Footballing Myths

[Pollingtonblade]

Clubs ask for more money off other clubs for players when they have an increased budget.

 

[I should coco]

Clubs ask for more money off other clubs for players when they have an increased budget.

Nah, course not, they ask for LESS.

They are so chuffed that a fellow club has had some good fortune that want to add to it and try and help in their own way too, by discounting player fees.

 

[Roygbiv]

Nah, course not, they ask for LESS.

They are so chuffed that a fellow club has had some good fortune that want to add to it and try and help in their own way too, by discounting player fees.

That's enough about United, what about other clubs?

 

[dingledog]

Its all about 'are you buying' or 'are you selling', if I know how much you've got I want more. Fact, just done the same thing to someone who wants to buy something from me, I know he's just raised £10 million, my price to him has increased from £5K to £12K, take it or leave it.

I appreciate the humour in the original post, so maybe should have replied: If a player wants to leave you cant stop him.

 

[raul]

Only United are burdened with having to pay wages, all of which will account for whatever amount of transfer monies we raise.

 

[Blade for Sale]

I can only think of Achilles heel, and Abel Xavier who looked a bit like Zeus.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

The biggest myth in all of football.

"The best team lost."

Makes my skin crawl every time some cunt spouts it.

 

[Balham]

The biggest myth in all of football.

"The best team lost."

Makes my skin crawl every time some cunt spouts it.

Not least because there's only ever two teams playing, so it should always be "the better team lost". TTLOT

 

[Westran]

All clubs run at a loss yet only united sell their assetts to balance the books

 

[St Annington]

Transfer fees are a law unto themselves. Remember when we signed Donaldson? The fee changed about every 10 minutes, anywhere from £0 to £350,000. In the end Wilder rang 'arry (Redknap) to get it sorted.
I also read in one of Warnock's books that QPR agreed to sign a player (Jason Puncheon I think) and by the time he got to Loftus Road for his medical the fee had gone up by about £100,000 - Warnock said sorry son I'm not having that, so the player payed the extra out of his own pocket so the transfer could go ahead.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Fans are the only people who know how to value one of their own players.

Potential - fee is always based on said player being the next Messi

There are always higher bids than the selling one, but it's always kept secret

Anyone not having a breakdown after an event is a club killing patsy who is satisfied with mediocrity

Not knowing basic facts never stops fans having a valid opinion.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Club Chairman like to be in a league which only costs them around £6-8m a year.

 

[BigBed]

Wendy spent £10m on the greatest striker ever to play in the championship.................hahaha, not a myth, just pure fiction!

 

[BushBlade]

The club always accepts the first bid.

 

[BushBlade]

The club will sell anyone if they’re offered £2m

 

[Fanny magnet]

At least if we've got a few million we won't have to delve into the free transfer market again
Everyone knows they are the most expensive deals

 

[Bladesway]

Diego will be playing in the Italian national team before he is 22.

x player is misunderstood.

He's a real football man

 

[Sheff de party]

Ah footballing myths, where do I start?

“Walls are useful at free kicks 30 yards out or more because it’s well easy to beat a professional goalkeeper from a dead ball that far out, even if you’ve played your entire career in League 2.”

“Rio Ferdinand was an excellent defender.”

“He works hard” as a completely redeeming feature, rather than a basic requirement of someone taking home thousands a week.

“Its a good save from the penalty, but it was a nice height for the keeper.”

“Short corners are a great idea, this’ll definitely go in.”

 

[stringer]

How about if United sign a player for £5m it costs them £5m only as the player doesn’t get paid or a sell on fee?

 

[Sean Thornton]

If a tree falls in a forest but there's no one there to see it, McCabe keeps all the money.

 

[nopigfansintown]

Top youth prospects grow on trees.

That contractual law doesn't apply to footballers

That the normal mores of business practice apply to Championship football clubs.

The myth that you don't need owners capable and willing to invest large amounts of equity in the championship to realistically be competitive in the transfer market..(You are allowed to "invest" 39 million over three years).

The myth that footballers are role models in any but a footballing sense.

The myth that there being "contact" justifies a player going to ground.

The myth that a contracted player can leave a club without the player, and both the buying and selling club's agreement.

Gareth Ainsworth isn't a cunt.

 

[dazzlingblade]

Walsall are shit

 

[Geordie Blade]

Some football myths:

- Denis Law’s backheeled goal sent Manchester United down. (Man U would have gone down anyway.)
- Belgium had six players marking Diego Maradona in that photo from the 1986 World Cup. (The photo was taken sideways on, and the six players were in a defensive wall.)
- Away goals count double in various cup competitions. (They really don’t, otherwise a 2-1 home win would be a draw.)
- You have to add on 30 seconds of injury time per substitution. (It depends how long each substitution takes.)
- “He played the ball first, so it wasn’t a foul”, or vice versa. (One of the most misinterpreted rules in the game. If it is ‘excessive force’, it is a foul whether you touch the ball first or not. Likewise, a slight touch of boots is NOT a foul if it doesn’t affect the other player’s balance.)

Blades-related myths:

- The pigs would have won the league in 1991/2 if we hadn’t done the double over them. (They finished 7 points off the top.)
- Traianos Dellas scored from close to the halfway line against Portsmouth. (It was actually only a few yards outside the area.)

 

[Dkc]

“Its a good save from the penalty, but it was a nice height for the keeper.”

"Cooly taken" - when a shit penalty goes in

"Great save, but the striker could have done better" - when an excellent penalty is saved.

And, as I posted on another thread, a losing team in a tight, even game "didn't have the same desire" as their opponents

 

[Dkc]

Some football myths:

- Traianos Dellas scored from close to the halfway line against Portsmouth. (It was actually only a few yards outside the area.)

 

[mattbianco1]

Clubs ask for more money off other clubs for players when they have an increased budget.

So how do you explain Man City paying more than the going rate for players?

They were looking at Jonny Evans last season for £18m. He's just gone to Leicester for £3.5m

 

[Pinchy]

He hit the post. Unlucky.

We would have been in Europe had we beaten Birmingham.

We shouldn’t have sacked Semi-Pro.

 

[I should coco]

We shouldn’t have sacked Semi-Pro.

With the benefit of hindsight and after 6 years in the third division, it may look a mistake.

At half time at home to Warnock's QPR and 0-3 down after one of the most abject performances I can remember in 50 years of watching United, he should have been chased out of the car park, before we kicked off for the second half.

For once Pinchy your 'harder, higher, longer' jibe actually finds its mark. Blackwell's only saving grace is that he was better than Robson which says so little.

 

[BushBlade]

With the benefit of hindsight and after 6 years in the third division, it may look a mistake.

At half time at home to Warnock's QPR and 0-3 down after one of the most abject performances I can remember in 50 years of watching United, he should have been chased out of the car park, before we kicked off for the second half.

For once Pinchy your 'harder, higher, longer' jibe actually finds its mark. Blackwell's only saving grace is that he was better than Robson which says so little.

It wasn’t the sacking, it was the timing. It really couldn’t have been worse. Let him spend all the money, do the pre-season, then sack him, appoint a novice and say ‘sort that shit out’.
Personally, I think he should never have been appointed, probably should have been sacked after losing the POF and definitely should have gone at the end of the following season, which was absolutely farcical.

 

[BushBlade]

So how do you explain Man City paying more than the going rate for players?

They were looking at Jonny Evans last season for £18m. He's just gone to Leicester for £3.5m

He was under contract to a PL club. Now his contract is a year less and with a club that can’t really afford his wages. He was also involved in an incident that has shown he’s a bit of a cock and I think he may have had a relegation clause in his contract.