20m for hargreaves ...

[Guest Far and Tether]

Hargreaves is a good player, he'll work his nuts off for you, so he has that drive that Fergie loves. And alongside Carrick, Rio, G. Nev, Rooney and (sort of) Scholes, there's an England camaraderie already established. Plus, he's a lot more likely to adapt quickly to the Prem than, say, a Mascherano (who I prefer as a player). As a Canadian, I've paid more attention to Hargreaves than many over there, and I never agreed with those little Englanders who gave him so much stick: he's good, not great.

 

That's the good news.

 

The bad news is: he's a jack of all trades, a deluxe Phil Neville as someone pointed out above, he's coming back from a serious injury so no guarantees that he'll even be as good as he was before, and £20 million is sheer insanity. I've given up caring about the money United splash on players they've targeted (and stubbornly won't take no for an answer when the selling club holds out) -- it's their money, if they want to be stupid, let them. Fuck Glazer.

 

I would have preferred Mascherano, with one proviso: he hasn't shown much at West Ham, albeit with few opportunities, but he might struggle to adapt as quickly as a Hargreaves.

 

If I were to boil it down, I'd say: the most underwhelming United transfer saga of recent years, would much prefer us to start looking at replacing Giggs and Scholes than further acquiring defensive midfielders. He's a nice option, but a £20 million option? Madness.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Despicable leach who used our great country; weaned from the glorified air of the Chinook that sweeps down from the Rocky Mountains to the Prairies encompassing Calgary, where he learned his football. Turncoat.

 

Did Radzinski play for Poland? Did Stalteri play for Italy? Eh, tu Owen your treachery will forever beguile you. I've already written Prime Minister Harper, whose riding Calgary South is not far from where little Owen first played for the Calgary Foothills, to deport his family back to Derby.

 

Is it not enough we bailed your sorry asses out from Vimy Ridge, provided our young as a testing ground at Dieppe for the Normandy Landings and let you have all the cod from God in Newfoundland for 400 years. And you let that Swedish skirt chaser nick our midfielder? Drained our Great Land of beavers, swindled the Red Man and had the poor Inuit chasing the shadows of Sir John Franklin for years. Oh how shocked Samuel Hearne was at Bloody Falls on the Coppermine River. Oh if only he lived to see the fate of the poor Dhirvishes.

 

And the topper, the absolute topper, you beat the French and let them stay!

 

 

Mon Dieu! Au Secours! Je me souviens!

[Nunavut Patrick]

And don't even think of bringing up Frank Yallop as some sort of reciprocating arrangement.

 

Viva Craig Forrest! Viva South Africa 2010!

[Guest Far and Tether]

Despicable leach who used our great country; weaned from the glorified air of the Chinook that sweeps down from the Rocky Mountains to the Prairies encompassing Calgary, where he learned his football. Turncoat.

 

Did Radzinski play for Poland? Did Stalteri play for Italy? Eh, tu Owen your treachery will forever beguile you. I've already written Prime Minister Harper, whose riding Calgary South is not far from where little Owen first played for the Calgary Foothills, to deport his family back to Derby.

 

Is it not enough we bailed your sorry asses out from Vimy Ridge, provided our young as a testing ground at Dieppe for the Normandy Landings and let you have all the cod from God in Newfoundland for 400 years. And you let that Swedish skirt chaser nick our midfielder? Drained our Great Land of beavers, swindled the Red Man and had the poor Inuit chasing the shadows of Sir John Franklin for years. Oh how shocked Samuel Hearne was at Bloody Falls on the Coppermine River. Oh if only he lived to see the fate of the poor Dhirvishes.

 

And the topper, the absolute topper, you beat the French and let them stay!

 

 

Mon Dieu! Au Secours! Je me souviens!

 

Ha ha. Beaver draining. I like the sound of that. I'll concede you all the above, but Calgary is still Satan's Festering Taint. Fair play to Owen for throwing it in the faces of those oil-soaked rednecks: the only good thing to come out of Alberta (aside from the Trans Canada) was Ralph Klein's recent joke about Belinda Stronach.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Ha ha. Beaver draining. I like the sound of that. I'll concede you all the above, but Calgary is still Satan's Festering Taint. Fair play to Owen for throwing it in the faces of those oil-soaked rednecks: the only good thing to come out of Alberta (aside from the Trans Canada) was Ralph Klein's recent joke about Belinda Stronach.

