this guy is dynamite. Fast, direct, good crosser, scores goals. I would be more than happy to see Fergie make him Giggy's challanger for the left wing spot. Might even be able to get him on the cheap if Blackburn go down.
Damien Duff
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He also has played up front and has potential for the 44"1"1.
He cost a fair bit though and his consistency has allways been his problem. I havnt seem much of him for ages so maybe thats improved with the yrs.
Would he come to Utd to compete with Giggs though? Its a thankless job as no one is going to displace Giggs from the Utd wing.
He cost a fair bit though and his consistency has allways been his problem. I havnt seem much of him for ages so maybe thats improved with the yrs.
Would he come to Utd to compete with Giggs though? Its a thankless job as no one is going to displace Giggs from the Utd wing.
agree with MURT but, giggs does have his injury problems and DUFF would be a funking brilliant replacement when giggs was out or being rested !
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he's been more consistent this year IMO. has also put in some strong performaces for Ireland this last year.
I think he needs to move to a bigger team now to take the next step up. Like you say Giggs is (unfortunately) injured for about half a season due to hamstring problems. Duff would be an excellent stand-in and id be happier to see him on the teamsheet than Veron or scholes stuck out there or even Fortune etc
I think he needs to move to a bigger team now to take the next step up. Like you say Giggs is (unfortunately) injured for about half a season due to hamstring problems. Duff would be an excellent stand-in and id be happier to see him on the teamsheet than Veron or scholes stuck out there or even Fortune etc
I've read in a couple of places that he is off to Liverpool before the World Cup. Not very reliable sources though.... and he is a Manc fan.
Being Irish though i'd rather see him go to a club where he'll get regular football. He is too good to be a backup and the Irish team can do without another Robbie Keane type scenario for one of our better players.
Being Irish though i'd rather see him go to a club where he'll get regular football. He is too good to be a backup and the Irish team can do without another Robbie Keane type scenario for one of our better players.
Gosh .. he won't want to sit on bench come on ...
Is it really an area that we need to strengthen though?
Duff is far too talented to sit on a bench,and it certainly wont be a case of him playing Div 1 next year,because he will be playing for a top team next season.If he continues to improve at this rate he has the potential to be a world great.His dribbling skills are out of this world,Maradonnaesque would be afair description,he crosses very well;as his game matures we will see something very very special,and it wont include sitting on a bench
he just had a great game against Denmark & got a standing ovation when he was subbed near the end.
Duffer's just said he loves it at Blackburn, and he's staying for sure - if I know the guy ( which I obviously don't ) he means what he says.
Johnny Giles on Duff:
Friday, March 29, 2002
Irish can cash in on diamond Duff
By John Giles
In the shadow of England's hugely-publicised build-up to the World Cup Finals, something remarkable is stirring across the Irish Sea.
Mick McCarthy's Ireland team is threatening to upstage Sven Goran Eriksson's collection of superstars and if this indeed happens, we may be looking back to this past week for a vital reason.
The emerging factor is the blossoming of a potential star in Blackburn's shy, shuffling Dubliner Damien Duff.
Duff, 23, wrote for himself a thrilling World Cup scenario as one of those largely unheralded figures who comes from nowhere to seize the biggest moment of his professional life.
He is not the most beguiling figure you will see on a football field. His body language is not always eloquent. From time to time his bony shoulders droop.
But when he takes the ball to a defender, when he works close with his razored touch, he has a wonderful knack of making the game look easy. The effect on any opposition can be that of cold steel.
This happened in Dublin on Wednesday, when an impressively organised Ireland were lifted by the force of a gifted individual moving towards the top of his game.
While England dressed themselves in the usual patchwork quilt reserved for friendlies in the defeat to Italy, McCarthy fielded against Denmark the bulk of the team which will fight it out with their Group E opponents Cameroon, Germany and Saudi Arabia.
He was surely impressed with the rhythm that ran through the team as it outplayed deserving World Cup qualifiers Denmark, especially so in the absence of the inspirational Roy Keane.
That was a tribute to McCarthy's nurturing of the team's spirit with careful, consistent selection. But Duff's performance was something which went before the normal satisfaction of a hard-won victory. Duff was a shining gift to a manager who has had to learn to make a little talent go a long way.
