Shevchenko to leave Milan

Chucky the tree

spockety wrote:

It'll be interesting to see Shevchenko getting the legs hacked off him by Bolton type defenders up Norf' in the depths of an English winter.

Try hack the legs off him.


He's played in italy. something tells me hes well used to having the legs hacked off him.


Depths of english winter? That worse then a ukraine one?

besty

Waste of money at least he's unproven over 7 seasons and struggles to score goals.*


*bitterness completly unrelated to sig

jesus_thats_gre

He has lost alot of his pace and this was evident from his performances over the last 2 season..

eirebhoy

spockety wrote:

It'll be interesting to see Shevchenko getting the legs hacked off him by Bolton type defenders up Norf' in the depths of an English winter.

Why so? Those types comments are usually reserved for high profile players joining the SPL.

Jivin Turkey

PHB wrote:

I think it's great news.

Gotta love the blind optimism.

6ix

I think a lot of the comments regarding players adapting to the 'physicality' of the English game are rubbish. It's not as if they never were involved in scrappy, hard hitting matches, particularly when they played at lower levels.

Lex Luthor

I'm looking forward to seeing him in the EPL but I just don't like watching Chelsea play they're boring football.

Chelsea were strong enough before they bought him to win the PL again this year....Jose wants the CL. Although handing over £30m to AC Milan, one of their biggest rivals will only help to strengthen their team.

iregk

spockety wrote:

It'll be interesting to see Shevchenko getting the legs hacked off him by Bolton type defenders up Norf' in the depths of an English winter.

And of course playing the likes of Torino in the alps mid jan with -10 on the gage is the life of riley! The English winter myth is only something for the south americans and spanish players. Northern Italy (where he has played for 7 years!) has much harsher winters than England and the Italian defenders know how to kick you round a pitch a lot better than their prem counterparts...

Also I'm sure playing in -20 in Kiev wasn't exactly easy either!

SpAcEd OuT

iregk wrote:

And of course playing the likes of Torino in the alps mid jan with -10 on the gage is the life of riley! The English winter myth is only something for the south americans and spanish players. Northern Italy (where he has played for 7 years!) has much harsher winters than England and the Italian defenders know how to kick you round a pitch a lot better than their prem counterparts...

Also I'm sure playing in -20 in Kiev wasn't exactly easy either!

agreed

yop

Great to have a player of his undoubted quality in the PL but is 30+ million not a lot to pay for a player who is 30 in 2 months? I think it is great business for Milan and a risk for Chelsea, remember Veron was top notch in Italy and used to the temperatures and kicking but what a flop in the PL!!!

So who knows, a lot of big players who scored bags of goals & had big reputations on the Continent have come and gone from the PL with their tail between their legs, Veron, Cisse, Morientes, Drogba, Forlan (no proving himself) but to name a few.

LegacyUser

I still think those top quality players who never made it in the prem are better FOOTBALLERS than those in the prem hacking their legs down....

iregk

Also works the other way though. Players who were dynamite in England couldn't hack it in spain or Italy.

astrofool

One thing going for shev with adapting is that he came from Dinamo Kiev initially, where i'm sure you had to be a little tough to play.

Seaneh

cheesedude wrote:

I still think those top quality players who never made it in the prem are better FOOTBALLERS than those in the prem hacking their legs down....

True as true can be.

Necronomicon

He's not exactly skinny and he has bags of pace, I can't see him not adapting. The guy is a world beater....unfortunately...

Seaneh

To be honest I don't blame Shevchenko for leaving, you could see at the press conference that he didn't want to do it, and he's not doing it for money.
His wife is american, she doesn't speak ukrainian, he doesn't speak english, so they comunicate in italian.
She wants he son to grow up speaking english (don't know why) and she is a personal friend of abromivich's wife, she she preasured her husband into moving to london.

He'll be missed my milan, and lads, don't fool your selves thinking he'll flop, chelsea just wrapped up the PL for another 3 years atleast, the man is legend.