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  1. kph103

    kph103 Well-Known Member

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    I may be being stupid but how can Mourinho get away with tapping up Rooney and encourage him to hand in a transfer request, without getting in trouble?
    Didn't we get a lot of **** over our pursuit of Dempsey last season?

    On a separate note, is Paul Lambert right about the big clubs getting the decisions. Again last night refs seem to allow the chavs to play basketball in their penalty area? And can you imagine the outrage if had been Suarez taking that pathetic dive that Ashley cole performed?
     
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  2. Skylarker

    Skylarker PL High Commissioner

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    To be fair after about 10 mins Man Utd should have been down to 10 men - Valencia with his reckless ankle breaker of a tackle.

    But the ref had a shocker all round, as usual in these type of games...
     
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  3. luvgonzo

    luvgonzo Pisshead

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    Ref got both penalty decisions right imo.
     
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  4. Zingy

    Zingy #ziggywould

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    I missed it, I fell asleep.

    Bur regarding Mourinho, I don't get why it's not considered tapping up. Haven't read any stories yet, but heard on the radio that he has given Rooney 48 hours to decide? Isn't Moyes supposed to do that? Cause last time I checked he was Utd manager.
     
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  5. jenners04

    jenners04 I must not post porn!

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    i don't fully understand this tapping up malarkey, but isnt it only an issue as far as the FA are concerned if the club who may lose the player they have to complain first.

    have to ask why some clubs complain and some don't, bit like Fergie and his media blank, other managers wouldn't have got away with that shiite.
     
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  7. ValleyGraduate12

    ValleyGraduate12 Aberdude's Puppet
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    That's why Moyes said last night in his post match conference that it is illegal for Mourhino to do this <ok>
     
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  8. Foredeckdave

    Foredeckdave Music Thread Manager

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    If you listen carefully to what Maurinho said then he started by saying "we didn't start this thing." Therefore anything that he says is in response to what they have been told. ie they are being responsive and not initiating anything. Neither did he hide his/Chelsea's interest in the player - why should he? So he told the truth - if you want to come to us say so - equally if you want to stay at United say so. There's no tapping-up in that!
     
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  9. Tobes

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    He can't state that the player needs to make a decision, as the player has no decision to make, until his club give him permission to discuss a move to Chelsea, which they haven't done as there's been no bid accepted.

    He's therefore speaking out of turn about another clubs player.

    I do hope Moyes "does the right thing" by his player though.......
     
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  10. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    Which is what?
     
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  11. Tobes

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    It was sarcasm - after he said last week that when he was Everton manager, he always "did the right thing by his players" when another club came knocking, when talking about Baines & Fellaini & that he'd have let them go if SAF had wanted them, the hypocritical, ginger, forelock tugging, sycophant.
     
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  12. Foredeckdave

    Foredeckdave Music Thread Manager

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    Of course he can. He's identifying that:

    1) There have been no official contact with the club or the player

    2) Chelsea have other targets in mind

    3) Chelsea won't hang about waiting for Rooney - so get off the pot or ****!

    There is no law that says any club cannot comment upon what is being said about them. There has been no action by Chelsea other than official ones. Hence no tapping-up.
     
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  13. Tobes

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    His comments suggest the total opposite imo

    "We are not silly enough to try something if somebody didn't start it."

    "After that, if he wants to leave he has to say - or if he has decided now he doesn't want to leave any more then he has to say."

    He's saying that Rooney 'started' Chelsea's interest & that if the player no longer wants to move then he needs to say so - Rooney has made no public comment on wanting to move......
     
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  14. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    Where is all that bollocks up to at the mo?
     
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  15. Tobes

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    They bid £28m for the pair - we told them to **** off.

    That's where it is at the minute mate.

    Someone I trust told me that Moyes asked Baines to hand in a transfer request last week & he refused.

    My gut feel is that they'll make one more bid for the pair, which will be rejected & they'll return with a bid solely for Fellaini & a deal will be struck at around £25m.
     
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  16. johnsonsbaby

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    Wasn't Mourinho in effect challenging Rooney to hand in a transfer request? That's the decision he has to make.
     
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  17. moreinjuredthanowen

    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    I really don't care... all that matters is minutes after a bore 0-0 utd are now in the center of a majorly distracting transfer saga that should by rights run right until our game on sunday.

    I hope rooney does a cayabe now.... its all good.
     
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