June 13, 201114 yr Author f***ing hell, Steve Bruce (fat head) really is a bellend. Might as well be Fergie's lapdog. Sunderland might as well be renamed Manchester United Reserves :\ Gibson's abysmal, even Man Utd fans think so.
June 13, 201114 yr Give him regular games and he'll be fine. I've a friend who's a Wolves fan and he rates him highly from his loan spell a few years ago.
June 13, 201114 yr Haven't seen much of Gibson apart from what i've seen of him on Sky (Same as 95% of Man United fans, then), reserving judgement until he at least plays a few games for us. We're signing Ji Dong Won as well, 20 year old striker highly thought of in South Korea. £800k fee apparently, hardly a huge risk.
June 14, 201114 yr Author Give him regular games and he'll be fine. I've a friend who's a Wolves fan and he rates him highly from his loan spell a few years ago. Every time I've seen him he's been terrible. Mediocre at best. Will do a job, but Sunderland are getting so ripped off. Mind you he's not as bad as Bebe though. I actually think he's the worst ever Premier League player I've ever seen.
June 14, 201114 yr I see Norwich signed Elliott Bennett today, should be a solid signing for them. I'd imagine he'd be a bit of a surprise package like Matt Phillips was for Blackpool last season, although Phillips didn't get too many chances.
June 14, 201114 yr The BBC are reporting that Alan Shearer is talking to Cardiff about the managerial vacancy. That means he could disappear from MOTD completely, both as a pundit and as a manager. Result.
June 14, 201114 yr Author Poor Cardiff..haha. I am right in assuming that it is likely Villa tapped up McLeish? It looks likely. Anyway what an absolutely awful appointment it will be. He'll be the most hated man in Birmingham once he brings the dross football of Birmingham to Villa.
June 14, 201114 yr Newcastle fans were deluded in thinking Shearer was the answer to all their problems and Shearer was conceited to take the job. If he gets the Cardiff job it will make or break him as a manager. The only way to improve on Dave Jones' performance is to win promotion.
June 14, 201114 yr Every time I've seen him he's been terrible. Mediocre at best. Will do a job, but Sunderland are getting so ripped off. Mind you he's not as bad as Bebe though. I actually think he's the worst ever Premier League player I've ever seen. Like I said, give him regular games and then judge him. Also, ripped off for £5m? I had no idea it was 1995 again. £5m is hardly a fortune in today's market. I mean, it's not like Bruce is forking out £35m for a striker with a handful of Premier League games to his name... Newcastle fans were deluded in thinking Shearer was the answer to all their problems Shearer's appointment was a PR stunt by the Newcastle board to take the flack away from Mike Ashley, even the fans knew that. He was never going to do anything at Newcastle, they were well on their way down long before he was appointed.
June 15, 201114 yr Author But how many Premier League games has Gibson started? His £5m valuation is based on the club he's at. Man Utd have been doing this for years, it's a great business plan. Flogging out average players for double what they're worth. I still agree £35m for Carroll was over-priced, but the owners have a different business model. Swapping Suarez and Carroll for Torres, which is a much better deal. Shearer's not going to be Cardiff boss anymore. It really is swings and roundabouts with the vacant manager's jobs at the moment!
June 15, 201114 yr Liverpool were pretty much desperate for a striker and Newcastle knew we'd just received £50m from the Torres deal At the time it may have seemed like a bad deal, but it was pretty much Torres (El Sulk) and Babel in exchange for Suarez and Carroll Looking back we probably would have done just fine waiting until the Summer and not buying Carroll, but realistically who else would be be able to bring in ? People said "LOL Villa went to Barcelona for £35m", but we're not Barcelona and there's no way someone like him would want to come to us Saying that.. I think £5m is an ok amount for Gibson. Connor Wickham, who is 18 and has never played a premier league game in his life will probably end up leaving Ipswich for around £12m. Although, I guess he'd be bought for future potential rather than what he can currently do
June 15, 201114 yr Manchester United are ready to seal a £27m deal for Udinese's Chile midfielder Alexis Sanchez - under the noses of Manchester City and Barcelona. If this is true, major WUB. Sanchez is a fantastic young player. My only worry from this is we still need to make sure we can develop the central area and sign Nasri/Modric/Similar still as that's the weakest area. Especially if we're still signing Young.
