the flight checking thing. Where I lived in the states they would keep an eye out for the Universities jet that the coaches used on football recruiting trips by using flightaware etc. The college caught on and had the flight info made private. feckin depths people will go toThiago Alcantara | Signed for Bayern Munich
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the flight checking thing. Where I lived in the states they would keep an eye out for the Universities jet that the coaches used on football recruiting trips by using flightaware etc. The college caught on and had the flight info made private. feckin depths people will go toRonaldo was kind of a surprise if I recall. There really wasnt a whole summer of chasing him.
I'm too high for all this
Looks 100% authentic to me.
Just read on the daily fail that Chelsea are lining up Van Ginkel. Supposedly, he was given assurances for starting lineup. This could further mean that Chelsea are out of the race for Thiago who is also looking for regular football.
I'm usually able to work out if it's a fake or not - they usually are. But admittedly I can't see anything wrong with that one.
With that being said, I can't see a player making that type of a blunder.
With that being said, I can't see a player making that type of a blunder.
I think it's fake. The one in question is darker than any other link.
Theres a small rectangle above '54s'. its fake.
You haven't got an Oscar chasing you with them bouncy legs.
If that was real it would have been copied/RT'd tens or hundreds of times before it was deleted. If you search that exact phrase on twitter I get 4 results. So.. I call bullshit.
Its fake. The guy that first tweeted it is the one that always posts photshopped pics, including the ones of Strootman at Manchester Airport, which were bollocks.
He wasn't really that exciting signing either. We signed him mainly on the basis of his performance against us a few days before, I remember that it was a day before I went on holiday and he'd already been signed by the time I returned.
That was before the days of Twitter. Can anyone even recall those days?
I thought he was a pretty exciting prospect, that was shown with his first appearance for us. From all the reports before hand and the footage available it was very clear that he was going to be special.
No club, anywhere, would give such an assurance to anyone, which means the rest is made up as well.
Not hard.
Unlike my cock, which throbs with anticipation.
His first appearance, the 20-minute cameo against Bolton, was great and I still remember it vividly. Rooney was a more exciting transfer a year later though and since then we've signed players like Tevez, van Persie or Anderson whose reputation was much higher at the time of the transfer than Ronaldo's. No one really anticipated him to become that good, some people knew that he could go on to big things but not to such extent.
Tito.
Ronaldo was definitely an exciting transfer. I was sitting at home listening to 5 Live and the report came in. The sense of intrigue was memorable.
Ronaldo was on our radar long before that friendly game. IIRC Fergie said that the club tied up the deal the day before the friendly match.
I just remember his fecking awful jumper.
We were scouting him long before that but wanted to leave him at sporting for a season. The players on the plane back from that friendly persuaded him to sign him up earlier and we enquired and found out Liverpool amongst others were interested. We didn't mess about and got a solid big in and accepted and the rest is history.
I remember hearing about us signing Ronaldo on the radio. Remember radios? I remember being half-cut and was convinced we'd signed Fat Ronaldo, then spent a good 20 minutes trying convince my flat mate Fat Ronaldo still had game. It was a weird day, and at the time, I'd not really heard of Cristiano at all. I didn't have the internet or Sky in my flat. Only terrestrial TV.
Rooney was definitely a knob-out transfer, for me.
Rooney was definitely a knob-out transfer, for me.
Ah look at us muppets recounting tales of how we wanked ourselves silly over transfers.......Good times
I thought that first cameo was very exciting. I thought he was going to be great(didn't expect to be this good though)
Something in his name inspires that greatness I suppose. Just like Ronaldo, Ronald Regan, Ronaldinho.
What's a radio, grandpa?
Is it fake, right? It must be fake, can't imagine Thiago doing a Hazard.
I don't remember being so excited for a transfer since Rooney (although last season was my first real experience of a Caf summer, and while I didn't really want Hazard I got very keen for Kagawa). It's only half to do with how good Thiago is, and how good he could become. The other half is artificial excitement created by just how long we've waited to sign a midfielder, and the fact that Thiago is probably more perfect for the position than any name that has been thrown about in the five years or so that we (the fans) have wanted one.
And the greatest of all, Ronald McDonald
It shouldn't have taken that long, he was top scorer at the World Cup the previous Summer and scored ~30 goals for Madrid in the 2002/3 season! True about the radio though, being a transfer muppet was a completely different game before youtube came along!
Too right. He was still quality, even with a bit of podge. He'd started a bit of a second chin the year that he dismantled United in the Champions League.
I think he means wireless.
It's as fake as Barcelona's buyout clauses. It's 100% photoshopped.
Youtube is a Muppet's greatest weapon. A guy that played for my college joined some mid-table Swedish club. His youtube clip had every element that fuels muppetry: Cheesy music, poor editing, "welcome to our club..
This is nothing like the Ronaldo transfer, not even on the level of excitement. More like Ronaldinho.
What's his CA and PA on the latest FM game?
Even though that twitter was a fake, what was the translation?
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