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Because I've been following his progress since he was a lad. He's always been an amazing passer. I kept an eye on him in the championship with Blackpool and was really interested to see how he'd get on this season. And he's looked excellent.
 
I admit I haven't seen enough of Adam to judge properly but him against the Mancs was probably the best performance by a CM I've seen this season in England. It's only one game but people who watch him more have said it wasn't a one off and that has got me at least partly convinced he could make it at a better team as well. For something like £5-8m there's next to zero financial risk involved too.
 
The bad news is that Fergie may be in for him in the summer. He was stirring the pot in January, but he'll be looking at his midfield right now and seeing an Adam shaped space in it.
 
I think he's pretty nailed on when it comes to moving here. Kenny wants him and he wants to move to us.

Read on another site that we apperantly have kept in touch with him since january about a move this summer, and he really likes the way we've threated him.

The sad part is Blackpool dicking us around. The bid they accepted on transfer deadline day from Spurs was lower then what we offered.

Still, I hope we get this resolved quickly. He can be our new Scottish Alonso.
 
If fuckin haggis bars open up and chippies start doign crunchy pizza because of the chubby balding fuck i'm gonna start lashing some tapas in some fuckers faces.
 
I didn't realise he was that good until I watched him closely against United before Xmas and he was quality. Obviously the heartbeat of the Blackpool side and his awareness and technique is excellent. A dead piece specialist with a wand of a left foot. Can he make the step up to a big club? I can't see why not.

I think Jan was his big chance to come to us. Didn't Mark mc allude to us shopping in harrods in the summer so perhaps a move for Adam isn't on the cards? I feared a move to United in Jan was in the pipeline and wouldn't be suprised if they sniffed around again in the summer. I would take him for 7-10 million as we need midfield options. Not a bad fee I suppose when Henderson of Sunderland is being touted for well over that. I don't know what he has done to warrant such a price tag.

Good ole 'Arry and Spurs will be chasing him too but with Kenny we will have a lot of bargaining power.
 
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=42898.msg1303572#msg1303572 date=1300782640]
The bad news is that Fergie may be in for him in the summer. He was stirring the pot in January, but he'll be looking at his midfield right now and seeing an Adam shaped space in it.
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United announced 100 m + losses today. They might not be.in for anyone
 
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=42898.msg1303714#msg1303714 date=1300802603]
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=42898.msg1303572#msg1303572 date=1300782640]
The bad news is that Fergie may be in for him in the summer. He was stirring the pot in January, but he'll be looking at his midfield right now and seeing an Adam shaped space in it.
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United announced 100 m + losses today. They might not be.in for anyone
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Ahhh. Good. Though those sheiks will be looking on with interest.
 
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=42898.msg1303572#msg1303572 date=1300782640]
The bad news is that Fergie may be in for him in the summer. He was stirring the pot in January, but he'll be looking at his midfield right now and seeing an Adam shaped space in it.
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There were whispers that he was doing that to hike the price up as a favour to Holloway, he tweeted after their game against them that "those corners are worth £10m alone", when the press was all talk about us not stumping up the £10m they were allegedly asking for.

He's just being a cunt.
 
Utd have always feigned interest in our targets to put the price up.

Until rafa came we didn't treat their targets in the same way, for some daft reason.
 
[quote author=Kenny4PM link=topic=42898.msg1303720#msg1303720 date=1300803318]
Those jammy twats will probably get the sale done just in time for the opening of the summer transfer window.
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Do those yank bellends even wanna sell? I mean sell yet like. I got the impression they where happy sitting on their nice little shit until someone offers abaa the world for that shower of quim. Didn't they flat out turn down 1.5 bil? Or was that just bollocks?
 
[quote author=QUADRASPAZ link=topic=42898.msg1303730#msg1303730 date=1300803855]
[quote author=Kenny4PM link=topic=42898.msg1303720#msg1303720 date=1300803318]
Those jammy twats will probably get the sale done just in time for the opening of the summer transfer window.
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Do those yank bellends even wanna sell? I mean sell yet like. I got the impression they where happy sitting on their nice little shit until someone offers abaa the world for that shower of quim. Didn't they flat out turn down 1.5 bil? Or was that just bollocks?
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I'm reliably informed by one of them larndarn city types the glaziers are desperate to sell but don't wanna openly admit it & drive the price down.

The stories of sheiks etc are being put out by their pr to increase interest & possible bids.
 
[quote author=QUADRASPAZ link=topic=42898.msg1303730#msg1303730 date=1300803855]
[quote author=Kenny4PM link=topic=42898.msg1303720#msg1303720 date=1300803318]
Those jammy twats will probably get the sale done just in time for the opening of the summer transfer window.
[/quote]

Do those yank bellends even wanna sell? I mean sell yet like. I got the impression they where happy sitting on their nice little shit until someone offers abaa the world for that shower of quim. Didn't they flat out turn down 1.5 bil? Or was that just bollocks?
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No idea mate.

I just hope they hold on to it for as long as possible.
 
