** Summer Transfer Window 2011/12 Season Rumours/Signings **

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Biz.Kid09 said:
How do you know?
The ever reliable Daily Mail :o

He probably wont be in the squad anyway but why would he when he is not match fit?

Your not allowed to train with players named? Of course you are so he can still offer his experience.
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Give it up Biz your argument before was flawed now it's verging on the desperate so Hargreaves now was signed just for someone to chat to your actual playing footballers on the training pitch? You said he was replacing Vieira the same Vieira who's still actually employed by City, if Hargreaves hasn't replaced him on the pitch/in the squad then he's doing nothing that Vieira couldn't do himself from his new role

Your argument is about as confusing as City actually signing Hargreaves :o
 
What does Hargreaves stand to gain from this move? I will be amazed if he plays double figures and if he does it's because City have got to the Carling Cup final.
 
Well for someone who just wants to get back to playing football he couldn't of picked a worst team to go to tbh

I suspect deep deep down he knows he's only got 1 or 2 years left so he's just going where he's got the best chance of being in and around success like our own Michael Owen.
 
What will be more interesting is whether he makes the Premiership 25 man squad. Hargreaves is a bit of a rarity for an Englishman at an English club in that he isn't a homegrown player, so the only way he can get in the Euro squads will be on merit.
 
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The normal concerns of a Premier League manager when bringing in a Johnny Foreigner type to their club is how well their import deals with the passion, enthusiasm and the giving it 120%, headless chicken commitment that's demanded in the English game. David Moyes certainly won't have any kind of issue with loan signing Royston Ricky Drenthe in that department, leaving the Everton manager plenty of time to practice scowling and being a surly old sod.

Indeed, the former Real Madrid left-winger perhaps has too much lead in his Dutch pencil. That was certainly the case during four seasons in la Liga. In his three years at the Santiago Bernabeu before moving on loan to Hércules, the left-winger would tend receive the ball and then race off in the direction of goal, with his legs spinning in midair like Wile E. Coyote running off the edge of the cliff. Drenthe had enormous problems staying on his feet - but not in the same way Sergio Busquets does. It was an issue that had Raúl asking him if he was playing with the right kind of studs.

The problem for Drenthe was that his eagerness to tear at the opposition at every opportunity was so great, the lower half of his powerful frame simply couldn't keep up with the top half. But it was this speed, strength and raw talent that brought Drenthe from Feyenoord to Madrid in 2007 for €13m after the Dutchman was awarded the title of best player in the European U-21 Championships.

Despite the club's Sporting Director of the time, Pedja Mijatovic, claiming in 2008 that "Royston Drenthe is the prototype of the modern player" the skeptical Santiago Bernabeu crowd were far from convinced. A notoriously hard-to-please set of supporters saw his slips, stumbles and late lunges on opposition players as clumsiness rather than commitment. The diamond earrings, tattoos and huge headphones didn't go down too well either with a stuffy, conservative bunch.

Your correspondent remembers speaking to the Dutchman after a game and asking why he had picked up a yellow card for a reckless challenge just seconds after coming on as a substitute. The response was that the advice from his father was to get out on the pitch and let the opposition know he was there straight away.

Despite the constant and often cruel barracking of Drenthe, something the sensitive soul always struggled to cope with, the team's managers over the first two years saw the 24-year-old Dutchman's approach to the game as more positive than negative and stuck with him. That spell ended when Manuel Pellegrini lost interest in the winger and José Mourinho sent Drenthe out on loan to newly promoted Hércules last season, where a brilliant start to his time at the Alicante side went horribly wrong at the end.

With the supporters behind Drenthe and a consistent run of matches in the team, he was by the far the best player for Hércules in the opening months of season and adored by the fans. But then economic problems at the club saw Drenthe claiming that he had only been paid once. It was a state of affairs that saw the winger returning late from Holland after the Christmas break to be hassled by fans shouting 'mercenary' at the airport and to be greeted at his home with the sight of the letters 'KKK' sprayed onto the wall of his house.

