After a period of technical tinkering, it’s time I caught up with the developments of the summer so far – starting with a look at City’s second signing of the close season – Roque Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz arrives at City after a torrid final season with Blackburn. The Paraguayan made 17 starts for Rovers last term, notching just 4 goals and 2 assists. It was a season regularly punctured by injury however, with spells on the sidelines in October, December and from March onwards. The player’s own thinly veiled threats to leave the club in various interviews, also did little to enamour him to Ince and Allardyce or provide a stable platform for the striker to perform.
Instead fantasy managers and City fans will be clinging to the form demonstrated in the previous season – a first in English football, in which Santa Cruz provided 19 goals and 7 assists in 36 starts for Blackburn. Significantly, this was under the reign of Mark Hughes, who will surely appreciate what it takes to get the best from his new striker now he finally has him ensconced at Eastlands…
Despite competition for starts up front (which seems likely to increase given City’s recent Eto enquiry), the lack of European football next term should offer us 32+ starts for Santa Cruz. The picture could change should Hughes grab Eto, Tevez or an alternative, although it seems likely that Santa Cruz will fulfill the target man role in the City attack. That should secure his regular presence on the team sheet with little challenge from the bench.
With starts and a ready supply of service from the wings, Santa Cruz should be good for 15+ goals in a City side that seems likely to maintain an attacking flair given the likely ingredients of their eleven. When you add new-found creativity from fellow summer signing Gareth Barry, to the potent creative threats of Robinho, Wright-Phillips, Bellamy and Ireland, there’s every reason to expect that City will outscore last season’s impressive goal tally of 58. If they can achieve that, there’s little doubt that Santa Cruz will be positioned for heavy fantasy profits.
His price point will be a key point of interest. Coming off the back of a hugely successful first season, Santa Cruz’s fantasy potential was hamstrung by an inflated value last term. This time around it will be interesting to see how the various fantasy games rank him in the pecking order. His move to City should see his price hold steady at a mid-to-high level but last season’s stats, coupled with City’s expanding list of talent, could well see a minor drop in some of the games.
A definite name on the pre-season shortlist, Santa Cruz needs monitoring in pre-season to assess his role, City’s formation and to see just how quickly he adapts to their pattern of play. If he starts the season injury free and with form, he could well be a key initial signing for our fantasy lineups.
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If United do struggle to bring in class reinforcements and Man City get Etoo/Tevez and Arsenal to possibly reinforce it could make for possibly the most interesting Premier league season to date. Here’s hoping.
Casillas 28 yrs, Ramos 23 yrs, Albiol 23 yrs, diarra 24 yrs, Ronaldo 24 yrs, kaka 27 yrs, Benzema 21 yrs.. Looks like Real will be on top of the world for next 5 yrs!!
Depends, any of those could do a Raul and fizzle out before hitting 30.
BENZEMA IS OFFICIALLY HEADING TO REAL MADRID AND I AGREEE IT SOUNDS AS IS SIR ALEX DID NOT EVEN BID FOR HIM. I CAN ONLY HOPE THAT SIR ALEX HAS VILLA IN MIND, BECAUSE HE IS THE ONLY SURE SHOT ROUTE TO SUCCESS.
VILLA AND ROONEY PAIRING MOUTHWATERING
AND I HOPE THEN BERBATOV WILL ROT IN THE BENCH. IT WOULD BE EVEN MORE WONDERFUL IF WE GOT SOME CASH BY SELLING BERBATOV AND THEN USED IT TO SIGN A 3RD YOUNG STRIKER, BUT NOW I AM JUST WISTFULLY DREAMING.
I think king999 is on the money (3.48pm post). It’s gonna be Berbatov who benefits most of all next season, more so than Rooney.
I reckon Man U will be looking for players who can play wide rather than a Villa-type striker, as they already have Berb and Rooney who can play there quite happily.
An early contender for worst post of the month pratik? SHOUTING absolute s**t. I’m sure I speak for everyone by saying we’re looking forward to reading every thought that enters your tiny head. When do you start school anyway? Your name is remarkably appropriate by the way!
Its not ManYoo’s attack that is the problem, its their midfield.
there is no-one there creative enough to do anything significant (highlighted in champions league final). i think you’ll find SAF is looking at either a defensive center mid or attacking center mid to blow his millions on.
berbs and rooney up front is sufficient, but there isn’t anyone to get the ball to em.
lol
jesus christ real on paper looks like a pro evo team
top notch shit goin on there
interesting to see how it will work
I would be greatly surprised if real madrid actually works
Then you will be surprised…The team looks amazing and I think that the Spanish league will be the most interesting one by far next year
Real Madrid are proven Career killers they have tried this cash splashing before and the team did not have any chemistry.
