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Alonso - the best signing since…
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Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:40 pmby Ade
I know it's early days, but I'm not a gun-jumper. I've seen Alonso play 3 times now on Sky and he looks an absolutely stunning signing. His vision, his weight of passing, his awareness and his confidence for a player bedding into a frantic-paced league are massively impressive. His shot from the halfway line says a lot about his talent, even more about his belief in his talent.
given his form so early on, when did we last sign someone of his potential?
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Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:47 pmby A.B.
I just hope Nunez will be just as good. Kewell really made me angry, he showed no effort what so ever. Ball given away too easily, as if we weren't even trying to get to the ball.
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Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:49 pmby taff
Stevie G out is bad news whatever angle you look at it but thank God for Alonso and Garcia in the team last season it would have been grim
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Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:51 pmby A.B.
Nunez, come on Muskateer show your magic
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Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:17 amby L-type
lets not forget about garciqa, he's a great player too, though today he was lucky not to get handed a second yellow.
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Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:20 amby Ola Mr Benitez
Alonso.. one word CLASS!
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Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:36 amby bigmick
Gotta agree with every poster here. What a footballer. I had to smile at the lukewarm reception on the Sky to his audacious long shot. Jesus, if that had been Renaldo or Drogba they would be still talking about it this time next year. Guess thats the way it is when they don't love you any more.
Also looks like he's got that bit of devil in him as well, gets his foot in. What did we pay 10.5mill? If we stuck him on the list today we'd probably get 15 in my view. He's even better than our two previous 10 mill signings, Heskey and Diouff. 
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Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:55 amby Bruno Zidane!
Alonso has played 3 games for the reds and after his 2nd half performance he looked like he had played 300, he was evry were in the 2nd half passin,tacklin,chasin balls down gettin back and forward....sounds a bit like gerrard which cant be bad! He is by far the best passer of a ball in the prem and if he can start havin a dig ive heard that he possesses a mean shot, all in all a superb purchase by rafa, along with the other spanirds
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Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:25 amby Leonmc0708
Ade wrote:I know it's early days, but I'm not a gun-jumper. I've seen Alonso play 3 times now on Sky and he looks an absolutely stunning signing. His vision, his weight of passing, his awareness and his confidence for a player bedding into a frantic-paced league are massively impressive. His shot from the halfway line says a lot about his talent, even more about his belief in his talent.
given his form so early on, when did we last sign someone of his potential?
You think he looks good on the TV, then you wanna see him in the flesh, add to the passing awareness and confidence an undoubtedly quick football brain, movement and running you only get to see live. The lad looks like he is going to be an absolute steal at £11m, and he is only a puppy as well.
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Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:10 amby Bruno Zidane!
Couldnt agree more mate, At the Monaco game there was a 20 minute spell in the second half were it was as if he was showboatin with the different range of passes he had, i just sat there gobsmacked at how good he was, if cisse and baros make the runs he will find them no problem, yesterday is just a minor set back and we must put things right startin on saturday