Big Sam 'worried' over BBC Panorama Probe

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

I think it looks fairly bad for Sam.

I think Chelsea can expect to need to pick up three more points than they'd planned on and I think Liverpool are heading for the same yellow card Chelsea are currently on for 'Tapping up' ...

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That's ridiculous! There's no comparison between the two incidents. Chelsea offered hard figures and even talked about the young lads role in the reserve team. Arnesen clearly knew alot about the player and had everything well thought through. It was baltent tapping up, and he's done it to more than a few young Leeds Utd players recently. The book should be thrown at him.

Liverpool on the other hand did nothing wrong. The agent went to them touting his player saying he was unhappy at 'Boro. All Liverpool said was they'd be interested in signing him, but only as a pro when he turns 17. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, and very much by the book. No money was discussed and the Liverpool people showed no real knowledge of the player and no great desire to sign him. The piece on Liverpool was a load of bo||ocks and was more to do with the agent touting the player rather than anything Liverpool had done. The piece on Harry Redknapp was also a load of crap. Again Redknapp did nothing wrong except say he'd be interested in signing Andy Todd, again after he was OFFERED the player! This program was total sh!t and a waste of time... :rolleyes:

Sam Allardyce is clearly corrupt. Harry Redknapp was the guy the agents were talking about when his name kept getting blipped/***** out, so again he's probably corrupt. But the journalistic approach and complete lack of evidence was laughable.

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Originally Posted by jebus

Oh and did anyone else audible groan when their deal to get a manager accepting money from them fell apart at the last minute? Kind of lost interest after that to be honest

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Exactly, it was too much of a coincidence for me. Disaster of an investigation and a brilliant opportunity to unmask corruption lost.

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

The dutch guy -an employee of Chelsea (academy manger?) who appears to have executive officer status -talked sums with an agent about a player he knew to be on Boro's books. it's against the rules.

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Was it Arnesen on the tv footage? If so he screwed & Chelsea should be docked 3 points. No surprise really as Chelsea tapped him up while at Spurs who then went on to basically blackmail Chelsea for some decent cash.

I wonder will RTE copy the BBC? Sure don't the copy everything else. We have enough advisiors & heres the Big Man & the Crafty man :D

I would be goin ballistic if i was harry, they really did the dirt on him without nothing. if i was harry id be gettin someone to pay smartarse knut and that bbc hack a visit some late evening in the winter. Harry and venables i personally wouldnt trust but you cant hang guys out to dry with nothing. and that film had shag all

im delighted, i cant stand that pig Sam A
and harry redknapp

i didnt see the programme but listened to the debates etc on Five Live

a lot of the evidence was kept off the show for legal reasons,

and really if there is any suing to be done, i doubt the BBc would be going to court, wouldnt it be the agents?

bung culture should not be accepted at all

wonder is alex furguson clean?

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Originally Posted by bennocelt

wonder is alex furguson clean?

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I think we all know the answer to that one. Ever wonder why United paid over the odds for Rio, Ronaldo, Carrick etc. Either they're the biggest mugs in the game or there is something crooked going on

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Originally Posted by jebus

I think we all know the answer to that one. Ever wonder why United paid over the odds for Rio, Ronaldo, Carrick etc. Either they're the biggest mugs in the game or there is something crooked going on

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That's a pretty big generalisation as English clubs will always have to pay top dollar to take another English clubs best talent but I remember reading that a few months before they actually signed Ronaldo, they had been offered him for approx £4-£5 million less than the £12.75 that they paid.

Always thought that was strange...

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Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse

That's a pretty big generalisation as English clubs will always have to pay top dollar to take another English clubs best talent but I remember reading that a few months before they actually signed Ronaldo, they had been offered him for approx £4-£5 million less than the £12.75 that they paid.

Always thought that was strange...

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Heard the same, apparantly a month before United took him for £12.75 Liverpool, Inter and Juventus were amongst others offered him for around the £7 million mark. With Carrick I reckon they could easily have gotten him for at less than they did if they really wanted to. And remember that Leeds were in financial difficulty when they took Rio for £28 million(wasnt it?), whilst Newcastle got equally rated Johnaton Woodgate for £9 million, which sounds more like what I would have been offering for Rio