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Let's all laugh at Jackburn
Blackburn striker Benni McCarthy failed to turn up for the first day of pre-season training on Monday, reports BBC Five Live Sport.
McCarthy, 29, has repeatedly said that he would leave Ewood Park for a club in the Champions League.
The South Africa international has been linked with Chelsea, whose manager Jose Mourinho won the Champions League at Porto, with McCarthy in his squad.
McCarthy scored 18 goals in the Premier League last season.
He was the second highest scorer in the league behind Chelsea's Didier Drogba in his first season in England, helping Rovers to a 10th-place finish.
Speaking in June, McCarthy said: "If the opportunity does come to go and play for a team where you can move up a level and play Champions League football, that will always be my dream.
"If that opportunity occurs to go and play for a team like that, then I would love for my management to look at the possibility and look in their heart to make it possible to make a move like that."
McCarthy counts Celta Vigo and Ajax, as well as Porto, among his former clubs.
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Maybe not, but he cost the same as Fabian DeFreitas, a decade later, in a vastly more inflated market. Compared to the price of England's U21ers, it seems a sensible gamble to meCAPSLOCK wrote:May turn around and bite me, but I'm not impressed with the Dutchman
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D'you know if Harrison was involved in that deal?Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Maybe not, but he cost the same as Fabian DeFreitas, a decade later, in a vastly more inflated market. Compared to the price of England's U21ers, it seems a sensible gamble to meCAPSLOCK wrote:May turn around and bite me, but I'm not impressed with the Dutchman
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CAPSLOCK wrote:D'you know if Harrison was involved in that deal?Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Maybe not, but he cost the same as Fabian DeFreitas, a decade later, in a vastly more inflated market. Compared to the price of England's U21ers, it seems a sensible gamble to meCAPSLOCK wrote:May turn around and bite me, but I'm not impressed with the Dutchman
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Twas half a decade before his favourite client's time. Coulda been McKay if FdF was Francophone...
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You can't knock Fab too much. Don't forget his goals against Reading at Wembley.Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:CAPSLOCK wrote:D'you know if Harrison was involved in that deal?Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Maybe not, but he cost the same as Fabian DeFreitas, a decade later, in a vastly more inflated market. Compared to the price of England's U21ers, it seems a sensible gamble to meCAPSLOCK wrote:May turn around and bite me, but I'm not impressed with the Dutchman
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Twas half a decade before his favourite client's time. Coulda been McKay if FdF was Francophone...
And, erm, er.....he did score a good one against Forest at Burnden in the Prem. Very tight angle, if I recall correctly...
Not to mention.... er.... yes, well....
I think he replaced Len Cantello as our most expensive player for a while, too...
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Scored the first goal in beating the champions at Burnden as well, don't forget (though he nearly missed)Puskas wrote:You can't knock Fab too much. Don't forget his goals against Reading at Wembley.Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:CAPSLOCK wrote:D'you know if Harrison was involved in that deal?Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Maybe not, but he cost the same as Fabian DeFreitas, a decade later, in a vastly more inflated market. Compared to the price of England's U21ers, it seems a sensible gamble to meCAPSLOCK wrote:May turn around and bite me, but I'm not impressed with the Dutchman
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Twas half a decade before his favourite client's time. Coulda been McKay if FdF was Francophone...
And, erm, er.....he did score a good one against Forest at Burnden in the Prem. Very tight angle, if I recall correctly...
Not to mention.... er.... yes, well....
I think he replaced Len Cantello as our most expensive player for a while, too...
He was indeed our record signing until we signed Blake I think?
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Fairclough, I believe. Chris Fairclough was our record signing for about a week. Then we signed Gerry Taggert for even more!Leyther_Matt wrote:Scored the first goal in beating the champions at Burnden as well, don't forget (though he nearly missed)Puskas wrote:
You can't knock Fab too much. Don't forget his goals against Reading at Wembley.
And, erm, er.....he did score a good one against Forest at Burnden in the Prem. Very tight angle, if I recall correctly...
Not to mention.... er.... yes, well....
I think he replaced Len Cantello as our most expensive player for a while, too...
He was indeed our record signing until we signed Blake I think?
Heady days...
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Indeed. This has probably been posted here before, but it always amused me...Batman wrote:One against Jackburn n all
http://www.burndenpark.freeserve.co.uk/FABIAN.HTM
"People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed"
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