Football: WORLD CUP 06 and close season/transfer discussion.

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:23 pm 0

Sickboy wrote:Yeah. He's gone. Bidding war time.

Just, please. Not Chelsea.

Chelsea's a weid one really. Where will he play? Will they bin Makalele?

Then again it's the more feasible cos of the potential of winning the Premiership.

Ah well

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:23 pm 0

I'm not sure if he's actually stated as much but it's pretty certain in my eyes that Mourinho wants the whole England team.

Well, maybe except Gary Neville.

Ely · Post by **Ely** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:24 pm 0

Sickboy wrote:Yeah. He's gone. Bidding war time.

Just, please. Not Chelsea.

If he goes to Real that's good for Englands WC2006. He'd get to play with Owen and Beckham for a season which can't be a bad thing I wouldn't of thought.

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:56 pm 0

Ely wrote:
Sickboy wrote:Yeah. He's gone. Bidding war time.

Just, please. Not Chelsea.
If he goes to Real that's good for Englands WC2006. He'd get to play with Owen and Beckham for a season which can't be a bad thing I wouldn't of thought.

And if he goes to Chelski, he gets to play with Lampard, Cole & Terry. And, as pointed out in The Sun this morning, the manager of our fine English team doesn't know how to play Lampard and Gerrard together,so why not let Mourinho show him?

Ely · Post by **Ely** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:03 pm 0

Zoot wrote:
Ely wrote:
Sickboy wrote:Yeah. He's gone. Bidding war time.

Just, please. Not Chelsea.
If he goes to Real that's good for Englands WC2006. He'd get to play with Owen and Beckham for a season which can't be a bad thing I wouldn't of thought.
And if he goes to Chelski, he gets to play with Lampard, Cole & Terry. And, as pointed out in The Sun this morning, the manager of our fine English team doesn't know how to play Lampard and Gerrard together,so why not let Mourinho show him?

Ah good point, and if Owen ends up at Chelski it'd be even better.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:21 pm 0

If he goes to Chelsea, I don't see how he can even walk the streets of Liverpool again. Going to Real Madrid is one thing, but leaving your hometown club that have just won the European Cup for the team with the most money is not likely to go down well in any quarter (well, maybe in Everton's quarter!).

And it does look as though it's been his intention to be away all along, which is going to put him in an even more unfavourable light in Liverpool.

His choice, but I think it'll be a tough one to live with. Or maybe sleeping will be easier on a mattress stuffed full of cash.

turk182 · Post by **turk182** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:31 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote:...

His choice, but I think it'll be a tough one to live with. Or maybe sleeping will be easier on a mattress stuffed full of cash.

tough for 100k+ a week

? hehe, I know what you mean.
sport has always been fickle when it comes to things like players leaving their home club. Still no player is ever bigger than the club, and that players come and go. Just wish hed suprise everyone and go to a good footballing team like arsenal.. dreamm...

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:32 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote:If he goes to Chelsea, I don't see how he can even walk the streets of Liverpool again. Going to Real Madrid is one thing, but leaving your hometown club that have just won the European Cup for the team with the most money is not likely to go down well in any quarter (well, maybe in Everton's quarter!).

And it does look as though it's been his intention to be away all along, which is going to put him in an even more unfavourable light in Liverpool.

His choice, but I think it'll be a tough one to live with. Or maybe sleeping will be easier on a mattress stuffed full of cash.

I think you're right Paul. This is at the back of my mind with the whole of this. What's happened since the now infamous 'How can I leave now?' statement? on the back of several months worht of stalling?? Was that just heat-of-the-moment euphoria?? Or has something truly awful gone down between him and/or Parry over the last 7 days??

EFC fans will be edelighted of course, but certain quarters of the LFC crowd will make their views loudly known if he turns out for Chelsea at Anfield. I don't think there's any doubt about that.

If Rafa spends whatever dosh OK, then the club will be OK.

It's been a truly bonkers 12 months

rockwaldo · Post by **rockwaldo** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:39 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote:If he goes to Chelsea, I don't see how he can even walk the streets of Liverpool again. Going to Real Madrid is one thing, but leaving your hometown club that have just won the European Cup for the team with the most money is not likely to go down well in any quarter (well, maybe in Everton's quarter!).

And it does look as though it's been his intention to be away all along, which is going to put him in an even more unfavourable light in Liverpool.

His choice, but I think it'll be a tough one to live with. Or maybe sleeping will be easier on a mattress stuffed full of cash.

At least they will get 30+ million for the lad.

Just look at what happened with our Sol Campbell.....rassa fassa....

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:40 pm 0

KevG wrote:
Sickboy wrote:Yeah. He's gone. Bidding war time.

Just, please. Not Chelsea.
Chelsea's a weid one really. Where will he play? Will they bin Makalele?

Quite possibly, he's the oldest regular in the Chelsea squad at 32 - iirc the next oldest first tem regular is Gudjohnsen at 27.

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:47 pm 0

i don't think he'll go to Chelsea, as this would be just selling to main opposition, which i don't think Rafa will accept.
IMO i think if he does go it will more likely to end up at Real, than anywhere else.

If Chelsea have Owen,Gerrard,Lampard & Terry, yes it would be good for England squad, but it will kill off the Premiership, as will defo just be a one horse race each year, boring!!

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:56 pm 0

Ah, but here's the next question.

If Gerrard's going, would the Liverpool fans rather have Â£35m from Chelsea or Â£25m from Real?

This whole thing makes little sense to me. Gerrard's going to have to play bloody well for England to earn his reputation back after this.

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:04 pm 0

Bugger

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldow ... 5-1435.htm

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:18 pm 0

Dio wrote:Ah, but here's the next question.

If Gerrard's going, would the Liverpool fans rather have Â£35m from Chelsea or Â£25m from Real?

I think the money's sick anyway Dio. I would much rather he played abroad.

Dio wrote: This whole thing makes little sense to me. Gerrard's going to have to play bloody well for England to earn his reputation back after this.

I would like to think that other fans would feel (nearly) as deflated as a lot of LFC are at the moment. Post CL celebrations were just awesome, here with a real sense of onward and upward. However, I reckon most England fans won't care about his rep and quite a few are probably delighted at the (hopefully) short-term effect it will have on the team.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:02 pm 0

Honestly?

I even thought this at the time....he just said what he said when they were talking to him on the pitch after the Champions League Final because he had to. What else could he possibly say? "Nah, this is great, but I'm off now"?