** Official ** Summer 2010 Transfer Thread - Signings, Sightings and Rumor's in Here

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£8m is a steal if true, even outdoing the £2.5m we paid for Kranjcar if he delivers the goods.
 
Delighted with stoke this window.

Get rid of wate od spce trouble makers beattie and kitson!

Bring in

Eidur Gudjohnson
Kenweyne Jones
Jermain Pennant
Mark wilson
Jon Walters.

Walters has been top notch so far and big kenny will be a legend. I trust pulis with pennant. Hes a good manager at sorting out these bad boys who have gone off the rails. Eidur is a great capture for stoke on loan.

Maybe some of these arent that special to some of you but for stoke this is a step in the right direction.

Best thing is we didnt sell Shawcross or Huth
 
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Hleb to Birmingham could be a really decent signing :)
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It should be, but its got the look of one of those deals with disaster written all over it to me.

He doesnt score, he doesnt provide enough service ( even with a decent side around him) what on earth is he going to do for Brum i wonder?

He could turn out to be brilliant for them, but I'm doubting it.
 
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Delighted with stoke this window.

Get rid of wate od spce trouble makers beattie and kitson!

Bring in

Eidur Gudjohnson
Kenweyne Jones
Jermain Pennant
Mark wilson
Jon Walters.

Walters has been top notch so far and big kenny will be a legend. I trust pulis with pennant. Hes a good manager at sorting out these bad boys who have gone off the rails. Eidur is a great capture for stoke on loan.

Maybe some of these arent that special to some of you but for stoke this is a step in the right direction.

Best thing is we didnt sell Shawcross or Huth
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Glad Stoke have strengthened so well, I've got Shawcross and Etherington in my fantasy team. :D
 
When Liverpool signed him, Pennant was the best crosser of the ball in the league and 'pool fans would have you believe he was going to be more effective than Ronaldo, ultimately being the final piece in the jigsaw along with Crouch their to be on the end of his pinpoint crosses.

Then he actually started playing for them.
 
Hleb has unbelievable technique. My favourite player in the 07/08 Arsenal team, one of few players I'd be happy to pay a lot of money to watch, has shades of Zidane in the way he drifts past people as if they weren't there and shares his immense vision. The master of creating space and the pass before the assist. As you can tell I adore him and probably over rate him a tad, but he is a truly special talent.
 
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Hleb has unbelievable technique. My favourite player in the 07/08 Arsenal team, one of few players I'd be happy to pay a lot of money to watch, has shades of Zidane in the way he drifts past people as if they weren't there and shares his immense vision. The master of creating space and the pass before the assist. As you can tell I adore him and probably over rate him a tad, but he is a truly special talent.
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This is the biggest pile of turd I've ever seen posted on this forum, firstly he never ever beats anyone. Did you notice how his runs usually went from right wing across towards the middle of the pitch, rather than run AT the defence and AROUND players, he ran across the pitch, away from players, defenders stay goal side, they don't randomly over commit if you're running across the pitch to give them a chance to get in behind. He did this constantly, until he ran into too many players usually giving up the ball or passing WAY back. Creating space, shades of Zidane, people simply don't listen to what I actually say about Eboue, Zidane he is not, better than most people think, leagues ahead of Denilson and Diaby, easily, no where near Fabregas, yup.

But comparing Hleb, to Zidane, is hilarious, quite literally the worst comparison I've see from any fanboy of any player EVER in the history of football.

Stuttgart, who frankly suck these days thought he was too crap to keep, Stuttgart in Europe last year, Hleb was their single worst player on the pitch when I saw them play, Barcelona won't play him, sorry if he was half the player Zidane was he'd be walking into any team in the world, not only just getting a last minute loan at Birmingham.

Hleb is one of the least effective players, and least capable players we have, like Diaby, holds onto the ball way to long and eventually loses it, horrible vision, horrible ability to work out what he's doing next, constantly stuck looking down at his feet, running into dead ends and being generally rubbish.

As an Arsenal fan, saying Hleb was your favourite player of any year is flat out mean to everyone else, Gallas had a higher goals to games ratio, in 07/07 Hleb got 2 goals and 2 assists in the league.

Hleb has awful technique, as said he doesn't run around players, he runs away from players, he rarely beat anyone, has a truly horrible goals and assist to games ratio, barely scored for Stuttgart, didn't score for Barca. Head down, fumbling the ball constantly, running into trouble.

Making space and assists, what utter trash are you talking about, THEO has a better goals to game ratio than Hleb, and Theo has 8 goals in 71 games in the league, Hleb has 7 goals in 89 appearances, both awful wingers.

