Dobba
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Took his best dogging spots.What did he do to collymore?
Took his best dogging spots.What did he do to collymore?
Opportunistic scumbags is what agents are.cole is simply confirming that Stretford is an opportunistic scumbag..
Red Issue will probably be quiet tonight, then.Manchester United try to talk Wayne Rooney into staying | Daniel Taylor | Football | The Guardian
And apparently there have been people with "death threats and banners" outside Rooney's house.
Whilst I agree with the bold entirely, I also think it's important to point out that many players are extremely naive in these situations. Cole's account above shows how he was essentially led on by Stretford to believe he had his best interests at heart but his sole motivation was his financial cut.Here is what Stretford looks like:
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He is obviously very well tuned in with players who trust him enough to feck with people like SAF. Im guessing he is one heck of a formidable figure and does not take shit from anyone. Probably abit like SAF. A meeting between the 2 of them would make such fascinating viewing.
I have no issues with people like Stretford advising players .... and think its disingenuous people putting too much blame on them. They are hired by players to help then get a handle on their market worth and then to help them achieve that projection. But a the end of the day, its the player who makes the decisions and calls the shots. The responsibility has to ultimately lie with the player.
Nah, agents are almost all utter cnuts. The single biggest reason modern football is going to the dogs. It's a crying shame that there needs to be any middle-man taking his pound of flesh, just so a footballer can change jobs or stay a bit longer at their current job. Actors need agents because they need someone to find them work. Footballers shouldn't. They need a solicitor to help thrash out terms and that's it. Agents are parasites, growing fat on money screwed out the pocket of fans.Here is what Stretford looks like:
He is obviously very well tuned in with players who trust him enough to feck with people like SAF. Im guessing he is one heck of a formidable figure and does not take shit from anyone. Probably abit like SAF. A meeting between the 2 of them would make such fascinating viewing.
I have no issues with people like Stretford advising players .... and think its disingenuous people putting too much blame on them. They are hired by players to help then get a handle on their market worth and then to help them achieve that projection. But a the end of the day, its the player who makes the decisions and calls the shots. The responsibility has to ultimately lie with the player.
Graeme Swann caned Savage the other week then Ian Poulter got merked by Robbie.Anyone else follows the banter between Rio and Savage (and now even Kevin Davis) on Twitter? It's quite good fun. They really have a go at each other
Last I heard was "men in balaclavas making a visit to the Rooney household"MOgdenTelegraph
Bit of nonsense at Rooney's house tonight. Cheshire Police called to clear a 'bit of bother'
Is that fans causing trouble?
Or is it the other way round?No he is not, he is simply doing his job as instructed to do so by his clients, the players. I dont get why people find it so easy the bash the agent who is acting on behalf of his clients instructions.
I'd like to think that talents such as these would have been recognised by scouts at some time or another. To credit an agent because a player ends up at United is pushing it a bit too far, I think.Likewise players like Rooney, Collymore and Cole were small time when they first met Stretford. It was his contacts, acumen and savvy that helped the process in getting them into big clubs like United and Liverpool. Crying wold after you have got the dosh is poor form.
'.....Around 40 balaclava-clad United fans unravelling a banner outside the striker's Wilmslow house declaring "Join City and You're Dead".Manchester United try to talk Wayne Rooney into staying | Daniel Taylor | Football | The Guardian
And apparently there have been people with "death threats and banners" outside Rooney's house.
I honestly think that making Rooney the highest paid player at the club after what he has done/allowed his agent to do on his behalf would be the worst mistake of Sir Alex' career. He would be undermining himself, the club and the rest of the squad. Too much has been said in my opinion. The only thing to sort out is who we'll sell him to and how much. We should be firm about not selling to City unless the offer is excessive to the point where it benefits us significantly, e.g 60-80m. Otherwise he can go abroad for less.Manchester United try to talk Wayne Rooney into staying | Daniel Taylor | Football | The Guardian
And apparently there have been people with "death threats and banners" outside Rooney's house.
Last I heard was "men in balaclavas making a visit to the Rooney household"
fecking wankers'.....Around 40 balaclava-clad United fans unravelling a banner outside the striker's Wilmslow house declaring "Join City and You're Dead".
Hope not, we should be better than thatMOgdenTelegraph
Bit of nonsense at Rooney's house tonight. Cheshire Police called to clear a 'bit of bother'
Is that fans causing trouble?
totally agree.Nah, agents are almost all utter cnuts. The single biggest reason modern football is going to the dogs. It's a crying shame that there needs to be any middle-man taking his pound of flesh, just so a footballer can change jobs or stay a bit longer at their current job. Actors need agents because they need someone to find them work. Footballers shouldn't. They need a solicitor to help thrash out terms and that's it. Agents are parasites, growing fat on money screwed out the pocket of fans.