Barca’s recent sucess began with hard work 10 – 15 years ago at youth level. There is a big difference between the two clubs but very rarely a big difference on the pitch.
Also Bigo1 id say you are heavily biased toward Real and thinking positively for them
Yet they won the Champions League with all the Galacticos????
What are you on about?
This has undoubtedly been answered already, though I have just got back on the net after 3 weeks so a little out of touch with this site.
Can anybody remember roughly when last seasons fpl opened?
the word on the interwebbed street is this weekend
and yeah the real team is going to be fun to look at i think it will work, havnt u learned anything from pro evo’s master league and waynes world ?
Put them on the same team and they will score
try readin any post on this website, people have been asking all over and been answered.
Cheers Al, just what I wanted to hear!
Oh and even, try reading my post? Been off the net for 3 weeks and I didn’t fancy reading through close to a thousand old posts just to get an answer.
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What a fascinating close season this is turning out to be. I cannot believe SAF has apparently failed to prepare for the departures of Ronaldo and Tevez. He must have a shock signing up his sleeve… surely.
I mean, it is not as if either transfer came out of the blue.
As a Liverpool fan I take no pleasure in this situation at all… no sir… not me.
(If Masch and Alonso both go… I expect pelters in return btw!)
SAF is very good at concealing his transfer activity until the deals are done. Valencia was out in the open due to the fact Utd had scouted him practically all last season, and attempted bids also. I wonder if he will look the EPL for English replacements rather than abroad, i.e Villa’s Young and Abonglahor £20 mil each?
Yawn…it’s official Americans are stupid http://www.skysports.com/story.....47,00.html (with apologies to all other Americans-except George Bush).
1/ someone tell him this has been the coldest of hot topics since 1961…the maximum wage will not be re-established
2/ what is his plan to stop Shaky Mansoor employing Sam Etoo as an ambassador and paying him direct from Abu Dabby
3/ no doubt the maximum wage would be set at a level to suit a large, rich London club with no outside investors and not at the level which would suit a small newly-promoted club from Lancashire
4/ if he wants to make the league more competitive let him campaign to redistribute the “champions” league prize money equally between the 20 clubs in the premiership…and lets have gate receipts split 67%:33% between the home club and the away club
he seems as daft as pratsick (see above)
Gazidis is actually English…
A salary cap should be enforced by Fifa if it was to work, and any extra royalties (as you mentioned with Eto’o) should be snuffed out.
If the salary cap was at say, 25,00 a week, then the savings made by bigger clubs could be enforced to go directly to savings on a drastic reduction of ticket pricing.
But then Sepp Blatter’s a flithy corrupt capitalist, so it’ll never go through.
No MF it’s a pipe dream whoever tries to enforce it. Imagine that you’re in charge. Now you employ Deloitte Touche Jappo (accountants) to investigate Manchester City (and all other clubs-so expensive). They say Man City paying Sam Etoo £25,000 per week. You say no, you need to investigate Shady ManSewer. They say how…he has a web of private companies in Abba Dabba…we can’t see the books. You pass a FIFA law so Shady has to open his books. But there are a web of 1000 companies all over the worls in tax havens, unregulated sandy atolls in the Pacific ocean, awash with Tsunamis and Shady owns a bit of this a bit of that. Shady says yes feel free to look at the books. But DTJ say we have no jurisdiction in this tax haven and that next again tax haven and Shady is only a minor shareholder in this company wich fully owns that one and so on.
So you pass a FIFA law to investigate Etoo. He tells you where to stick your translation, doesn’t answer letters. DTJ do a preliminary report by which time Etoo has retired 3 years ago.
Meantime the other FIFA guys are telling the world how much you are spending on auditors and you get voted out.
Meantime Shady and Etoo are wetting themselves because he paid him cash in an armoured car in Switzerland.
Yeah, sadly, you’re right. The whole thing is idealistic rather than realistic, it’s just what we get for living in a capitalist world. These people really shouldn’t be allowed into football in the first place, but thenwho’s actually going to stop them?
The Premiership’s fit and proper persons committee of course!
Er…..
Personally, I don’t think Sheik Mansour and family are doing anything wrong. Rich businessmen spending their own money to promote the Abu Dhabi tourist trade.
It’s just one extra club competing for the limited pool of top players, but it has no significant effect on football in general except that England are a bit more powerful in the market so FIFA/UEFA are a bit more annoyed.
Best way to stop it….tax at 100% on earnings over a certain level. I’d say that there isn’t a single person that earns over £25k a week and deserves it? NHS doctors/nurses? Care workers? Teachers? Aid workers? Most would be happy to get that much a year.
Gazidis is a greek name and… yes, according to Wikipedia he is of greek descent, born in South Africa, raised in England.The salary cap is a nice idea, but I agree with dribbler (is Jimmy Hill someone else?) that it’s hard to fill all its holes. Example story:
When Bacelona wanted to sign Johan Cruyff back in 1973, Ajax agreed the fee to be 6M Guilders, something like 2M£. Madrid of course wouldn’t let this transfer happen without any obstacles, so the Spanish government prohibited the transaction claiming that it was bad for the Spanish economy to export all that money to a foreign state. Barcelona then registered Cruyff as an agricultural machine, imported into Barcelona as an impulse for the Catalonian economy…
lol-good story…Jimmy Hill was an English footballer who became the PFA (players union) representative in the late 1950’s/early 1960’s. He became famous because he campaigned for the abolition of the maximum wage which went through after many arguments in 1961 (I think).
OK, I appreciate the info, but I was just wondering if “jimmy hill” is a different poster to “dribbler”, as there were comments with both nicknames and the same gravatar. Apparently it isn’t.
How big is the financial risk taken by Madrid? Looks as though spending could near half a billion! Obviously success is needed to repay this, if it diddnt click as expected and trophies diddnt come.. could they collapse like leeds a while ago?
surely not the great madrid,
i’m not sure how the whole thing works over there, but i’m of the opinion that perez has come in with his money to support the club. if he was to suddenly become bankrupt then another president would be elected and step in to support the club with their money. (i may be wrong)
I think it’s a load of old boys network/masonic handshakes type thing…the King of Spain supports Real Madrid (murmer/rumour/murmer), co-operative local banks giving soft loans, trusting Perez to make money flogging shirts/tv deals/lucrative friendlies etc, co-operative government ministers if it all goes pear-shaped…”a chap trusts a chaps word old-boy”/a nods as good as a wink etc.
I read that Perez has a personal fortune of £1.3 billion…about the same as Mike Ashley…so it’s not really enough to underpin the spending without putting the whole lot at risk.
But Real Madrid negotiate their own tv deal which is already double the premiership (i.e. £80m ) and their commercial revenue is double what it was when Perez first came in.
Could it all go pear-shaped? I guess it could but I don’t know really. Would they find a way to wiggle out of it if it did? I bet they would! The press are saying their finances were in good shape at the start of all this. Nor are they the victims of leveraged buy-outs like a couple of English clubs.
They shouldn’t do a Leeds…the banks and council will continue to support them as needed as they are more than a football team to the city.
The spending is ridiculous and unprecedented, and there’s no guarantees- the last Galacticos era only lasted a few seasons. But Perez is no Abramovich and they are mainly spending with debt. Madrid (and Barca) get massive amounts of TV money, far more than Man U receive, and it’s assumed they’re spending the future earnings now.
Perez is also CEO of a massive construction firm (which you’d imagine would be having hard times- Valencia are also backed by construction and they’re in all sorts of trouble), and from what I’ve read it’s in the banks’ interests to maintain good favour with him. So they’ll let the debt slide a bit…but it must be a huge calculated risk with the credit crunch.
A like mind MnL.
Something else we might not appreciate is the sheer potential of the football market around the world. As Asia and other regions get richer they’ll spend more and more on leisure. India is virtually untapped by football but look at the success of the IPL 20-20 tournaments. What will an Indian TV company pay for Real Madrid TV rights? That’s why the Glazers, Gilettes, Hicks etc are darkening our doors after all.
Yeah, I have to say I do find it all quite interesting.
I read that Madrid learned an awful lot from marketing Beckham (something LA Galaxy clearly failed at) and like you say the Asian market is nowhere near fully tapped.
The Premiership’s 39th game was hoping to get in there first, but until that happens there’s going to be a lot more friendlies, tours and tournaments over there, possibly on midseason breaks (will we see them in the Prem soon?).
