Yeah Carmine is his wife and Vincenzo = Mino..
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I thought it was his wife, Italian version of Carmen.
Hmm, maybe now Real M. will get Dabman knowing Pizzaman is out, or DeLigt will sack Pizzaman and uncle Ed (ffs, Edwin, I mean Edwin) will have a word with young man to come to United.
TW not started yet, I'm going nuts, long summer ahead
It is, but for males.
Would be nice if Harry Maguire had a reasonable
Reasonable what?
Sized head, too big for his body, our scouts wont like that slab of his.
Too heavy? Did Woody mistake him for his agent?
Feck off with your 'One More Miracle'. I hate the media this season. There's not even a pretence of impartiality when it comes to Liverpool.
It says we had the option to purchase him last summer, but decided against it because our scout Marcel Bout warned us that De Ligt's father Frank is enormously fat... 'Like father, like son' was the concern.
That's so incredibly stupid I can't even fathom a good retort. Between that and Iscos head size, it's really a bit of a farce.
Bring on the Shaw jokes
I'm calling absolute bollocks on that De Ligt story. As if we wouldn't sign a player based on how fat his dad is? fecking new low for transfer stories everywhere.
Considering Shaw is a mid table (at best) LB (and it’s sad but just have a look at him) and there are literally no LBs behind him for depth, I find it to be as important a position as just about any in the team bar RB and RW.
is this like one of those caption threads?
"We've got Messi on the phone, he wants to join us, said he'll come for half what he's currently being paid"
"Ask him how fat his dad is"
"Lionel, how much does your dad weigh?"
I meant to say reasonably priced release clause after seeing that Chilwell tweet.
It's ridiculous. There are a great many ex-pro footballers of the highest level who, at middle age, added a lot of weight to their post-football frame, but were slim throughout their entire careers. Look at Koeman, for example, now, but if he had a quality son playing now, you wouldn't not sign him because his dad ended up a fat guy!
I call BS on it too.
Funnily enough, Messi's kid is already a little chubster.
"United boss Jose Mourinho, sacked in December, wanted a centre-back last summer and identified De Ligt as his first-choice target, with Leicester ’s Harry Maguire a fall-back option."
"But United vetoed the move for De Ligt on the basis of Bout’s belief the defender – now recognised as the best in Europe - would pile on the pounds in the coming years and lose his pace and power."
"...insider source Mose Jourinho confirmed."
Definitely nonsense. Will get a lot of clicks though. The media know when to throw our name into a story.
Don't believe it. No. He was 18, which means his body hadn't stropped growing, nor his bones fully developed, yet, somehow our scout was of the impression that a non-fully developed teenager would lose power moving into full adulthood? Come on.
To be fair, it sounds like something we would do. Didn't we pass on Isco because his head was too big, Dzeko because he was too slow over 2 yards and Jordan Henderson because of his ugly gait.
And yet we gave Phil Jones (who is all three) a new contract?!
Funnily enough this 'Fat De Ligt' story reminds me of that SAF anecdote involving Teddy Sheringham and his father.
Yet we had Rooney and Shaw on the books at the time who had pretty generous waistlines at certain points.
Good, talents should cost 30-40 m, end products cost 100 m. And Sancho is nowhere near end product.
The scouts have obviously learned their lesson after erroneously omitting Shaw's dad's body fat % data from their reports.
I think there are a few good cheaper options knocking around for the RW position - I'd take a punt on one of them and spend the bulk of the budget on Midfield/defence instead.
What is talent and end product though
Historically as a club we've done far better with talent compared to 'end product'
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