Close Season Gossip & Rumour Thread

[nffc]

Originally Posted by DocDutch

NFFC did you watch the game yesterday against Notts County?

good game just a shame bout the ending when the forrest fans ran upto the pitch and caused havoc :O

No but i heard about it.

[sherer]

can't believe Rossi has gone he was a great talent and really deserved to play. he's far better than Richardson but Fergie would never play him. I'm sure in a few years we will want him back but by then it will be too late.

This means on the striker front we have

Rooney - Top class talent but i still worry about how many goals he will get in a season
Smith - Puts the effort in and always tries we need more like him at the club
Saha - Will never play as not fit
Ole - Legend but he's too old and can't really perform any more

Hopefully Ronnie can bang in a few from the wings like last year but I think it's time to stop saying Giggs can play up front. maybe some of the new boys Nani and Anderson will get a few too. I'm sure i've read one of them can play up front or in the whole. I keep getting mixed up with which one is which at the moment though

Originally Posted by Mal

I'm a bit disappointed by that. He looked like a prospect, given another chance. I was hoping that the loan spell in Italy would have given him some confidence...

All is not lost Mal.......

Manchester United will have the option to buy-back Giuseppe Rossi in the future, manager Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed.
Villarreal have signed Rossi for £6million after the Italian Under 21 striker decided he needed regular first-team football this season.
Rossi has signed a six-year deal with Villarreal and will replace former United striker Diego Forlan at the Spanish club.

Six Million eh?............all the news about this transfer elsewhere said an undisclosed sum.

Quote from Fergie...

We have put in a clause in the contract, so maybe he will come back to us at some stage.

Anyone know where Diego has gone?

Sky Sports

[NoKnowledge]

Originally Posted by yesman

Anyone know where Diego has gone?

Diego Forlan to Atletico Madrid to replace Fernando Torres for 14 million pounds

Originally Posted by NoKnowledge

Diego Forlan to Atletico Madrid to replace Fernando Torres for 14 million pounds

Thanks for that
How ironic though.....

http://www.sportinglife.com/football...&TEAMHD=soccer

It seems that West Ham United will come out of the Tevez deal smelling of roses at least.
WHU were fined £5.5m by the Premier League for the original transfer saga from MSI, however, MSI are now deemed to pay WHU between 1m and 3m pounds for the release of Tevez to be transfered to Man Utd......this coupled with their earnings next season for staying in the Premiership could be as much as £15m.

£15m - £5.5m + lets say £3m = £12.5m, not bad

West Ham fine

MSI Settlement

Now it looks like this saga will be settled at last
I am still confused over the Mascherano deal though, that seemed to go through without a hitch.

[TheDaddy]

The Mascherano deal went through because of the third party agreement, we couldn't stop him being moved on, by having that clause removed in the Tevez contract, we could.

Tbh I would have preferred it if we had fought the original charges harder now, whatever the outcome, the amount of lies, lazy reporting and agendas’ the club has had to put up with is a joke, added to that, legal opinion seemed to suggest that we could have driven a dump truck through rule 18 at the time

Just heard on 5 Live that Leeds United 2007 Ltd could start this coming season on -15 points

No link as yet

Edit: Sky Sports

---------- Post added at 19:50 ---------- Previous post was at 19:48 ----------

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

The Mascherano deal went through because of the third party agreement, we couldn't stop him being moved on, by having that clause removed in the Tevez contract, we could.

Gotcha

I wonder how much money the guy that owns this site is making out of this

http://www.myfootballclub.co.uk/

Interest on £1.375m ?

And I wonder which club will be bought out.
It will not be Cambridge according to this http://www.cambridge-united.premiumt...084172,00.html

[punky]

Its one of those nice-idea-in-theory-but-is-always-doomed-to-fail concepts.

Some things aren't meant to be run by democracy. I think one of the populist ideas that cripple clubs these days is when you have the manager, director of football and an over-eager chairman.

[Russ]

It goes to penalties - this does not look good

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I take it all back

[NoKnowledge]

How come there wasn't extra time?

PS It's opening season, this thread is now outdated

[nffc]

And you guys were saying about VDS. He's still world class.

[pedantic]

Originally Posted by nffc

And you guys were saying about VDS. He's still world class.

Erm.........not all of us had doubts about Van Der Sar.

[nffc]

Originally Posted by pedantic

Erm.........not all of us had doubts about Van Der Sar.

The people who that comment was aimed at know who they are.