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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 28 June 2011

rawhide

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Jan 28, 2011
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Mmm Adebayor what?


I have mentioned in other posts (most likely the Adebayor thread) that the Arsenal fans I spoke to have been laughing at the prospect of us signing him and saying that he is offside continiously and has little mroe than power and pace.

I raised the potential issue of us seeing him perform well against us and his goals in highlights and having a rose tinted view of his skills as a result.

Or of course the arsenal fans could have an agenda against him over the whole MAn City goal run from half way line incident.

I dunno, I have not watched enough of him personally to know whether I have the inacurrate from a far view or whether he is consistantly as good as he seems whenever I have seen him.

Time will tell I guess

We have to consider that he has played CL footy and scored for Monaco, Arsenal and Real Madrid, and I'd suggest that Man City saw something to tempt him from the scum with pots of cash. That many people can't be wrong, can they?
 

HailKingLevy

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So at first we had about 4 names that we thought we was chasing. (Forlan, Ade, Parker, Leandro.)

We then get Some cryptic (formerly known as ITK) . Which is supposed to
put us at ease, with our impending signings.

We then have about a dozen names that we are chasing.

Is this how its supposed to work.

Your meant to make it easier for us guys :) ....
 

AngerManagement

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We have to consider that he has played CL footy and scored for Monaco, Arsenal and Real Madrid, and I'd suggest that Man City saw something to tempt him from the scum with pots of cash. That many people can't be wrong, can they?

I have very few if any doubts that he would be a great success for us. I am just saying I must conceed that I have not actually seen enough of him to argue his merits with an arsenal fan who has watched him a million times so I reserve judgement to an extent.
 

rawhide

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I have very few if any doubts that he would be a great success for us. I am just saying I must conceed that I have not actually seen enough of him to argue his merits with an arsenal fan who has watched him a million times so I reserve judgement to an extent.

That would be a verbose way of saying I'm sitting on the fence?
 

thfc73

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What is people obsession with money, if we get 30 million for Lennon, 50 for modric we should sell ???? I remember when we sold carrick for 18 mil and laughed but it set us back a season or two.The problem we have got is shifting some of the fringe players so we don't have players claiming a wage and not even registered to play in the premier league. The Money is there to buy players no doubt.
 

Oshi

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If we shift the "dead wood" for reasonable market rates we would have over £100million to spunk about the place, lets hope we are like a Bulls wotsit in Spring with it.
 

rawhide

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What is people obsession with money, if we get 30 million for Lennon, 50 for modric we should sell ???? I remember when we sold carrick for 18 mil and laughed but it set us back a season or two.The problem we have got is shifting some of the fringe players so we don't have players claiming a wage and not even registered to play in the premier league. The Money is there to buy players no doubt.

Great point. The money we would get in is only useful if it is used to improve the team by buying a replacement/upgrade.
 

bilburger

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Connor Wickham

Sorry if this takes things a bit off course, but we have but we have been linked with him both this transfer window and the last...

Very interesting that none of the usual big guns have come in for him. If he really is The Next Big Thing, there is no way he'd be passed up by all the big clubs so he can go chase long balls up in Sunderland. This kid has been scouted with such scutiny that most clubs must know if he clips his pubes - and it seems that he has been deemed not good enough.

But from what I've seen of him - and, I'm far from a good judge on player potential - he looks decent. He's still very, very young, has size and a bit of skill. For £8M (possibly going up to £13M) i think he'd be a bargain.

Seems odd that we're passing this one up. Under £10M for a possible future England #9 is a steal.
 

kdspur

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sunderland getting two decent players there, hunger and passionate and good workers. gardener and wickham.. two for price of henderson.
 

Ossie85

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ROBinBKK on COYS says Sherwood is watching an Ivory Coast striker from Siena name Souleyman Coulibaly. He's the current top scorer of the u17 world cup. 8 goals in 3 matches
 

kdspur

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ROBinBKK on COYS says Sherwood is watching an Ivory Coast striker from Siena name Souleyman Coulibaly. He's the current top scorer of the u17 world cup. 8 goals in 3 matches


every man and his dog after him apparently. the new drogba and real madrid are favourites!
 

thfc73

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Great point. The money we would get in is only useful if it is used to improve the team by buying a replacement/upgrade.

Who is an upgrade on someone like Lennon? someone who is gonna want in excess of 100k+ a week or a kid with potential and whatever we do it's a risk that could backfire.
 

nailsy

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Sorry if this takes things a bit off course, but we have but we have been linked with him both this transfer window and the last...

Very interesting that none of the usual big guns have come in for him. If he really is The Next Big Thing, there is no way he'd be passed up by all the big clubs so he can go chase long balls up in Sunderland. This kid has been scouted with such scutiny that most clubs must know if he clips his pubes - and it seems that he has been deemed not good enough.

But from what I've seen of him - and, I'm far from a good judge on player potential - he looks decent. He's still very, very young, has size and a bit of skill. For £8M (possibly going up to £13M) i think he'd be a bargain.

Seems odd that we're passing this one up. Under £10M for a possible future England #9 is a steal.

I wonder if we've spoken to him but can't offer him the amount of playing time that Sunderland will offer.
 

beats1

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ROBinBKK on COYS says Sherwood is watching an Ivory Coast striker from Siena name Souleyman Coulibaly. He's the current top scorer of the u17 world cup. 8 goals in 3 matches

Was watching him the other day got a hat trick in the first half and had one very good finish from a very tight angle
 
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