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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - The Weekend Edition 3/4 August 2013

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CrankyPants90

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Of course, its so obvious!

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Could also be Robbie Keane, no?
 

Drexl

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A few decent finds at Newcastle and a celebrity son and people get a little carried away, care to tell me the names of many other scouts you know and where thy rate in your world scouting table?

Haven't got a clue about other scouts but City had great young talent before the arabs started playing real life FM with unlimited cash and Carr was chief scout at City

He also unearthed Rio, Carrick, Cole, Lampard at West Ham
 

Gbspurs

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Hard to tell who is gay, the Julian Clary camp types are very rare

I know a guy who works the doors at clubs in Manchester, looks hard as nails, not someone to cross but been with a bloke for 7 years, macho as fuck

Parkies comment wasn't a judgement to the femininity of Gay men.

His son is Alan Carr, a man who possibly out camps anyone. That's what parkie meant.
 

monkeynick

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Haven't got a clue about other scouts but City had great young talent before the arabs started playing real life FM with unlimited cash and Carr was chief scout at City

He also unearthed Rio, Carrick, Cole, Lampard at West Ham


So how do you come to rate him as one of the best scouts in the world then?
 

Drexl

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Parkies comment wasn't a judgement to the femininity of Gay men.

His son is Alan Carr, a man who possibly out camps anyone. That's what parkie meant.

I had complete brain fade, for some reason i thought Steve Carr was his son, what with Steve playing for Newcastle too etc
 

Drexl

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So how do you come to rate him as one of the best scouts in the world then?

He is great at unearthing UK and French talent, no to mention Demba Ba

Not a Wenger, no one is, but Carr is better than anyone we have by a long distance
 

Norn_Iron

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I would have assumed that Baldini would have a remit over the clubs scouting and therefore we know of our scouting shortcomings and are trying to improve by appointing him. I would imagine it would take some time though.
 

spursfan77

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On Sunday supplement they said baldini was at the emerates yesterday. I guess he was looking at defenders?
 

Kiedis

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He is great at unearthing UK and French talent, no to mention Demba Ba

Not a Wenger, no one is, but Carr is better than anyone we have by a long distance

Was he working at West Ham when they got Demba Ba over from Germany?
 

monkeynick

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He is great at unearthing UK and French talent, no to mention Demba Ba

Not a Wenger, no one is, but Carr is better than anyone we have by a long distance


But you said that you have "no idea" about any other scouts, how can you say he's better than all the hundreds of thousands of scouts you have no idea about?

For all the French talent he's "unearthed" there will be many many better players that someone else has.
 

Snarfalicious

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On Sunday supplement they said baldini was at the emerates yesterday. I guess he was looking at defenders?


Napoli?

Maybe Federico Fernandez (CB) then? We were linked in the past but he didn't start and I don't think he was on the bench, either.
 

Joeyboey

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I went into this window thinking that all we needed was to shift 2/3 players and bring in 2/3 players (including a striker and some creativity) and keeping Bale.

However it looks like we're potentially going to have the biggest squad overhaul in my lifetime, and I'm not a youngster.

Does make me worry.
 

Sum Monsterism

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He is great at unearthing UK and French talent, no to mention Demba Ba

Not a Wenger, no one is, but Carr is better than anyone we have by a long distance

huh? Demba Ba was at a not insignificant club before he arrived in the UK. How exactly did Carr "unearth" him?

Wenger, it might seem, bought over the crop of french talent at one particular time, and ultimately capitalised on that - his "scouting" has yielded hardly anything of note in comparison. You say Van Persie, I say he was at a big club.

There have definitely been more misses than hits in terms of recruitment at the goons.
 
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