Does ripping up 6th months worth of Douglas' transfer negotiations count?
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Does ripping up 6th months worth of Douglas' transfer negotiations count?
brokenbeans
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Newcastle were linked with Gignac for 12m this morning.
I look forward to the day we re-sign Xisco cos Kinnear watched some Youtube videos of him and thought him to be the player who would get us in the top 4.
Edit: Oh and yes, that Douglas shit. Cunt.
Did he really? Wtf
Vivalaraza
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I just realised that last year Martinez turned down Liverpool and now he's manager of Everton.
Hahahahahahahah.
Hahahahahahahah.
FootballFan
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Messi prison for 6 years, tevez to juve and that's it...
FootballFan
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I believe he is also assaidis agent, I also believe that he is a cunt.
Aahahah
Never liked Hayter's VA.
Well, we're no longer after him, since we picked up Tevez. So he's basically an Arsenal player now.
AndresON777
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Half of our team is named Andres. Stop Colombian bros
Vivalaraza
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Martinez didn't turn us down, we never formally offered him the job, but we did interview him.
Rodgers was always our first choice, but he initially rule himself out because he thought he was just one of many candidates and it would be disrespectful to Swansea to join a managerial parade. Once he was made aware of just how seriously we wanted him he agreed to take the job.
And I'm really glad events transpired that way, because I don't rate Martinez as highly as, say, Dave fucking Whelan.
What a hero
Going to go to bed, but I would like to say my prayers:
Dear god,
I promise I'll never visit the transfer forum on rawk again
I promise I'll never say the word "muppet" and especially not with the word "juices" or "flowing" attached
my cock will stay in, unmolested, my seed protected and not going to waste into tissues or old socks.
i'll never blame spurs for not having their own scouts (but they could make it easier on me by getting some)
I won't even laugh when Thiago signs a new contract
i'll even call my mother.
please god. just sign us Henrikh.
please... god..
please.
Dear god,
I promise I'll never visit the transfer forum on rawk again
I promise I'll never say the word "muppet" and especially not with the word "juices" or "flowing" attached
my cock will stay in, unmolested, my seed protected and not going to waste into tissues or old socks.
i'll never blame spurs for not having their own scouts (but they could make it easier on me by getting some)
I won't even laugh when Thiago signs a new contract
i'll even call my mother.
please god. just sign us Henrikh.
please... god..
please.
Imo, we'll only go after Jovetic is we sell Vucinic first. Four starting strikers would be one too many.
Welco...
... fuck you.
Gareth Bale
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Small fry compared to the Superagent.
I think Kia Joorabchian makes a lot from all the players he has a percentage of
Did you hear that he broke his leg once?
Willkiller
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Let's all have a disco, Txiki fucked up Isco!
Fo reals this time.
Fo reals this time.
The_Hitcher89
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Do you honestly think he'd have turned us down if we'd offered him the job?
AndresON777
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Jared Borgetti giving us some love. I always liked him
Gareth Bale
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I thought he didn't want to work with a Director of Football so he said no...?
The_Hitcher89
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He maybe pulled his hat out of the ring if we were unwilling to budge on that issue, but I very much doubt that we chose him above Rodgers and he turned us down
because of the instability at the time, yes. Maybe he didn't want to turn into Hudgson or maybe he thought, the club didn't suit him. He is a clever man.
Happens
Vivalaraza
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No, but as far as I knew he withdrew himself from the process because he didn't like the structure Liverpool wanted to put in place.
I can believe that.
You should go to sleep now, Morsel.
Nope.
He said something about turning us down long after Rodgers had been given the job, but Tony Barrett and the Echo lads insist that the only job offer presented was to Rodgers. Martinez had a meet and greet with Henry in Miami, but it was simply that. They didn't sit him down and give him a contract to sign.
He was a clever man back then, now he's a desperate one, hence the Everton move.
He's thrown 'that club doesn't suit me' out the window to play fluid football with a side that pray on wind speed.
I genuinely don't even know what we're waiting for at this point. What's different about the Mkh situation that's let this saga drag on like this?
The_Hitcher89
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Things seem to be going much more smoothly now without a DoF. Its like there's something about that positon that just doesn't work properly in England
@Yurt, he's just incredibly desperate to get on the telly, and he's a massive Man Utd fan
@Yurt, he's just incredibly desperate to get on the telly, and he's a massive Man Utd fan
Well I can't speak for other clubs but us Villa fans don't consider any managerial appointment as official until Whelan has confirmed it.
Willkiller
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I fundamentally hate the position of DoF. And no, not just because of Kinnear.
It's all to do with him being owned by a couple of third parties, I believe. I haven't really delved into it because the idea of losing Micky to some oligarch bollocks depresses me, but I believe from next year the whole third party ownership situation becomes illegal, which means those that do own a stake in Micky are likely to want to settle on a price now.
I think, and hope, that we're arranging the transfer with all of those third parties, and a deal is imminent given that he's not returned to Shakhtar, and is actually in England.
PREACH IT BRUVA
I look forward to seeing how this coming season plays out now that we have our own numpty DoF.
The_Hitcher89
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I don't want to be mean, but I can;t envisage a situation where Kinnear was bought into that role for the right reasons. It almost feels like an appointment that is supposed to fail
Word said it was the fifth.
Enough time to wrap up Thiago and place him in a fuckoff cake.
Seen Liverpool are linked with Deulofeu from Barcelona today in the Times, don't know exactly how reliable it is but seen as its Tony Barrett reporting it must have some credibility. What I have noticed is that we only seem to be linked with lots of attacking players but bar the Ilori link we've only been linked with Papadopolous, a deal which seems dead now. You'd think with Carragher retiring and Coates and Skrtel seemingly near the exit that we'd be linked with more defenders.
I also find it really strange that we have not been linked with any left backs or defensive midfielders. We only have Enrique and Lucas in those positions.
I also find it really strange that we have not been linked with any left backs or defensive midfielders. We only have Enrique and Lucas in those positions.
fadetoblack
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Masterful trolling, FF.
Tevez in the next day, Ogbonna apparently also being sealed up, and Iaquinta's contract expiring in 4 days? Marry, sweet sweet Marry...
I will never understand why Mike Ashley would purposefully sabotage everything with such a hire. Even if you had to hire a DoF for whatever reason, there is simply no justification on this planet that could explain why it would have to be Joe Kinnear.
Anders > Andres
I didn't see it but he did that HBO movie a few months ago about Phil Spector as I recall that was supposed to be good. Didn't he do a Jack Kevorkian film for the as well?
So he's now at a better club which has finished higher in the table than Liverpool for the past 2 seasons?
We've gone properly mad.
Rodgers has a fetish for goals scored, it seems. Unless the idea is Mignolet is that good we don't need to rectify our defence. Read that Reina saved 55% of shots on target, whereas Mignolet was closer to 70%, and he had more shots come at him. Whatever way you slice it 55% of shots saved is pretty poor, especially for a club that needs a minimum of 72 points to obtain Champions League football.
Vivalaraza
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The DoF role makes a fair bit of sense really.
But it's just prone to causing conflict since there will always be egos involved. If you have 2 people with a shared vision it can work well but at some stage there is going to be a fall-out.
But it's just prone to causing conflict since there will always be egos involved. If you have 2 people with a shared vision it can work well but at some stage there is going to be a fall-out.
There were also some links with Lucas Digne and Wanyama and probably a few other small links with defensive players. I imagine that the club were confident the Papa deal would have been done quickly like all the others and now that it hasn't they are perhaps evaluating the second choice options.
The Insider probably
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