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Posted 20/04/2008 15:33:39


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sounds to me that Ronaldinho would be great  help to "build the brand" and to get more fans in Asia.

But I would prefer some player who would help to "build the team". And I am not sure if Ronaldinho is the best player for that.

He is not the best for that, but he will get more fans for us.

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Posted 21/04/2008 07:59:49


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can we lock this thread no please ? It's getting embarrasing - I'm being forced to agree with Lawro for fecks sake

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Posted 21/04/2008 14:18:30


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Timpblue (21/04/2008)
can we lock this thread no please ? It's getting embarrasing - I'm being forced to agree with Lawro for fecks sake

Nowt wrong with big ambition, and we have plenty of that. Is it wrong to go for superstars?

If i was a good pro footballer and someone came in and said to me, how would you like to join a club that has ambition, money, and we would like to build a team around your talent. We will still have the financial clout to buy more top players if you join our club, the fans will adore you, worship you, and you have fellow brazilian teamates to help you settle in very well. Pretty good club to come and join in my eyes. I know i would feel a great sense of achievement if i got the club into the champions league or even having a good go at the league, winning the F.A cup or Carling cup maybe...add that to your CV if any of them happened. I say forget AC Milan join a club thats going places and play in the best league in the world. We are moving forward at a rate i couldnt possibly dream about.

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Posted 21/04/2008 14:42:56


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Timpblue (21/04/2008)
can we lock this thread no please ? It's getting embarrasing - I'm being forced to agree with Lawro for fecks sake

Nowt wrong with big ambition, and we have plenty of that. Is it wrong to go for superstars?

If i was a good pro footballer and someone came in and said to me, how would you like to join a club that has ambition, money, and we would like to build a team around your talent. We will still have the financial clout to buy more top players if you join our club, the fans will adore you, worship you, and you have fellow brazilian teamates to help you settle in very well. Pretty good club to come and join in my eyes. I know i would feel a great sense of achievement if i got the club into the champions league or even having a good go at the league, winning the F.A cup or Carling cup maybe...add that to your CV if any of them happened. I say forget AC Milan join a club thats going places and play in the best league in the world. We are moving forward at a rate i couldnt possibly dream about.

Just reminded me of an article I read this morning. Samuel Eto'o threatening to leave Barca.

The superstar striker has grown frustrated by the Catalan giants’ poor results this season. Another year of underachievement was underlined by Saturday’s 0-0 draw against old rivals Espanyol at the Nou Camp. And Eto’o said: “If next year we continue like that, I will leave". "I want to win titles and if I can’t do it here then it will be in another club".

Then he goes on to say...

"if I leave I will go abroad. I will go to whoever pays the most.”

Sounds like a contradiction to me. I mean, what does he want, trophies or money? They are not always the same thing.


Yes, all right.. Christ Almighty! It's like walking down a corridor and answering the door in Nazi Germany!

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Posted 21/04/2008 15:04:19


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Timpblue (21/04/2008)
can we lock this thread no please ? It's getting embarrasing - I'm being forced to agree with Lawro for fecks sake

Nowt wrong with big ambition, and we have plenty of that. Is it wrong to go for superstars?

If i was a good pro footballer and someone came in and said to me, how would you like to join a club that has ambition, money, and we would like to build a team around your talent. We will still have the financial clout to buy more top players if you join our club, the fans will adore you, worship you, and you have fellow brazilian teamates to help you settle in very well. Pretty good club to come and join in my eyes. I know i would feel a great sense of achievement if i got the club into the champions league or even having a good go at the league, winning the F.A cup or Carling cup maybe...add that to your CV if any of them happened. I say forget AC Milan join a club thats going places and play in the best league in the world. We are moving forward at a rate i couldnt possibly dream about.

 

we're kidding ourselves - he will want chumps league at the very minimum

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Posted 21/04/2008 15:09:21


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Timpblue (21/04/2008)
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Timpblue (21/04/2008)
can we lock this thread no please ? It's getting embarrasing - I'm being forced to agree with Lawro for fecks sake

Nowt wrong with big ambition, and we have plenty of that. Is it wrong to go for superstars?

