Player Topic: Fabian Delph (2015/16)

[RichardDunneOwnGoal]

Hope you invest the money wisely mate. I don't mind Villa as a club, and take no pleasure from seeing them struggle.

I do. Fuck em.

They're the rags of Birmingham. Entitled wankers with a snooty sense of superiority. "We won the European Cup once, biggest club in the world".

Fickle as they come too. Never been relegated in the PL era, but their attendances drop off hugely when they go through a poor spell.

I always recall them routinely booing their players off the pitch when they dropped a couple of points at home to a side they expected to beat, back when they were massively punching above their weight, squad wise, and pushing for a top four spot under O'Neill.

Also remember them celebrating Newcastle getting relegated at Villa Park in 2009, ridiculing them and celebrating their relegation with pre made banners.

They're the rags of Birmingham.

A relegation would do them some good, might learn some humility and lose the entitlement.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

 

[The_Maverick]

It didn't work for Arsenal because the Suarez team misinterpreted the contract. They THOUGHT anything over 40m was enough to trigger a release clause, but it wasn't. It was enough to trigger negotiations, which Liverpool simply negotiated as 'we're not selling'. But of course, by then, they knew the Suarez team had leaked the 40m figure as Arsenal had made it so patently obvious.

It was a giant cockup from the Suarez party, and made Arsenal look silly in the process.

Fair enough, I was of the opinion that Arsenal were used as a stalking horse to draw out Barca.

Agreed that both didn't come out of it well.

 

[TonyM]

Brilliant!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

No. Liverpool confessed afterwards that Suarez did have the above £40m release clause. They pulled a fast one!

Class, dignity, respect.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It's a little bit cringeworthy, that Buzzer "advice". Not sure why but it is.

I agree. There's a time and a place.

 

[goalmole]

Don't know if this has been posted yet, my rag mate sent me it. I thought it was pretty funny.

I wonder if he had the royal penis cleaned before he set off.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I wonder if he had the royal penis cleaned before he set off.

Haha! That was a quality line!

 

[stony]

It didn't work for Arsenal because the Suarez team misinterpreted the contract. They THOUGHT anything over 40m was enough to trigger a release clause, but it wasn't. It was enough to trigger negotiations, which Liverpool simply negotiated as 'we're not selling'. But of course, by then, they knew the Suarez team had leaked the 40m figure as Arsenal had made it so patently obvious.

No. Liverpool confessed afterwards that Suarez did have the above £40m release clause. They pulled a fast one!

Correct, and then Henry bragged about it afterwards.

The Liverpool owner John Henry has reportedly admitted that Luis Suárez did have a £40m buyout clause but that the club simply refused to sell the player when Arsenal made their £40m plus one pound offer last summer.
At the time Liverpool were adamant that the Gunners' bid would not trigger the release of their striker, but Henry, speaking at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, appears to have suggested that the Reds simply took a hard line because "apparently these contracts don't seem to hold".
"Luis Suarez is the top scorer in the English Premier League, which is arguably the top soccer league in the world," Henry is reported to have said. "He had a buyout clause of £40m. Arsenal, one of our prime rivals, offered £40m plus £1. What we've found … is that contracts don't seem to mean a lot in England – actually, in world football.
"It doesn't matter how long a player's contract is, he can decide he's leaving. We sold a player, Fernando Torres, for £50m, that we did not want to sell, we were forced to.
"Since apparently these contracts don't seem to hold, we took the position that we're just not selling.
"It's been great for Luis, it's been great for us. We have three gentlemen up front Suárez, [Raheem] Sterling, and [Daniel]Sturridge, [they] are young, I think those three could be together for a long time."

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/mar/02/liverpool-john-henry-luis-suarez-clause

How's that working out for you Mr Henry?

 

[stony]

Also remember them celebrating Newcastle getting relegated at Villa Park in 2009, ridiculing them and celebrating their relegation with pre made banners.

Newcastle fans still remember that. They detest Villa.