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Torres: I would sooner say "I do" to my girlfriend than yes to Florentino"

First thought, his girl must be a total biatch.
Second, does he honestly think we'd want an overrated striker like him? Atletico have never performed as good with him as without him now. They can actually qualify for the UEFA Cup now.

 

Whats with Torres throwing himself on us? He honestly thinks he is something after finally winning against us. Then again, you remember hes an Atleti .

 

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Faubert is one hell of a player on FM09 Maybe thats why we got him..

 

Her haircut is totally cute though

 

"Yes fernando, there's something wrong with your head."

 

Cristiano has proven himself to be the ideal teammate. He is a hard worker, gets along well with all his mates and gives his best for the team.

I don't see why two older players who are both out of form and way past it should hold the club from trying to move forward.

So every time you sign a big name player it's the "galactico era"?

Do you even know the meaning and theory behind the galactico era?

If that's the case then Calderon continued Perez galactico era, by signing and attempting to sign star players.

This.

Throw in the fact that he's a great influence, a hard worker and a crack? Sign him up.

The only downside, is does he really want to come?

The even bigger problem is the example being set that a player should automatically start due to what he's done for the club in history and not by actual form.

This is why Guti is throwing a temper tantrum and if the same happened to Raul, it would possibly be even worse. That's without taking the media storm in to consideration. Which is precisely Macaluca, why I said I hoped the new president would take on the untouchable and say your time is up, let others play now. He can be a sub, but a untouchable starter no longer.

I agree.

We thought Robben could be that for us, but look at what he did against Liverpool. He's a great talent but no megacrack, we need a megacrack.

You tell us?

Who has won more as a head coach? Who has at least had some success.. you know instead of failing everytime and running back to the scotish drunk with his tail between his legs?

Good addition? Hell yeah!

Would I want him over Cristiano, if Cristiano actually shows the balls to come to Madrid? No way!

Would I want both of them? Hell yeah!

Meh, but one would have to sit on the bench for Raul.

They actually qualified for a CL, thanks to his absence. A club world renown for not only being pathetic but always failing to reach average goals.

Reaches the CL, due to connect the dot faces absence. Hmmm.

Anyways, why does he keep linking himself with Madrid? We didn't say we wanted him, we said we wanted Gerrard.

 

Not really, no. An douchebag is a douchebag. To quote some U.S. president, there is some consolation in knowing he's our douchebag, but a character is not any less flawed simply because he's only mean to other people.

So he's not close to what was probably the best seasons by an individual player in the last 10-15 years. Boo-hoo. And wingers lose balls all the time. To question his work ethic because of that is ridiculous. He's been a high performance, high-minutes, constantly improving player for 5 years.

Guti has a work ethic problem. Fat Ronaldo has a work ethic problem. Cristiano doesn't.

Wow, Ribery won two games 1:0 against Lithuania! Stop the presses!

Other than that, there is a terrible fallacy in your argument. In Ronaldo's case you say that team performance trumps the individual player when he's with ManU, but with Portugal the individual player should be trumping team performance. Either Ronaldo has his share of responsibility in whatever (good, bad or ugly) both Portugal and ManU achieve, or he hasn't. You can't have it both ways.

Besides that, I would say it is much, much easier to shine in the Bundesliga if you play for Bayern Munich.

What is happening to Portugal is Carlos Queiroz, BTW. We are familiar enough with him.

 

I'm not on that list.

That's me: the contrarian. If you'll all recall, I wasn't a fan of having Robben here, either.

 

he fought with RVN no? and rvn is not known for being a troublemaker. I hope we do get him though. He can be our solution in the champions league.

 

Well, I for one hope that his "fight" with RVN isnt taken into consideration when we want to sign him.
How long is RVN staying with us anything? Surely, if he does stay after the summer, the next season he'll be gone?

