Even trained with Man Utd for a while too if I remember correctly. But yeah, I still remember the hype. Crazy how it's all ended up really.
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Not so long ago we had a midfield that included the likes of Van Der Vaart, Luka Modric and Gareth Bale. All the national media were talking about a "power shift" in North London.
Adu was mid 2000's Odegaard. Adu signed for Benfica, Porto's biggest rival and he was so bad. :kaboullol:
Thought this was a good read.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/15/freddy-adu-tampa-bay-rowdies
But yeah, poor decisions has lead him to where he is now. As long as he's enjoying his football, good luck to him.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/15/freddy-adu-tampa-bay-rowdies
But yeah, poor decisions has lead him to where he is now. As long as he's enjoying his football, good luck to him.
So why sign him, if he didn't fit our system. I think it's a fiasco, and more stupidity on the club's part the way Stambouli has been treated.
Sevilla is a good team that play great attacking football. Why?!:soldadolol:
Low risk punt like Holtby - what did we pay, £4m? Bought at a time before the manager had the clubs complete backing. He had chances, he didn't take them; we cut our losses and move on. What you call stupidity is a business model that so far as served those with a monetary interest in the club well. Obviously that's their prerogative and not high on us, the fans' lists of priorities, but as we're not mega-rich it's a strategy we employ. If it works we get to brag about our unearthed gem, if it doesn't, a minority still have hope while he's called a flop by others and, in this case, we almost (taking wages/signing on fee into account) make our money back.
It's certainly not a fiasco, we put a fiver on black but it landed on red, it's a shame but nothing worth getting upset about.
We were linked last year. Bit of a gamble but not a massive risk. Could be a good signing.
A little food for thought but is nobody else a little surprised at the low fees certain big name players have left for this season ? Was having this discussion at work today and for around 30m you could of signed a decent core to a young squad like ours.
Casillas
Schweinsteiger
Cabaye
Gerrard.
Konoplyanka
Khedira
Tevev
The rapist van persie
All have moved for relative, if somewhat bargain prices. Yes wages will be crazy but any 2 players from that list ( probably others i have missed) would of added much needed experience to our young squad. A certain rafael van der vaart springs to mind and look what happend there......experience and leadership is something you cannot train and it feels like in our current squad this is something that is certainly lacking especially in the middle of the park.
Casillas
Schweinsteiger
Cabaye
Gerrard.
Konoplyanka
Khedira
Tevev
The rapist van persie
All have moved for relative, if somewhat bargain prices. Yes wages will be crazy but any 2 players from that list ( probably others i have missed) would of added much needed experience to our young squad. A certain rafael van der vaart springs to mind and look what happend there......experience and leadership is something you cannot train and it feels like in our current squad this is something that is certainly lacking especially in the middle of the park.
How much are their wages?
We can all see your point in regards to the names not shouting ambition however at the end of the day they are names, we need players who can do the task Pochettino asks of them. Look at that United side who won the league last; Rafael, Jones, Evans, Anderson, Cleverly, Fletcher, Welbeck and Kagawa, those names don't scream winning the league by 7 points either.
The other thing with your aforementioned names is they are all with the exception of Dembele young and will grow their names as they progress. forgiver my optimism but I don't feel our current calibre of player is alarming.
Yea true, forgot about his injury problems, and yea he's on 120,000 p/w apparently. That's the trouble with signing players not in the starting line-up from teams like City; they get such high wages when they come, then don't play as much as they should, then value goes down and no one wants them for the wages they are on, it's a vicious cycle of ruining players.
Horrible club in terms of actual humanity.....
Fair dos Greavsie. Respect your opinion but I'll hang tough in judging Pochettino when he gets the players in he wants to work in his system. If that happens this season then I feel it's great we have a manager who's able to assert himself over Levy rather than the smelling a bit dodgy free transfers of Saha etc we got with Redknapp and the obvious bargain bin additions AVB had to make do with. I'm not saying either were great football tacticians (in the first instance) or had a great style of play (in AVB) but I'd like to see Pochettino either fail or succeed on his own terms. We've made the mistake of not backing the manager more than once. When Levy was happy with Redknapp and signed VDV as a goodwill gesture the joy and success it brought us made my heart go through the roof. I'd love to see a bit more of that. I think Stambouli is a decent player. Capoue too but what goes on in training or between the staff and players is anyone's guess really.
We were not even in the running to sign freddy adu. Shows how far the club have fallen under enic. 
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