 

Going to miss old Ralph. Was really in form when he was on the ale.

 

I hope deGuzman (at Feyenoord) plays for Canada. Still, we'll lose at Swangard to El Salvador or Panama.

[Guest Far and Tether]

Going to miss old Ralph. Was really in form when he was on the ale.

 

I hope deGuzman (at Feyenoord) plays for Canada. Still, we'll lose at Swangard to El Salvador or Panama.

 

That's about right. Do you remember when Ralph went into the homeless shelter pissed as fuck and started ranting and throwing twenty dollar bills around? Ha ha.

 

Then again, I can't really throw stones at Alberta when you look back at BC provincial politics.

[BENIRL]

20million is a joke. He is in the same mold as Barton and Nolan no fucking better.

[Hermes]

I like reading about famous Canadians, I have the biographies of both of them.

[hamstrung]

I like reading about famous Canadians, I have the biographies of both of them.

 

 

[Hermes]

 

He's not a Canadian!!!!

 

 

If you meant him, he wasn't either.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bowie

[Nunavut Patrick]

That's about right. Do you remember when Ralph went into the homeless shelter pissed as fuck and started ranting and throwing twenty dollar bills around? Ha ha.

 

Then again, I can't really throw stones at Alberta when you look back at BC provincial politics.

 

He had his limo pull over if I remember.

 

Only in BC could Bingo bring down a government. VanderZalm was a loon as well and Gordon Campbell getting nicked in Hawaii for drunk driving was good.

 

Raplhie when he was mayor of Calgary and ranted that his jails were 'full of drunken Eastern bums'. Who's laughing now, half of Newfoundland is working in Ft. McMurray and without those 'Eastern bums' they'd have no one to run the province.

 

Who could live somewhere where they can't keep the liquor stores stocked?

[Nunavut Patrick]

I like reading about famous Canadians, I have the biographies of both of them.

 

 

Has Pamela Anderson come out with a biography to accompany her video?

[Unrighteous]

I'd rather them blow 20m pounds on Hargreaves than spend it shrewdly picking up someone like Diego from Werder Bremen for offense or a great young DM like Fernando Gago or something.

[Hermes]

Only in BC could Bingo bring down a government.

 

They had bingo in Canada over 2,000 years ago? They were more advanced than I thought.

[Guest Far and Tether]

He had his limo pull over if I remember.

 

Only in BC could Bingo bring down a government. VanderZalm was a loon as well and Gordon Campbell getting nicked in Hawaii for drunk driving was good.

 

Raplhie when he was mayor of Calgary and ranted that his jails were 'full of drunken Eastern bums'. Who's laughing now, half of Newfoundland is working in Ft. McMurray and without those 'Eastern bums' they'd have no one to run the province.

 

Who could live somewhere where they can't keep the liquor stores stocked?

 

Ha ha. Back in the Vander Zalm days, they used to sell all these buttons ("badges" for you Britishers) everywhere, with slogans like "Librarians Against Vander Zalm" or "Social Workers Against Vander Zalm" or "Construction Workers Against Vander Zalm", etc, etc (you get the drift). The only ones you could find that were for Vander Zalm said this: "Pig Fuckers For Vander Zalm".

[coop]

Will your 2 get a room.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Will your 2 get a room.

 

We'll meet halfway in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

[Guest Far and Tether]

We'll meet halfway in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

 

I'll get me coat (literally).

[The-Sir]

You'll actually pick your coat up? (just to be pedantic) ;)

 

I reckon Hargreaves is a very good player that would offer a lot to a team. 20 million though... far too much.

[Paul]

I've always liked Hargreaves: he's very fast, has superb stamina (the equal of Big Mo's, in my opinion) and is very disciplined in terms of his position. However, £20m is a joke. I just wonder if this is the start of yet another explosion in transfer fees with journeymen players changing hands for eight figure sums. I mean West Ham and Villa slugging it out for Young at roughly £10m and now this. I think the imminent 60% hike in TV income for Premiership clubs has gone to their heads - or maybe they're just buying now, before these players cost 60% more next season!