Comments on: Hammers land Tevez & Mascherano???

By: ARRY

ARRY — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:59:02 +0000

and the worst

By: sandrahn

sandrahn — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:35:15 +0000

By the way, interesting stat about the EPL: Out of 734 players spread over 32 teams during Germany’s 2006 World Cup, the English League comprised 107 players, the most of any league (Germany was a distant second with about 70 players). By contrast, the Italian and Spanish leagues contribute very very few players to the tournament. Italy’s the most insular league in football.

By: sandrahn

sandrahn — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:23:47 +0000

aurelius and others, don’t bother respndonding to the obsessed italy psycho from Canada “justice” and his many aliases. He goes on a lot of blogs here, posts with different names and always posts the same boring link (which thankfully I’ve never clicked on) – he must have posted it a zillion times. He’s not a football fan, he just uses the game to pound his chest over his italianness. Just ignore him.

As to Argentine players going over to the EPL – culturally Spain or Italy certainly may be more amenable to them, but the pace of the EPL is very rugged and fast. I think the experience will toughen them. I think it’s a good for players to have experience in different leagues from different countries (esp. in cultures very different from their own) – it makes their skills more dynamic and more flexible. Whether or not they should STAY there for more than a year or two is another question.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:39:30 +0000

Aurelius, I am just curious as to why Carlitos will have a hard time adjusting to EPL. Please elaborate since you are an English man after all. May be you know something that I don’t. Please share. Thanks

By: AURELIUS

AURELIUS — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:50:47 +0000

Odd ARRY considering I’m English & know the history of the club from the time it was founded by members of an iron works(Thomases) right up to the present day.

Messay the rumour is that an oligarch (unamed at present is in the running & may be the same one who was interested in purchasing Aston Villa last year & may be this Georgian crook Badri).

But its all cloak & dagger at the moment.Everything will resolve itself over the next month or so as the investigative journalists get to work to unravelling this deal.

Have to agree with John as well. But mentally like Heinze Mascherano should settle very comfortably into English football.Carlitos may be more of a difficult transition for the player.

However given the strength of the EPL financially & a new mor lucrative TV deal next summer it may well be that this is not ablip but sees more Argentine & S.American players coming to the EPL.Arca has done well too .The ones that failed were too young to settle the likes of Marinelli at Boro for instance.

By: ARRY

ARRY — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:30:26 +0000

Very well said john.the league’s in italy and spain are a million times better than that of england.
COME ON YOU AMMERS!!!!

By: john

john — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:12:56 +0000

England is no place for south americans to play football and improve their skills.

The should play in Spain or Italy which is culturally easier for them, and the calibre of football is better.

By: ARRY

ARRY — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:20:53 +0000

what do they know,they probably like most of you never heard of West Ham until 2 or 3 days ago.the simple truth of the matter is is that we are about to be taken over buy a consortium known as the billybobberswagdealcats and their chief in command colonel hamish mctageth has assured us all that along with the 2 argies guaranteed at least 2 new cleaners,a brand new state of the art tea shop,blankets for when it gets a bit chilly and furthermore a good singalong before kick off.hope that answers your question.

By: messay

messay — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 07:03:09 +0000

Guys, There is a concrete evidence that, there is an undisclosed offer on the table from an UNKNOWN group to BUY west ham united. This offer is being looked at by the owners of west ham deeply. there were some heavey rumors in London if this offer has to do with the deal for TEVEZ and MASCHERANO, but the assigned board who is observing this offer, made a comment saying the offer to buy the team has no relation with the transfer of tevez and masch.

As AURLIUS and MAXILOPEZ have said, there are some fishy things going on. On my opinion i think someone that is not in relation with MSI is trying to buy the team JUST BECAUSE OF THE TRANSFER, because West Ham could now become a soccer powerhouse just because of these two players, at least a buddy of mine from london beleaves this is the case.

Either way AURLIUS or MAXI do yall know more on this topic??????

By: OilerFan

OilerFan — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:55:21 +0000

Well said aurelius. It has nothing to do w/ West Ham really, we as fans are worried about the behind the scenes power struggle over these players, which inevitably could end up really stifling these players down the line. Come on, even u hammer fans must admit, a week ago, you would’nt even have dreamt about tevez and masche going to WHU, not that there is anything at all wrong w/ the team, but when u have teams like arsenal, man u, milan, lyon knocking at their doors, how in hell did they “choose” WH??? really, that did’nt surprise anyone that’s a hammer fan?? lol, i’m just saying, we have a reason to be worried when there are some very shady ppl pulling the strings behind these players.

At any rate, i do wanna congratulate West Ham fans, i think it’ll be great for your team, and i for one, will definately be watching more West Ham matches. I also do agree, that this will be good for the league b/c at least it opens things up a bit…i just hope this ends up being actually be a good thing for the players themselves too.

Btw, i dont think u can compare maradona at napoli to this situation…maradona was a force to be wreckoned w/, and as good as tevez and masche are, they’ll never be that good. What happened w/ maradona and napoli will prob never happen again in our lifetime, it was just one of those unbelievable things.