Comments on: Porto preview – injuries disrupt the preparation as the Mail talk garbage again

By: JSP

JSP — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:55:49 +0000

Richard I know the morale of the story!!!!!!

There’s no such thing as Brewer’s Droop!!!! :-)

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:47:29 +0000

YAWN

Getting very tired of the Cesc rubbish. If he goes, he goes. Life will go on.

This reminds me of a situation many moons ago. A friends of mine was a virgin, and he had been seeing a girl for a few months (young love – aghh). We were sat in a pub having a chat, and he was telling me he felt he would sleep with his girlfriend very soon. The boy was riddled with nerves about how it would go and if he would be any good. He had the fear of God in him that she would dump him if he was no good.

Two days later he got drunk at a party, met some other girl, got drunk with her, went to bed with her, dumped his girlfriend (the one who he was worried would dump him), and started dating the girl he met at the party.

Morale of the story…. Well, if you need me to explain it for you, you should probably be a spuds fan.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:43:55 +0000

JSP, the way they get away with it a lot of the time is through disassociation:

a) the papers have no official ties to the clubs (even though in reality that is not the case), so the clubs cannot be accused of tapping up through them.

b) Potential presidents have no association at the time they make these outlandish remarks.

They also do a lot of tapping up through their own players (Xavi forever going on about Cesc’s Barca DNA, for example).

On the most part, it is very clever tapping up, because it is not the club officials. But sometimes, even the officials join in. But they always add the ‘but at the moment he’s an Arsenal player’ caveat. It’s infuriating.

By: JSP

JSP — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:31:19 +0000

I hate Barcelona and Real Madrid and their arrogant attitude they have towards pretty much trying to force players to sign for them. There are two people in world football who can stop this, but lets face it Platini and Splatter will do nothing all the while it’s English clubs who are being unsettled. If the boot was on the other foot you would find transfer bans and bans from European competitions being placed on the English club in question.
The only way to stop the total disrespect these Spain A holes show is to ban them and fine them, but to do that we need to replace the heads of UEFA and FIFA who are both spineless!

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:20:57 +0000

George, you’re forgetting the age difference – both players want to play for Barcelona before the career is over, but Cesc is only 22, is the captain of the club and feels a responsibility not to leave without bringing tangible success. He has plenty of time to do that AND then move to Barca, at which point we won’t begrudge him.

He knows as well as anyone that if he leaves before the team rises to the top, his time in the Premiership may ultimately be seen as ‘what might have been’.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:15:38 +0000

I am really looking forward to it and i hope hope Sol has a good game! 2-1 to the Arsenal!

To all german speaking gooners check out my first blog post http://gooners-weekly.blogspot.com/

By: George

George — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:14:08 +0000

Cesc will leave inthe same way that Henry did due to the lack of ambition shown by the club in the tranfer market. Unless we compete or at least try to compete in signing some of the worlds “better” players then Fabregas will leave and no one can blame him.