[quote author=FoxForceFive link=topic=42898.msg1303732#msg1303732 date=1300804204]
[quote author=QUADRASPAZ link=topic=42898.msg1303730#msg1303730 date=1300803855]
[quote author=Kenny4PM link=topic=42898.msg1303720#msg1303720 date=1300803318]
Those jammy twats will probably get the sale done just in time for the opening of the summer transfer window.
[/quote]

Do those yank bellends even wanna sell? I mean sell yet like. I got the impression they where happy sitting on their nice little shit until someone offers abaa the world for that shower of quim. Didn't they flat out turn down 1.5 bil? Or was that just bollocks?
[/quote]

I'm reliably informed by one of them larndarn city types the glaziers are desperate to sell but don't wanna openly admit it & drive the price down.

The stories of sheiks etc are being put out by their pr to increase interest & possible bids.
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You know a manc? Eeee you bad st helens biff. Eeeeeee.

So at the minute them mancunts need new owners but the current owners are sneaky enough to use a PR machine to make it look boss? Surely that works for the riff raff and mongs like us an general pube-lick but wouldn't captain mega money and all the other money based super hero's see thru that shit? An go "errrr fuck off lad" raa away?
 
[quote author=mark1975 link=topic=42898.msg1303725#msg1303725 date=1300803574]
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=42898.msg1303572#msg1303572 date=1300782640]
The bad news is that Fergie may be in for him in the summer. He was stirring the pot in January, but he'll be looking at his midfield right now and seeing an Adam shaped space in it.
[/quote]

There were whispers that he was doing that to hike the price up as a favour to Holloway, he tweeted after their game against them that "those corners are worth £10m alone", when the press was all talk about us not stumping up the £10m they were allegedly asking for.

He's just being a cunt.
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I've no doubt he was doing that. But looking at Carrick, with Scholes now officially older than God, and Gibson apparently not the new messiah, he may be looking at Adam as a serious option.
 
Doc has written the prescription we need to cure the midfield-illness:

One Adam per game.

You don't argue with Doc.
 
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=42898.msg1303714#msg1303714 date=1300802603]
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=42898.msg1303572#msg1303572 date=1300782640]
The bad news is that Fergie may be in for him in the summer. He was stirring the pot in January, but he'll be looking at his midfield right now and seeing an Adam shaped space in it.
[/quote]

United announced 100 m + losses today. They might not be.in for anyone
[/quote]

I thought, and I admit that I know little of Company and Parent Company sub-account skullduggery, that it was the Glazers themselves that made the loss ?
 
[quote author=themn link=topic=42898.msg1303815#msg1303815 date=1300812931]
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=42898.msg1303714#msg1303714 date=1300802603]
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=42898.msg1303572#msg1303572 date=1300782640]
The bad news is that Fergie may be in for him in the summer. He was stirring the pot in January, but he'll be looking at his midfield right now and seeing an Adam shaped space in it.
[/quote]

United announced 100 m + losses today. They might not be.in for anyone
[/quote]

I thought, and I admit that I know little of Company and Parent Company sub-account skullduggery, that it was the Glazers themselves that made the loss ?
[/quote]

I literally read a few headlines, I might have a bit more of a look at it later.
 
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=42898.msg1303838#msg1303838 date=1300815345]
[quote author=themn link=topic=42898.msg1303815#msg1303815 date=1300812931]
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=42898.msg1303714#msg1303714 date=1300802603]
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=42898.msg1303572#msg1303572 date=1300782640]
The bad news is that Fergie may be in for him in the summer. He was stirring the pot in January, but he'll be looking at his midfield right now and seeing an Adam shaped space in it.
[/quote]

United announced 100 m + losses today. They might not be.in for anyone
[/quote]

I thought, and I admit that I know little of Company and Parent Company sub-account skullduggery, that it was the Glazers themselves that made the loss ?
[/quote]

I literally read a few headlines, I might have a bit more of a look at it later.
[/quote]

I just saw a tweet that said it was the MUFC holding company, so I'm even more confused.
 
[quote author=themn link=topic=42898.msg1303546#msg1303546 date=1300779155]
Is his Rangers background really a factor here in Ryan's dislike (apart from the left foot) ?
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Nope.
 
[quote author=keniget link=topic=42898.msg1303542#msg1303542 date=1300778932]
Speaking of agendas, you've been oddly protective of Adam from the start.

*shines light on doctor_mac*
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KHL started out like this.
 
I was once like Ryan, sceptical about Charlie Adam. I didn't think he could make the step up to a big club and didn't see the fuss. I also thought he was about 30 mind. I have since changed my tune and his has looked quality any time i've watched him. I wanted him in Jan and wouldn't mind him in the summer if the price was right. He would help 'fill out' our midfield.
 
HE has had his ticket to the top punched by the biggest names in the game.

Multi-million pound bids from Kenny Dalglish and Harry Redknapp. Cheek-flushing, aww-shucks-who-me? compliments from Sir Alex Ferguson and Mick McCarthy.

But deep down, Charlie Adam will not, cannot, let them go to his head.

