yes !! thank you , was partly aware of all this being born 1958 , but when explained as in the item it made me fully aware how unfair and biased the rules are , all football fans , Uniteds in particular need to be educated about this , althought i doubt it would stop many spouting their crap .
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yes !! thank you , was partly aware of all this being born 1958 , but when explained as in the item it made me fully aware how unfair and biased the rules are , all football fans , Uniteds in particular need to be educated about this , althought i doubt it would stop many spouting their crap .
gordondaviesmoustache
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My posts have often been compared to passages in books tbf; usually Barbara Cartland.yes !! thank you , was partly aware of all this being born 1958 , but when explained as in the item it made me fully aware how unfair and biased the rules are , all football fans , Uniteds in particular need to be educated about this , althought i doubt it would stop many spouting their crap .
My recollection was that it was Blackburn rather than Newcastle who won Shearer's signature ahead of the rags - and for nothing like £15m?
Were they ever even in the running when he left Ewood Park? Again, totally as I recall it but I think most fans didn't take any of the reports of their supposed interest at that time seriously because Shearer's dislike of the rags was pretty well known at that stage.
You might we'll be right but I think it was the earlier if the two deals when they came closest.
As for your general argument that United didn't buy success. It's a well worn tale but one that consistently avoids the inconvenient truths. Things such as fielding the most expensive side in British Football history in 1989 and breaking more British transfer records than anybody else during Ferguson's reign.
To be fair, their record of promoting from the academy was about on a par, number-wise, as everyone else at that time. Everybody did so because there wasn't enough money to do anything else. What they did do differently was promote a top standard of player - from the only elite academy in English football - into a well stocked team.
There are two elite academies in English Football now (City and Chelsea). They will never promote the same volume of players into their first teams though. Neither will anybody else. This is because the money is in the game (at the top end, obviously) to buy ready-made players and the demand for success is such that clubs can't afford to fall away from the top end of the game.
So, I guess they'll always have that little boast and fellows like you will forever glibly accept and promote it. That's your prerogative, of course.
Its the other way around. Newcastle bought him from Blackburn. And I agree. I don't think ever truly wanted to join United. As a Geordie, he would have leaned towards Newcastle and given that he'd led Blackburn to the league title in 1995, I'm sure he was confident he'd be able to do the same at Newcastle and not regret that move.
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Like Shaw is suddenly becoming the best left back on the planet. He has basically taken the piss out of them for years and in his last year he suddenly decides to start putting in a shift and they are all wanking over him.
He was wank for us but 500,000 for schmeichel in his prime what would he be worth in today's money
The world transfer record was sometjing like 10 million at the time, if I recall correctly. Chris Waddle had been sold for 4.5 million. 500k would have been a bargain. In terms of a percentage of the current transfer record (Neymar at 198m GBP?), that would be about 10 m pounds. Cantona, bought for 1.2 million pounds the following summer, would have been for about 22 m pounds or so.
Like Shaw is suddenly becoming the best left back on the planet. He has basically taken the piss out of them for years and in his last year he suddenly decides to start putting in a shift and they are all wanking over him.
I think the Mourinho fanbois on there are still calling him overrated as they can't admit that their idol mishandled him and botched using him over the past 2 years. They're doing the same thing with Martial over at redcafe. Anybody whom Mourinho doesn't get along with is "rubbish."
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He was wank for us but 500,000 for schmeichel in his prime what would he be worth in today's money
I didn’t think he was that bad for us. Thought he did a fair job considering. Played well at Liverpool in our last win there. To be fair some of their signings were extremely good value when you consider how much we spent on Keith Curle and Terry Phelan.
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Comparing apples with oranges there.The world transfer record was sometjing like 10 million at the time, if I recall correctly. Chris Waddle had been sold for 4.5 million. 500k would have been a bargain. In terms of a percentage of the current transfer record (Neymar at 198m GBP?), that would be about 10 m pounds. Cantona, bought for 1.2 million pounds the following summer, would have been for about 22 m pounds or so.
One needs to compare the prices for keepers.
You’ve also conveniently ignored football inflation by using an extremely crude method for calculation.
One can only wonder why?
Comparing apples with oranges there.
One needs to compare the prices for keepers.
You’ve also conveniently ignored football inflation by using an extremely crude method for calculation.
One can only wonder why?
Then take it as percentage of Allison. This isn't complicated. There s no right or wrong way.
If we do it via the second method, he'd have cost 3.5million or so. Even less.
I didn’t think he was that bad for us. Thought he did a fair job considering. Played well at Liverpool in our last win there. To be fair some of their signings were extremely good value when you consider how much we spent on Keith Curle and Terry Phelan.
And he was 39, if I'm not mistaken In that 2003 season. He was a shell of himself, though.
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