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mart wrote:

bigmick wrote:We sign a proven player, a bloke who has made his name in three of the major leagues in Europe as well as in 77 Internationals, who has a game which is almost certain to be tailor made for English football and it's a terrible buy at 4.5 million quid.

Yes a proven average player past his best years. But i guess we need a substitute if lucas is injured.

Owzat wrote:Just had an interest read through some of the early pages of the Aquilani thread, this is Bigmick's most relevant comment that doesn't back up his claim that we all had Aquilani's signing down as a "masterstroke"

bigmick wrote:Well like many others I've got severe reservations, but this lad deserves a fair go before everyone makes their minds up about him. I'm really looking forward to seeing him play I know that much, and I definately think he's exactly the right type of player we need. The two main concerns are fairly obviously the injuries and the obvious difference both in terms of quality and physicality between Serie A and the Premiership.

The injuries you just have to cross your fingers about I suppose. I don't buy all this nonsense about our medical team being better than Roma's, nor the notion that their training is at fault and is the reason so many of their players get injured. We've just got to hope that he's been unlucky in his career so far, and it does happen sometimes that perenial sicknotes have periods of multiple consecutive appearances.

On the question of him "settling in", I guess that the manager and his staff have researched his character and are of the opinion he'll get it. As he plays for Italy, I think we can take the idea that he is actually a good player as read (and I know someone will mention Dossena, but for now I'm going to conveniently disregard him ).

We could do with Aquilani's signing being a rip roaring success. It's quite a long time since we had one of those.

I quite like that quote Owz, thanks mate. It's always a bit of a worry when someone quotes you from a year ago that you are going to completely contradict yourself, but thankfully here I have been consistent so thanks for putting it up. It shows beyond all doubt that contrary to what some people will tell you, I hadn't decided to slag Alberto off before I'd seen him play, I was actually really looking forward to seeing him. Equally, I wasn't talking after the event with reservations about him either, so to be proven right twice in the same quote is nice.

And when I said some people were claiming it a "masterstroke", with respect I was referring to the likes of Benny who lauded every signing both before and after they'd signed. Similarly, he slags every signing now both before and after they've signed .

bigmick wrote:

Owzat wrote:Just had an interest read through some of the early pages of the Aquilani thread, this is Bigmick's most relevant comment that doesn't back up his claim that we all had Aquilani's signing down as a "masterstroke"

bigmick wrote:Well like many others I've got severe reservations, but this lad deserves a fair go before everyone makes their minds up about him. I'm really looking forward to seeing him play I know that much, and I definately think he's exactly the right type of player we need. The two main concerns are fairly obviously the injuries and the obvious difference both in terms of quality and physicality between Serie A and the Premiership.

The injuries you just have to cross your fingers about I suppose. I don't buy all this nonsense about our medical team being better than Roma's, nor the notion that their training is at fault and is the reason so many of their players get injured. We've just got to hope that he's been unlucky in his career so far, and it does happen sometimes that perenial sicknotes have periods of multiple consecutive appearances.

On the question of him "settling in", I guess that the manager and his staff have researched his character and are of the opinion he'll get it. As he plays for Italy, I think we can take the idea that he is actually a good player as read (and I know someone will mention Dossena, but for now I'm going to conveniently disregard him ).

We could do with Aquilani's signing being a rip roaring success. It's quite a long time since we had one of those.

I quite like that quote Owz, thanks mate. It's always a bit of a worry when someone quotes you from a year ago that you are going to completely contradict yourself, but thankfully here I have been consistent so thanks for putting it up. It shows beyond all doubt that contrary to what some people will tell you, I hadn't decided to slag Alberto off before I'd seen him play, I was actually really looking forward to seeing him. Equally, I wasn't talking after the event with reservations about him either, so to be proven right twice in the same quote is nice.

And when I said some people were claiming it a "masterstroke", with respect I was referring to the likes of Benny who lauded every signing both before and after they'd signed. Similarly, he slags every signing now both before and after they've signed .

Lee J wrote:so we sell lucas and recoup the money back that we've just spunked on Poulsen. simples.

Lucas is always improving and he is young. We keep him as backup in case Poulsen turns out to be .

bavlondon wrote:Don't really know enough about him tbh but 6 mil seems like a lot for a 30 year old. Best case senario he fits in and we get a good 3 years out of him. Worst case, given his age there is little or no resale value so thats 6mil wasted. At least with Lucas he is still very young so teams would be interested in him.