- Oct 19, 2004
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I listened to the coments of SAF and Wenger over the last couple of days regarding their star players being wanted by Real Madrid, Milan etc.
Their attitude was firm and unequivical. They go nowhere.
Now I've always been a realist, and I know that Wenger has had to wave goodbye to a few players over the years who he didn't want to let go, and if you can't offer CL, more money etc and you have an unhappy major asset sitting sulking (and depreciating) yo may as well cash in and spend wisely if poss.
But I can't help but feel we've been a little soft on Berbatov. Certainly Wenger/SAF would never sell to each other. Although once again we did see Wenger reluctantly loose Cole to Chelsea with Chelsea reluctantly losing Gallas to Arse in the deal. But generally none of the big 4 would sell to each other.
For all I know we have taken that stance with Berbatov and said no to an English club. I really hope so.
But should we have gone further and fought tooth and nail - you know "he'll rot in the reserves" bullshit etc. ??
I'm not totally sure. If you do all that he he fucks off anyway you end up looking like even bigger chumps. ??
Have we been a tad too ambivalent. A smidgen too passive submissive. ?
or have we played it right ? I'm not totally sure.
Their attitude was firm and unequivical. They go nowhere.
Now I've always been a realist, and I know that Wenger has had to wave goodbye to a few players over the years who he didn't want to let go, and if you can't offer CL, more money etc and you have an unhappy major asset sitting sulking (and depreciating) yo may as well cash in and spend wisely if poss.
But I can't help but feel we've been a little soft on Berbatov. Certainly Wenger/SAF would never sell to each other. Although once again we did see Wenger reluctantly loose Cole to Chelsea with Chelsea reluctantly losing Gallas to Arse in the deal. But generally none of the big 4 would sell to each other.
For all I know we have taken that stance with Berbatov and said no to an English club. I really hope so.
But should we have gone further and fought tooth and nail - you know "he'll rot in the reserves" bullshit etc. ??
I'm not totally sure. If you do all that he he fucks off anyway you end up looking like even bigger chumps. ??
Have we been a tad too ambivalent. A smidgen too passive submissive. ?
or have we played it right ? I'm not totally sure.