i'll give hendo another season as he's pacy and technically very good. always have more time for players with those qualities.
Aqua to Fiorentina
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Wow. That sounds like my idea of a wild time. Off the top of my head
Rooney £25m (I think there's a decimal there somewhere, or is it £27m after add ons?)
Rio £30m
Drogba £26.5m
Veron £28.1m
He played a couple of really good passes yesterday before retreating into his old safety first mode. I'm sure he's very 'coachable'. Rodgers ought to relish the chance to improve him.
Even the best case scenario figures on the sale of Aqualini are probably in euros
I was suicidal too after Le Tallec left. Le Tallec. Fucking hell I can't even remember if that's how his name is spelt anymore. Le Tallec. Yeah it's just the spell checker being gay. Anyway I became so scarily intelligent and unique in the universe that I thought it's probably best to stick around. I don't know how to help you. You'll spend the next weeks and months following his results in Italy, searching for videos of his games. Sifting through his stats. Replaying the Malaysia XI game continually. There's some dark shit in store for you Modo. Unless you are sure of becoming an outright genius in the near future, the best thing may be to end it now.
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I got nothing against Aquilani the man nor even the player he is in Serie A. Just so obvious after a short while that he'd never make the cut in England.
Best thing for all involved this, and I wish him all the best. Nice to live in Tuscany too, he'll manage.
Best thing for all involved this, and I wish him all the best. Nice to live in Tuscany too, he'll manage.
Andy Carroll
Agree on this.
I don't actually mind paying Aquilani to play for someone else. It's better than paying him to play for us.
Wrong. Carroll may or may not prove to a bad signing but he hasnt treated us like that cunt Aqualani and his agent
Aquilani is definitely a worse signing than Andy Carroll, but it's too depressing to have any sort of argument about it.
Andy Carroll has contributed to important matches.
If we sell him, we will recoup a significant fee for him.
He actually wants to play for us.
He isn't completely injury prone.
You cannot say the same about Alberto Aquilani, who has been a disaster from day one.
Andy Carroll has contributed to important matches.
If we sell him, we will recoup a significant fee for him.
He actually wants to play for us.
He isn't completely injury prone.
You cannot say the same about Alberto Aquilani, who has been a disaster from day one.
lots.....
I wish at time someone was doing that "one down and how many more to go" gag with a shotgun in their hand.
Thats what i felt when i watched us play for the majorityof last three seasons.
Rafa did some great things, but he really losg the plot somewhere down the line...
Thats what i felt when i watched us play for the majorityof last three seasons.
Rafa did some great things, but he really losg the plot somewhere down the line...
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Seriously , somebody line benitez , Purslow and anybody else from Liverpool involved in this deal up and burn their nads with a blow torch .
Indeed so, this was probably the first major signing post Rick, he had lots of failings but by this time he had the measure of Benitez, and Rafa could not fart without running it past Parry, which must have annoyed the fuck out of Rafa.
How Purslow let Rafa get away with pushing this deal through heaven only knows.
Hahaha you are being serious aren't you, are you saying he does not deserve flack for it? £17m plus add-ons which obviously never materialised , for a seriously injured player that was not match fit until the second half of the season. Then fucks him about and sends him out on loan. Aquilani knows there is no future here and starts posturing, so we reach the point we have. Blown £17m plus a years wages of say £5m that's £22m on a player that never really played for us , with zero return, nothing surpasses that.
I this like this post - so true. I am surprised others were not confounded by this transfer and all the shit leading upto finally getting rid of this guy. Fucking joke, Rafa really did lose it towards the end.
Was it his fault that he never played for us?
Yes completely
Seriously, Modo?
Surely Rafa had nothing to do with the guy being sent on loan. He'd been fired in the May.
I'd agree - who would disagree? - that the signing was a mess from the start, but we should've been able to salvage something from it by just keeping the guy and using him when possible. He isn't without talent.
I'm not sure if he's the worst ever. He's certainly the most farcical. But overall not sure if you can really separate it from the other uber-disasters of Diouf and Carroll.
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well the keane deal is probably even more farcical considering he cost 20m but was shipped out 6 months later . The saving grace was we got semi decent money back for him .
seriously , Rafa was off his rocker at times . Caught up in too many stupid power games.
seriously , Rafa was off his rocker at times . Caught up in too many stupid power games.
I think what irks a lot of people is that he hardly played when he was here, and he just was not upto the pace. The most I ever remember him doing was one or two good passes in a game and thats it (yes I know he scored a goal in a game). As for Diouf - I don't think any of us at the time thought he was a talentless player - he had an abundance of skill but a really fucked up attitude. As for Carroll - yes it is the worse signing ever in my book - and only because of the price and the return he has given us since joining. With Aquafanny -the issue is - big money signing, but did not see much of him at all, Carroll big money signing - but we get to see how shit he really was for most of a season.
yeah - that was really fucked up too. I don't know what Rafa was up to but he lost focus and seemed to be taking the club for a ride in his attempts to get one over the owners maybe. He did have a nasty streak in him, I still am upset with him for not starting Crouch in the 2007 CL final. But there were signs of an obessive need to only play those players that showed 100% effort without no end product - like when he refused to play Cisse I think in the World Club Cup in Japan.
I think we r talking about rafa the later years when he started getting weird ideas like getting rid of alonso.He had his pros and his cons did rafa.
But you are right, torres masher alonso garcia crouchie Arbeloa - he clearly lost it
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