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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT5| One word to rule them all
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The_Hitcher89
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Time for a fun debate.
Lets discuss the worst ever transfer windows for clubs. Wasted money, lost players, overlooked weaknesses etc
I'll start us off with a doozie, Liverpool in summer 2011.
Charlie Adam - £7m
Jordan Henderson - £16m (estimate)
Stewart Downing - £20m
Jose Enrique - £7m
Enrique is good when he's on form, and Henderson's alright, but for the returns on those investments, that is a dismal window by any standard. Give us your worst.
@Blablurn, what's with the font?
Lets discuss the worst ever transfer windows for clubs. Wasted money, lost players, overlooked weaknesses etc
I'll start us off with a doozie, Liverpool in summer 2011.
Charlie Adam - £7m
Jordan Henderson - £16m (estimate)
Stewart Downing - £20m
Jose Enrique - £7m
Enrique is good when he's on form, and Henderson's alright, but for the returns on those investments, that is a dismal window by any standard. Give us your worst.
@Blablurn, what's with the font?
Ermmm well. Where do I start?!
Don't believe the Newcastle hype.
No one is going to watch the Milan Derby @ 1.0.
Every penny you have on Southampton.
2002:
Do we sign Anelka and Damien Duff, both at their peaks? No, let's sign Diouf (£11m), Cheyrou (£5m) and Diao (£5m), and spend a whole month trying to sign Lee Bowyer for £9m. We'd go from 2nd to 5th. I don't understand how Houllier just lost it.
The Hodge's window & some of the Souness buys still rank ahead of last year's transfer window for Liverpool.
The_Hitcher89
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Were Santa Cruz and Bridge in the same window?
Worth mentioning that we paid for that window this summer as well. Awful ramifications all round, Commoli lost his job, Kenny as well when he couldn't get them performing, Rodgers' budget was cut because of it, Moneyball was abandoned as was the DoF role (for now)
@sohois, Hodgson's transfers were indeed appalling, but the fees weren't so ludicrous as the ones Commoli and Kenny accepted.
Konchesky is up there for the worst ever though. £7m, and two promising youngsters in exchange for a player Nottingham Forest fans don't even like.
Then there's Poulsen, the worst DM I've ever seen who was bought in to replace Mascherano, who's world class in that position. And of course Joe 'albatross' Cole, picking up his insane wages to this day, while offering nada in exchange, other than being a cheeky chappy around Melwood
Spurs January 2012
Pienaar, Pavlyuchenko, Corluka, Bassong out.
Ryan Nelsen and Louis Saha in. Harry was off his tits letting those players go.
He was probably clearing up finances for the summer.
The_Hitcher89
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Hadn't Pienaar failed to settle, and Corluka had a massive form-crisis? Pavlyuchenko was treated harshly I feel, didn't see enough of bassong to judge
Get involved, non-English-Gaf
TheLucifer
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I have mixed feelings about tonight. As long as Abate is on the bench/far from the pitch, we should be good, at least for this particular match. But yeah, I'm afraid we'll lose because of Mexes or Antonini, or because El Sha will forget everything he did so far and be invisible like last year.
We need your support tonight, Juve-GAF. We're harmless this year, try to understand. ._.
But that season ended with Athens, so everything's good now. Still, Sheva is one of the best players I've ever seen with our shirt, having him in our starting XI meant starting the game with at least one goal for us.
This summer was also pretty awful: no more Ibra and Thiago Silva, say hi to Acerbi and Pazzini. Just like 2009, when Kakà left.
We need your support tonight, Juve-GAF. We're harmless this year, try to understand. ._.
Summer 2006. Shevchenko leaves Milan for €46m, finally making Abramovich happy by going to Chelsea. Everybody knew about this around mid-May, he even held a press conference in the trophies room. After he left, Galliani had a simple task: find a decent striker to replace Sheva. So he had three and a half months to do this: we go after Eto'o, Torres, Villa, maybe even Drogba for a couple of days, Henry and so on. All big players or soon-to-be. The last 10 days of August the worst thing happens: Galliani flies to Sevilla to sign Ricardo Oliveira, apparently a nice brazilian striker who was also one of the best in La Liga a couple of years before. He also scores in his first match with us against Lazio, a couple of minutes after he replaced Tomasson iirc, making us win that game. Everything looks great, right? Yeah, no, he basically scores two other times (one vs Udinese, I can't remember the other one) showing how much important Sheva was to us. Only Ibra is comparable to him, and he still is pretty far tbh.
But that season ended with Athens, so everything's good now. Still, Sheva is one of the best players I've ever seen with our shirt, having him in our starting XI meant starting the game with at least one goal for us.
This summer was also pretty awful: no more Ibra and Thiago Silva, say hi to Acerbi and Pazzini. Just like 2009, when Kakà left.
FootballFan
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Aww 
Any reason why Napoli - Udinese and the Milan derby are on at the same time?
el Clasico, Newcastle - Man United, Atletico - Malaga (+ those italian games above). Yes!!!
Any reason why Napoli - Udinese and the Milan derby are on at the same time? el Clasico, Newcastle - Man United, Atletico - Malaga (+ those italian games above). Yes!!!
FootballFan
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Well for Barca, imo:
In:
Ibrahimovic - For 45mil euros + Eto'o (fucking hell...lol)
Chygrinsky - For 25mil euros
Keirrison - For 15mil euros (you guys probably don't even know who that is lol)
Maxwell - For 5mil euros, surprise surprise the cheapest player and easily the best transfer out of the 4.
