I'm fairly sure that Gardner were available for the £450,000 that West Ham paid for him at that age then there would be an awful lot of interest.
Maybe the fact that there is lots of interest in one player but nothing another is affected by factors other than the quality of the player? Their availability perhaps?
Manchester Utd decided to sign Ji-Sung Park and not Gareth Barry. So by the same logic, that must mean that Park is better than Barry.
Because the manager of the England U21s in an incompetant waste of space. Anton Ferdinand plays for them ahead of Cahill, does that make him better?
Downing plays for England ahead of Barry, does that make him better?
Was he better at age 20 than Gardner is now?
Nope
I cannot remember can you?
I can. He was alright. Raw, but certainly nothing special. At the same age, Gardner looks much better than Reo-Coker did then.
Was told people were panicking so i'm hoping it going to ease the panic..
Yeah, people are beside themselves with worry, and you posting a near identical list of players five times a day is really helping them get through it.
Anyway, back to Reo-Coker
Were they in for him three years ago when he was Gardner's age?
We can do what we like, right now.
As various other clubs are doing.
They can't play for us until the beginning of their contract on July 1st, but as we don't have any games until after then, the window is open and ready for business.
I disagree. A bargain at that price. He won't leave the barcodes IMO.
fair enough.but a bargain?
the fans will tell you he has had a woeful second half to the season and they booed him on many occasions towards the end
the word on the dirty streets of newcastle is that he cant wait to get out of there!
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I'm glad somebody pointed out the lunacy of that comment.
Dont people mean Daniel Alves, Seville right back/winger. Either way he aint coming....
You mean we're not signing Troy Alves, professional bodybuilder?
Seen a lot of him, have you?
I don't get portuguese football on my TV, do you?
He plays for Heerenveen in the Netherlands.
The point is still probably valid though :winkold:
You'll find about 15+ pages of arguments about whether or not Sissoko is a goalscoring midfielder about 20 pages or so back, if you're interested in losing 30 minutes of your life.
What makes you say this? There has been nothing more solid on these rumours than any other, has there?
well its because we are getting linked with boruc and gordon which proves that we are searching for a new keeper
It proves nothing.
Links like this prove only one thing, that sports journlists still have to sell newspapers even when there are no matches to comment on.
I thought that was just a rumour, and we then found out that he wasn't at that one he was actually at the Ajax vs Alkmaar game which was the same night? As that article pretty much backs up.
Well, forgetting last season (for obvious reasons), I seem to remember that Hughes was signed in May the previous summer, as was Laursen the summer before that.