That’s the price they would have to pay. It’s always been the case when city Chelsea or LFC or MU come calling the price goes up. Now it will include Newcastle. The absolute crucial next step must be to get the right management team including a good director of football to identify the type and quality of players needed and to recruit them. Otherwise they’ll just put sticking plasters on. But whatever happens in the next few months Newcastle are now part of the big clubs and it’s not a question of if but when they’ll be top 4. The expectations on the owners are massive sure but with the resources they have and their need for good publicity what Roman has put into Chelsea will look like peanuts. FFP or not. And about the relegation battle? Who wouldn’t relish the challenge of building a CL team from scratch? The prospect of wages of tens of millions a year over 3-5 years will soften the blow
it doesn't matter if they appoint tony pulis, sham allardyce or jose mourinho the football will look the same but the prices are going up to max anyway. they might as well buy quality while they are paying it.
I love this comment. This this were in the keane ere i am sure he would have gone through the guy and broke his leg a long time back never mind after this comment. I am very sure ferguson would have shifted him on quick and never gone back in for that ego. he represents everything wrong with utd today that their fans moan about yet the same fans turn round and sing this lads praises and call him world class.
Pogba reminds me of Balotelli, not in looks because he looks nothing like him but in terms of there actually being a world class player in there struggling (?) to get out but having the lid firmly held in place by the ego.
I can't stand Pogba, but I'd pick him way ahead of Balotelli! People claim Balotelli had the talent but I never saw anything worthy of such a claim. He could finish (when he felt like it), that's it. Literally nothing else.
He was picked out at a young age for his talent so there was something there or we wouldn't even be aware of him, he just didn't have the passion or desire to fulfill the potential.
I probably wasn't very clear in my other comment. When I said Balotelli was picked out at a young age for his talent I didn't mean picked out by Liverpool, I meant in his youth development in Italy. He was selected for the National team at 15 and 17, for example. He came to us with a handful of winners medals and had also picked up the Golden Boy award when he was 19 which, arguably, suggested there was untapped talent in there.... unlike Diouf and Konchesky
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I knew what you meant but I was pointing out there are plenty of players that were crap (relatively speaking) that still made it as a professional footballer. Balotelli is a low a rating as players come imo. I'd even prefer Diouf over him !!!
To me he's one of those players you just know could be so much better if they played with more passion. Like everything else, we all see things differently.
I've got no time for people with his type of attitude. I always use Berbatov as an example; clearly a very talented player but he'd be nowhere near my team because he had zero work ethic. Never saw that talent in Mario but the work ethic was abundantly clear.
He had some great attributes to be fair and when he was on form he was a very very good central striker. Burst of pace, good strength and decent finisher. He just looked like couldn’t be bothered half the time with us and his touch was poor. Was one game sticks in mind playing for Italy against England in tournament where was virtually unplayable up top on his own. Just bullied the centre backs.
sorry but these are utterly unrelated signings 1. diouf. was signed as a 21 year old from lens and was wanted before and after his world cup antics. This is a classic hot proprty bid. Similar imo to Cisse. Houllier IMO lost his job on these kinds of buys. cisse was god awful and 14mil. so fast so stupiud. 2. kon-bloody-chesky. hateful little no mark ****. should have his dreams come true being a no mark offered a huge move by his former manager who wanted a guy he know (also got poulsen) again the fact was his manager ought to have known he was a hateful little **** and not bought him. 3. baloettli. with respect was 24 so he was a well know entity signing for LFC. He should never ever have been touched even if he did alright at AC milan at the time. hjepicked fights with managers and did some crazy stuff at city and never looked a pro. a lot of us called it lunacy at the time. IMo the club talked itself into the concept this was a bargain of some kind to justify not getting someone else and having only a small fee available. So you've three different managers buying for 3 different reasons the second two are bargain bucket signings. the only thing in common is the "dog in the street" could tell you they didn't suit us. I eman the dog i nthe street could name 50 players right off who would not suit LFC.
Rafael van der Vaart: "I think Harry Maguire goes home every day and tells his wife: "I'm so **** at football, but I earn so much. They really believe I'm good. I really think so, he laughs at everyone."
It's clear that some players take their privilege for granted while others would walk through fire for the team. I don't like lazy players either and those we've mentioned are all guilty of it.