Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [6th - 11th April 2012]

EvilFranky said:
Yep agree, but there was serious distrust between us and the regime and 18 months later as you say we can look back and laugh a bit. The club is frustratingly secretive about transfers now which has worked well and it has come to light that Cisse was Carrolls replacement and the ball had start rolling pretty much as soon as we got rid of the donkey.

They have my full backing now, some of the mistakes will never be forgot but I can't fault them since the selling of Carroll.
Click to expand...

Carr said we went for Pappis 3 times in different windows. They wanted 15m+ at first second time they wanted 12m+. We bite at 8million :D
 
Yeh Cisse was looked at for a while apparently.

I wonder who they are looking at now.

I never heard of Cisse before he signed for us, but looking at his record its good. The German League isn't a joke anymore either
 
Moses said:
Right, so what you said was incorrect. I'm glad we've cleared that up :).

If a premier club came in, then I'd say they probably would. Say Arsenal tried to sign one of your players - when they have no real affiliation to the club, why would someone say no to moving from Newcastle to London, AND having their wages doubled, AND having a better chance of winning things?
Click to expand...

Yawn.

I said contractually you can make a player stay. It's a legal bind unless there is a clause of some description.

So what I said wasn't incorrect.

Yes money can turn players, Carroll as example. But what's to say we can't offer wages to reflect our position and ambition later on? And not everyone likes London...it's not that good.
 
Last edited:
Shaun Derry's appeal for his red card has been rejected by the FA. What is the point of having an appeal system when they always side with the original decision for the ref, despite how bad that decisions was..
 
Bigpig said:
Where do you want to start?

The above players played a bit of football for Newcastle most of the below dint

Geremi 60k+ Smith 60k+ Joey Barton65k+ David Rozehnal, Habib Beye was decent. Mark Viduka massive wages was never fit. Cacapa big wages pile of **** that turned up to work in shorts and flip flops and got free physio
Click to expand...

Basically, think there is another one or two players he bought in there as well.

There is a MASSIVE difference between needing one striker and buying a good one, and buying multiple expensive strikers for a club that CAN'T afford that level of wage spending. You can spend what money the club can afford any way you want really, when you start spending more than the club can afford.... well..

Bad buys, and financially inept buys that put the club in financial oblivion are completely different things.

Having a quick look, Souness got Owen, after great years for Liverpool and 13 goals in 18 starts for Real, for 15mil on around 100k a week, aged 26 I think. Had Owen not gotten so many injuries he likely wouldn't have been a bad buy, he was still deadly when he started, and deadly in the few spells he was fit, you can't predict a previously fairly uninjured player becoming insanely injury prone. By comparison he was massively injury prone before he joined Utd, and they bought a completely unreliable player for no reason at all, that was a bad buy. You can compare more to Utd, Kleberson of Djemba Djemba were horrifically bad, these were bad buys, but at no point did their wages threated to generate debt for the club, at all. They were buys that turned into bad players and then left, they were not buys who plunged the club into debt which takes years to pay off costing them the ability to compete financially in the time they are in debt, etc, etc. These are completely different things.

Fat Sam gave Viduka not far off the same wages, buying him at 30, having averaged 19 starts a season for 3 years, and 8.5ish goals a season in that time, but that was one 14 goal season and 2 **** seasons.

Fat sam was completely irresponsible, utterly woeful, and most importantly the football they were playing was abysmal and the team was doing horrendously despite the very heavy spending.

Take a look at West Ham, West Ham were actually winning constantly playing well and he decided to buy a few more players, which has made the team worse, increased their wage bill and plunging them further into debt by the day. The guy doesn't have a clue, he's Redknapp but worse.

Redknapp has worked so well at Spurs as he has a sensible man above him preventing insane constant spending plunging them into trouble.
 
Last edited:
Not that I'm one for wanting to see cheets post on these forums but I am wondering why he (or no one else for that matter) has really mentioned Ivanovic's misbehaviour at the weekend?
 
Tom84 said:
Not that I'm one for wanting to see cheets post on these forums but I am wondering why he (or no one else for that matter) has really mentioned Ivanovic's misbehaviour at the weekend?
Click to expand...

He seems to have a soft spot for Chelsea, perhaps because if he squints it almost looks like Wigan challenging for the top 4.
 
Nate75 said:
FA are not going to punish Mario - nuts.
Click to expand...

Apparently one of the officials saw the tackle, which then begs the question why didn't they flag it and get him sent off for it?

Nothing to do with the FA, it's the officials that were at the match that didn't give the decision despite seeing it. Poor.
 
Fat Sam is a joke of a manager,any manager that goes to derby(the worst team in the league by a country mile) to nullify the way they play and then sneak a single goal deserves to be shot!BTW derby took 4 points off us that season and we were their only win!!!
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom