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Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:57 pmby jonnymac1979
Man Utd will be sick Robben chose Chelsea over them. He does look a class act doesn't he?
He was shown around Carrington I believe and gave his word he would sign for them, then Chelsea waved the £££££ and he was off.
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Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:59 pmby the great one
man u must be regretting letting ronaldinho go when he could of gone to them and robben didn't want pay over 10million or somethink for him quality player:)
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Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:02 pmby jonnymac1979
Ronaldinho is priceless in today's market.
Well, priceless to anyone besides Chelsea. 
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Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:30 pmby JBG
I said a while ago that I thought Robben was a bit brainless (based on a couple of his performances for Holland in Euro 2004, especially against Sweden) but he's proving me wrong now.
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Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:32 pmby crazyhorse
He looks a good player at the moment, lets see if he is this good after playing 50 games in a season.
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Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:34 pmby JBG
crazyhorse wrote:He looks a good player at the moment, lets see if he is this good after playing 50 games in a season.
Of course, that goes without saying.
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Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:36 pmby spud
This is the standard that HK needs to reach, never in a month of Sundays.
How much did he cost Chelsea?
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Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:56 pmby JBG
Robben cost 12million.
The most annoying thing about Kewell was that 3 years ago, he was probably a much better player than Robben is now.
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Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:04 amby fivecups
John Barnes' Granny wrote:Robben cost 12million.
The most annoying thing about Kewell was that 3 years ago, he was probably a much better player than Robben is now.
Haven't seen enough of Robben yet to judge his consistency but that was always a problem with Harry Kewell. Even at his peak with Leeds he could be sublime in one match and not feature in the next.
Unfortunately Harry's been consistent for us for the last 12 months.
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Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:19 amby A.B.
I do not like to slag players off but Kewell has been getting on my last nerve. He puts no effort and I think it would be wise to sell him. Nunez will do a good job replacing him.
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Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:22 amby JBG
Nunez will certainly make things interesting as then we will have the following as wide midfield players:
Garcia
Riise
Finnan
Nunez
Warnock
Potter
Kewell
Both Riise and Finnan are full backs, but Rafa has used them in midfield.
Theres also Ritchie Partridge, but unfortunately there's more of a chance of the Hustler playing central midfield for us than him lining out.
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Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:36 amby Ciggy
I think our scouts need to go around Holland too, there is some fantastic players there, and as someone pointed out earlier its not unlike the prem so its easier for them to get used to, Van der vaart, van horse head, jimmy floyd, klivert, Roy Makaay, bergkamp all fantastic players, we got Litmanen from there he was a play maker bit in the form of Garcia pity houllier got shut of him though, Westerfeld said once only thing he hated about LFC was the pubes in the soap in the showers 
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Yer I do think we should be scouting around Holland they produce the goods alright 
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Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:38 amby A.B.
Both Arsenal and Chelsea have found great young Dutch talent, Van Persie and Robben.
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Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:50 amby The Canadian Red Army
cisses_gona_get_ya wrote:I think our scouts need to go around Holland too, there is some fantastic players there, and as someone pointed out earlier its not unlike the prem so its easier for them to get used to, Van der vaart, van horse head, jimmy floyd, klivert, Roy Makaay, bergkamp all fantastic players, we got Litmanen from there he was a play maker bit in the form of Garcia pity houllier got shut of him though, Westerfeld said once only thing he hated about LFC was the pubes in the soap in the showers .
Yer I do think we should be scouting around Holland they produce the goods alright
hahahaha
i really didnt need to hear that
but that was funny
im all for internationalising our scouting staff
but we need the money to do it
and right now we dont have to much to succeed in putting scouts in different countries around the world
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Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:57 amby azriahmad
Robben was a class act and manure missed on signing him. Makes me laugh.
Same thing happened with Ronaldinho. They tried to knock down their offer and also tried to tie in a player swap with Barthez and cash going to PSG instead of just cash - why would PSG want that clown Barthez? If they had bought Ronaldinho, probably they'd be the EPL champion (despite Arsenal not losing because manure would probably win more games with him around) and would fared much better in the CL.