That team had rvn, ole, Cole,Yorke,giggs,beckham,keane,veron,scholes, ferdinand and barthez. Arguably all world class.
Loved Seba.
A foreign player who played in the PL who should never have
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Loved Seba.
Jo
City signed so many duds before they got to the good ones. Only reason I remember he existed is that I'm friends with his ex wife and their kid. She's a lovely person, but her whole life is about show. An annoying reminder that even terrible footballers are rich beyond your wildest dreams.Didn't they somehow offload him to Everton for a bizarrely high fee? I seem to remember he scored on his debut or something, and pretty much never again
Someone mentioned Shevchenko. It's hard to overexaggerate just how much of a surefire thing he was seen to be when he came to the Prem. He was ridiculously good up to then. And then he played like he'd been drugged.
Has anyone mentioned Bebe?
Benjamin Mendy ….nobody else come anywhere close.
Just reminded me of Chelsea having major issues with players testing positive for cocaine in the early 00s.Cue the one that sure as hell shouldn't have set foot there: Adrian Mutu. Fined 15m quid in damages, he should have stayed at Parma!
We signed Rooney. He got moved on a week later or thereabouts.
Massimo Maccarone and Sergei Rebrov.
Jo eventually had his moment when he was top scorer winning the 2013 libertadores with Atletico Mineiro, alongside old Ronaldinho.Jo
Didn't they somehow offload him to Everton for a bizarrely high fee? I seem to remember he scored on his debut or something, and pretty much never again
Someone mentioned Shevchenko. It's hard to overexaggerate just how much of a surefire thing he was seen to be when he came to the Prem. He was ridiculously good up to then. And then he played like he'd been drugged.
Has anyone mentioned Bebe?
Shevchenko wasn't bad. He just didn't have the legs. I remember reading an article about Darren Campbell teaching him how to sprint.
"Wake me up Yaya Sanogo, we like you better than that cnut from Togo"
Yeah, he has not even experienced a purple patch yet.
Silva and Aguero, should've been Barca/Real players
Well, back n the 90s Benfica hired some Premier League players who also didn't exactly standout. We still fondly remember Michael Thomas, the slowest player ever to set foot on a football pitch in Portugal.
All of them. It's the English league. Piss off stealing our jobs
Soldado.
Iago Aspas and Fernando Morientes
George Weah
Bebé
On the contrary, we would never have this piece of commentary art if he hadn't come to the PL.
Ronaldo 2.0, worlds best footballer should have ended his career on a high instead of the this freakshow of a team.
This is actually quite true
Kagawa and Nuri Sahin.
Patrick Kluivert to Newcastle. Who was still only 28 at the time. After his stint in the prem, he only played like 40 more competitive games. Such a rapid decline.
Any thoughts as to why Rebrov flopped at Spurs mate? He looked a superb player in the CL for Dynamo Kiev, and should have been hitting his peak when he moved to England.
That deal was dodgy as feck.
Granit Xhaka. There are countless British players (or just people) who could do a better job, albeit arguably without the uncanny ability to eacape red cards as he should have at least one every match.
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Bebe.
Crossed the ball in one game and almost hit me at the top of the East Stand.
Crossed the ball in one game and almost hit me at the top of the East Stand.
Djemba Djemba…god but he was awful!
Can't say for sure, but i think he just turned out to be mostly a comfort zone player; there were never any rumours/allegations of being a lazy trainer/stereotypical difficult character or anything like that, not that i can remember. Lobanovsky's system was also getting the best out of him. I thought his first season with Spurs was good enough for going to a new, stronger league with a mid-table team, especially as he was much more of a supporting forward like Bergkamp/Zola than a classic 9, but Spurs fans were probably expecting more goals considering what he was doing in Ukraine/CL. Things went bad really quickly after Hoddle became manager.
It wasn't a simple obvious case of better league proving too much, as he was absolutely terrible in the season and a half that he spent in Turkey and with West Ham too, who were in the championship. By this stage he was about 30 and moved back to Kyiv, where he had a very good first season as an attacking midfielder. He initially looked like he'd end up playing out the rest of his career doing well back in his comfort zone, but his form quickly fell apart there too. Was sold to Rubin Kazan for 2008 season, where he again produced a good first season as an attacking-mid with a lot of runners doing leg work for him, before again rapidly becoming useless and retiring. That was their first ever league win, so he's well liked there.
Gaizka Mendieta. He looked so good at Valencia and it seemed fecking sad to see him turn out for Boro in the mid naughties.
A third of his Boro goal haul was scored against Utd in one game.
A third of his Boro goal haul was scored against Utd in one game.
Borja Valero, wonderful passer with great technique, but very slow. Also didn't help he played for West Brom of all teams, could have done a lot better if he'd signed for someone else.
Kezman
Mario Jardel