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I didn't see Fergie's press conference, was he still crying?
January Transfer Window 2012/2013 Season Rumours/Signings
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Soldato
I'm sure he'll be fine once we beat your lot on Sunday
Well it's journos that work within the guardian, but essentially yes they aren't averse to selling him.
You can listen for yourself! Jump on itunes and download Football Weekly/Football Weekly Extra.
606 is comedy gold! Will give the World Football phone in a listen to, TAW is a Liverpool based podcast yes. It's really interesting, and you do get some Liverpool (the city) based bits, not too much though.
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Man of Honour
Was that a yes then? 
Soldato
I wouldn't blame him, I still am 
Was that a yes then?
Ive not seen it, but from the various reports he was fairly calm. He could quite easily gone into a huge tirade but has just accepted it and wants to move on.
He did have one remark about how he was worried about the appointment of the ref well before the game
Caporegime
I can't recommend the Football Ramble / World Football phone in and The Guardian Football Weekly enough.
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Was that a yes then?
Just Jealous because you don't have a Manager long enough for them to grieve over any major upsets (of which you have plenty!).
Caporegime
Sky Italia are reporting that Barca have agreed a fee of €92m, read it again... €92m for Neymar.
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lol, how much will he leave for in 2 years, after a year on loan, after he's not happy that he gets shafted to favour Messi.
Eto'o, Ibra and now Villa, the last being a god damned Spanish hero, crucial to their first international trophy(ever or just in ages, can't remember?), and all of them have been pushed out of the team for the sake of Messi. Did they not learn from the last time they spent obscene money on a player who would want to play where Messi wants to?
Assuming of course its true, they want to buy marquee signings to tell their fans they are competing on par with Real, its been that way for 15 years between those two, one signs an expensive player, the other one has to as well.
Sanchez hasn't really worked out, cost too much and isn't that good. Villa is looking set to leave, despite being a Spanish hero, even that isn't enough to save him. Ibra was ridiculously expensive and loaned out after a very successful year, then sold after another successful year, for a ridiculously low price.
Frankly the next "star" striker who goes to Barca is very likely to be left pretty pee'd off at playing second string to Messi, finding the entire club, and fans favour Messi, and finding themselves pushed out of position for him. Fair enough, Messi is awesome, but Barca should be spending any money they can on a new defence, a new striker is a complete waste.
Eto'o, Ibra and now Villa, the last being a god damned Spanish hero, crucial to their first international trophy(ever or just in ages, can't remember?), and all of them have been pushed out of the team for the sake of Messi. Did they not learn from the last time they spent obscene money on a player who would want to play where Messi wants to?
Assuming of course its true, they want to buy marquee signings to tell their fans they are competing on par with Real, its been that way for 15 years between those two, one signs an expensive player, the other one has to as well.
Sanchez hasn't really worked out, cost too much and isn't that good. Villa is looking set to leave, despite being a Spanish hero, even that isn't enough to save him. Ibra was ridiculously expensive and loaned out after a very successful year, then sold after another successful year, for a ridiculously low price.
Frankly the next "star" striker who goes to Barca is very likely to be left pretty pee'd off at playing second string to Messi, finding the entire club, and fans favour Messi, and finding themselves pushed out of position for him. Fair enough, Messi is awesome, but Barca should be spending any money they can on a new defence, a new striker is a complete waste.
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I can see Neymar thinking, hmm, FFP, they might be looking to reduce wages in a couple seasons, better to move now, for a huge fee and get a huge wage. In a couple years clubs will be using FFP as an excuse to spend less money on transfers and wages, ultimately I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few prospects try and force a move in the next transfer window just in case they'll get worse deals later on.
You can never trust these rumoured 'fees' anyway, €92m could be including the player's package as well.
Personally from what I've seen of Neymar he isn't anywhere close to justifying such a pricetag yet, I've seen him have poor games and he wouldn't get in my Barca team. He is also a terrible diver and judging by that cup game a while back seems to have a massive ego as well (basically, if he gets tackled he can't accept it and feigns injury), although that doesn't really have much bearing in anything.
Personally from what I've seen of Neymar he isn't anywhere close to justifying such a pricetag yet, I've seen him have poor games and he wouldn't get in my Barca team. He is also a terrible diver and judging by that cup game a while back seems to have a massive ego as well (basically, if he gets tackled he can't accept it and feigns injury), although that doesn't really have much bearing in anything.
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Soldato
Worth nowhere near that price tag. been absolutely anonymous and missed sitters every time I've watched him live (granted not a large amount)
Caporegime
Amazing talent but I would be stunned if they got anything like that figure for him. Very unfinished and unproven.
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Am sure someone will pipe in and tell us how good/rubbish Williams is...probably DM for all we know
Wenger hasn't signed him yet, so DM wont be trashing the player until the summer at the earliest.
Williams is a decent player but Wenger doesn't seem to like spending transfer fees on British CBs - if he was prepared to stump up for a bit of British Steel then he would have bought Jagielka a couple of seasons ago but instead went shopping back home for Squillaci and Koscielny.
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Wenger hasn't signed him yet, so DM wont be trashing the player until the summer at the earliest.
He's a solid player, mostly appears to be a leader in the team which is something Arsenal desparately need, but based on how every other defensive signing for 6 years has gone, any good part of his game would be gone within a year, 2 max, before he was crap again. As with last year, and the one before, and the one before that, I see no point us signing anyone just to watch Wenger turn them into a rubbish player.
Not sure Williams is THAT good, he's certainly pretty decent and I'd take him at Arsenal... along with a new manager or someone given full control of training and organising the defence. Maybe Williams being a proper leader could organise the defence fairly well on his own, I don't know.