He even looks like a cnut in that photo.
Unfortunately like all clubs we have utter twats supporting the club'.....Around 40 balaclava-clad United fans unravelling a banner outside the striker's Wilmslow house declaring "Join City and You're Dead".
Just been sent this by an Evertonian mate....
'Those who are still friendly with Wayne at Everton reckon he's Real
Madrid bound. I think he'll come round and stay at United once they
offer a bit more'
Sad but true.Unfortunately like all clubs we have utter twats supporting the club
The agent is as much to blame as the player. Both idiots.No he is not, he is simply doing his job as instructed to do so by his clients, the players. I dont get why people find it so easy the bash the agent who is acting on behalf of his clients instructions.
Likewise players like Rooney, Collymore and Cole were small time when they first met Stretford. It was his contacts, acumen and savvy that helped the process in getting them into big clubs like United and Liverpool. Crying wolf after you have got the dosh is poor form.
I wouldn't think he will be there too often for a long time to come, as I said before the TO should confiscate his tickets on security groundsStill ironic he's a ST holder though.
Business before pleasure.Still ironic he's a ST holder though.
Yeah, them execs are known for handing out a few beatings.I wouldn't think he will be there too often for a long time to come, as I said before the TO should confiscate his tickets on security grounds
This will only gain him sympathy, he is getting slaughtered on every available media source no need for this idiotic behaviour'.....Around 40 balaclava-clad United fans unravelling a banner outside the striker's Wilmslow house declaring "Join City and You're Dead".
Just been sent this by an Evertonian mate....
'Those who are still friendly with Wayne at Everton reckon he's Real
Madrid bound. I think he'll come round and stay at United once they
offer a bit more'
This is exactly why SAF won't allow him to come anywhere near that dressing room.
I do believe this is what is going on. Fergies words last night keep coming back into my mind - 'be careful what you wish for'. Rooney wants to play with the best players so he's engineering a move to Real or Barca for him.Very interesting point.
Clearly Rooney and his Agent have plans and have probably talked to a club already and have ideas of what sort of contract he will be getting there.
If this is the case, I think it's important for this Club, Ferguson and quite frankly Football as a whole that we are not bullied into giving Rooney the move he has already started to engineer.
We need to make it clear that you can't always have what you want, if he doesn't want to be at this club, very well. We have him under contract and we will decide who we accept bids from. If he then wants to have a 20 months turning up to training and not playing Football because he doesn't want to go to whatever club we sell him to, that is his perrogative.
I really hope we make such a firm stance here.
Manchester United's sadness as Wayne Rooney shocks dressing room | Football | The Guardian
The reaction of the men Wayne Rooney will almost certainly soon know as former team-mates was, in essence, shock. But there was unmistakable anger, too. Rooney has always been a popular figure in the dressing room, not just a colleague but a friend to many of the players whose ability to win trophies he had indirectly questioned in the chain of events that have brought him to the cusp of leaving Manchester United........
........Rooney started telling his team-mates last week that he definitely wanted to leave. Some tried to talk him out of it but quickly realised his mind was made up. "He is his own man, a determined person," Fletcher said. "It is going to be difficult because there is going to be a lot of scrutiny and talking but all we can do is try to win games in response to it.
madness as it is, there have been many incidents as such before and there will be after .... people get very funny when they feel their emotions are being ridiculed. Emotions are the most important and the least predictable part of our personalities. They make us do things we would sometimes never have even contemplate.Seriously some guys need to get a grip.
It is a game after all. Death threats over a game? Absolute bellends.
thats just sick , OK so he is getting stick from every part of the media , but really what is this shit going to do ,his wife and kids live there and they should be out of bounds.'.....Around 40 balaclava-clad United fans unravelling a banner outside the striker's Wilmslow house declaring "Join City and You're Dead".
Just been sent this by an Evertonian mate....
'Those who are still friendly with Wayne at Everton reckon he's Real
Madrid bound. I think he'll come round and stay at United once they
offer a bit more'
Absolutely sickening. The standards of literacy in this country are appalling.BenHibbs Rooney visited by 40 Men In Black tonight, banner left on gates "Sign for City and your dead"
Absolutely sickening. The standards of literacy in this country are appalling.