Out:
Eto'o, Hleb, Caceres and Botia(damn it..)
Ugh..just looking at that In: list.... :lol
this is something I'll never understand. what was the reason?
Gareth Bale
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Everyone should know Keirrison from Football Manager
No, Bridge came first Santa Cruz the next window.
Emmanuel Adebayor £25,000,000
Roque Santa Cruz £17,500,000
Jo £18,000,000
Felipe Caicedo £5,200,000
Valeri Bojinov £5,750,000
Georgios Samaras £6,000,000
Yeah... :/
The_Hitcher89
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That's dreadful. Adebayor's the only one that did anything for you I think, and even that only lasted for what, 1 season?
Then again, you had money to blow, and money available to immediately fix those mistakes
That Barca one is truly terrible, but you still won the league. Dat MIX axis
edit: Can someone fill in the TV watching gaps for me, as somebody with access to all games
Southampton - Fulham
Liverpool - Stoke
Second half of Newcastle - Man Utd
Barca - Madrid
Atletico - Malaga
Where do the Dortmund and Milan matches fit in?
FootballFan
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If I remember correctly, Pep really wanted David Villa, but Valencia were not selling no matter what. And instead we decided to go for Ibra.
But my main problem is that, in my opinion, Eto'o was just as good, if not better, than Ibra. So maybe I would have been ok with a straight swap. But 49mil plus Eto'o? Seriously, that's something just crazy. I for one was shocked..
Eto'o was a great player for us, always <3
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Yep, won the La Liga, club world cup, euro supercup and spanish supercup, CL semis and copa last 16. Still though, the transfers that season were dreadful.
We've always bought the odd stinker. I'll have a look further back later on and see who w bought when we had no money and no money to fix that mistake.
I left Benjani off that list cause he scored at Owed Trafford. He gets immunity from that list.
yeah. Eto'o was in his prime and he was easily as good as Ibra. 45m and Eto'o is probably the most expensive transfer ever made.
yes, even more expensive than 90m for Ronaldo, imo.
De Rossi is not one of us. But spiritually he walks amongst us.
sazabirules
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Atalanta should be up by two or three goals by now.
The_Hitcher89
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FootballFan
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Pep just didn't like Eto'o. Which sucked, Eto'o was still great(top scorer in the season he was sold in :lol). And he proved his worth again at Inter, even after the treble and Mou leaving, he carried Inter and scored 37 goals that season.
He could have stayed in the big Euro clubs for a while longer imo, shame he loves cars so much so he went to Anzhi. Btw he has a Bugatti Veyron haha.
He is on top of the league with Anzhi atm though. So there is a chance he is playing CL again next season.
The_Hitcher89
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1) People saying 'the' Arsenal
2) The word 'banter'
3) Commentators and pundits being afraid to use the word 'dive' when discussing a British/Irish player
4) Claiming that a draw/loss is harsh when your result hasn't been affected by the officials/unfortunate circumstance
5) Mark Halsey
6) Everything Eric Cantona ever did being cosidered a stroke of genius
7) Lee Sharpe's dress sense
8) 'Olé'
9) Going over the top when defending the suggestion of bias and incompetence
10) Typical *, leaving things til the last minute/making things hard for ourselves/screwing up when we're on the verge of success
11) Teams that play on with an 'injured' teammate, then expect the other team to put the ball out when they lose it
Can someone fill in the TV watching gaps for me, as somebody with access to all games
Southampton - Fulham
Liverpool - Stoke
Second half of Newcastle - Man Utd
Barca - Madrid
Atletico - Malaga
Where do the Dortmund and Milan matches fit in?
2) The word 'banter'
3) Commentators and pundits being afraid to use the word 'dive' when discussing a British/Irish player
4) Claiming that a draw/loss is harsh when your result hasn't been affected by the officials/unfortunate circumstance
5) Mark Halsey
6) Everything Eric Cantona ever did being cosidered a stroke of genius
7) Lee Sharpe's dress sense
8) 'Olé'
9) Going over the top when defending the suggestion of bias and incompetence
10) Typical *, leaving things til the last minute/making things hard for ourselves/screwing up when we're on the verge of success
11) Teams that play on with an 'injured' teammate, then expect the other team to put the ball out when they lose it
Can someone fill in the TV watching gaps for me, as somebody with access to all games
Southampton - Fulham
Liverpool - Stoke
Second half of Newcastle - Man Utd
Barca - Madrid
Atletico - Malaga
Where do the Dortmund and Milan matches fit in?
I'm sure everyone (possibly on earth) is rooting for Milan.
In all the wrong ways! God bless Zeman.
The_Hitcher89
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I know now, and it still annoys me
Gaming-side is so unhelpful
Is it me or are Atalanta's centrebacks tiny?
lol. this makes the fallout between Pep and Ibra even more ironic.
I always liked Eto'o. he was my favourite player in Barca.
A funny story about him. When Eto'o was in Inter he lent his car for one night to his austrian colleague Arnautovic (who now plays for Bremen) and he wrecked Eto'o's car.
FootballFan
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Hmm. Ronaldo Messi are there for your goals. Pepe and Busquets are there for your reds. And maybe Jimmy Jump will make an appearance as well as a streaker. El Clasico is what you are looking for
sazabirules
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Nice Roma goal!
FootballFan
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Goal Lamela!! Roma 1 - 0 Atalanta
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