 

So let's from now on buy only players who are well mannered and have always pleasant things to say? Politically correct bullsh!t that is.
He is our guy, who has been with the team for more than 15 years, who went with the team through everything. I could care less if he is an a-hole in his personal life as long as he dies on the pitch for us, which he did in many games before. That's why I was shocked to see the report. I am tired of explaining the same thing over and over to you. You are constantly missing my point.

 

die in games for us? looooooool! are you talking about the same guti we now?

 

Wow, talk about being picky.

So Cristiano is a troublemaker because he had disagreements with a guy who insulted his dead father, but Ruud wasn't a troublemaker when he went against SAF and became a team disruption?

Ruud has done the same with us?


Seriously?

Just say "I don't like him" stop with the extras.

 

You can't be talking about non-hardworking, primadonna, asshole, inconsistent Guti.

He's one of the players I've taken a liking to, but come on, I'll call a spade a spade you aren't describing him and are just going off emotion or something?


LMAO @ the Guti "dying for Madrid on the pitch". Since when was this? Isn't the reason he was benched because he doesn't do that? Lol.

Guti to Mallorca.
Salgado to Celta Vigo.
Raul to the bench.

Thank you for everything you've done, especially Raul. However, the old guard is just that, old. There was life after Di Stefano, life after Butranegro, and their will be life after Raul.

 

No, my point is that we can buy whomever we please and not particularly care about how much of an asshole they are. But not particularly caring does not mean not acknowledging that they're assholes.

If you were shocked, then your point is 10 years too late. Maybe that's why I'm missing it.

 

So, you are saying that Guti has been turning his back to the team for the past ten years. I wonder, how he managed to camouflage for such a long time.

 

LOL! You gotta admit...the photoshop guys over at Marca are getting creative these days.

They must have gotten inspiration from that Sport cover a few seasons back of CR decked out in the Blaugrana colors.

 

It's Guti, what do you expect?

I'm just mortified someone thinks Guti's a hard working type who dies for Madrid on the pitch.

 

Young man, if you notice I am trying to avoid your verbal diarrhea.
But do me a favor, go and watch Real Madrid - Sevilla game at SB played on May 6, 2007. Especially last 32 minutes.

 

I have seen Guti almost die on the pitch for us tons of times.

The same way VdV appeared to be in the process of dying on the pitch for us last week down by that corner flag.

 

I for one think guti is an exellent player with a lot of technical skills and great vision of the game.

But the man has deep character flaws that has put a shadow on a brilliant career. He is a 32 year old man playing for the best team in Europe and should not behave like a 13 year old girl whose cell phone has been taken away.

 

He is not a saint, that's for sure

 

Fun fact #1: Guti has three CLs to his name, but hasn't played a single minute in a CL final.

Fun fact #2: Guti has 15 NT games to his name, but hasn't made one single 23-man roster for a Euro or World Cup.

It's really not that camouflaged. A decade's worth of coaches in RM and the NT have seen it very clearly indeed: Guti is simply not a dependable player. I can't believe I'm having to elaborate on this. I should start a poll.

 

Excellent idea!

 

This coming from the guy who thinks Guti is dying for Madrid and is a hard worker?

This coming from the guy who not only shows a lack of knowledge about the clubs history but doesn't even know the current like the "galactico policy"?

Still ain't get over when I bashed you last, eh?

Do me a favor and stop watching every 8 games Guti actually plays well.

Do us all a favor and watch the entire 2007 season again and see who was walking after bad passes, see whose passes repetitively turned into goals for the other team.

Do us all a favor and watch that season over again and tell us who was the most lazy, uninterested at times, liability which costed the team countless times.

At least Heinze give his effort and ********s up. Guti doesn't try or care to bother himself, if he isn't trying to make a killer pass. The problem is we're a team he needs a hard working CM, not a lazy primadonna who never reached his potential because of the above.


All this coming from a fan of Guti's btw.

Yes, they are both dying. They must get so tired watching Raul and Pipita run tirelessly up and down the pitch!

I know VDV was tired just looking at Gago. I mean, Gago just came from a drubbing at high altitude, no rest and still started. All that just overwhelmed the poor dutchman.