If the quick, skilful Duff, who has long announced an ability to go by opponents in a way rare in the Premiership, can maintain that sparkle, McCarthy will have another major asset to place beside those of captain Keane and his goalscoring namesake Robbie.
After making a goal for Ian Harte and generally tormenting the Danish defence, Duff heard himself being described as the next George Best. A modest lad, he will treat such speculation as the mythology it is. But hopefully he will draw much confidence from the aura he created on Wednesday.
Certainly, I've seen enough of him to know that he has the capacity to make an impact at the highest level.
His great value is that of all outstanding wide players - that when a team is functioning well, doing the right amount of work, as Ireland were against the Danes, the great bonus is to have a player who can exploit it all with the skill and pace truly to undermine a defence.
Arsenal had this dimension before the cruel injury to Robert Pires. Leeds have it when Harry Kewell shows sufficient interest in what's happening around him. Manchester United have it most of the time with Ryan Giggs.
The next few weeks are vital in Duff's development as a player who might just soon be rated alongside such luminous performers.
A few years ago, Duff was emerging impressively under Roy Hodgson at Blackburn, but when things turned sour at the club, the youngster seemed to go into a shell. It can often happen when a young player naturally has more skill than confidence.
Duff's kind of player is particularly dependent on self-belief. By the nature of his game, he is more prone to losing the ball than less ambitious team-mates, and this can bring problems when a manager is fighting for survival.
The player is told to be more conservative and thus more economical with the ball. In the process, though, something vital can be easily lost.
My suspicion, though, is that as Blackburn's current manager Graeme Souness fights against the drop, he will be acutely aware of the value of having Duff operate with full confidence.
For McCarthy, the ideal situation is for Duff to prove a vital component in Blackburn's drive for safety. The player already has the confidence which came with victory over Tottenham in the Worthington Cup Final.
Now he also has the scalp of highly-rated Denmark. It is a graph of rising expectations.
Eriksson, trying to make sense of the Italian debacle, can say that such matches can never mean too much. Strictly he is right, but such games do have one purpose. They can show a coach when a player is moving on to a new level of performance.
That's what Damien Duff showed to Mick McCarthy, and be sure England's coach would have given much for such a revelation.
Friday, March 29, 2002
Irish can cash in on diamond Duff
By John Giles
In the shadow of England's hugely-publicised build-up to the World Cup Finals, something remarkable is stirring across the Irish Sea.
Mick McCarthy's Ireland team is threatening to upstage Sven Goran Eriksson's collection of superstars and if this indeed happens, we may be looking back to this past week for a vital reason.
The emerging factor is the blossoming of a potential star in Blackburn's shy, shuffling Dubliner Damien Duff.
Duff, 23, wrote for himself a thrilling World Cup scenario as one of those largely unheralded figures who comes from nowhere to seize the biggest moment of his professional life.
He is not the most beguiling figure you will see on a football field. His body language is not always eloquent. From time to time his bony shoulders droop.
But when he takes the ball to a defender, when he works close with his razored touch, he has a wonderful knack of making the game look easy. The effect on any opposition can be that of cold steel.
This happened in Dublin on Wednesday, when an impressively organised Ireland were lifted by the force of a gifted individual moving towards the top of his game.
While England dressed themselves in the usual patchwork quilt reserved for friendlies in the defeat to Italy, McCarthy fielded against Denmark the bulk of the team which will fight it out with their Group E opponents Cameroon, Germany and Saudi Arabia.
He was surely impressed with the rhythm that ran through the team as it outplayed deserving World Cup qualifiers Denmark, especially so in the absence of the inspirational Roy Keane.
That was a tribute to McCarthy's nurturing of the team's spirit with careful, consistent selection. But Duff's performance was something which went before the normal satisfaction of a hard-won victory. Duff was a shining gift to a manager who has had to learn to make a little talent go a long way.
If the quick, skilful Duff, who has long announced an ability to go by opponents in a way rare in the Premiership, can maintain that sparkle, McCarthy will have another major asset to place beside those of captain Keane and his goalscoring namesake Robbie.
After making a goal for Ian Harte and generally tormenting the Danish defence, Duff heard himself being described as the next George Best. A modest lad, he will treat such speculation as the mythology it is. But hopefully he will draw much confidence from the aura he created on Wednesday.
