Well the the transfer window has finally opened and transfer gossip and ITK is currently gearing up, before switching in to overdrive in the middle of August. As usual Tottenham have already been linked with dozens of players. While most of the players are familiar names (Kaka, Pato, Huntelaar, Lassana Diarra etc), every now and […]
Everyone Looks World Class on YouTube
Well the the transfer window has finally opened and transfer gossip and ITK is currently gearing up, before switching in to overdrive in the middle of August.
As usual Tottenham have already been linked with dozens of players. While most of the players are familiar names (Kaka, Pato, Huntelaar, Lassana Diarra etc), every now and again an unfamiliar name crops up. These days it is easy to find out about these curious foreign superstars. Forum members will spend hours poring over the football oracles that are the Football Manager database and YouTube.
“I’ve checked him on the FM database and he has a shooting ability of 20 and 18 for passing! He’s a wonderkid at the moment, but turns in to the Next Messi!”
Leandro Damiao is the most recent player to undergo this close examination. On various forums we are told about how good Leandro Damiao is in 2016, when he will score 45 goals in all competitions, including the Champions League Final. As proof that is will happen it is now practice to wheel out a YouTube video to support the claim. Recently the Leandro Damião 2011 – The Living Legend – HD video has been doing the rounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pERA1mqZ1RM
You can’t really argue with that video. Damiao certainly looks the business and I, like the majority of Spurs fans, hope we manage to sign the kid at a decent price. However, you can’t judge a player based on a 3:14 minute video of an entire career.
If YouTube really reflected what players are like throughout their career, we would have won countless tournaments and cups with this little lot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsCmvARqyno
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02/06/2012 @ 8:23 pm
I’m not sure signing someone who sounds like Lasgna Diarrhoea is a good idea for a team like Tottenham Hotspur considering what happened in 2006..
02/06/2012 @ 11:27 pm
The transfer window hasn’t opened yet
02/06/2012 @ 11:41 pm
Oh shit maybe it might of.. My bad
03/06/2012 @ 8:04 am
Great posting and absolutely right. Did you ever see the TV comedy series where Ricky Tomlinson took over as, literally, caretaker manager? It was on about 5-6 years ago and filmed at Brentford. In one episode, he signed a South American on the basis of a video showing 6-7 wonder goals…….only to find that he’d signed the useless goalie from the clips, not the striker. Its a bit like that with Youtube isnt it? Everyone can look great if you take 10 clips out of a 5 year career. Even if its representative of the players talent, it doesnt show his attitude to training (is that how we signed Dos Santos?), his workrate (Pav) or his mistakes (Gomes). As for Football Manager – my 16 year old son has just won the Champions League for Spurs with a side that included Tevez and Van Persie – so maybe thats all we need to do! Actually…….it probably is! Oh well…………..
03/06/2012 @ 8:37 am
harry just buys players like he is playing football manager he looks on the free transfer list and see and whole load of over 30’s who were great in there day and cant resist signing them thinking they will still be as good.
Sack him now.