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Excuse me, where did I admit to that?
Maybe you didn’t, which is a relief. I’d have felt really foolish sending all those love poems to a bloke.
He’d be a quality signing, and I can’t believe were not going for players like him considering there’s only a few days of the window left and we still haven’t signed any attacking players. Never mind any of some quality.We have always been linked and have bought players like him. Gomez, Koumas, Marlon King, and David Cotterill have all been banded as great prospects, or the best players outside the Premiership.
I’m extremely disappointed and chuffed here Griff.
Chuffed for mentioning me in a select group(even though ” I’m not worth bothering with”. :lol:
Dissapointed because you have not included Fred Elliot, Faceacher, Pulp, Orrell Blonde, Arky and from way back, Bill Wymans Armpit, in your Sky Blues list. There is also another current character who dererves a mention here, or maybe he already has. ;)
Maybe some of these characters were before your time eh lad.You know, when CL was fun and we were all mates.
You were Orrell blonde? I’m gutted. I thought it were a real lass.
Vat
The success of first season in the Premier League wasn’t as a result of the ability of the players, but more down to the ‘unknown quantity’ factor and Bullard etc. creating a ‘Crazy Gang’ mentality in the dressing room.
On paper, that team looked poor, and consisted mainly of misfits, or players at the end of the careers.
Unfortunately, you will never maintain success on novelty factor alone, and the best players in a successful team from a small club soon get cherry-picked.
As JimmyCornflake has correctly posted (good analogy incidentally Jimmy), dismantling the team is the only way this club will survive in the top division. With the spotlight now being well and truly aimed at football club finances, every spare penny for the next season of two will go to eliminating the club’s debt, until it is wiped out, or at least at a manageable level.
So, why spend a large proportion of your limited transfer budget on one stand-out player, when you can spread it evenly and bring in three of four decent players? If you want a prime example of why not to put all your eggs in one basket, look at Hull and what’s happened with Bullard: club talisman and star buy, crocked in his first game, and no time or money to get a replacement in.
Loudmouth
You said:
‘the football we play is worse than any we have played in the premiership,it is boring and of poor quality…. now they tend to be cross field punts as opposed to the banging it to a target man’
‘Banging it to a target man’ is exciting, good quality football is it? Is this the type of tactic adopted by the Arsenals, Manchester Uniteds and Barcelonas of this world?
You obviously don’t like the ‘cross field punts’, so, if we are ‘banging it to a target man’ I take it you would prefer an ‘up the middle bang’?
As you clearly did not want the ‘Spanish One’ to be appointed (did you refer to Bruce as the ‘English One’?), who would you have appointed? Please name a manager of any note who would have been attracted to the vacancy, and who would have been a better option.
We opted for a young, highly rated manager, who had taken his team from the First Division to just outside the Championship play-offs in consecutive seasons, and who also happened to be an ex-Wigan Athletic ‘legend’. Does this ring any bells?
It sounds very similar to a Scouse bloke who managed us not long back, but unlike Martinez, the ‘Scouse One’ had the benefit of four and a half years additional coaching and management experience under his belt.
Ah, but the ‘Scouse One’ was always partial to a bit of ‘banging’.
I also agree, but we better stay positive for all the true fans on here who are so positive and think we will win the league and how dare anybody challenge anybody at our club.Fig please go asap and for any fee as you are rubbish, spaniard please go with him!
Booooo!!! ‘Figgy’ out as well!!!! Booooo!!!
Is this guy real? no idea with the subs, sideways passing for no reason, complete lack of idea.Blackburn looked like scoring everytime they attacked. We never look like scoring even when we do, scharner once again misses a sitter.
It is just not good enough, rubbish to watch and the main players clearly do not want to play for the manager.
Awaits the must be a rugby fan because he clearly sees the manager is pathetic.
Do you know what? You’re right. It’s not good enough. Let’s get outside the stadium tomorrow with banners, and try and get Whelan to wrap up the operation of the club. This club needs to fold, so we can all go and support somone else with a good manager.
Maybe we can find somone who looks like scoring even when they don’t (What?), and have players who don’t miss sitters. (Boooo, Scharner out as well!!)
In fact, the manager isn’t even real. I want to support a club who has a real person as a manager.
Martinez OUT! (Don’t worry, he’ll get another job because there’s loads of them out there if you’re qualified in fire prevention)
The Globe usually. If you see happen to see a devilishly good looking bloke at the bar, then that’s probably not me, or any of my mates.
As I said to Mrs Micky last night……
“are we up for some later on darling”
she said…………” we both know we want it to happen but we’ll just have to wait and see”
Good job I didn’t build my hopes up……
Villarreal are reported to have said……….
……… ” When we saw what was being offered we decided it didn’t match our expectations ” ;) [/quote]
…and are currently speaking to other interested parties.
As I said to Mrs Micky last night……“are we up for some later on darling”
she said…………”we both know we want it to happen but we’ll just have to wait and see”
Good job I didn’t build my hopes up……
That reaction is a minor success in my books.
My Mrs’ reaction is what Martinez would get if he asked Whelan to fund a move for Rooney.
Namely, she walks away laughing and shaking her head.
We’ll have to agree to differ on this one James. When asked by the local press about the signing of a player, after it has featured in national newspapers and the such, he can hardly deny that they are looking to bring the player in. He’s merely stated the fact that a fee has been agreed, and added ‘we’ll wait and see’.
He hasn’t started the rumour, or waxed lyrical about the player, so I’d hardly say he was building up hopes.
Don’t pick peanuts out of poo James, you know what I was implying. I asked where did Whelan say he had signed?
All the reports saying he’s signed, he’s saying goodbye to Villarreal etc. have come from Villarreal. Obviously Whelan is going to be asked about it by the press, and he even ended his quote with ‘We all want it to happen, so we’ll wait and see’
I wouldn’t consider that to be building hopes up.
Where did Whelan say he had signed?
There has never been anything on the Wigan Athletic official website about this transfer, and to my knowledge, no comments from Whelan or Martinez, and all reports of the alleged transfer (Sky Sports, ESPN, Telegraph etc) state their source as being the Villarreal website, the player, or the Villarreal Press Office.
To me, it sounds like folk at Villarreal has been shouting their mouth off prematurely. Had they not, this done deal of a transfer would still be on the rumour websites, and nobody would be kicking up a fuss.
Whelan has made comments on this. In the observer[/quote]
Yes, and here are those comments:According to chairman Dave Whelan, Latics agreed a ‘substantial fee’ with Villarreal for the 23-year-old Argentinian hotshot late on Monday night.
“We’ve been in negotiations with the club in Spain for a week or so. Roberto is getting the lad over later today to have a closer look at him and to discuss personal terms. We all want it to happen, so we’ll wait and see.”
Not a mention of the deal being completed.
Where did Whelan say he had signed?
There has never been anything on the Wigan Athletic official website about this transfer, and to my knowledge, no comments from Whelan or Martinez, and all reports of the alleged transfer (Sky Sports, ESPN, Telegraph etc) state their source as being the Villarreal website, the player, or the Villarreal Press Office.
To me, it sounds like folk at Villarreal has been shouting their mouth off prematurely. Had they not, this done deal of a transfer would still be on the rumour websites, and nobody would be kicking up a fuss.