I reckon Madrid will move ahead here, because the Premiership will try and move collectively, with 16 teams that no one in Asia cares about. But there will be something in the pipeline…that must be the reason behind all these takeovers.
Interesting point mnl re real seeming to be learning from their marketing of Beckham. It seems to me that the galacticos mark two are a lot younger than the mark one version (i stand to be corrected here though) and as such their marketing arm should have a longer time to recoup their money. Crazy as the sums of money sound they might just work over a reasonably long period.
They are coming to Ireland for their preseason and are playing a friendly against a local team (shamrock rovers) who would have avg gates of around 1500 but with a temp stand they have sold 12000 tickets at €60 a pop! for a friendly!
To put it in perspective sunderland are playing a friendly also and you cna buy the tickets at the gate for €10 a pop!
And also, though the spending seems huge in pounds, it’s not so much in Euros.
Look at the Kaka deal, by far the most expensive ever in pounds (at the time), but less than Zidane in Euros. So they’re actually not spending as much as it seems to us – though it is still huge amounts.
It was ages ago but I read an article on the financial kickbacks from Beckham in the States. LA Galaxy put their prices up and still doubled their attendences (13k to 28k I think). Away gates were up by an average 6,000 when Beckham played etc. I can’t really remember the details now though. It concluded his wages were covered by cash to the league in total.
They’ve most likely secured a loan on the fact that quite simply these guys are going to generate huge wealth through shirt sales alone. Take for example Ronaldo – 80 Million. A quick look on a couple of sites and a Ronaldo Real madrid shirt costs £50. A bit of maths and that works out as 1.6 million shirts that need to be sold to recoup that figure. If anyone suggests to me that Ronaldo over the next six years won’t sell 1.6 million shirts they are mental
Of course Madrid wouldn’t receive £50 profit from each shirt…
But I wonder how many of the shirts on the streets will be official? I’m sure we’ve all been on holiday and seen stalls with Milan, Madrid, Man U etc cheap knock off shirts. If there was any way the copyright holders could stamp out the black market, they’d be rolling in the green stuff!
Very good point and embarassing considering i’m an accountant. But they will still cover the cost from shirt sales alone in my opinion – even with fakes on the market. They recouped much more than the 23 million they spent on beckham and Ronaldo’s the most well known footballer other than beckham
Wouldn’t the signing of Kaka split the sales of Ronaldo though? I mean people aren’t going to buy a Kaka shirt AND a Ronaldo one, they’ll get on or the other (probably the former as he’s only 4 letters + 1 number, not to mention being way less of a twat). I’m no expert, but I think Beckham’s rep was way more than Kaka and Ronaldo combined. His status in the far-east especially must have been a real bonus for Madrid that they wouldn’t have with either of these two.
When he moved to Real, I’d see kids on the street with Beckham shirts, I can’t imagine half as many with Ronaldo ones now.
A couple of weeks ago I argued with greek boy (on the beach/lucky b*****d) about shirt sales (I was really making a point about the huge size of the market). But a BBC article the same day said the real money was tv deals not shirts.
Yep, I remember I mentioned MnL’s and MF’s arguments about funofficial shirts, hoax souvenirs, fake products, Beckham’s unique commercial case and split in the sales of shirts when you buy CR, Kaka, Benzema in the same transfer window. All of them shall ask for a part of that money too. I still believe that this kind of money can be made only by crazy TV rights, very expensive VIP tickets and you need wins to keep commercial revenues high, as the players have huge wages each year too. But there was another interesting article yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/foot.....corruption
I’m only saying LA failed because I’ve never seen anyone wearing one of their shirts. Maybe I’m way off the mark.
my mates got an La Galaxy shirt – they got to him
yeah they may sell 1.6 million ronaldo shirts, but many of those will be real fans who would have bought a raul shirt anyway…
“Manchester City manager Mark Hughes is facing the prospect of being priced out of signing Everton defender Joleon Lescott. Everton value the centre half at £20m, which is £5m more than Hughes is willing to pay”
whats up with that, i know mark hughes is trying to stand the morale high ground but seriously. i dont think the extra 5m would trouble them.
if you want a player get him at all costs, utd have unfortunately learnt this in recent days
I read that too but different journalists say different things.
I was looking at last year’s scoring last night. Does anyone think there might be a wholesale change in pricing policy this season? Anelka was the only striker to score more than 150 pts,which seems ludicrous given that strikers are the most expensive players.