For the record a GREAT winger, Pires, had 62 goals in 153 appearences in the league, and really did have a shade of Zidane about him he actually did beat players despite having little pace, he had true vision, fantastic technique, scored from all over the pitch, has 10-20 times the amount of assists as Hleb, scored important goals in big games and set up important goals in big games, plus, who can't love the guy whose foot went "numb" for the worst penalty in the history of the prem league.

Ljungberg certainly wasn't the most prolific, but still excellent player and in a bit over 200 games scored 46 or so goals, still pretty much double the scoring and assist rate of Hleb.
 
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dm I couldn't read that, sorry. I wasn't comparing him to Zidane as a complete player, that'd be mental, but there's shades of his brilliant technique and creativity in Hleb, obviously Zidane had a lot more than that which made him a much better player.

Oh my god I skim read a bit more and you said he had awful technique. I despair :(. If there's one good thing about Hleb (and the reason Barcelona wanted him) - it's his unreal technique. His first touch and passing were at times incredulous, yes he wasn't lethal or deadly and preferred the perfect pass/move to a goal, but that for me added to the entertainment of watching him, and at the end of the day, football is entertainment (for me anyway).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtaNKo0E6U That video doesn't even show all of his good parts from that one single game

Then watch this one http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=7MNg4ghM194&feature=related - can't beat a man?
 
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dm I couldn't read that, sorry. I wasn't comparing him to Zidane as a complete player, that'd be mental, but there's shades of his brilliant technique and creativity in Hleb, obviously Zidane had a lot more than that which made him a much better player.

Oh my god I skim read a bit more and you said he had awful technique. I despair :(. If there's one good thing about Hleb (and the reason Barcelona wanted him) - it's his unreal technique. His first touch and passing were at times incredulous, yes he wasn't lethal or deadly and preferred the perfect pass/move to a goal, but that for me added to the entertainment of watching him, and at the end of the day, football is entertainment (for me anyway).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtaNKo0E6U That video doesn't even show all of his good parts from that one single game

Then watch this one http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=7MNg4ghM194&feature=related - can't beat a man?
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The first vid, the first pass, he toe punts a pass, the second one, Eboue is moving into that space, rather than the simple easy pass to the right of scholes, which Fabregas would have done, he moves into Scholes for no reason than blasts a pass high at Eboue, great control by Eboue, most of the time that would have been awful. 3rd thing he did, ran at defender, DID NOT go around him, got scared, turn to run across the pitch, ran into someone, to be fair did excellently to keep the ball around that guy, then lost it.

Other than dixon saying those things were brilliant, all three show just how completely stupid he was. You can interpret things many ways, but he did all three of those things in the single worst way possible, and none of them created anything, nor were difficult, nor show his good skill.


HAHA, the last thing is absolutely brilliant, Dixon pratting on about a great run, gets the ball, Ade is the only guy up, stays out very wide for no reason, slows down, doesn't know what to do, comes up against someone, any other winger would beat his man and cross to Ade, no, he again runs across the entire pitch, ignoring 3 players running into the box to do so and does the easy yet completely pointless pass having ignored pass/player after player to do so. The thing right before it, is classic, he gets an easy ball passes it easily wide, he was at that point the furthest forward, he passed it off to someone who was running deep and wide and was going to cross it in, so he stops and ambles aimlessly in the middle of the pitch, a great player like Pires of Freddie would have broken his neck to get in the box.


As for the second video, the first 4 things I watched, running full speed at defenders he goes round them, losing control of the ball, missed a box full of open people with a pass at the keeper near post, gets scared by the keeper turns and passes it to someone way outside the box, etc, etc, etc, no end product, puts his head down when he runs, creates NOTHING, moves to a crap league and STILL can't create anything, goes back to his old club who still don't want him. He's completely crap.

Ronaldinho is a better dribbler, and the difference is, at the end of a dribble he actually does score or get an assist. This is Hleb's problem, he constantly gets on the ball, constantly runs around like a headless chicken and constantly gives it away or doesn't know what the smeg he's doing, he's one of the worst players we've ever had.

Dixon getting excited because with a very flat midfield 4, a ridiculously simple pass in behind Scholes, Hleb makes a mess of it, ignores the easy pass, almost loses the ball, runs into trouble then blasts it toward the nearest player........ and thats the problem, those are vids of Hleb at his best, and he's completely worthless as a footballer, vid's of Hleb at his worst are stepping on the ball, falling over running into 3 players and randomly smashing it back to defenders.

Surely it says something when you find two great vid's, and (I only watched the first 3-4 moves of the second vid) he actually made a complete fool of himself and created nothing significant at all just wasted time and effort and missed easy pass after easy pass and makes a hash of it at the end of every single run he makes?
 
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