tommydski wrote: He probably realises he's not exactly going to walk into a modelling career when he retires and wants to maintain his lifestyle when he's done playing. .
Fire Alarm / Fire Brigade adverts are two that he can audition for.
tommydski wrote: He probably realises he's not exactly going to walk into a modelling career when he retires and wants to maintain his lifestyle when he's done playing. .
MightyWhite wrote:I've said this before on another thread, but I believe English football would be much better off if the top 5 teams would just fuck off into a European Super League and let the rest of us start again. What would be lost in glamour ties against the big guns would be gained in having a genuinely competitive league.
Disco Dan wrote:
It's almost like we're celebrating Bates' skinflint approach because he happens to have been in football for a long time.
101 Great Goals wrote:So far we have been spared big column inches surrounding the future of Emmanuel Adebayor with the Manchester City striker holding out for a move back to Real Madrid after his loan spell at the Bernabeu.
In typical style, the former Arsenal and Monaco hitman has been on holiday in Accra and bizarre footage has emerged of Adebayor at a Ghana Meets Naija concert over the weekend.
Sporting the ridiculous attire of white trainers, white shorts, white shirt and tie, Adebayor approached the stage, presumably unexpectedly, and showered one of the dancers with money before returning to his seat near the front of the crowd.
the flying pig wrote:a couple of recent stories have really disturbed me. i know it's been said many times before but are we genuinely better off out of it? i just don't get it.
two examples:
(1) Tevez
top player but what a miserable carry-on.
last season the [bizarre] excuse was some kind of 'personality clash' with citeh's chief exec garry cook... how can an argentian peasant who seemingly doesn't speak a word of english have a fall out with his [english] football club's chief exec?
this season the excuse is missing his kids. the same kids who he missed last season that he [according to the tabs of the time] fucked off to tenerife with some tart when given time to go and and visit them. kids who are seemingly happy to move to spain or even italy but not england.
who knows what the real story is. were they both [extremely] thinly veiled attempts to get a payrise? which other club does he think will pay a big fee and then the same wages as citeh - or is he hoping that citeh will pay nearly all his wages whilst he pisses off back to Boca or whoever? does the player actually understand any of what's going on, is are agents running everything? what's clear though is that it's an extremely grubby business.
(2) Ashley Young
i was skim-reading this weekend's NOTW when i noticed a passing reference to the fact that he earns £130k a week at scum. this for a player not guaranteed a first team spot at scum and who at 26 [mid to late career for a winger] has 15 England caps, most of them as sub. capable player and all that but
Disco Dan wrote:Ignore for a second Ken Bates' personality and the fact that he's English, then consider the following.
We're owned by a moderately wealthy near-80-year-old man who lives in Monaco. The accounts since 2007 show zero external investment - something desperately needed to lift the burden of the rent for ER & TA.
What would be so different about someone based in the far east or USA coming running us, but actually putting some cash in, even if it was only enough to get the stadium and training ground back?
It's almost like we're celebrating Bates' skinflint approach because he happens to have been in football for a long time.
Given the choice between new foreign money and no old money, I know which I'd prefer.
moscowhite wrote:If his aim is to maximise financial return on his short but lucrative career for the sake of his family, how does threatening to retire aged 26 fit in to it? He's been on about quitting football for the last three seasons. Also, when given time off by Manchester City last season to go and visit his children in Argentina, he fucked off to Tenerife with a dolly bird and didn't go near his family. I'm not crying for him.
tommydski wrote:For all the talk of it being money fixated and all that, I don't know who will win the league next year, or even qualify for Europe. There's some great footballers in every team too.
MightyWhite wrote:Oh come on. It's 5 into 4 for the Champions League and 1 of 3 (at most) for the title.
tommydski wrote:MightyWhite wrote:Oh come on. It's 5 into 4 for the Champions League and 1 of 3 (at most) for the title.
Well, my instinct says either Scum or Chelski for the title but I can't pick between Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs and Manchester City for the other places. In fact, you might argue whether any of those clubs could make the top two if the results go a certain way. Maybe this'll be the year that Manchester City will outstrip their rivals. Who really knows? I think that's a fair mix of teams regardless.
the flying pig wrote:i do like balotelli. he's pleasingly bonkers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/24/mario-balotelli-roberto-mancini-friendly
AndyPaul wrote:the flying pig wrote:i do like balotelli. he's pleasingly bonkers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/24/mario-balotelli-roberto-mancini-friendly
Fair play to Mancini - taking the cunt off.
But I do like this too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVd08IR5-A0
eric olthwaite wrote:AndyPaul wrote:the flying pig wrote:i do like balotelli. he's pleasingly bonkers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/24/mario-balotelli-roberto-mancini-friendly
Fair play to Mancini - taking the cunt off.
But I do like this too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVd08IR5-A0
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I like that Mancini subbed Milner on for Balotelli; it's as if he wasn't thinking about tactics at all and just went, "I need to put the definitive anti-Balotelli on".
The Gentleman Thug wrote:Am I alone in thinking Balotelli is utter dog shit? I'd have taken him off because the attempt was so embarrassing, not for attempting it in the first place.
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