Doubt it…but think of the hundreds of thousands of players who’ll overspend on strikers!
If their is not a change in pricing policy it makes a compelling argument for my 4-5-1 or 5-4-1 being the best formation to go with!
Ps. I hope their isn’t as I have a nucleus of players picked out for my team which is price dependent and it would be frustrating if I cant pick them.
Ps Pity Johnson moved to pool b4 the new prices came out
But things change from season to season. In 2007/08 strikers like Debayor and RSC were knocking them in for fun, whereas the season before that it was similar to this one, with Drogba and Rooney being the only real execptions.
I think defenders will go up in general, maybe back to the times where a starting big 4 defender was 7 rather than 6.5. But that doesn’t mean that this season will still be all about doubling on defenders and cheap forwards.
Ribery has asked for a transfer to Madrid. So reading between the lines it’s a done deal if Bayern play ball.
Scratching my head to work out where they’ll all play.
no, i don’t think so. They will, of course, base the scores on last season’s points totals, and factor in other considerations to a lesser extent (injuries-points per game, likelihood of starting, points ‘potential’). There will be bargains, and there will be overpriced players. I tend to think bargains are 0.5 under what they should be, with ’superstars’ overpriced by 0.5 or 1.0m.
There are certain do’s – at least one top 4 club defender who can score, perhaps 2 this season – without Ronaldo to fork-out for. 4 midfielders who are very attacking, 3 of which are ‘dead certs’ to do pretty well. Strikers are more pot luck, and depend on how they are priced. One big club bargain may be evident, along with 2 hunches.
I tend to avoid new arrivals to the premier league, and players that have moved club and are consequently more expensive (remember Bentley?)
Anyone have any know which players for the promoted teams could be worth a look? – i’ve had a quick look at their current squads and it doesn’t make for pleasant scouting.
haha i feel for the bentley pick at the beginning of the season…. oh dear oh dear
haha we should all know the routine with Spurs by now.
I have to say not all new signings turn out like that. Having Deco from week 1 last season was a real winner for me. His injury was pretty timely too.
i think i started with Bent & Bentley, that went really well for me.
lol on the other hand I had Behrami. I can’t even remember if he got anything beyond 2.
try bent, bentley, downing, petrov, carvalho and alves! between injuries and loss of form (two missed peno’s from downing!) i was playing catch up all season:)
Lets hope I learn from my mistakes this year.
Ps. I hadnt seen this website until after xmas last year so hopefully you guys will disuade me from putting out such a rubbish team this year.
We all had our duds in the time each season, it’s the case of learning from it – and knowing about moving on swiftly.
For example, I think I got the Gary Neville / Wes Brown cheap RB case wrong about 4 times in the first three months (Before Rafael really started), that was a right mess.
lol Downing was the worst
some guy in my league had him captain both penalties misses though which was pretty funny
how unlucky can someone be? but in fairness who captains downing??? he probably deserved it rofl
there has been some conjecture on this alright ab but none of them look a must have to me tbh.
Here is my club by club hot list fwiw
Wolves:
People are saying silvain ebanks blake lit up the championship (top scored in last two seasons) but from what i remember of him their is definitely a miss in him.
Also at wolves they have michael kightly who was a goal and assist magnet in the championship and probably their one premiership class player imo but again some of these promoted teams spend so much time defending that their attacking players dont get much of a look in.
Other than that their new cm nenad (or something like that) looks to be a scoring cm but again unproven so i’ll be giving him a miss until we see how he is going.
Mayber Kevin doyle might be worth a look but his goal output is not high enough for my liking. If priced rock bottom would be a good squad filler though.
Birmingham
For birmingham I seem to remember seb larsson scoring a few memorable (prob why i only SEEM to remember them) goals and assists during brums last premiership sojourn.
I think most fpl players will be going for their defenders however with hart sure to be a favourite and roger johnson expected to pick up a few goals (usually gets 6 or 7 in a season so should be good for 3-4 in epl) and a lot of bons points. I cant see any other nailed on starters here so will be stearing clear otherwise.
Apart from him their new striker benitez has a good goal scroing record for a young guy (23) with 10 in 17 for Ecuador and 60 in 141 for his clubs (straight from wikipedia so take with a pinch of salt) but at 5′6″ he may not have the stature to suceed in the epl.
Burnley
As far as the last promoted club is concerned alexander might be worth a look. he will prob be playing def mid and takes penalties (free kicks and corners also i think) but will be classed as a defender. He is 37 so how much action he gets will prob depend on how he manages over the first month or so.
