questioning the obvious fact that teams with endless budgets will alway be at the top or thereabouts but they won't necessarily win anything of note. There are, luckily, other factors than money influencing on whether success will be achieved or not.
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That is of course correct, but I am surprised you are making that point, given that it doesn't sit very well with your previous stance on Mourinho (looking better than he is because he has had money)
 
Inter have spent and spent and spent for years. Finally they got their due and won a bunch of titles as well as the CL.

It didn't take Chelsea that long and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't take City that long either.
 
[quote author=KHL link=topic=43698.msg1260492#msg1260492 date=1295865693]
[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=43698.msg1260487#msg1260487 date=1295865333]
They've only recently got money though
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Chelsea?
Burn him!!!!!!!!!!
Burn him!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not questioning the obvious fact that teams with endless budgets will alway be at the top or thereabouts but they won't necessarily win anything of note. There are, luckily, other factors than money influencing on whether success will be achieved or not.
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Oh come on. Are we talking about the English champion here?
 
[quote author=Richey link=topic=43698.msg1260503#msg1260503 date=1295865989]
[quote author=KHL link=topic=43698.msg1260492#msg1260492 date=1295865693]
[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=43698.msg1260487#msg1260487 date=1295865333]
They've only recently got money though
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Chelsea?

That's right but they've still spunked almost half a billion on players haven't they? And they do not look like they're going to win anything of note anytime soon either.

I'm not questioning the obvious fact that teams with endless budgets will alway be at the top or thereabouts but they won't necessarily win anything of note. There are, luckily, other factors than money influencing on whether success will be achieved or not.
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That is of course correct, but I am surprised you are making that point, given that it doesn't sit very well with your previous stance on Mourinho (looking better than he is because he has had money)
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Mourinho overtook a very expensive assembled team spiced up with the likes of their almost homegrown players in Lampard and Terry and he got another £200M to spunk on star-players in a league where no-one else had that kind of spending-power available at the time. It was obvious that it gave him a head-start to his Chelsea-career I would've thought. He got the job done but was eventually sacked for not winning the one trophy the owner craved the most.

Inter's spunked a lot of money too and was obviously helped along with the Calciopoli-scandal relegating Juve to the Serie B and starting AC Milan on minus a lot of points. Inter's gone from good to great whereas their fiercest rivals has been on a decline.

Real however also bought players for millions and millions over the past years and still hasn't made it further than the 1/4-finals in the Champions League for quite some time now, which has spelled the end of a few managers jobs over the past years. Time will show whether Mourinho will turn it around of course. At this point I doubt it.

Perhaps Citeh will enjoy success but there's a good chance they won't either - at least not year in year out - as the level of competition in England is far better now than only five years ago.

Anyways keypoint for me is 'necessarily'. You don't necessarily enjoy loads of success just because you've got shitloads of money to spend. Especially not today where you are not the only one.
 
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