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Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:11 pm

jenkz wrote:"DAILY STAR
After securing Wigan's Antonio Valencia, Manchester United could now bolster their forward line with a move for £11m-rated Toulouse forward Andre-Pierre Gignac. "

Weren't we after him last year?!

And this (allegedly)...

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:06 pm

Man Utd in for Owen, just on't radio now

FaninOz · Post by **FaninOz** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:18 am

Bruno wrote:Man Utd in for Owen, just on't radio now

Well that ends anybody elses chances if true, he will get better pay sitting on United's bench than playing for anyone else. And he will get less injuries that way as well.

Athers · Post by **Athers** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:52 am

Don't think anyone saw that coming, Phil Brown must be a bit disheartened today

keveh · Post by **keveh** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:37 am

If United do end up signing him I'm going to put a cheeky bet on him being top scorer.

If he has other players doing the running for him he could bag a good number of goals I reckon.

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:38 am

He'll not be first pick over £30m Rooney and £30m Berbatov though

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:05 pm

Bruno wrote:He'll not be first pick over £30m Rooney and £30m Berbatov though

Not sure I would bet my mortgage on that one...

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:06 pm

Worthy4England wrote:
Bruno wrote:He'll not be first pick over £30m Rooney and £30m Berbatov though
Not sure I would bet my mortgage on that one...

I know where you are coming from, but even bacon-face wouldn't pick Owen over that greasy vampire.......would he?

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:10 pm

Bruno wrote:
Worthy4England wrote:
Bruno wrote:He'll not be first pick over £30m Rooney and £30m Berbatov though
Not sure I would bet my mortgage on that one...
I know where you are coming from, but even bacon-face wouldn't pick Owen over that greasy vampire.......would he?

No - I think he'll expect Berbatov to step up to the mark. Whether it'll happen in practice I'm not sure of. Will be interesting to see how it pans out.

jaffka · Post by **jaffka** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:04 pm

Owen has signed for manure

FaninOz · Post by **FaninOz** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:02 am

jaffka wrote:Owen has signed for manure

They can afford the risk, and I'm sure that the contract reflects that. We wouldn't have been able to.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:09 am

Zhrikov signed by Chelsea from CSKA Moscow. Good player him.

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:18 am

Verbal wrote:Zhrikov signed by Chelsea from CSKA Moscow. Good player him.

Better name though.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:33 am

I look forward to David Pleat's commentary of Chelsea games.

Frandsen08 · Post by **Frandsen08** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:45 pm

Verbal wrote:I look forward to David Pleat's commentary of Chelsea games.

dont even joke about that

Village_Idiot2 · Post by **Village_Idiot2** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:28 pm

Some media outlets down here strongly hinting that Eto'o to ManU is practically done, but none of the outlets closest to Barça have picked it up yet, so I'm wary.

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:18 pm

Village_Idiot2 wrote:Some media outlets down here strongly hinting that Eto'o to ManU is practically done, but none of the outlets closest to Barça have picked it up yet, so I'm wary.

Sure it's not Man City?

Hoboh · Post by **Hoboh** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:38 pm

FaninOz wrote:
jaffka wrote:Owen has signed for manure
They can afford the risk, and I'm sure that the contract reflects that. We wouldn't have been able to.

No us being "poor old Bolton" who can afford silly fees for championship players could never afford Owen!

Then again he is

a. too small

b. too quick even with 1 leg

c. vastly experienced

d. cannot beat up defenders

e. Scores goals

So maybe your right he ain't good enough for us to pay £50 grand a week for two years, sell after 12mnth if he does well and get all our outlay and a bit of proffit back.

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:44 pm

hoboh2o wrote:
FaninOz wrote:
jaffka wrote:Owen has signed for manure
They can afford the risk, and I'm sure that the contract reflects that. We wouldn't have been able to.
No us being "poor old Bolton" who can afford silly fees for championship players could never afford Owen!
Then again he is

a. too small

b. too quick even with 1 leg

c. vastly experienced

d. cannot beat up defenders

e. Scores goals

So maybe your right he ain't good enough for us to pay £50 grand a week for two years, sell after 12mnth if he does well and get all our outlay and a bit of proffit back.

Hoboh you really don't get it.

Its very simple. Owen won't have to play every game for Man Utd. He will be used sparingly so as not to risk injury. If he gets injured it won't harm them like it would a Bolton/Stoke/Hull who would have had to sink a lot of their resources into him.

At Man Utd he will be able to do what he is best at, sniff out chances, because they will create chances for him. He won't need to work as hard because in many games Man Utd dominate possession.

If you can't understand that, then you simply aren't worth bothering with.

CAPSLOCK · Post by **CAPSLOCK** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:48 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:Hoboh you really don't get it........................you simply aren't worth bothering with.

Oh, he does, nobody is that simple

Although if you've only just worked that bit out, maybe you are

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