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He was amazing in WC. Maybe the best LB in tournament.
He was being sarcastic... We know he's good.
Apparently Evra has been texting Nasri:
'little prince, if you want to become a king, you know where you have to go.'
More Evra: 'If Nasri comes he needs to know u're not allowed to make mistakes here. We play to win. Every year u have guarantee of a trophy'
A journalist from Ligue1.com is the source. Disgraceful if it's true - Fabregas-gate all over again. ****.
'little prince, if you want to become a king, you know where you have to go.'
More Evra: 'If Nasri comes he needs to know u're not allowed to make mistakes here. We play to win. Every year u have guarantee of a trophy'
A journalist from Ligue1.com is the source. Disgraceful if it's true - Fabregas-gate all over again. ****.
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Over-reaction much? they are after all very good friends.
Which means he's allowed to text our player telling him to come to Utd? No. Not on at all.
No Source, Both are friends, Banter, Non story..
So you would be perfectly fine with Ronaldo sending Rooney texts telling him to go to Madrid?
As I said, it's a journalist from Ligue1.com - that's a source and a pretty concrete one...
Banter? No. Tapping up? Yes.
I don't care if they shared a ******* teet, it's not on - Evra has no business telling Nasri to come to Utd just as Xavi, Iniesta, Valdes and the rest of the Barcelona side have no business talking to Cesc about joining Barcelona.
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Quand Evra conseille Nasri - Foot - Transferts - L'EQUIPE.FR - Original source is actually L'Equipe which I think is meant to be pretty reliable. RTd on twitter by Ligue 1 [dot com] journalist.
I can't open the link. Are there any quotes from Nasri saying Evra texted him? Or from Evra?
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No. But if they are just for banter, then I dont mind much..
News I expected to arrive sooner or later, Adebayor to open talks over a permanent move to Real Madrid probably taking a paycut in the process. Another RM target is Didier Drogba but Chelsea selling to them is highly unlikely.
Adebayor To Open Talks With Madrid Over Move
Adebayor To Open Talks With Madrid Over Move
Don't think Mourinho wants to keep Adebayor tbh. Daily Fail isn't the most reliable source
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Of course.
Naturally, when it's Evra (A United player) it's banter but you wouldn't like texts which are exactly the same - telling one of your players to join another club from other players who have nothing to do with United. Makes sense. How do you distinguish between banter, and blatant tapping up which is continued into an interview he did?
Don't think Mourinho wants to keep Adebayor tbh. Daily Fail isn't the most reliable source
Source isn't the Daily Mail its the Spanish Newspaper AS in an interview he did plenty of other reports on the story over here,
Adebayor eyes permanent Real move | SPAIN: Primera Division
that is not tapping up. no actual representative f the club has gone to thrash out any deal, or offer anything. They are nt even strangers t another, check what actually amounts to tapping up
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its clearly tongue in cheek, as you can tell by his use of words. Banter =/= tapping up
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Rooney has his own brain. hypothetically If he goes to madrid, its becuase he wanted to, not becuase ronaldo told him to
Don't think Mourinho wants to keep Adebayor tbh. Daily Fail isn't the most reliable source
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Of course.
Naturally, when it's Evra (A United player) it's banter but you wouldn't like texts which are exactly the same - telling one of your players to join another club from other players who have nothing to do with United. Makes sense. How do you distinguish between banter, and blatant tapping up which is continued into an interview he did?
I have not heard about player tapping up other player. All i know is tapping up means club representative talking to player and his agent without the parent club's approval.
What Evra did was(If he really did, as I take it there was no quotes in that link from either players) not even close to tapping up.
Gamiero will be a good signing if they can pull it off
Definition of Tapping Up:
A milder form of "tapping up" involves a manager's letting his admiration for a player at another club become known, perhaps by hinting at his interest while working as a pundit during the broadcast of a game in which the player is taking part, "he's the sort of player any manager would be very keen to sign", or by lavishing praise in programme notes when the two teams meet. There are also the "source close to the manager"-type newspaper rumours which in many case originate within the club and are intended to flag an interest while retaining plausible deniability against charges of tapping up. Most ex-players candidly admit that tapping up has gone on in football for decades. Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough later said, "we tapped more players than the Severn-Trent water board!"
Notorious examples of tapping up in the Premier League include Dwight Yorke and Ashley Cole. In these cases, the incidents soured the relationship between the player and his original club. Cole was found guilty and fined £100,000 by the Premier League on 2 June 2005 for a meeting in a hotel in January 2005 between himself, the Chelsea manager José Mourinho, Chelsea chief executive, Peter Kenyon, and his agent Jonathan Barnett.
