Comments on: Liverpool Owners Were Attracted To $31 Million Signing By Faked YouTube Video [Update]

By: grundlebiter

grundlebiter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:03:03 +0000

Obviously the guy who started trading corn futures for his parents farm and ended up creating a trading system that made him a billionaire is a stupid idiot.

There is a 0% chance this story is true.

By: Huskerteers

Huskerteers — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:41:05 +0000

Speaking of transfers, this has been one of the most boring January windows in a long time. Not sure much will change either in the next couple of days.

By: Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:20:34 +0000

Yeah I saw you say that about the systemic issue on twitter this morning. What exactly do you mean by that? Medical and training staff failures? Types of players? Curious as to what you think there.

Last year Liverpool brought in a whole new “sports science” team and while it hasn’t prevented some of the bigger injuries that aren’t preventable, they did get Torres back into physical shape … and have lots of fancy gadgets they make the players wear during training.

By: Ty Duffy

Ty Duffy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:17:32 +0000

Duffy do you think that Wilshere going down the Harry Kewell Path To Excellence will force Arsene to make a signing this week?
Or that more likely he’ll just continue to bitch about the fact that big bad Ade is fucking up the race for fourth while Yossi sucks ass so therefore loans should be banned.

I’m going to go with continue to blame others and continue to ignore the fact that Arsenal’s injury patterns suggest a systemic issue rather than just absolutely horrible luck every year.

By: Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:11:47 +0000

Duffy do you think that Wilshere going down the Harry Kewell Path To Excellence will force Arsene to make a signing this week?

Or that more likely he’ll just continue to bitch about the fact that big bad Ade is fucking up the race for fourth while Yossi sucks ass so therefore loans should be banned.

By: ms621

ms621 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:11:05 +0000

False. I don’t rate Stevie G as highly as others. That’s more of an opinion than a bias.

Fair enough.

By: Ty Duffy

Ty Duffy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:10:04 +0000

Duffy hates him some Liverpool. So this comes naturally to him.

False. I don’t rate Stevie G as highly as others. That’s more of an opinion than a bias.

By: Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:04:39 +0000

Duffy hates him some Liverpool. So this comes naturally to him.

Well I didn’t mean Duffy, this story has run in several places and the initial one (I think in the Telegraph) was clearly done to try and embarrass the owners (who, again, do NOT make the signings) and then others ran with it. I don’t expect Duffy to track down a six month old interview.

Thanks for the update up there, chief.

By: ms621

ms621 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:02:22 +0000

Ridiculously lazy journalism.

Duffy hates him some Liverpool. So this comes naturally to him.

By: Nada

Nada — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:58:04 +0000

If only there was a faked YouTube video of Carson Palmer hitting moving targets with a football from 20 yards away. It would explain the Raiders’ trade with the Bengals.

By: payaso

payaso — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:55:10 +0000

The Red Sox picked up Mark Melancon and Andrew Bailey the same way is what I’m hearing.

By: Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:53:41 +0000

And before anyone brings up Ashley Young’s transfer fee, he only had one year left on his deal and was not going to sign a new one with Villa so they had to take what they could get for him, plus United are paying him way more in wages than Downing is getting.

By: Irvin Pankey

Irvin Pankey — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:52:39 +0000

So John Henry signed this guy after watching a 1:13 video? He’ll be broke quicker than you can say Antoine Walker.

By: Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:49:45 +0000

So you’re telling me they didn’t make this guy try out first before giving him millions of dollars?

That’s not how transfers work if someone is under contract.

He was Villa’s player of the season last year and their best player, that’s why he was signed, not for some stupid fucking video.

By: sportsgal116

sportsgal116 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:38:45 +0000

So you’re telling me they didn’t make this guy try out first before giving him millions of dollars?

By: MP

MP — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:37:03 +0000

Still a shitty signing, regardless of the reasons for it.

By: The Fan's Attic

The Fan's Attic — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:33:39 +0000

@Cowboy: [Attempts to but Tigers it]

By: Babar 2.0

Babar 2.0 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:33:10 +0000

Ridiculously lazy journalism.

Still waiting to find out what Gisele’s net carbon footprint is…this update will have to wait.

By: rambo.cts

rambo.cts — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:32:13 +0000

I like how the article makes it seem that they just added another $2million to the price tag because of the video. There could be a ton of reasons why they upped their offer

By: Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:30:27 +0000

High five, TFA.