Again other than that its hard to know where to look mccann is a box to box scoring midfielder but i can see them struggling big time in the epl.
Fine article…I’d save it because the same question will be asked 10 times a day from now on.
I’d just like to add that Kightly supposedly got 8 goals and 18 assists. But I wonder if the assists are “FPL standard” assists or “Wolves website standard” assists.
I’d also speculate that if SEB can get 25 goals in the Championship he must be worth a few in the premiership?
Jansen the Burnley keeper, he makes a lot of saves.
Chris Eagles, Ebanks Blake and Lee Bowyer are all on my look at list.
chris eagles – not a regular starter 30 starts last year and 13 subs apps with 7 goals. If he is not a nialed on starter he wont do it for me.
Jansen – He will most likely get plenty of save points but the chances of him keeping cs are remote (11 at home and 2 away so they may do a stoke on it) and I fully expect him to have a back injury before too long from picking the ball out of the net.
Lee bower – Interesting choice and one who has scored goals (4 in 2.5 years at west brom and 1 in 17 games at birmingham) sporadically in the past, but his disciplinary record and age are definitely against him.
As with all squad fillers price will be key
just to expand on that burnley only got 1 clean sheet in every 3.56 games (and thats in the championship!). Their home record was a bit better however with 1 in 2 but again I wouldn’t be expecting anything like this in the epl from them.
See you are looking at it as if they are gonna be your first choice players, you should be looking to those as strong bench warmers ready to be called in as and when a sub is called upon.
If you think you’ll get 15 players from the sky 4 then you’re mistaken.
Fair point chill. I think i only had geovani from the promoted teams last year (marney for a short while) and beattie i would possibly have had more towards the end of the season but i missed the boat on the stoke defenders.
So it is possible to make a team not including the promoted teams players. Also i would say that the majority of promoted players will be duds unless maybe you get a leeds or a newcastle coming up and investing or with a strong young english team like reading or ipswich previously.
Also i tried last year not to look as players as just squad players (even though there were some cheap players in there) but i tried to have players that i didnt mind playing like figs and pantsil in defense and beattie in attack and lawrence, pienaar etc in midfield.
anyone know when we can start this crazy fantasy team lark again ? Im suffering withdrawals …
It’ll be interesting to see if they up lampard and gerrards prices to 12/13 million to compensate for the lack of Ronaldo. I hope they don’t. Imagine if they made Gerrard a striker.. i think i’d throw up
I think both will be 12M
I could see both being 13-13.5m
I say 12m as well…if you them both thats almost 1/4 of ur salary gone already!
I think thats he point they want to make people choose whether to bear the pain of having both. What is the point in making it easy for everyone to have both i their teams? they may as well just let us pick 8 outfield players and get rid of gerro and lamps out of the scoring. I’m sticking to my circa 13m guess
At the end of last season I said 12.5m each, maybe one of them (Gerrard more likely) being a more expensive option of the two.
Precedent says we will find out soon enough though folks.
hello
hmm, does anyone know why post’s from my work pc appear, but posts made from my home pc don’t?
Because you’re home Pc’s racist?
Hi
Hi Foch, any ideas?
i’m sure my home pc is is as politically correct as my work pc. Perhaps i need to mail mark?
Speaking of Beckham and LA Galaxy…
The guardian says that Landon Donovan isn’t too keen on having him back.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/foot.....on-donovan
what is donovon still doing in the MLS, i guess it feels like home to him and he’s loyal and all, but he has so much potential to do well else were
Did you not see him at Bayern Seal? He did a move similar to Beckham (January to March, MLS off season). He is/was a promising player, now he’s getting to the point where his prime could be almost considered a past point, but mainly – he was a Giant flop there, they sent him back early I believe.
He’s tried in Europe a few times, he had 4 years at Leverkusen where he was a nobody.
Donovans average at best. He just got hyped because he was american.
i’d heard he had a few goes at europe and it didnt work out, but thats only germany
i reckon he’d do well in england, but i guess its that old football manager news feed, ‘he finds it hard to settle in the area’ other then the US
I Think he’s fine, good maybe, no better. But if you can’t cut it in the Bundesligue how can he do it in the Premiership? It’s a much stronger and physical league than in Germany, and Donovan is pretty much a fairy, no chance.
Is my PC playing up or has the twitter feed on the home page dropped off?
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