June 15, 201114 yr West Ham have today signed Abdoulaye Faye and about to complete the signing of Kevin Nolan. This has majorly annoyed me, I thought Gold & Co said releagtion would be a financial disaster for them. They wasted millions in January on wages for Bridge and Keane and sacking their manager, and have yet to sell any players this summer. So how come they can now afford to sign a very good Premier League player who's earning over £50k a week?! Obviously hoping for an immediate return to the PL and if they keep up that way I hope they fail miserably!
June 15, 201114 yr West Ham have today signed Abdoulaye Faye and about to complete the signing of Kevin Nolan. This has majorly annoyed me, I thought Gold & Co said releagtion would be a financial disaster for them. They wasted millions in January on wages for Bridge and Keane and sacking their manager, and have yet to sell any players this summer. So how come they can now afford to sign a very good Premier League player who's earning over £50k a week?! Obviously hoping for an immediate return to the PL and if they keep up that way I hope they fail miserably! The way we're going, we really need immediate promotion or we're buggered. Faye is a solid signing, Nolan should do well in that division and add a bit of grit to our midfield.
June 15, 201114 yr Author Manchester United are ready to seal a £27m deal for Udinese's Chile midfielder Alexis Sanchez - under the noses of Manchester City and Barcelona. If this is true, major WUB. Sanchez is a fantastic young player. My only worry from this is we still need to make sure we can develop the central area and sign Nasri/Modric/Similar still as that's the weakest area. Especially if we're still signing Young. I'm not trying to be a funny but does it not worry you at all that Man Utd are not strengthening in the areas they don't need need to? Sanchez another wide player. A great player, but all the players Man Utd have been linked with so far are players that other teams are actively going for. Man City bid for Sanchez in January. Central midfield is such a weak link for Man Utd. West Ham have today signed Abdoulaye Faye and about to complete the signing of Kevin Nolan. This has majorly annoyed me, I thought Gold & Co said releagtion would be a financial disaster for them. They wasted millions in January on wages for Bridge and Keane and sacking their manager, and have yet to sell any players this summer. So how come they can now afford to sign a very good Premier League player who's earning over £50k a week?! Obviously hoping for an immediate return to the PL and if they keep up that way I hope they fail miserably! I'd imagine they're going all out for promotion. Just look at Newcastle in 09-10. They took a huge risk but it payed off. I don't think Premier League teams understand how competitive the top of the Championship is. The likelihood teams that go down and come straight back up is low these days...definitely reckon they're taking a risk.
June 15, 201114 yr Newcastle I could take more because they did massively cut their wage bill getting rid of Owen, Martins, Capaca (:lol:), Viduka, Duff etc. They didn't sign anyone other than IIRC Simpson on loan and Routledge in January. West Ham so far have sold or released no one (that I remember seeing) and have made two signings. Faye I can accept, an ageing defender with a good relationship with the manager who couldn't get into the team of a bottom half Premiership team last season but Nolan is beyond ridiculous. Do not make statements like relagation would financially cripple you and then go and sign players who'll cost you about £3m in wages a year, that's about as much as the entire wage bill of smaller Championship teams. The sooner these fair play rules come in the better! Forest run at a significant loss, and our highest earner is (was) Earnshaw on about 15k a week.
June 15, 201114 yr Author Hmm teams really should already be following the Financial Fair Play rules, although (thus far) it looks as if none of them are actually following them. I guess West Ham NEED promotion next year though, and they will do it all costs. It will be a bit embarrassing playing in the Olympic Stadium with 20,000 fans lol... the people who own them are absolute cluess idiots anyway. I think it will be West Ham-Ipswich-Notss Forest next year anyway.
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