Good response sunshine. You might lose possesion alot at the moment in games but i like your attitude and i can see that with the right influences you can become an influential player. Chin up

Masks

Can we call him Ghalla?

and More (or Less)

Or, I guess Hazza...

GO Ghazza. Your not quite Gazza yet but I like your attitude. Great player, great signing.

Jesus, he can't have that many left by now then!

"At first I didn't realise how serious the injury was," he continued. "[At half time] I demanded that [Spurs boss] Martin Jol replace me."

If I was playing for spurs then I waouldn' t demand anything...

strong choice of words aint it?

i guess the word he'd rather use was never found and he used the only word which came to mind

this always happen when english isn't your first language




...talking through experience of course

That incident looked bad on TV

I'm confident that he meant to say "asked." Also, if the interview wasn't in English it may have just been translated poorly.

I wonder if Ghaly speaks some French. The French word for "to ask" is "demander".

or maybe Ghaly's got balls the size of coconuts!!!!!!

Makes up for him being a bit toothless. :twisted:

One of the many good reasons not to read too much into players' quotes in the press is the language barrier and translation problems that might appear. Players sometimes come across as snooty or conceited in interviews when they are merely struggling to express themselves.
The only good thing about Ghaly's horror injury is that the people who have relentlessly been on his back for the past weeks will have to stop questioning his passion and commitment. Credit to him, I think we have a very good squad player in him as he is quite versatile, and good going forward.

I'd have to say, in these times of players rolling around when slightly hurt, I'm very impressed with his courage by playing on.
I have to say I felt sickened that this attitude was not discussed on MOTD instead of the pathaetic "jokes" about Spurs being "toothless" and Ghaly coming back to "fill a gap". It really goes to show that these "experts" (!) are airheads who never have anything positive to say.

Sorry - rant over!!

its very poor translation, he did mean asked!! his interview was done to an arabic site filgoal, an they also hav an english section so its some egyptian dude on his computer in cairo hu decided he meant demanded! iv got big expectation for ghaly in the next cupl of season, im sure he'l prove his worth an finally get to his potential!

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