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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Which One Is Buying The Title?


Let me get one thing straight about Chelsea fans claiming Man Utd are ‘buying the title.’

1. Chelsea spent over £120m in the first season with the Russian tycoon, where Man Utd have only spent £50m so far.

2. Man Utd (unlike Chelsea were) aren’t alone with the big signings as Spurs and Liverpool have broken their own transfer records this season.

3. Man Utd have only signed 3 players where Chelsea signed a full team basically.

4. Man Utd already have the title and everyone said that they can have Carrick for £18m as they will win nothing.


I am not a Manchester United fan AND NEVER HAVE BEEN! The introduction of these quality players is going to make the Premiership even better, especially since top players aren’t only going to Chelsea, there going to other teams in the league. However, this doesn’t mean that Man Utd vs Chelsea is going to be a goal fest, we will still have to put up with them playing negatively against each other and a boring 0-0 draw will be on the cards.

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Nando Torresally Worth It?


Don’t worry folks with headlines like this you could be easily fooled into thinking you’re reading an article from The Sun. I assure you we have nothing to do with them, even though you all know its every Liverpool fans favourite newspaper……

Everybody knows that Nando Torres is a class act but is he class enough to warrant a £26m plus transfer deal?

Liverpool need a goal scorer, any football fan would see that but buying a striker who hasn’t hit 20+ league goals ever is a huge risk considering that’s what they need. However, Torres has scored goals at a very deprived team and his international record during World Cup year was 10 goals in 15 games which is more like a £26m rated striker. This could mean that Torres is getting into the positions at Madrid but, his team mates are such twaddle that they cant even hit Fat Frank Lampard with a ball from 5 yards out (I know you think that’s impossible but its true.) With the quality players involved in the Spanish national team this is obviously a factor in scoring more goals. Therefore Torres, given time to settle, could be devastating running onto through-balls from Gerrard, Alonso, and even the crossing abilities of Pennant could be a feature more this season.

Liverpool need 1 or 2 quality players as the foundations there are solid so spending £26m on 4 players is something they really don’t need right now. There’s no doubt that Torres will improve this team and that’s what counts most to a title chasing side. If Torres is unable to score goals just watch how many goals he creates or watch how he drags the defenders away from goal leaving the like of Kuyt to grab more this season.