Exactly. If our transfer dealings have pissed him off, we're doing something right.Also Woodward has got to be a great guy, if Perez doesn't like him or his way of doing things.
Exactly. If our transfer dealings have pissed him off, we're doing something right.Also Woodward has got to be a great guy, if Perez doesn't like him or his way of doing things.
Yes, he knows that Perez bled him for Di Maria. The scuppered Coentrao loan deal was perhaps also on his mind. You get the feeling that Woody is competitive character.It could be that Woodward finds Perez to be untrustworthy, hence Ed's indirect approaches to Real players.
Cnuts like him come in all shapes and sizes.I just realised that my mental image of Perez is a slightly fatter and more senile version of Rafa.
Blind is a good-looking man too. Hell, you can have them all David....Dump Edurne, you have Mata.
Yep. He's a blue waffle.Cnuts like him come in all shapes and sizes.
Yeah!Mata > Edurne
Spot on!God I hate the media. When you see refugees from war stricken countries risking their lives and the lives of their children to get to a country where they could have some semblance of a life being painted as opportunistic benefits cheats and then on the back pages stories of Footballers being "Doomed" to sign multimillion pound contracts to play a game a couple of times a week you know the world is all sorts of fecked up.
God I hate the media. When you see refugees from war stricken countries risking their lives and the lives of their children to get to a country where they could have some semblance of a life being painted as opportunistic benefits cheats and then on the back pages stories of Footballers being "Doomed" to sign multimillion pound contracts to play a game a couple of times a week you know the world is all sorts of fecked up.
There's still time.Woodward's only sold 14 players in the last 2 years and received £110m in the process. Not to mention the 14 he's signed for £250m.
I guess he must be still learning the process.
I don't think anyone could have said it better. We should just not respond. Maybe have one of the journos pose a question to LVG at his next presser about Perez's comments and LVG can respond with a swat of the hand! Will say all that we want toPerez really should put his shovel away.
Spot on but nothing new, senseless and quite avoidable deaths been occurring every year. Now it just happens at our doorstepSpot on!
Spot on nothing. Absolutely ludicrous comparison.Spot on!
Quote the original post and not my thumbs up on it, if you have anything to say about the comparison.Spot on nothing. Absolutely ludicrous comparison.
On the contrary, I was contesting your description of "spot on".Quote the original post and not my thumbs up on it, if you have anything to say about the comparison.
Stop lying and get back on topic:On the contrary, I was contesting your description of "spot on".
...Absolutely ludicrous comparison.
Will this thread turn into another di Maria threadMy only hope for the season is that we play Real Madrid in knock-out rounds of the Champions League, they get a last minute penalty which, if scored, will take them through. DDG saves, we progress, and the Bernabeau faithful attacks Perez' limo on his daily commute into the office, and in the commotion his tire is blown. Then it turns out that his driver doesn't carry a spare tire, so Perez has to wait it out inside his limo, and then walk to the office afterwards, arriving just as the important meeting he was supposed to attend is about to end.
I don't think that's too much to ask for.
What's there to win for us? That's right, nothing...
United will say one thing but not entirely mean it. It was the last day because as it turns out, any sooner and we would be the ones calling them. If we called them, that means we're selling. So they come to us and we accepted a deal that we were happy with. If they never offered that deal, we wouldn't have agreed. As for the other stories - they're just stories. No one can say 100% who we were after. Anyone thinking we made that bid for Neymar is on some kind of medication. The press lied, because they had no idea. How many players that we purchased, did they actually link us too?There's something he says that bothers me though - namely that after stating all summer that we would not sell, we finally agreed to negotiate on the last day. Why the change of heart?
Now I don't think we will ever fully know what actually transpired, but I do wonder whether our apparent chasing of Pedro, Neymar, Bale, Ramos and subsequent failure to land any of them doesn't indicate that Woodward doesn't hugely overestimate his own (and our) ability to land players from the biggest clubs in Europe, because if it's not that that, then it's baffling to think that he would go after them just to "flex muscles". Talk is cheap, and that's all it was if you ask me.
It does appear to be a theme with our pursuit of players. Kane was also a target, nothing came of that either - I reckon had we offered Martial money for him we would have got him.
So were we actually convinced we might be able to sign any of those 5?
As for the De Gea case - you all know my feelings on that - I think it would have sensible to let him go, negotiating a fair price for him. I firmly don't believe he'll sign an extension, so we just lose him in Jan when he signs a pre-contract and then professional or not, frankly his head will already be in Madrid again if indeed it isn't earlier.
We should report them and ensure they get that transfer ban.Not sure if this was posted before - but how is this not tapping up? United should really report this to FIFA - its light as day now:
"A year ago, we understood that the future after Iker [Casillas] was De Gea and we had made a promise to him," Perez said. "Now we don't have any idea what we will do next year."
source: http://www.espnfcasia.com/real-madr...ed-inexperience-david-de-gea-real-madrid-deal
Yes, in the pictures of him going to the National team camp he looked like someone who had spent the whole night crying.I think the international break is good for you in terms of getting his head right and back in the team. If you were playing Liverpool tomorrow, I doubt he'd start.