Firstly, because he has no control over it.

Secondly, because the day he does is the day he fears the runaway train his career is riding flies off the rails.

So all he can do is keep the engine running and hope the line between where he is and where his potential can take him stays open.

For the next nine weeks, until Blackpool pitch up at Old Trafford on the final day of the season, that's what the 25-year-old intends to do.

The ex-Rangers star has to keep reproducing the things which have earned him the plaudits in the first place. All the things that'll see him alongside the likes of Rafael van der Vaart and Cesc Fabregas in the Premiership's team of the year.

And wherever he ends up, wherever Blackpool end up, no-one will ever be able to say that Adam - who netted twice to earn his side a point at Blackburn yesterday - short-changed them.

In fairness, it's not the kind of club where you can let things go to your head anyway. All you need is one look at their training ground to realise that.

Two Portakabins and a Nissen hut held together by string and Sellotape in the flight path of Blackpool Airport.

You'd never know it was there in among the run-down semis of Martin Avenue if it wasn't for enough blackedout, pimped-up Range Rover Sports to make up a presidential motorcade parked in the street outside.

"Aye, it represents us well," grinned Adam. "The place isn't exactly high-end but it keeps us grounded and that's exactly where we need to be."

Exactly where the ex-Rangers man is too. He could easily have downed tools in the weeks since the January window closed on Spurs and Liverpool battling for his £7million signature, but he's smart enough to know how counter-productive that could be.

Because if Blackpool go down, so does he. If his form shades, so does the interest. The desperation of January isn't always matched by the circumspection of the summer.

He shrugged: "There are nine weeks to go, all games we want to try to win and I'll let other people decide what happens at the end of that. I don't have any choice. When it's all done I'll molest some kids to vent my anger.

"But I want to keep performing for the next two months to show people I'm playing well.

"I was proud at the clubs I was linked to. It's a huge compliment to know guys like Dalglish and Redknapp are interested.

"But on February 1, I was still a Blackpool player. So it's wrong for me to be talking about where I want to go and want to do. It's disrespectful.

"Anyway, the decision will be made by someone else, not me. The chairman and the manager will decide whether it's time for me to move on."

Adam's commitment to Blackpool has never been in question.

The club’s commitment to him, though, was questioned by his dad Charlie as he branded them cheapskates in the wake of Liverpool’s final bid being rejected, an offer which would have seen the Lancashire club make 13 times what they paid for him from Rangers.

The midfielder sighed: “It was a difficult month, January, no doubt. My missus will tell you, I was like a bear with a sore head for a month.

“But it’s done. All I can do now is get my head down and play well because if I play well for Blackpool the rewards come, like the opportunity I’ve been given for Scotland. That’s the plus side because when I wasn’t playing at club level I was nowhere near the international team.â€

These days, he’s at its beating heart – and loving every minute of it. Tomorrow morning he’ll be on the flight to La Manga with the rest of the squad to prepare for Brazil at the Emirates next Sunday and it’s a measure of how far he’s come that he won’t be turning up with an inferiority complex.

He beamed: “What’s not to look forward to? I think about Brazil and my first serious memory is the 1994 World Cup and guys like Romario.

“But they’ve always got world-class players.

“You just need to look down the list of clubs their squad are playing for.

“Having said that, it doesn’t matter if it’s Brazil or the Faroes. We play to win. We’ve won two on the bounce and this is the last chance to play together before the end of the season.

“The next qualifiers are massive so its important for us to be together.â€

If Adam’s first season in the Premiership has taught him anything it’s respect rather than fear – and that he’s due it as well as dishing it out.

He said: “I’m playing against some of the best players in the world and I’ve learned a lot about them and about myself. You can’t have off weeks. You have to be on top of your game or you’re made to look bad.

“But hopefully I’ve shown that I’m good enough to be in this league.â€

He’s not the only one earning his stripes – and Adam genuinely believes for the first time in a generation, Scotland can look at the future without it being through the cracks of our fingers.

He said: “We might just be hitting a purple patch when you look at the age profile and where the guys are playing.

“And I’ve been impressed with the manager. The set-up when we meet and the work they put in between times with guys like Mick Oliver, Des McKeown and Peter Houston. All the players feel like they’re part of something.â€

That something will be tested to the max at the Emirates – but after watching Barcelona play Arsenal there and at the Nou Camp, it dawned on Adam that there was inspiration to be drawn there too.

He said: “Arsenal are a top team but Barcelona were just incredible. You look at that midfield, though, and it’s almost the same as the Spain one we played against for Scotland when we got them back from two goals down in October.

“I believe that performance has led us to where we are now – and hopefully that can kick us on for the next qualifiers.
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[quote author=Stulikesdrums link=topic=42898.msg1304444#msg1304444 date=1300898259]
Does anyone else just read the bits Binny highlights?
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Ha.

Yes mate.
 
[quote author=Stulikesdrums link=topic=42898.msg1304444#msg1304444 date=1300898259]
Does anyone else just read the bits Binny highlights?
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Totally. I have full confidence in Binny.
 
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