Originally posted by antohan:
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I'm not too bothered about potentially making a "loss" on him as his contribution has been well worth it
I am bothered about getting rid of someone who was meant to be "potential" and I think we can still develop that.
He has the talent, he needs the coaching and guidance and that we can give. What we cannot "give" is passion, commitment, determination, love for the club...
He has all the elements to be a worthy United player when it comes to character. He also has skill, decent pace, movement, workrate, two-footed, a nice long range shot... He maybe raw but that's what we excel at working on.
Keep him. <img src="graemlins/keano.gif" border="0" alt="[Keano]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
agree fully, and what about his winner against Chelsea. He's staying, sorry people.
Forlan on his way?
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Originally posted by antohan:
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I'm not too bothered about potentially making a "loss" on him as his contribution has been well worth it
I am bothered about getting rid of someone who was meant to be "potential" and I think we can still develop that.
He has the talent, he needs the coaching and guidance and that we can give. What we cannot "give" is passion, commitment, determination, love for the club...
He has all the elements to be a worthy United player when it comes to character. He also has skill, decent pace, movement, workrate, two-footed, a nice long range shot... He maybe raw but that's what we excel at working on.
Keep him. <img src="graemlins/keano.gif" border="0" alt="[Keano]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes
Originally posted by Livvie20:
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A number of clubs?? He'll be exhausted.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Get back to your ironing girl
While I think that a 7.5m were too much for an unfinished product like Diego Forlan. I still think that he can actually make it at OT. He is fast, hard working, gifted with a good technique, vision and shot.
Unfortunately he needs games to establish himself, something that SAF doesn’t afford to give him at OT.
Ideally I would use the Italian way of doing things and loan him at another EPL club to make his bones. It’s a pity that in England you cannot do that because at the end it would help everyone, from the big club (they will see this “loaning” as a unique option to groom or “advertise” their young talents) the smaller club (who would find these deals as a cheap and ideal option to strengthen the team) and the player (who would relish some first team football).
My conclusion is this. SAF will have to decide whether to sell Forlan, loan him or give him a first team run. I would like him to stay at OT and make it, but its not fair on Diego to let him rot in the reserves
Unfortunately he needs games to establish himself, something that SAF doesn’t afford to give him at OT.
Ideally I would use the Italian way of doing things and loan him at another EPL club to make his bones. It’s a pity that in England you cannot do that because at the end it would help everyone, from the big club (they will see this “loaning” as a unique option to groom or “advertise” their young talents) the smaller club (who would find these deals as a cheap and ideal option to strengthen the team) and the player (who would relish some first team football).
My conclusion is this. SAF will have to decide whether to sell Forlan, loan him or give him a first team run. I would like him to stay at OT and make it, but its not fair on Diego to let him rot in the reserves
Originally posted by An Extremely Boring Man:
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Get back to your ironing girl
Shut yer face you.
Any messages for the folks back home btw? I'm away tonight.
I think that 7.5 was too much for him,especially when we could have got D'Alessandro cheaper
Originally posted by Livvie20:
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Shut yer face you.
Any messages for the folks back home btw? I'm away tonight.
Tell my old man to bring me some Snus to Denmark next weekend
So, where are you going then?
Originally posted by An Extremely Boring Man:
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Tell my old man to bring me some Snus to Denmark next weekend
So, where are you going then?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Bergen. Flam. Ulvik. And some other places I've forgotten.
we would be mad to give up on Diego now, he went from being extremely unlucky to scoring some extremely important late goals to bring us some points before his injury and now he needs a good run of first team action (whether its with us or on loan)
I can't understand why people keep brining up the 7.5m or whatever it was. It was an exorbitant market then and if we were to do the same again we could probably do business at 3-5m. Unfair on him to say "at over 7m he should be the final piece in the puzzle" etc.
He's decent, but it's up to him whether he wants to stick it out, improve himself as a player and carry on the wonderful memories, or pack up and leave it all behind at a lower club. Keeping him would do no harm though.
He's decent, but it's up to him whether he wants to stick it out, improve himself as a player and carry on the wonderful memories, or pack up and leave it all behind at a lower club. Keeping him would do no harm though.