Certainly, I've seen enough of him to know that he has the capacity to make an impact at the highest level.
His great value is that of all outstanding wide players - that when a team is functioning well, doing the right amount of work, as Ireland were against the Danes, the great bonus is to have a player who can exploit it all with the skill and pace truly to undermine a defence.
Arsenal had this dimension before the cruel injury to Robert Pires. Leeds have it when Harry Kewell shows sufficient interest in what's happening around him. Manchester United have it most of the time with Ryan Giggs.
The next few weeks are vital in Duff's development as a player who might just soon be rated alongside such luminous performers.
A few years ago, Duff was emerging impressively under Roy Hodgson at Blackburn, but when things turned sour at the club, the youngster seemed to go into a shell. It can often happen when a young player naturally has more skill than confidence.
Duff's kind of player is particularly dependent on self-belief. By the nature of his game, he is more prone to losing the ball than less ambitious team-mates, and this can bring problems when a manager is fighting for survival.
The player is told to be more conservative and thus more economical with the ball. In the process, though, something vital can be easily lost.
My suspicion, though, is that as Blackburn's current manager Graeme Souness fights against the drop, he will be acutely aware of the value of having Duff operate with full confidence.
For McCarthy, the ideal situation is for Duff to prove a vital component in Blackburn's drive for safety. The player already has the confidence which came with victory over Tottenham in the Worthington Cup Final.
Now he also has the scalp of highly-rated Denmark. It is a graph of rising expectations.
Eriksson, trying to make sense of the Italian debacle, can say that such matches can never mean too much. Strictly he is right, but such games do have one purpose. They can show a coach when a player is moving on to a new level of performance.
That's what Damien Duff showed to Mick McCarthy, and be sure England's coach would have given much for such a revelation.
duff duff duff duff
get him quick
get him quick
Duffer opens the scoring for Blackburn on 27 mins and provides the assist for the second on 29, and I ask myself - why did Souness leave him out of the squad on Saturday???
He left him out cos he was knackered. Souness was giving out about the irish playing him for 85 minutes and not getting back to Blackburn until friday. Apparantley Arsenal are willing to pay 20mill for him if B'burn go down.
Quote from Niall Quinn last wednesday " I've never seen anyone win man of the match after 3 minutes!"
Quote from Niall Quinn last wednesday " I've never seen anyone win man of the match after 3 minutes!"
As a Red it would be great to see him at United as cover for Giggs. We most certainly do not have a decent stand in for Giggs and Duff fits the bill perfectly.
As an Ooorishman, I'd like to see him at a club where he gets regular first team football so he can really develop and blossom. He's at a very important age (23) where he can start to realise his potential or stand still or even go backwards.
His recent performances for Ireland show he has the potential to be a real star but that's all it is right now - potential. It would be a great shame to see his talent squandered by joining a top team who bench him and stick him in the reserves ala Robbie Keane.
I think he needs to join a midtable Premiership side where he'll be a fixture in their starting 11. Blackburn staying up would be ideal. Chances are though if they go down he'll be snatched up by a big name club and play a bit part role for the next few seasons....
Hopefully it'll work out for the best because he is emerging as a great prospect. And I hope he has a cracking world cup as well and rips apart the Cameroons, Germans and Saudis like he did the Dutch and the Danes! COME ON IRELAND!!!!
As an Ooorishman, I'd like to see him at a club where he gets regular first team football so he can really develop and blossom. He's at a very important age (23) where he can start to realise his potential or stand still or even go backwards.
His recent performances for Ireland show he has the potential to be a real star but that's all it is right now - potential. It would be a great shame to see his talent squandered by joining a top team who bench him and stick him in the reserves ala Robbie Keane.
I think he needs to join a midtable Premiership side where he'll be a fixture in their starting 11. Blackburn staying up would be ideal. Chances are though if they go down he'll be snatched up by a big name club and play a bit part role for the next few seasons....
Hopefully it'll work out for the best because he is emerging as a great prospect. And I hope he has a cracking world cup as well and rips apart the Cameroons, Germans and Saudis like he did the Dutch and the Danes! COME ON IRELAND!!!!
ring him in for the left and 4-5-1 plus bring Dejan stankovic for the other wing and we will never see Veron on the wings where he sucks!
the boy will go to a big club next season if Blackburn go down. my question is, would u rather see him sitting on our Bench, our Liverpool or Arsenal's? Personally i think he would develop more at United where he would probably get 25+ games a season as cover for Giggs left wing role, if giggs is injured or moved inside.