The subsequent decline of Hércules was blamed solely on Drenthe by the club's appalling president, Valentín Botella, rather on himself for leading a club with no training facilities or ability to pay his players.

Alicante also bore witness to a colourful off-the-field life for Drenthe who is a hip-hop fanatic and has released a record with Ryan Babel. In his first days with Madrid in 2007, the Dutchman drove into a police car in the early hours of a Sunday morning when his GPS told him to make a left into the oncoming stream of traffic.

In October 2010, there was another incident with the police, this time in Alicante, when Drenthe was stopped after blasting through six red lights at 100mph. The footballer claimed that he was on his way to a hospital worried that his friend in the passenger seat was in a coma. In actual fact it was his companion that was blasted.

After a tough four year spell at Real Madrid and Hercules and some disgraceful treatment from fans, the Goodison Park support is going to have to offer him during his year on loan in Liverpool to get the best out of him, no matter how frustrating Drenthe can sometimes be on the pitch and enormous pain in the bum for his teammates off it. In return, they will get a player who is dedicated and capable of wonderful football. Just don't let Drenthe anywhere near a car.
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http://www.football365.com/faves/7142318/Spanish-Thing



Looks like some one Moyes could work his magic on. :cool: Him and Baines could be deadly on the left.



ROFL at the car story though. :D :D
 
stoke1863 said:
Royston has been hated at every club he's played for' went on strike last season. Bad apple suprised moyles went anywhere near him
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Hated at every club he played for? Hercules kept not paying their players, were in trouble and were screwing him.

The thing is, just because they make loads of money more than you(I'm assuming) and me, its not in a lump sum like anyone else, and like anyone else they'll end up buying a huge house that costs more than their yearly income, so they'll have large mortgage and payments to make like every other person struggling month to month to pay for anything.

After daring to mention it a bunch of racist fans started putting KKK on his car/house.

I could never decide between, brain dead idiot and over enthusiastic with Drenthe when I saw him play. I was entirely unimpressed with his U21 performance that sent him to Real in terms of football and mistakes, but god damned, like Marcelo he's a bit of a beast, built like a mofo, fast, I'd be more inclined to jump out the way than make a tackle on him :p

He could be great, but ultimately it looks like Everton's season will rest on two things, loan striker being good, and/or Saha being fit for the year.
 
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Royston has been hated at every club he's played for' went on strike last season. Bad apple suprised moyles went anywhere near him
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I'd go on strike if I wasn't paid for a couple of seasons as well. Ridiculous to include that in the bad things he's done, when he did the same as every person on the planet would.
 
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Biz.Kid09 said:
How do you know?
The ever reliable Daily Mail :o

He probably wont be in the squad anyway but why would he when he is not match fit?

Your not allowed to train with players named? Of course you are so he can still offer his experience.
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He gonna show the rest of the ManCity Ladies how to train in lycra with stretchy string?!

Great contribution to the team!
 
Here's my MC squad
* = homegrown(MC)
+ = homegrown(other)

*Hart
+Taylor
Pantillimon

*Richards
+Lescott
K.Toure
Kompany
+Clichy
Kolarov
Zabaleta
*Onuoha

+Barry
+Milner
+A.Johnson
De Jong
Y.Toure
Silva
Nasri
*Weiss
Hargreaves

Tevez
Balotelli
Dzeko
Aguero
Adebayor

Bit of a toss up about putting Hargreaves in the squad, I haven't seen enough of Savic to know if he should be there instead of him (different position but that was the 25th position I chose).
 
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The 25 man squad rule is for over 21's only. There are only 2 things important to remember and they are that you can only have 25 over 21's and of those 25, only 17 can be non-home grown. City don't have 25 over 21's nor do they have 17 non-home grown over 21 year olds so there's no reason why Hargreaves won't be included.
 
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