- Mar 3, 2004
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Coincidentally, I was having a conversation with my Dad over dinner tonight about John Snow interviewing politicians on C4 & how he responds to answers by twisting them into a completely disingenuous counter-question...
Which is exactly what you've done there.
Would Carrick or Barry be awful for our team? No, of course not. We know Carrick wouldn't & its reasonable to suggest that Barry wouldn't either. But, as I think you well know, Kendall did not state this as his opinion at all & therein lies the...erm...lie.
I agree with you (as I did, partially at least, in the Modric thread) that we need some class & experience in the middle of the park & that youngsters are, for the moment, not the answer for the first XI.
My issues with your post are twofold: Firstly, you title the thread 'Who we SHOULD sign' & then mostly fail to answer your own question apart from a distinctly vague (oxymoron alert!...) exhortation to sign "A Carrick" or "A Barry" rather than specifying actual players, assuming of course that you didn't mean we should actually sign these players. I mean, if you'd said "lets stick in a bid for Barry, £13m's not bad & he'll do the business..." then fine but you didn't.
Secondly, this post somewhat contradicts your critique on THFC's scouts in 'Modric=Rebrov' by suggesting that rather than scouting out hitherto-unknown talents a la Wenger, we should be concentrating on experienced PL players who require no scouting whatsoever. Like Carrick & Barry, for example.
Berba? I'd love him to stay but I doubt he will. It shouldn't be about keeping a player at all costs as this won't bring the best out of either the player or the team.
'Modric=Malbranque' - as I said in that other thread let's wait & see but personally I class myself as a 'glass-half-full' kinda guy. :beer:
Good Post:clap: