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Lots of rumours going around at the moment.
Arsenal have offered £1.5million loan fee for Ba. Chelsea want £3million.
Liverpool have made a £30million pound offer for Mata,and might be prepared to increase this.
Real Madrid are looking at £45million for Suarez.
Liverpool have made a £30million pound offer for Mata,and might be prepared to increase this.
United have Zaha, Fellaini, all we were in for this season was a midfielder - Fabregas - he didn't want to leave Barca, nothing anyone could have done
well arsenal got oezil
we didnt need oezil
it was fabregas, strootman or fellaini
even de rossi was a choice
and that lie about 40mil for khedira is madness
I'm amazed that Spurs let Benoit Assou-Ekotto go out on loan to QPR.
He was of my favourite players from last season.
Even more surprised that no EPL club snapped him up.
We didnt need Rvp either and look how that turned out
We handled ourselves poorly in this window - our bids were mere attempts to appease fans than actually showing interest in players
Fellaini could have singed when Moyes signed coz it was that obvious. Why it took us this long to get him and to pay more than what his buyout clause was is beyond me. Contreou - why did we try last min when we had all this time before yesterday?
Hererra - I dont even know what happened there
Couldn't really do much with a n00b at the helm after David Gill left abruptly... he should have stayed and secured the services of the much needed midfield... instead he dropped United last minute and left us with a idiot
Why is he mental?
He doesn't even like football, he rides the tube to practice/matches etc etc
Why is he mental?
If I may offer an example of his aforementioned realness? The very night BAE scored an excellent goal against Everton a couple of seasons back, instead of returning home in a supercar or luxury vehicle (mind, he drives a Smart car), Benny was spotted waiting for the bus like an ordinary Joe. Being real. This is exactly what separates him from the majority of today’s footballers who seem to all prematurely consider themselves superstars. On the contrary, BAE actually sets a good example for the younger generation. He teaches them humility.
More recently, when BAE was asked about his club’s new record signing, Paulinho – who mind you is both a key Brazilian international player and 2013 Confederations Cup winner – Mr. Assou-Ekotto as honest as you like, replied that he “has no idea” who he is. “I don’t know what he looks like. I don’t know him.” He goes on, “It’s like two or three years ago, Rafael van der Vaart was there in training one day. I said hello to him but I didn’t know he was Rafael van der Vaart.”
He continues, “I don’t understand people who don’t understand me. Most people don’t go back home with their job and it’s the same for me.”
After a bust-up with teammate Vedran Corluka, another former manager, Harry Redknapp once famously said, “Benoit is a strange boy. He’s a bit highly-strung and hardly speaks English. If you say something to him, he’s hard work. He hasn’t improved his English in the couple of years he’s been here. He probably didn’t know the result! He probably thought we’d drawn.”
Redknapp elaborates, “He’ll turn up Wednesday and play great, but he won’t know we’re playing Fulham until someone tells him. That’s how he is. He’s unreal (not according to The Visionist). He walks off and he’s thinking about the music he’s going to play when he puts his headphones on.”