Everytime i see this guy he never fails to impress me. His crossing ability and pace and magnificent, if we are in the hunt for a cost effective midfielder, he would be it, but i doubt another midfield player will join our ranks during the summer.
Duff.. ah Damo Duff.. I went to college with a guy that claims to have marked Duff at u-16's level... every time I have a pint with him, he gets out of his seat and shows me the Duff shimmy! I usually laugh at him, he thinks I'm impressed, and then he goes doing the shimmy as he's going to the toilet, shuffling past a few punters like he has a ball at his feet! anyway, that guy is a feckin knob! the Duffster is a pure footballing genius, he's not as good as Giggs, but it's all about potential! I personally think he'll skin his markers at the world cup and make a real name for himself... the Irish are really biased in this forum!?! although there's no denying England would really love him for there Squad come the summer!
Originally posted by paddyduff:
<strong>Duff.. ah Damo Duff.. I went to college with a guy that claims to have marked Duff at u-16's level... every time I have a pint with him, he gets out of his seat and shows me the Duff shimmy! I usually laugh at him, he thinks I'm impressed, and then he goes doing the shimmy as he's going to the toilet, shuffling past a few punters like he has a ball at his feet! anyway, that guy is a feckin knob! the Duffster is a pure footballing genius, he's not as good as Giggs, but it's all about potential! I personally think he'll skin his markers at the world cup and make a real name for himself... the Irish are really biased in this forum!?! although there's no denying England would really love him for there Squad come the summer!
i dont give a shite how... just get him
someone mail,fax or send a pigeon over to Sir Alex and get him to sign this bastard...absolutely brilliant
Originally posted by mikhail:
<strong>
I love it when talent is appreciated.
Someone said that all the Irish on the site were biased. We are in a way. Duff being Irish brings him to our attention, but only his talent can impress so many people, and while some people went overboard, he is definately a great potential signing.
Someone posed a possibility to me. Imagine Man Utd bought Duff. Now give Giggs that forward role, playing off RVN hat he so likes, and put Duff on the left wing.
Now imagine the two of them breaking forward, switching positions, and generally causing havok. Be very afraid. <img src="graemlins/smirk.gif" border="0" alt="[Smirk]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
I like that thought. <img src="graemlins/devil.gif" border="0" alt="[Devil]" />
If we do that, we should unleash 'em on them dippers defence first and teach 'em a thing or two
i think Duff is quality, and he is the ideal replacement for Giggsy.
Though on last nigths form you couldn't see Duff ever getting a game!
Giggs has his injury problems so i'm sure if Duff were to come he'd start a fair number of games. Kinda like the Keane Butt situation.
Just whether Duff would be ok with it.
Though on last nigths form you couldn't see Duff ever getting a game!
Giggs has his injury problems so i'm sure if Duff were to come he'd start a fair number of games. Kinda like the Keane Butt situation.
Just whether Duff would be ok with it.
Originally posted by Fitzcarraldo:
<strong>Johnny Giles on Duff:
Friday, March 29, 2002
Irish can cash in on diamond Duff
By John Giles
In the shadow of England's hugely-publicised build-up to the World Cup Finals, something remarkable is stirring across the Irish Sea.
Mick McCarthy's Ireland team is threatening to upstage Sven Goran Eriksson's collection of superstars and if this indeed happens, we may be looking back to this past week for a vital reason.
The emerging factor is the blossoming of a potential star in Blackburn's shy, shuffling Dubliner Damien Duff.
Duff, 23, wrote for himself a thrilling World Cup scenario as one of those largely unheralded figures who comes from nowhere to seize the biggest moment of his professional life.
He is not the most beguiling figure you will see on a football field. His body language is not always eloquent. From time to time his bony shoulders droop.
But when he takes the ball to a defender, when he works close with his razored touch, he has a wonderful knack of making the game look easy. The effect on any opposition can be that of cold steel.
This happened in Dublin on Wednesday, when an impressively organised Ireland were lifted by the force of a gifted individual moving towards the top of his game.
