We where given an extension to sign him ... After his initial three moves, Bruce sprung a late surprise by making a move for the playmaker Ben Arfa, marginalised at Newcastle. He was pictured high-fiving fans as he arrived at the club and, having secured an extension beyond the intitial 11pm deadline, Hull finalised the move.. “Thankfully everything has come together, but the one that has come in the last few hours was Ben Arfa,” Bruce told BBC Radio Five Live. “Whatever’s happened at Newcastle has happened. He wants to come here and play and get his career kickstarted again. “Hopefully I can bring the best out of him and we can reignite him.”
You're both right. Ben Arfa pulled over on route to the club to sign a pre-agreement, which was what granted us the extension to complete the medical and agree terms.
Move on. The entire reason it kicked up again this morning was someone being contrarian and dragging up an old debate, don't go down the same route.
You're a ****ing stupid bastard. Try to understand. 1) Bringing a red herring (corporate veil) into a discussion is your naiive attempt to deflect from the point. You do it all the time. 2) Suggesting the valuation of the signing of a player has no impact on the money owed to the current owners. or the profit they expect to get out of the change of ownership is rubbish just beggars belief. 3) You have so little sense of perspective, that me using the "corporate veil" reference several times in a response to you was ****ing taking the piss. Trying to use it against my points shows a lack of understanding of my point. 4) You're never wrong - hence the last word syndrome.
An old debate that isn't resolved because you refuse to see the argument and deflect time & time again, and resort to comments like this.
Totally agree. He was given a free by Inter cos he could no longer run. In his prime great but he certainly wasn't wow by then.
Peter's right on this one, Snodgrasa has never played as part of a front 3 for us. You're falling for the PL hype of teams claiming they're playing 4-3-3 when its 4-5-2 or 4-3-2-1.
I never said he had played as part of a front 3. I proposed that we play a front 3 of Rodriguez-Hernandez-Snodgrass. For someone that gets irked by people not reading posts properly that was poor on your part. Rodriguez would replace Diomande, and it would allow us to play with a proper front 3.
Ah right ok, fair enough. I've just woken up. So you are advocating playing him in a position he's never played for us and that the manager changes formation from one that has worked very well for us? I personally wouldn't call any front 3 featuring Snodgrass a 'proper front 3'.
Yes, I think his ability with the ball and his attacking flair would be well suited to being part of a front 3. I think the reason he hasn't played there is a lack of balance on the left hand side, which Diomande doesn't fill. Rodriguez would balance out the formation.
He is a winger though and would suit a wide-forward role. I suppose you could even throw Maloney on the left wing if we were really desperate to play it.
Hang on - are you saying wingers are part of the front 3 so it's 3 right across the top of the pitch or are we talking about 3 strikers made up of a central 1 and 2 either side of him?
I'm saying he's a winger, so can play in midfield, but he's also suited to a wide forward role due to his ability with the ball and whipping in crosses.
