Interesting take on Torres and Babel

[Red Chilli]

..When Fernando Torres decided that 2007 was to be his last year at Atletico Madrid he instructed his agent to arrange a transfer to England, with Manchester United his preferred destination.

He must be talking about another Fernando Torres

[Red_Polo]

Why are there so few good sports journalists out there? This kind of garbage seems to be the norm.

[Morph]

The times in 'slagging our players off shocker'

[carrsim]

i find that oliver kay is usually ok about us.

in the telegraph today patrick barclay's columns describes torres as a 26m signing and then in the match report by someone else as 24m.

what can you do when the same paper makes 2 statements and neither are true

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

Ryan Babel had been observed by Arsenal for years to the conclusion that the Dutchman was good, but not quite good enough. A fashioner of goals rather than a finisher of them, Babel now has an £11.5million price tag to justify and the Premier League’s strongest scouting department to prove wrong.

Oh the irony.

Because it's not like the current Arsenal side don't create chance after chance and miss nearly all of them?

Surely by that rationale he'd have been perfect for them?

Or maybe judging a player on only 15 minutes of football just makes you a stupid ****.

[Morph]

i find that oliver kay is usually ok about us.

in the telegraph today patrick barclay's columns describes torres as a 26m signing and then in the match report by someone else as 24m.

what can you do when the same paper makes 2 statements and neither are true

poor research and reporters exaggerating as usual, 20mil seems to be the the most widely used figure, although bascombe usually says 18m i think

[carrsim]

poor research and reporters exaggerating as usual, 20mil seems to be the the most widely used figure, although bascombe usually says 18m i think

on a friday here on our channel we have a preview show and one of the girls was doing a graphic about our transfers in last week and i happened to walk past and see 26.6m for torres

i typed 20.2m (which i thought it was) in google and quite a few reputable sources say thats what it is (reuters for one)

annoyingly it doesn't say on torres page on the offal.

i still gave the (manc supporting) producer **** for crap research

[Kenneth]

Their interest palled, however, perhaps wary of wary of an average of 14 League goals

Hmm, 14 league goals sounds familiar, ah yes, that was Rooney's total last season.

[Red Chilli]

Hmm, 14 league goals sounds familiar, ah yes, that was Rooney's total last season.

quite a fe more than Tevez

[thesilverfoxlfc]

What a load of ****, if Torres signed for Manure they would be "hailing it as the man that will bang in the goals and bring the European Cup to Old Trafford"

......and if Babel had signed for Arsenal he would be "the new Henry and even better and the best young player in the Prem" blah blah.....

They all a bunch of ****s, what do we have to do to get respect

[Red Chilli]

They all a bunch of ****s, what do we have to do to get respect

If the most successful English team domestically and in Europe can't get their respect then they never will. Pointless to even worry about it.

In any case, the media doesn't have our respect

[Neil Young]

If the most successful English team domestically and in Europe can't get their respect then they never will. Pointless to even worry about it.

In any case, the media doesn't have our respect

Well said.

[Gazzla]

What a ****ing dreadful standard of journalism

[Kopite_Colin]

We don't need their respect. We have our own. We know what we are and anything else is secondary.

[thesilverfoxlfc]

If the most successful English team domestically and in Europe can't get their respect then they never will. Pointless to even worry about it.

In any case, the media doesn't have our respect

Very True Chilli