British Forum BETTING thread

Yeah he's decent player, I think sometimes these lads need nurturing and developing rather then loaning them out and then cutting there losses. I think some of the kids have got ability to make it at clubs like Wigan,Wolves etc.

Look at Scott Sinclair Wigan get him on loan and hardly use him, he goes to Swansea and Rodgers really develops him. Even a journeyman player like Routledge is being used to good affect.

 

Where is the tips boys? All these stats and talk dont mean sheeeeeeit in this thread. Ya hear :bart

 

Yeah i tend to agree although i think others have shown the way in the transfer market.

He's had 3 seasons (this being 3rd) to gel a team and really develop them and they still seem a mish mash of British lads mixed with some random foreigners. To be blunt Martinez is two a penny in Spain as a coach i'd imagine. I think he's lucky he's got full backing of a chairman that doesn't wield axe. Admittedly he hasn't got a massive budget and has signed a few nice players but compare his work to others and for me it's not impressive. Some of them foreign signings are bizarre as well, he seems to have a fetish for south american market. Bruce actually did very good with that market with Rodellega being a good buy when he was there plus Palacios.

 

And Martinez turned us down.

The fans were the most vocal they've been yet against Mcleish today. It's only going to get worse.

 

Villa done me atsch

 

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Tips ma****ers.

 

Yeah i felt they'd beat you lot today, He's worse then Roberto least Martinez would play likes of Bannan etc.

Yeah i agree i like the south american market, very impressive players but it's a risky market. To spend 6.5mil on a guy and play him on own up front is poor form.

I actually like Diame as well, he could well be a world class player in making. I'm back and forth on Victor he's inconsistent as you say. I know people who watched him at Palace as a kid and they said he's unreal although some said he was **** poor. I think for a lad of his age he should be better in terms of consistency. Probably made a bad move going there although getting first team football maybe needed better coaching. Wigan rarely keep a consistent shape.

 

Stephen Warnock telephoned in - without a word of exaggeration - the worst sporting performance in history today.

Oh, and there's decent odds on Eloy Perez to beat G Brones in February, he's worth a punt imo.

 

Yeah i be honest i'm fascinated by Italian and South American football the way they play intrigues me. Mourinho admitted that he found Italian tactics the most hardest to play against and understand that's why he took the Inter job he badly wanted to succeed and did.

I used to watch Argentinian football on Channel 5 and some other channel that used to be on Sky it had a show called the Dugout with Adrian Durham on it. Tevez was playing Boca at them times and a young Kun Aguero was 15 scoring for Independiente.

I think them adapting to British Culture is hard in it'self look at Crespo he IMO was a good signing and when on pitch was a extremely good striker for us. Actually probably best striker we bought in recent times other then Drogba in terms of success. Yet when he first arrived he already felt homesick when he installed internet and he supposedly didn't have a latin version of software or something and it bothered him immensely. Good article from Tim Vickery here about Crespo and homesickness http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_football/4734167.stm . Clubs do forget these guys are human beings.

The sad thing with Boselli is he never ever looked a target man, yet Martinez would stick him up front on own. He even baffles me now with Sammon up front and he leaves Di Santo and Rodellega on bench.

I mean all them South American and countries that border them regions are churning out some classy players. Honduras, Costa Rica. Look at that Ruiz at Fulham. I'm very impressed with him recently, he's starting to show the player that he was at Twente.

As for Villa, Pab/Wallet what's happened to Warnock? Saturday played very good but today was awful. He normally this inconsistent?

 

Totally agree T, And from what i've read Boselli was a poacher so your right. It's like sticking Hernandez up front on own, although he'd do a much better job admittedly . The Mexican market is very good, we bought Ulises Davilla and farmed him out on loan. Fingers crossed a Hernandez not Vela signing for us.

Fulham have some really good attacking options, Be honest last week they out played us at Bridge. No fluke either they have some quality players in there team.