While England dressed themselves in the usual patchwork quilt reserved for friendlies in the defeat to Italy, McCarthy fielded against Denmark the bulk of the team which will fight it out with their Group E opponents Cameroon, Germany and Saudi Arabia.
He was surely impressed with the rhythm that ran through the team as it outplayed deserving World Cup qualifiers Denmark, especially so in the absence of the inspirational Roy Keane.
That was a tribute to McCarthy's nurturing of the team's spirit with careful, consistent selection. But Duff's performance was something which went before the normal satisfaction of a hard-won victory. Duff was a shining gift to a manager who has had to learn to make a little talent go a long way.
If the quick, skilful Duff, who has long announced an ability to go by opponents in a way rare in the Premiership, can maintain that sparkle, McCarthy will have another major asset to place beside those of captain Keane and his goalscoring namesake Robbie.
After making a goal for Ian Harte and generally tormenting the Danish defence, Duff heard himself being described as the next George Best. A modest lad, he will treat such speculation as the mythology it is. But hopefully he will draw much confidence from the aura he created on Wednesday.
Certainly, I've seen enough of him to know that he has the capacity to make an impact at the highest level.
His great value is that of all outstanding wide players - that when a team is functioning well, doing the right amount of work, as Ireland were against the Danes, the great bonus is to have a player who can exploit it all with the skill and pace truly to undermine a defence.
Arsenal had this dimension before the cruel injury to Robert Pires. Leeds have it when Harry Kewell shows sufficient interest in what's happening around him. Manchester United have it most of the time with Ryan Giggs.
The next few weeks are vital in Duff's development as a player who might just soon be rated alongside such luminous performers.
A few years ago, Duff was emerging impressively under Roy Hodgson at Blackburn, but when things turned sour at the club, the youngster seemed to go into a shell. It can often happen when a young player naturally has more skill than confidence.
Duff's kind of player is particularly dependent on self-belief. By the nature of his game, he is more prone to losing the ball than less ambitious team-mates, and this can bring problems when a manager is fighting for survival.
The player is told to be more conservative and thus more economical with the ball. In the process, though, something vital can be easily lost.
My suspicion, though, is that as Blackburn's current manager Graeme Souness fights against the drop, he will be acutely aware of the value of having Duff operate with full confidence.
For McCarthy, the ideal situation is for Duff to prove a vital component in Blackburn's drive for safety. The player already has the confidence which came with victory over Tottenham in the Worthington Cup Final.
Now he also has the scalp of highly-rated Denmark. It is a graph of rising expectations.
Eriksson, trying to make sense of the Italian debacle, can say that such matches can never mean too much. Strictly he is right, but such games do have one purpose. They can show a coach when a player is moving on to a new level of performance.
That's what Damien Duff showed to Mick McCarthy, and be sure England's coach would have given much for such a revelation.
WOW, logest post I've ever seen here
Originally posted by Murt:
<strong>He also has played up front and has potential for the 44"1"1.
He cost a fair bit though and his consistency has allways been his problem. I havnt seem much of him for ages so maybe thats improved with the yrs.
Would he come to Utd to compete with Giggs though? Its a thankless job as no one is going to displace Giggs from the Utd wing.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Duffer is one of the most improved plaryers this and last season. with giggs to compete with, i think that would improve him even more. As for money we can get him on the cheep if blackburn go down.
While we are raiding Blackburn, lets go for Matt Jansen at the same time....he's improved since we first tried to bring him in, and we need a fourth striker.
Mark Hughes has been playing well in midfield, where we seem to have a few squad vacancies at present !
Wouldn't take Cole back tho.
They used to have a manager who was quite good as well...would have made a good coach imo.
Mark Hughes has been playing well in midfield, where we seem to have a few squad vacancies at present !
Wouldn't take Cole back tho.
They used to have a manager who was quite good as well...would have made a good coach imo.
Souness has announced that Duffer isn't for sale. To my suspicous (and overburdened?) mind, that indicates that he's really worried. Duff has described his time in the first division as the worst time of his life - despite what he's said recently he'll be moving this summer. Just don't let Pool get there first.
Newcastle have emerged as another interested party. Apparently Laurent Robert is unhappy or something. Better than him going to the scousers anyway.
He skinned them for the second one. I'm well aware of what Duffer can do.