Comments on: Barcelona – Sevilla: Copa del Rey 2nd leg

By: jake

jake — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:16:12 +0000

I know it was brilliant, wasn’t it? Seeing Madrid lose is the best thing to see in football (other than seeing Barca win).

By: Kevin Williams

Kevin Williams — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:38:46 +0000

I know it’s the Copa and not the league, but yay, Mallorca!

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:32:30 +0000

And I know EXACTLY what you mean about Drogba, Isaiah. Then again, he doesn’t have much of a say in how he looks (facewise).. so it might just be an aesthetic bias on our parts. I can’t condemn the guy on his pictures, maybe he’s a good guy once you meet him.

Anyway no, we don’t need more strikers.

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:29:03 +0000

Ryan just reread your posts and noticed you didn’t say anything I said you did. Ugh. Sorry. I hear “refs” after a match, those engrams start kicking in and I flip.

john, I use the term “lose” as in “lost the home-away fixtures.” Sevilla might not have lost either of the games (and neither did Barca win any), but they lost out this round… Same I said last year with Barca-Liverpool in the CL. Both teams won a game (and scored 2 goals), but Barca essentially “lost” the fixtures by the away-goals rule.

By: Kevin Williams

Kevin Williams — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:17:11 +0000

I agree with your priorities, Isaiah and Ciaran. I’m just thinking of the Ronnie (plus some cash) for Drogba swap rumor. A 100 million Euro transfer fund will go a very long way toward addressing the more immediate concerns. The Philipp Lahm deal is purportedly all but done, and he’d be an excellent addition. Dynamic young fullback.

Impossible to argue with Maicon, either. Since it’s looking like January is going to pass without anything except the backup keeper move, this summer should be very interesting.

By: jake

jake — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:15:05 +0000

I completely agree with you that Eto’o is better, and obviously if I had to choose it would be him. No doubt about it. And yes, he does seem like an arsehole, and he is an excessive diver. But still, he is one of the best, and would be a great asset to have. A Ronnie swap would be interesting, but I would like to see how much money we could get out of it first.

If Rijkaard is still in charge at the end of the season, I think Deco will be sold. It’s been pretty obvious that him and Frankie don’t get along. And although I am sick of talking about him, Mourinho would bring the best out of Deco.

Isaiah, I thought Zambrotta was leaving? Carlo Ancellotti came out and said that they will sign him in August, and Zambrotta keeps saying how much he misses Italy. We will definitely need money if that happens (hopefully for Lahm or even Dani Alves), plus money for the five others (here’s hoping for Fabregas.)

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:15:22 +0000

Can you really say no to one of the best strikers in the world? Im not so sure. Maybe Laporta will do it just keep the fans happy. Who better to replace Ronnie with than Didier? Maybe Ronaldo is a bigger financial draw and Kaka may bring more awards but Drogba is one of the most effective players on the planet.
I’ll agree with Isaiah though… it’s not the most important signing of the summer. We’ll have to replace a load of players in the summer and the striker position is a place where we have Bojan/Etoo/Henry for one place.
Out wide we will probably only have Giovani/Messi for two places although Henry/Etoo/Bojan can all move wide.
Considering the likes of Thuram/Sylvinho/Edmilson will be out of contract, I think, and Deco and Ronnie may be sold I’d spend the money on others like Isaiah

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:01:46 +0000

I need to point our right here that I dislike Didier Drogba. He just doesn’t seem like a nice guy. In fact, he strikes me as a total jerko. Not like how Eto’o is a jerk because he’s an egomaniac, but in the sense that Didier strikes me as just being an a-hole. That kind of jerk. Like not really a decent human being.

I’m not sure, though, where that thought comes from. Maybe it’s like how I dislike John Terry because he looks like a twathead. I mean, really, that guy just looks like the least pleasant guy. Totally that one dude in high school who always made you feel like crap because he was way “cooler” than you. And if you were that guy, well, I hated you in high school.

I don’t want to spend our cash on Drogba. Sorry. There are better deals out there and we can use versatile, solid strikers as stopgaps instead of trying to find a way to squeeze in another galactico. I don’t know that that’s how I want the team to develop.

In rumorland, there’s the thought that Maicon could come here. Having Zambrotta and Maicon would be fantastic, if they can deal with not playing all of the team’s matches. As it is, we’re missing Belletti’s ability to fill in when Zambrotta is injured. That’s pretty obvious.

By: Kevin Williams

Kevin Williams — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:39:36 +0000

I just can’t see Henry, Krkic, Eto’o and Messi all being healthy and at their best at the same time. Look at the past two seasons by way of example. With that 100-Euro transfer fund Rijkaard will have (if he’s in the house), not to mention the proceeds from other sales, there will be plenty of dough for other positions.

If we get Drogba, given Eto’s increasing fluency on the wing, that’s an easy fix. Maybe it’s Henry, Drogba, Messi and Eto’o, with Krkic still being a year away from being a regular starter, Drogba will leave us in great shape in the front. He’s also extremely durable, which has been a problem with our current front-line folks, which I’m still wondering isn’t attributable to the team’s trainers/medical personnel. Dunno.

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:08:17 +0000

So if we get Drogba…what happens to Eto’o? I prefer Samu to Didier any day of the week. Seriously, Samu is the greatest.

If we sell Ronnie, I want the profits. We have a forward line of Henry, Bojan, Eto’o, and Messi without Ronaldinho. So….who wants Didier? Get midfielders, defenders, and goalies, but who needs more strikers?