If i was a good pro footballer and someone came in and said to me, how would you like to join a club that has ambition, money, and we would like to build a team around your talent. We will still have the financial clout to buy more top players if you join our club, the fans will adore you, worship you, and you have fellow brazilian teamates to help you settle in very well. Pretty good club to come and join in my eyes. I know i would feel a great sense of achievement if i got the club into the champions league or even having a good go at the league, winning the F.A cup or Carling cup maybe...add that to your CV if any of them happened. I say forget AC Milan join a club thats going places and play in the best league in the world. We are moving forward at a rate i couldnt possibly dream about.

 

we're kidding ourselves - he will want chumps league at the very minimum

 

And he will one day.

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Posted 22/04/2008 10:08:50


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Ronaldinho

'Don't cry for me Manchester' Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images

Milan. World fashion capital. Birthplace of Alessandro Manzoni and Italian Romanticism. A city where you can shop in the nineteenth-century splendour of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, catch Verdi's Macbeth at La Scala or visit Via Brunelleschi 4, once the home of Leonardo da Vinci.

Manchester. Birthplace of Les Dawson and focal point of the Industrial Revolution. A city where you can shop in the monument to late twentieth century architecture that is the Trafford Centre, catch Evita at the Manchester Opera House – no, really – or visit Manchester Central, home to the 2006 Labour Party Conference.

Given the option, which would you plump for? That's the dilemma facing Ronaldinho following news that talks with Milan over the possible transfer of the Barcelona playmaker have stalled, paving the way for renewed interest from Manchester City.

He's a wily one, that Sven. Not content with coaxing the best out of England's Golden Generation™ and using his managerial nous to guide City inexorably away from the Champions League berth they occupied earlier this season, the Swede is now plotting to add bite to his attack with a daring £20m summer raid for the orthodontically-challenged Brazilian.

Forget Ronaldinho's apparently terminal decline, or the fact that he may be sidelined for the rest of the season with knee-knack: that's a discount of £65m on the midfielder's £85m buy-out clause. And it doesn't stop there. Lest Ronaldinho should feel lonely with only international team-mate Elano for company, Erikkson is also being linked with an £18m bid for another of Ronladinho's fellow countrymen, CSKA Moscow striker Jo.

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Posted 22/04/2008 11:09:31


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Okay two things

Milan, may be a fashion capital, gods know why though, its a shithole and makes Milton Keynes look Glamorous!! To be honest I think Manchester is less industrial to Milan!! Milan only has Il Duomo thats nice, one square.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan

Check out the Culture section of Milan in Wiki !!!

Secondly, Goofey is a renouned party animal and its no surprise Barca are trying to offload him as quick as possible. His form has been awful the last two years due to "Injury" of course!!

Last summer Barca turned down offers of €50m plus for him, and now he is available for €20m, says something I think.

Welcome to city !!

Feliz Año Neuvo

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Posted 22/04/2008 13:20:56


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I think this may have just picked up momentum again...

Manchester City executive director Taweesuk Jack Srisumrid has claimed that the club have held talks over a deal for Barcelona star Ronaldinho.

The 28-year-old Brazilian appeared to be set for a summer transfer to Serie A side Milan, however reports claim a deal has stalled.

City have also been linked with the former World Player of the Year, but manager Sven Goran Eriksson has been keen to delay talk of a move until the season has concluded.

However, it is reported in Tuesday's press that Ronaldinho's brother and agent Roberto de Assis met with Taweesuk over a deal.

Galacticos

"What we will look to do in the summer is to further boost the squad, bring in top-quality, internationally recognised players," Taweesuk told The Daily Telegraph.

"Superstars would help fill the stadium and help our global branding. Primarily, we must win on the pitch - it can't be a gimmick.

"We've had discussions [with Ronaldinho] but we'll see how that pans out.

"We've looked at a host of players. Man City having discussions with superstar players used to be unimaginable, but not now.

"It won't be a galacticos strategy, but older famous names. We want to build around the team we have."

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Posted 22/04/2008 13:51:13


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