Chelsea were again at the centre of a controversy in 2009, when the club was found guilty of inducing Gaël Kakuta to break his contract with French team RC Lens in 2007. As punishment, they were banned by FIFA from registering new players for two transfer windows.[3]. Just when Chelsea got out of their transfer ban, they were then in the midst of another controversial episode of possibly unsettling/tapping up Fernando Torres from Liverpool who mysteriously put in a transfer request a couple of days before the January 2011 transfer window shut. Harry Redknapp, manager of Tottenham Hotspur, has said that activity which verges upon 'tapping-up' regularly occurs in deals between Premier League clubs, and Scott Minto, a pundit for Sky Sports, said that the ban was "extremely harsh" because of the frequency of it. However, there have been other cases where clubs have received transfer window bans for tapping-up; notably, Roma over Philippe Mexès, and FC Sion over Essam El-Hadary.
Funniest quote out of all of that was Cloughie and his honesty, tapping up is when club officials discuss a transfer without the other clubs consent. Problem in determining this in modern football is the amount of agents/money swirling around obviously the first contact with clubs buying players will be through agents not other club officials but if you could tap people up just by player-player banter then Spurs would sign half the Dutch national team and Barce would sign Torres, Alonso, Fabregas, Ramos etc. It will have an impact but they are supposed to be professional footballers so the factor of being with your friend every day can not be that big a factor in a players decision.
Back up the above Newcastle story, just saw it come on the ESPN news feed (VERY reliable source <3)
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/923223/newcastle-up-bid-for-lorient-striker-kevin-gameiro-to-L10m?campaign=rss&source=soccernet&cc=5739
A milder form of "tapping up" involves a manager's letting his admiration for a player at another club become known, perhaps by hinting at his interest while working as a pundit during the broadcast of a game in which the player is taking part, "he's the sort of player any manager would be very keen to sign", or by lavishing praise in programme notes when the two teams meet. There are also the "source close to the manager"-type newspaper rumours which in many case originate within the club and are intended to flag an interest while retaining plausible deniability against charges of tapping up. Most ex-players candidly admit that tapping up has gone on in football for decades. Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough later said, "we tapped more players than the Severn-Trent water board!"
Notorious examples of tapping up in the Premier League include Dwight Yorke and Ashley Cole. In these cases, the incidents soured the relationship between the player and his original club. Cole was found guilty and fined £100,000 by the Premier League on 2 June 2005 for a meeting in a hotel in January 2005 between himself, the Chelsea manager José Mourinho, Chelsea chief executive, Peter Kenyon, and his agent Jonathan Barnett.
Chelsea were again at the centre of a controversy in 2009, when the club was found guilty of inducing Gaël Kakuta to break his contract with French team RC Lens in 2007. As punishment, they were banned by FIFA from registering new players for two transfer windows.[3]. Just when Chelsea got out of their transfer ban, they were then in the midst of another controversial episode of possibly unsettling/tapping up Fernando Torres from Liverpool who mysteriously put in a transfer request a couple of days before the January 2011 transfer window shut. Harry Redknapp, manager of Tottenham Hotspur, has said that activity which verges upon 'tapping-up' regularly occurs in deals between Premier League clubs, and Scott Minto, a pundit for Sky Sports, said that the ban was "extremely harsh" because of the frequency of it. However, there have been other cases where clubs have received transfer window bans for tapping-up; notably, Roma over Philippe Mexès, and FC Sion over Essam El-Hadary.
Funniest quote out of all of that was Cloughie and his honesty, tapping up is when club officials discuss a transfer without the other clubs consent. Problem in determining this in modern football is the amount of agents/money swirling around obviously the first contact with clubs buying players will be through agents not other club officials but if you could tap people up just by player-player banter then Spurs would sign half the Dutch national team and Barce would sign Torres, Alonso, Fabregas, Ramos etc. It will have an impact but they are supposed to be professional footballers so the factor of being with your friend every day can not be that big a factor in a players decision.
Back up the above Newcastle story, just saw it come on the ESPN news feed (VERY reliable source <3)
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/923223/newcastle-up-bid-for-lorient-striker-kevin-gameiro-to-L10m?campaign=rss&source=soccernet&cc=5739
And also when the news is translated from other sources (Language), most of the times the actual quote will be modified to add fuel to the fire..
Fergie said after Blackpool game
The Spanish paper (Madrid based) translated it to,
And the other one is Fergie said:
It got translated to Fergie has the plan for Messi and we will beat Barca.
So whatever news that is translated, we have to take it with a pinch of salt..
Fergie said after Blackpool game
The Spanish paper (Madrid based) translated it to,
And the other one is Fergie said:
It got translated to Fergie has the plan for Messi and we will beat Barca.
So whatever news that is translated, we have to take it with a pinch of salt..
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