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16 minutes ago, Naysonymous said:

Yeah, I saw all that unfold on Twitter yesterday, quite a few of the FW regulars will be going to the new show. I've had a Football Weekly subscription since 2007, I might call it when Jim leaves. 

 

Will give it a listen, mostly out of habit but very intrigued about AC Jimbo's new gig, and who the guests will be. Guess Max Rushden will become FW's permanent host. Never minded him, although wish Dave Farrar would get another go. He went full looney the last time he was on.

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It looks like the Neymar move is actually going to happen. Crazy times.

 

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40800757

 

In other news, it seems Daniel Sturridge has packed his standard comeback from injury, goal, and injury that puts him out for the rest of the season into a 20-minute period in a preseason friendly. Efficient.

 

Of course, I hope I'm wrong about him being out for a long time. The poor bugger has the worst luck.

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LaLiga are wanting to try and stop it, im not sure how they could though. The only way i can think of is if they try and frame it as some kind of monopoly and get UEFA or the EU to step in but, if its 2 seperate leagues then i dont know if thatd work.

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can't see La Liga getting any traction with an FFP appeal, plus surely some lawyer will argue that a contractual release clause is fundamentally flawed if its set so high no club could trigger it without complaint to the governing body

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12 minutes ago, dng said:

It's especially amusing considering how much fraud and tax evasion and other actual crimes went into getting Neymar to move to Barcelona in the first place.

 

We still don't know the final figure it cost Barcelona to buy Neymar, all this bollocks about Pogba costing so much, when all along Neymar was the most expensive player. I bet it cost Barcelona £100m or more.

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And you won't get this fan complaining about Akinbiyi.

 

Bought for £600k, scored 16 goals, sold for £1.75m, bought back for £700k, scored another ten before losing his place to a young lad he had been mentoring - Jay Rodriguez.

 

Sent off two minutes into his first debut for headbutting, started scoring in his second spell after being banned from the gym - he looked like a WWE wrestler as he wasn't playing at Sheffield United and got addicted to weights.  How many footballers would have to be banned from the gym by their managers?

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Akinbiyi was great for us.  Made a nice tidy profit on him after a year, then he went to absolute shit at Leicester.  He was fairly trim when he was with us - certainly compared to the beast he was at Sheff Utd etc.

 

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@The Grand Pursuivant - which Sinclair do you mean?  Trevor was excellent, Scott wasted away his talent sitting on the bench and Frank was decent enough for Chelsea to my memory.

 

Although I'm not disagreeing with you, there must be a thousand names we could put there if only we could remember their names. Mainly West Ham or Sunderland signings.

 

Oooh, what about Wolfswinkel instead of Soldado?  And Jon Parkin, who, IIRC, Stuart Pearce left on the bench when he needed a winner in favour of sending his goalkeeper forward?

 

Pearce has to manage that team, BTW.

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Couple of Burnley signings for the squad.  Leon Cort, a centre half so physical that he never got booked.  And Brian Laws panic loaning Frederic Nimani in the transfer window based on some YouTube videos.  I've just looked him up - he's a midfielder who has played 96 games in 11 seasons.

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The Grand Pursuivant

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55 minutes ago, Plissken said:

@The Grand Pursuivant - which Sinclair do you mean?  Trevor was excellent, Scott wasted away his talent sitting on the bench and Frank was decent enough for Chelsea to my memory.

 

Although I'm not disagreeing with you, there must be a thousand names we could put there if only we could remember their names. Mainly West Ham or Sunderland signings.

 

Oooh, what about Wolfswinkel instead of Soldado?  And Jon Parkin, who, IIRC, Stuart Pearce left on the bench when he needed a winner in favour of sending his goalkeeper forward?

 

Pearce has to manage that team, BTW.

 

I meant Frank Sinclair. Isn't he the record scorer of own goals in the PL?

 

And yeah, there are a bunch of people you could fit in that squad. I didn't even get started on the Djemba-Djembas and Klebersons, but I wanted players who had (mostly) played a lot of games. Kromkamp and Stepanovs dont really fit in to that but they were both such awful players they kind of had to go in.

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57 minutes ago, Plissken said:

What was the West Ham player who gave it all up and was last seen living in a caravan?  Boogers?

 

Blimey, you want to spend more time worrying about your own c+b team; two West Ham digs in the last few hours!

 

But yes, Marco Boogers. 

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27 minutes ago, Plissken said:

Neymar to PSG confirmed for 223m euros, or £198m.

 

Jesus H Christ.

 

He apparently will also be paid something in the region of €60m a year to be an ambassador for the Qatar world cup. We could be talking in billions, if you consider the full cost over five years.

 

3 hours ago, dng said:

It's especially amusing considering how much fraud and tax evasion and other actual crimes went into getting Neymar to move to Barcelona in the first place.

 

Also, Barca happily took Qatari money as sponsorship for years. Can't really complain now their employee wants to do the same.

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24 minutes ago, Scruff said:

 

Blimey, you want to spend more time worrying about your own c+b team; two West Ham digs in the last few hours!

 

But yes, Marco Boogers. 

 

Nah, nothing personal.  Just West Ham are shorthand for signing a lot of dross over the years.  32 strikers in seven years for 128 goals in 643 games. Some European or South American journeyman will turn up, look good for six matches and head out within 18 months. Some of the names in that article - Wellington Paulista, Brian Montenegro, Emmanuel Emanike - I don't even think the players remember being at the club.  Sunderland are the same, except with a conveyor belt of African players.

 

As for my lot, we're half Republic of Ireland national side, half Stoke City Retirement Home.  Which is worrying, because Stoke City were generally everyone else's retirement home.

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