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    #61
    Originally posted by dww View Post
    I'm not sure that it's true any willing player can adapt. I think Morientes is a case in point, he always seemed very willing, obviously has the talent but it just didn't happen. Maybe it is true of younger players who are less set in their ways.

    I think the important thing about Ronaldo has been that no matter how much he has bitched and moaned he has always got back up and gone at players again. It is that attitude that has eventually seen him succeed, along with the fact that he came when young enough to have several seasons to fully adapt to the PL.



    I totally agree with you here. What I find interesting is when this became the case, looking back to the pre-1966 days when the prefered formation was the old WM it can't have been the case.
    Good point about Morientes there maybe it was his age, he didn't apply himslef properly or my theory is wrong. However I still do believe if you're talented enough it can be done I'd lean towards the age argument.

    You make another interesting point about the pre-1966 argument with Tom Finney, Jimmy Greaves etc. So was Alf Ramsey a bad thing?

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      #62
      Originally posted by kemm1 View Post
      Good point about Morientes there maybe it was his age, he didn't apply himslef properly or my theory is wrong. However I still do believe if you're talented enough it can be done I'd lean towards the age argument.

      You make another interesting point about the pre-1966 argument with Tom Finney, Jimmy Greaves etc. So was Alf Ramsey a bad thing?
      Maybe, I think maybe he stayed on in the England job too long, but he was a great innovator and from what I have seen played good football. For what ever reason he never seemed to be able to reproduce the same quality of team post the 1970 world cup. People seemed to take the failings of his system after that time as an inditement of his philosophy, I suspect he just wasn't as inspired as he was before, 10 years in the England job and with the pressure of having to live up to the 1966 triumph it must have been very hard to keep up the standard.
      "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
      -- William Blake

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        #63
        Originally posted by dww View Post
        Maybe, I think maybe he stayed on in the England job too long, but he was a great innovator and from what I have seen played good football. For what ever reason he never seemed to be able to reproduce the same quality of team post the 1970 world cup. People seemed to take the failings of his system after that time as an inditement of his philosophy, I suspect he just wasn't as inspired as he was before, 10 years in the England job and with the pressure of having to live up to the 1966 triumph it must have been very hard to keep up the standard.
        Never looked at that way before

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          #64
          Originally posted by dww View Post
          Maybe, I think maybe he stayed on in the England job too long, but he was a great innovator and from what I have seen played good football. For what ever reason he never seemed to be able to reproduce the same quality of team post the 1970 world cup. People seemed to take the failings of his system after that time as an inditement of his philosophy, I suspect he just wasn't as inspired as he was before, 10 years in the England job and with the pressure of having to live up to the 1966 triumph it must have been very hard to keep up the standard.
          He also didn't have home advantage after 1966.
          .
          Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



          May the Lord bless this post.

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            #65
            Originally posted by saj View Post
            Apparently Anthony Le T was an alcoholic and is now in rehab
            Originally posted by anfieldanfield View Post
            I've heard that rumour before!
            Originally posted by saj View Post
            you joker! I just made it up- he isn't a pisshead, well I don't think he is. I was trying to justify his ****ness with a joke
            Comedy gold
            I saw a dead fish on the pavement and thought "what did you expect?"
            There's no water round here stupid, should have stayed where it was wet

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              #66
              He could be available on the "cheap".

              Man Utd, Spurs can sign Nani for chump change
              tribalfooball.com - March 28, 2007

              Manchester United could snap up Sporting Lisbon star Nani for chump change if a Portuguese ruling falls in the players union's favour.

              Sporting have slapped a £15M price-tag on the winger, who apart from United, is also being chased by Tottenham and Inter Milan.

              According to Gazzetta dello Sport, an imminent verdict in Portugal might see all Liga players' asking prices slashed, as they could be free to buy themselves out of their contracts with a fee based on their current salary. That would mean United being able to sign Nani for less than £2 million.

              Portuguese clubs have already entered a 'pact' to not take advantage should the ruling fall in the players' favour, however it would still leave Liga clubs exposed to foreign raiders. United may still choose to negotiate a realistic fee with Sporting, however, as they enjoy a close relationship with the Lisbon giants.
              Just believe and you never know what will happen.

              According to Benitez it's important not simply to go out to win but to go out prepared to win, which means players have to put in the same level of work on a daily basis. Anything else is unacceptable.

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                #67
                Originally posted by Neil Young View Post
                He also didn't have home advantage after 1966.
                But despite that lack the team was very good in 1970 and acknowledged as such by countries such as Brazil.
                "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
                -- William Blake

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                  #68
                  Originally posted by anfieldanfield View Post
                  I've still heard it before Saj!




                  sure you have AA
                  "When a man insults my country I insult him, by taking his woman" Tony Yeboah

                  "looking through your posts since 2007 and what you have consistently written about my football team I have come to the conclusion that if you had 1 more brain cell you would be a plant .. your father was a hamster and your mother smells of elder berries, I fart in your general direction ..." Nicey

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                    #69
                    Originally posted by AFII View Post
                    He could be available on the "cheap".

                    Man Utd, Spurs can sign Nani for chump change
                    tribalfooball.com - March 28, 2007

                    Manchester United could snap up Sporting Lisbon star Nani for chump change if a Portuguese ruling falls in the players union's favour.

                    Sporting have slapped a £15M price-tag on the winger, who apart from United, is also being chased by Tottenham and Inter Milan.

                    According to Gazzetta dello Sport, an imminent verdict in Portugal might see all Liga players' asking prices slashed, as they could be free to buy themselves out of their contracts with a fee based on their current salary. That would mean United being able to sign Nani for less than £2 million.

                    Portuguese clubs have already entered a 'pact' to not take advantage should the ruling fall in the players' favour, however it would still leave Liga clubs exposed to foreign raiders. United may still choose to negotiate a realistic fee with Sporting, however, as they enjoy a close relationship with the Lisbon giants.


                    He's not what we are after though. We need a tricky, fast winger. EG: Quaresma, Ribery. Nani is a more direct player....sort of like Van Persie. But no where near that sort of quality yet.

                    But for £2m he would be a quality buy, he has a ****load of talent.
                    "When a man insults my country I insult him, by taking his woman" Tony Yeboah

                    "looking through your posts since 2007 and what you have consistently written about my football team I have come to the conclusion that if you had 1 more brain cell you would be a plant .. your father was a hamster and your mother smells of elder berries, I fart in your general direction ..." Nicey

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                      #70
                      The point is that every player that plays in Portugal would be available on the "cheap".

                      Players like Quaresma and Simao for example.
                      Just believe and you never know what will happen.

                      According to Benitez it's important not simply to go out to win but to go out prepared to win, which means players have to put in the same level of work on a daily basis. Anything else is unacceptable.

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