I am a Man Utd fanOriginally Posted by Junior
Giggs has been living off the goal he scored in the FA cup semi against arsenal with five years, United should have cashed in when Inter offered £25million. He still can't bloody cross the ball properly either and he always takes on one man too many.
But he'd still start ahead of Kilbane and Reid
Duff would be better
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I don't. I'd have Duffer or Reid ahead of Giggs now myself, but that's because of my green-and-white blinkers.
I fear Brian Quinn, DD and the members of our board are. I don't really see any ambition to move on from where we were when Larsson left. Anyway, you'll have to do better than that.Show me an Irishman who isn't in some way constrained by history.
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If Giggs was Irish he wouldn't have had to play for Wales. If he was Irish I am 99.9% sure he'd be in the team. Same goes for Hartson, I just can't see Morrison keeping him out of the team. Remember, we are all biased towards Irish player, we just can't help it, so if Hartson was Irish you'd certainly have different views whether your anti-Celticness likes it or not.
I can see at least £10m available to O'Neill if not at Christmas, next summer. When O'Neill took over he was given £27m to spend in his first 2 seasons, since then (3 summer windows) he has spent less than £5m on 6 players. Since O'Neill took over Celtic have gotten over £10m from players out. Add the fact that he has reduced the wage bill a lot by releasing players like Johnson, Rieper, Stubbs, Wieghorst, Moravcik, Kharin, Rafael, Gould, Boyd, Guppy, Larsson, Mjallby all on free transfers. Then you have other younger lads like Miller, Doyle, Healy, Smith, Crainey and Goodwin. The sales of Viduka, Riseth, Burchill, Berkovik, Tebily would also have got a big chunk of wages off the bill. Even with the signings, the wage bill is definitely reduced by millions annually and there's still the likes of Lambert, Hedman, Petta and Fernandez to be released in the summer.
Also, a new Nike deal of at the very least £25m (the club also gets royalties for every jersey sold, etc, which was not the case with Umbro) over 5 years is to start next season (its suprisingly more than Liverpool's £40m over 10 years with Nike).
There will be $$$.
It's got nothing to do with Celtic.
He's just not a great player, hence his retirement to the SPL at such an early age.
I'm simply not a fan of Celtic or the SPL, and never have been.
That's it, no hidden agenda.
Last edited by Peadar; 22/09/2004 at 1:54 PM.
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OK I hold my hand's up, when I read yer post I thought you were one of Marty's posse from ourweewebsite, i've read yer other post's and I accept that your not on the wind up and you can certainly talk about football, which is something those lad's can't.
The pub team jibe, well yer fellow Norn Iron fan's do describe us as begger's, which I can't say offend's me personally, but there's alway's going to be jibe's back if thing's like that are going to be said about us.
Still yer sound like a decent bloke and have brought out some not to bad disscussion's.
Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.
To be pedantic it is the spelling of Celtic that is wrong or its pronunciation. C before E is always pronounced as an S in the English language. If you want to pronounce Celtic as a C then it must be spelt with a K. As for B-hoys, wasn't that taken from the way Donegal migrants to Glasgow who picked up an enforced language without the aid of a supplied education, pronounced young males. Oh dear, living in the past again, I know.
This is the cooooooooooooolest footy forum I've ever seen!
Aye, totally meaningless achievement that
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That is rubbish. A club will want to get the most money for a player if he's available for sale. If Celtic or Rangers are the highest bidder they'll allow that player discuss personal terms (they don't have to tell the player about any other bids). Arveldaze was Ajax's top scorer with 25 goals, fell out with the coach and was sold to Rangers. Champions league winner Klos actually paid a contribution to Dortmund to buy out his contract so he could play for Rangers. Prso rejected Monaco for Rangers. Boumsong rejected a load of clubs for Rangers. Thats just the players from Rangers that come to mind. If you think there are no great players in the SPL you are seriously mad.
Is Celtic an English word?
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I know Rangers have great players, it's Celtic I'm talking about.
Hartson wouldn't get into the Rangers team either.
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well with myself being irish i perferrable pronounce it 'Keltic' with a hard 'c' sound. the soft 'c' sound comes from the english mentality of being superior. since numerous languages within europe have a latin based root or are heavily influenced by the language in the english language case, the english decided that they spoke better latin than anybody else and set it upon themselves to pronounce certain words with a soft 'c'. seltic and keltic is an example of this happening.
http://www.faqfarm.com/History/Irish/21710
The main reason I didn't mention any Celtic players was to get a response like that.
Hardly!The main reason I didn't mention any Celtic players was to get a response like that.
You just couldn't apply your point to Celtic.
You also can't dispute that Hartson isn't good enough to get into the Rangers team.
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If you were in Finsbury Park last Saturday you would have seen that I'm very, very serious indeed!
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Firstly hartson signed for rangers but failed his medical a few years back.
Secondly whats this "........WE........" paleface?!!!!
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Of course you have, you are either:
1. Trolling (I don't really mind if you're trolling, I love getting the better of a troll
2. Your anti-Celtic bias has got the better of you.
Remember you said "this has nothing to do with Celtic" and a player cannot be great if he moves to the SPL at an early age. What did you then say in your next post "I know Rangers have great players, it's Celtic I'm talking about".
Old Firm scorers this season in the SPL:
1. Hartson (Celtic): 6 - 40% of his team's goals.
2. Thompson (Celtic): 3 - 20% of teams.
2. Camara (Celtic): 3 - 20% of teams.
2. Prso (Rangers): 3 - 33.3% of teams.
5. Arveldze (Rangers): 2 - 22.2% of teams.
5. Hughes (Rangers): 2 - 22.2%.
7. Sutton (Celtic): 1 - 6.7%.
7. McNamara (Celtic): 1 - 6.7%.
7. Petrov (Celtic): 1 - 6.7%.
7. Lovenkrands (Rangers): 1 - 11.1%.
7. Boumsong (Rangers): 1 - 11.1%.
1,000. Novo (Rangers): 0
Rangers have yet to score an away goal while Hartson has 5 away goals. I'm pretty sure he'd make their team.
Compare what I've said and what you've suggested I've said.
I don't know enough about Rangers to actually say if their players were in good condition when they signed.
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"He's just not a great player, hence his retirement to the SPL at such an early age."
The first part, "he's just not a great player" is OK if its your actual opinion but the second part is nonsense as there have been a load of great players join the SPL at an early age.
The quote suggests to me that if you join the SPL at a young age then you're not great.
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