Recent content by Porco Rosso

No, I think it's a good example of SAF putting his own interests before that of the club, which is the point Keane is making. With the whole football world to recruit from, the very best man out there for Manchester United to hire as Chief Scout was Martin Ferguson? Really?? By all means help...

The selling shirts stuff is obviously b*llocks, but it was an odd transfer. I thought at the time that it was a statement signing - a case of Ed wanting to flex our financial muscle by buying a big name - just to show that we could. That's not a million miles away from what the bloke is saying...

His availability on a free transfer does potentially bring United into the equation. If Bale had wanted to come this summer, would we have shelled big money for him? Plenty of people have suggested that we would have. £100 Mill+ and likely the highest wage in the premiership for a 29 year old...

I don't know Rose obviously, but I wouldn't be surprised if he finds the situation as unpalatable as you do. I would suggest that he's clearly been made an offer by another club via an intermediary/his agent - I don't believe this stance is just some vague 'come and get me' plea - and he knows...

They wouldn't sell us Arsenio though. Whether we like to admit it or not, we're not quite the draw that Real are, so they'll only sell us players they don't want & their players will only elect to leave if they're clearly not wanted. Similarly players from 3rd party clubs will generally not come...

That logic only holds until such time as a deal is agreed in principle with another club, after which time the inclination would be to guard against injury, rather than further showcase the player. The timescale mentioned by Jose here would surely indicate a deal agreed (assuming we're even on...

If he does leave Madrid, it'll only be because he's being pushed out to make way for a younger talent. All his comments to date seem to indicate that he loves Madrid, both the club and the City. So, an injury prone 28 year old, moving not to further his own career or take a step up, but solely...

Christ I do hope not! There were plenty on here who (wrongly) didn't like the idea of taking one of Real's cast offs when we were in for Morata - a 24 year old rising star. In Bale we really would be getting a cast off - a player who relies almost completely on his pace, who has had a dreadful...

If Jose wants Matic then fair enough. Most of the opinion I've read though suggests that Dier is Jose's first choice. All I'm saying is that, all things being equal (which I think pretty much they are in that both have proven to be excellent holding midfielders), and daft though the fees being...

Certainly it would. At the end of a 4 or 5 year contract Matic will be worth nothing, in fact long before then he'll be one of those highly paid players that we don't use anymore but are struggling to offload. If there were any suggestion that Spurs would sell Dier for £65 million then paying...

People are reading way too much into the De Gea to Madrid stories in my opinion. We've a press pack desperate to fill column inches and generate clicks, who we know keep tabs on their colleagues from other news outlets and simply regurgitate stories without worrying about corroboration of...

I've never understood why Arsenal come in for such stick over the Suarez Bid - they were working on the understanding that a bid in excess of £40m triggered a release clause - assuming that to be true for a second, how much would they be expected to bid? £45m perhaps - and just make a gift of...

I know that's the theory, and it would make sense if there were indeed some clear distinction between the known Bullsh*tters and everyone else, but in practice there often seems very little difference between the content put out by those that are banned and those that are acceptable. When you...

This is quite right. I don't get the constant references in this thread to banning tweets from certain individuals and organisations when we all know that the vast majority of transfer related tweets are pure fabrication whoever is doing the tweeting.

I must have missed something - Liverpool say that the deal broke down when it became apparent that they were unable, under the new rules, to pay for the private school. If the deal to take the kid broke down and he never actually joined Liverpool, then surely he'd still be at Stoke wouldn't he...