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If anyone bid 25 million for Mata there is no question in my mind VFC would accept in a heartbeat, they bought him for 1 million, but clubs are pussyfooting around him atm hoping to get him for 20-23 million euros...
Valencia will sell, it's just whether the player wants the move badly or not, I think it will happen. Mata will probably eventually go for around 22-25 million pounds and with Valencian papers saying MCFC/CFC have joined the 'auction' and setup appointments with Mata's agent over the next 3 days then god knows where this story will lead...
Valencia will sell, it's just whether the player wants the move badly or not, I think it will happen. Mata will probably eventually go for around 22-25 million pounds and with Valencian papers saying MCFC/CFC have joined the 'auction' and setup appointments with Mata's agent over the next 3 days then god knows where this story will lead...
Not when he's just the type of player you need.
Aston Villa paid 12m for him.... Anything less than 18m won't be accepted.
Bit late to this but had to reply to some of these posts...
How the **** can you have half an assist? And Barca have clinical finishers - David Villa, Messi, Pedro, etc. vs Pavlyuchenko, Crouch, Keane, Defoe, etc. I know who I'd bet on to score more.
Barca scored 145 goals last season in all comps, and nearly 100 in La Liga alone. Tottenham scored 84 in all comps (including CC and CL preliminary rounds which Barca don't have) and only 55 in the league. Significant difference between the two teams' goal-scoring abilities. So of course Xavi is going to get more assists, but like Modric, his game isn't based on assists but on controlling the tempo and playing the ball into dangerous areas - hence the 2.4 kppg but only 0.8 through-balls/game, while Modric made 2.1 kppg.
Key passes includes things like pre-assists (Barcelona's plan B was often a fairly simple long ball from Xavi to Alves down the wing) and starting attacking moves.
Spurs' strikers couldn't score in a brothel
What? How can you use Kezman as an example to show how over-rated you think Modric is? Different league, different player (unlike Modric, Kezman's sole job was to score goals without being required to do much else, which was ****-easy in Holland). Bale had 3 assists all season but won POTY. BALE is over-rated, not Modric.
Wilshere got 6 assists, but I doubt you'd say he was over-rated... I hope you wouldn't. Don't answer that actually.
Especially at Arsenal... Would hate to see him next to Vermaelen. Suicide.
Malouda is a winger so you can't really compare him to Modric if that's what you were trying to do.
Yay! Good luck to him at Liverpool - good player, but not what we need IMO.
How the **** can you have half an assist? And Barca have clinical finishers - David Villa, Messi, Pedro, etc. vs Pavlyuchenko, Crouch, Keane, Defoe, etc. I know who I'd bet on to score more.
Barca scored 145 goals last season in all comps, and nearly 100 in La Liga alone. Tottenham scored 84 in all comps (including CC and CL preliminary rounds which Barca don't have) and only 55 in the league. Significant difference between the two teams' goal-scoring abilities. So of course Xavi is going to get more assists, but like Modric, his game isn't based on assists but on controlling the tempo and playing the ball into dangerous areas - hence the 2.4 kppg but only 0.8 through-balls/game, while Modric made 2.1 kppg.
Key passes includes things like pre-assists (Barcelona's plan B was often a fairly simple long ball from Xavi to Alves down the wing) and starting attacking moves.
Spurs' strikers couldn't score in a brothel
What? How can you use Kezman as an example to show how over-rated you think Modric is? Different league, different player (unlike Modric, Kezman's sole job was to score goals without being required to do much else, which was ****-easy in Holland). Bale had 3 assists all season but won POTY. BALE is over-rated, not Modric.
Wilshere got 6 assists, but I doubt you'd say he was over-rated... I hope you wouldn't. Don't answer that actually.
Especially at Arsenal... Would hate to see him next to Vermaelen. Suicide.
Malouda is a winger so you can't really compare him to Modric if that's what you were trying to do.
Yay! Good luck to him at Liverpool - good player, but not what we need IMO.
and especially when the selling club bought him for 12 million, he has 2 years left on his contract, just had a very good season and the club neither want to or have to sell him.
Yea, blossoming career in Newcastle oO)
Criscito, well, Zenit have more chance winning something than Genoa, so why not ?
McGeady, no one wanted him hard enough, so he went in Russia.
Vice versa, what happened to Zhirkov ? Even Arshavin ?
Read a bit more before you rage. And yes, you are a bit late. And no, I was not trying to compare Malouda with Modric... I wasn't even talking about Modric in that post.
I'm refrained.
Either that or being restrained make your own mind up
If Modric is worth 40 Downing is worth at least 16... (Personal Valuation:18-20)
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Oba Martins was a very good player for Newcastle, I'd take him at Liverpool for sure.
He meant Xavi created 3.5 times more than Modric as Xavi mode 7 assists and Modric made 2.
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Especially Arsenal fans. Wenger has said a billion and one times that he feels the more you talk about a transfer, the less likely it is to happen. Clubs obviously prefer it if you keep things private and respectful - Wenger knows this from personal exp. considering the Cesc saga.
Makes more sense!
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BBC's Phil McNulty on a couple of today's most talked about topics:
People putting us in pole position for N'Zog, which is lovely. Equally lovely is Stephen Ireland's attitude and interview after coming back to preseason training (the normal PR stuff, but it's nice to hear after AML gave everyone a clean slate). Also good is our links to Parker, which admittedly haven't developed much, and his midfield partner Hitzlsperger. Finally, we've reportedly agreed a fee for Alan Hutton.
Window's going well, all things considered.
Window's going well, all things considered.
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N'Zogbia to replace Downing, I'd imagine?
Depends on whether we keep him or not. We're in for N'Zog as a direct replacement for Young, really, and if Downing goes we'll probably need another backup winger to cover both he and Albrighton.
First off, he was ****. Then he showed a rather bad attitude and fell out with Houllier. We didn't want him lying around doing nothing, so loaned him out.
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