Crespo to Chelsea...

The Muppet

Muppet you took my comment too litreally not being the strongest hence: one of the best, La Liga without a doubt is the best.

Its all down to opinions really and personal preference. For me I thinks English soccer is the most entertaining . I find the continenal game too slow and tactical and usually turn off after a few minutes which explains why most times i post about it i make simple mistakes.

The reason i made my comments was that seaneh said ruud would not hack it in italy which i didnt agree with. A few posts appear to have been removed from this thread so it may not have been clear where the "spain is better than italy" topic came from .

UbahOne

when was i slagging off CFC? I dont remember, proove it to me. i dont remember slagging them off. i dont think i would have done that to be honest.

talla

How about here ubahone?

smuckers

My apologies Ubah I got you mixed up with someone else. That was a bit silly someone saying Van Nist couldn't hack it in Seria A.

UbahOne

I wasn't slagging them talla, I was criticising their performance. I wasn't slagging them as in saying they bought **** players cos they didn't at all. They have an excellent SQUAD. Their players would not make the utd first 11 now. All the same things i said. They played well in that match but failed to capitalize.

Moving on swiftly...

The Muppet

See Us Poor United supporters are just Misunderstood Souls
constanly being picked on by those nasty ABUs.;)

GuanYin

Crespo deal is confirmed by all parties and is now just a formality expected to go through tomorrow.

Chelsea also just bagged the russian midfielder smertin.

Its all getting crowded in the chelski dressing room.

Still think they will do well to keep pace with Arsenal and Utd.

Sposs

It would be terrible for Football if Chelski win the title this year,as a man u supporter i'd even rather Arsenal win it,at least it'd be deserved and not bought.

smuckers

so Utd didn't buy the league when the paid 30mil for Ferdinand on top of Van Nist and Veron thats around 76 mil.

UbahOne

if you even suggest we bought the title....i will go crazy. We did nothing of the sort. Enough said.

smuckers

Well people can't say CFC are buying the title when Utd did the exact same thing.
They didn't succeed in "buying the title" when they signed Van Nist and Veron.
They spashed another 30 on Ferdinand and won it that year now some people may be no be ableget this into their heads but thats what I call buying the title.
This argument has been done to death in a diff thread so lets move on this is a Cresp to CFC thread if you wanna discuss about it more start a new thread.

AthAnRi

Crespo will be a good signing. Good in the air and will grab a bagfull of goals. Will also be a good move from Verons point of view. I'm sure they will be on the same wave length.

Sposs

The Difference in Man utd and chelsea is the core of all utd's winning teams has been the home grown players giigs,becks(now gone of course) the nevilles,scholes,o shea,brown etc we spent big adding to our squad on one or two players we didnt go out and spend 100 million like chelsea buying a whole new team.

John terry is the only home grown player in the whole chelsea squad.

smuckers

not so true.

Carlton Cole (gone on loan)
Joe Keenan
Alexis Nicholas
Robert Huth

Sposs

Originally posted by smuckers
not so true.

Carlton Cole (gone on loan)

Ehhh.......gone on loan,hence not in the squad,the rest are youth team players that didnt have a hope of playing the first team and have less of a chance now.

I should have made myself clearer i meant the First team squad,as in players battling for a first team place.

smuckers

Arse and Liverpool don't have home gown players battling for a place either.

colster

Originally posted by smuckers
Arse and Liverpool don't have home gown players battling for a place either.

You're forgetting Gerrard, Owen and Carragher for Liverpool.

smuckers

those 3 are hardly battling for a place now are they?

colster

Originally posted by smuckers
those 3 are hardly battling for a place now are they?

They are still players who have come through the Liverpool youth system.

UbahOne

Smuckers you talk some ****e ya know that? YOUR ATTEMPTING TO BUY THE TITLE. Your chairman even said it. Dont even talk about Utd buying the title. Over Half our ****en team is/was brought through the youth system.

smuckers

So the whole squad of Utd are youth players what a load of bull**** you'd swear Utd never spent a penny in their life the way people are going on the fact is you spent a good bit of money like all the top clubs have its not that surprising.

colster

I think Chelsea are doing what every fan of a football club would love their own team to do.
People accusing them of attempting to buy the title are just jealous. It's a stupid accusation.
You could accuse every club in the world of that.
It's a shorter term solution than investing heavily in youth developement.
They cannot continue spending money like that for the next 10-15 years or longer and I don't think they will.
To gain success over the long term it is always better to have a good youth system and a successful senior team is a great advantage in getting the best youth players.

smuckers

Yeah there is a 20 mil Training complex for the youth being built.

qwertyup

Well, the Crespo deal is now finalised, as he was unveiled to Stamford Bridge at half time in their 3-0 win over that team with the Z in it (memory is wonky today).

Also, both Huth and Johnson got goals tonight.

smuckers

Huth looks like he is in mid 20's but he is only 19. :eek: