Media discussion - 2024/25

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Newman Noggs said:
Patrick Barclay, The Evening Standard, 7 October 2013...

"It was as if Adnan Januzaj had decided to get his Marco van Basten moment over early, in order to concentrate on the rest of his career; even at 18, he has that deadpan look of utter mastery.
The title of the location — the Stadium of Light — was a nice touch too, for young Adnan is going to be one of those players who can, whatever the weather, throw open our curtains on a glorious spring day.
In this sense he may already be tentatively compared with Lionel Messi. He is hundreds of goals, thousands of dribbles and quite a few trophies short in terms of achievement but his natural attributes are almost up there with the very best.
He lacks only a devastating burst of speed and, even if that does not come with time and training, he can render it negligible by moving in from the flank, as he did to devastating effect on Saturday. Januzaj will surely become a No 10 in the Mesut Ozil mould. Indeed, it seemed Manchester United had found an instant answer to Arsenal’s acquisition when the 18-year-old equalised with a left-footed subtlety reminiscent of Ozil’s goal against Napoli.

But Januzaj then emulated Van Basten’s volley in the 1988 European Championship final. What next? A slalom in the style of Maradona? It’s just as well for Premier League defenders that, due to the international break, none has to face Januzaj until Southampton arrive at Old Trafford on Saturday week."
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What a load of nauseating guff!
 
Xhavenjoe said:
Just came across this Gabrielle Marcotti fella.
Shouts more than Jim White that I didn't think was possible.
Don't think he likes us.
Is discussing our match against Madrid with a man called Juls.
Gab, as he calls himself, is dropping the Grealish is shite , 130 charges etc.
He is gone straight into my top 10 dislikeable know feck all "pundits".
It'll take something to knock Eamonn Sweeney off the top spot though.
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They are innocent enough. Gab is normally pretty fair and reasonable. He takes the
Micky out of other teams including Madrid a fair bit. I quite enjoy their shows.

July is very good on the French clubs.

They thought Marmoush would go for around 40 million pounds in a good market on the summer and we overpaid which I agree. We overpaid a fair bit on Khushanov and Reiss too but hey we had to do something.
 
Martin Samuel, in case anyone missed it. Likely to be printed in tomorrow’s edition, but I was able to access this for free online

www.thetimes.com

Only luck stopped Premier League from ruining Everton and Forest

We now know sponsorship rules effectively did not exist — so how can Richard Masters’s position as chief executive remain tenable after narrowly avoiding biggest legal action in football history?
www.thetimes.com www.thetimes.com
 
chesterbells said:
Martin Samuel, in case anyone missed it. Likely to be printed in tomorrow’s edition, but I was able to access this for free online

www.thetimes.com

Only luck stopped Premier League from ruining Everton and Forest

We now know sponsorship rules effectively did not exist — so how can Richard Masters’s position as chief executive remain tenable after narrowly avoiding biggest legal action in football history?
www.thetimes.com www.thetimes.com
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Any chance of a synopsis for those of us who can't get past the paywall?
 
That this news came out late on a Friday is in keeping with the PL's previous behaviour, e.g. the delay in announcing the earlier judgment, dragging its feet accepting it, and tells us it is an organisation led by people without magnanimity. If there are claims for damages, there should be claims against individuals as well as the PL.

And the response of Sam Wallace tells us what's been going on since 2008.
 
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