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dizogg

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Odd Chelsea news of the day for me is that they've given Ramires a new 5 year contract. Whilst he's a decent enough player, it's hard to imagine him being a crucial part of the team in 5 years. If a manager comes in with a different approach he could easily be surplus in 5 months. Odd.

I think he's a really decent player. He's only 24 so from Chelsea's point of view they haven't got too much to lose, if he does go the long contract will increase his value if anything,

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It is like when he was the manager for Reading, the players he had there just could not play the way he wanted them too and he was sacked in 5 months. He was quite lucky at Swansea as they already sort of played his way under Martinez.

It wasn't so much lucky, the Swans chairman and board were after a manager that coached the same possession based game that was introduced with Martinez and continued (admittedly in a more defensive fashion) under Sousa. If and when Roberts gets poached by a bigger club I imagine we'll be on the lookout for another manager who can continue to encourage the same style of play that we currently practice.

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Poor Craig Whyte...

Craig Whyte Agrees £10 million Rangers investment with Tommy in Glasgow

Rangers owner Craig Whyte has attempted to seal a £10 million investment deal for the club with a amateur satirist Tommy in Glasgow.

Free speech campaigner ‘Tommy', a well known contributor to Talksport and the Clyde and BBC Radio phone ins, was offered an introduction to the administrators of Rangers FC by the Monaco based alleged ‘billionaire’.

Whyte (40), who once appeared on a ‘Scotland’s Hottest Hunks’ list published by the Daily Record, told ‘Tommy’; “If you want to invest in Rangers you are very welcome to get involved.”

Whyte also promised; “I can get the administrators to ask you to sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) and to send you more information and you can make the decision on whether you want to get involved or not.”

And on the issue of HMRC, Whyte confidently sates; "There will be no tax liability at the end of this (process)".

The Motherwell born failed businessman, who was struck off as a UK Director for seven years before he invested a single pound coin in Rangers, also gave ‘Tommy” a stark warning; “If you want a quiet life don’t invest in football!”

Posing as a fictitious businessman ‘Stewart Henderson’, described as a Glasgow born ‘angel investor’ who banked a fortune from Silicon Valley investments, ‘Tommy’ decided to get involved after witnessing a series of e-mail exchanges between Whyte and a member of the Huddleboard Celtic Supporters internet forum.

Calling himself ‘John Patterson’ and describing himself as an ‘Influential Rangers blogger’, friendly chats by e-mail between Whyte and the Huddleboarder soon escalated into promises of connections between alleged investor ‘Stewart Henderson’ and Whyte, whose wealth was once described in a Daily Record newspaper article by Keith Jackson as being ‘off the radar’.

After just 15 e-mails between the the two fictitious characters, ‘Patterson’ and ‘Henderson’, a promise of a face to face meeting in London saw Whyte (using his libertycapital.biz e-mail address) providing his UK Mobile phone details to allow contacts to begin.

In an 18 minute call, recorded the day before Rangers’ administrators Duff & Phelps, applied for court action to seize Craig Whyte’s lawyers bank accounts, Whyte encouraged "Tommy" by saying the administrators were; “Doing what they had to do” by “Cutting the costs”, to ensure, “A viable business going forward.”

Whyte believed that Duff and Phelps, whose company name is an anagram of ‘Helpp Ffuds’, were doing what was; “absolutely necessary” so that, what ‘Tommy’ described as ‘The Big House’ (Ibrox Park) could stay open.

‘Tommy’ was reassured by Whyte that he “Wouldn’t be saying anything to anybody” about the proposed £10 million investment, but warned that the nature of a football club like Rangers would mean obvious public interest, much like Whyte’s recent court case, where a Glasgow judge described him as “wholly unreliable”.

When asked about his recent statement on eventual fans' ownership of Rangers, Whyte said it was only one option, but he appeared to question the Rangers fans commitment to the any ownership scheme, revealing “I don’t think it’s something that could be absolutely depended upon.”

These same fans have been recently repeatedly using a slogan; “We don’t do walking away”, repeated by Whyte in a recent statement.

So fond is Whyte of this phrase, first coined by the failed Rangers manager Ally McCoist, that he said he “Loved the idea" of charity t-shirts bearing this slogan and his own face being sold in his honour in Glasgow.

Several versions of proposed t-shirts were created and sent to Whyte by e-mail for approval.

'Tommy', who is already planning a new career as an author, enjoyed his chat with Whyte immensely.

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