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Matter of time till Levy goes to the premier lge and sorts this out. The fact that he turned up for a medical shows they accepted the bid. Marinakis obviously just realised what had happened and trying to save face.
The problem can only be between MGW plus agent and Forest.
 
CJJ said:
The one I remember was Miguel Angel Nadal. I was still in high school, so must have been late 90s. We were echelons below Barca so even teenage me knew that was hog swill.

The absolute peak for me was when you had to watch Futbol Mundial to know what was happening in the other leagues. My first proper PC game I bought was CM2 Italia, and having players like Ravenelli just randomly pop up in the PL. I don't know who will remember,but there was a football cereal that came out and had all the new PL signings on the ad, and I think Ravenelli said something like "I come to england because I am hungry" or some shit like that. Stickers free in corn flakes, and all that. Proper times when no cunt knew everything about everything and was banging out trapezoids to prove a player was decent.

You can tell that era is on its arse now as you'd pick up a red-top rag for 20p for all your football gossip, occasionally with a token for a Mars Ice Cream, and I looked recently and I'm sure that the rags are all near if not more than £2 now. Mental.


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It was so much better then, as a kid I just assumed that anyone playing in Italy or Spain must be a football God!

I don't think the relative quality of football in England at the time did much to dispel that notion once they arrived, you'd see Ravanelli just materialise in Middlesbrough and bang in 30 goals his first season, Chelsea signing over the hill players like Gullit/Vialli/Zola or random people like Le Boeuf who would slot in effortlessly and look good, random jobbers from Serie A like Benito Carbone...

Juninho, Kinkladze, Asprilla, what a time!

Meanwhile we took advantage of this by signing Paolo Tramezzani...

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CJJ said:
The one I remember was Miguel Angel Nadal. I was still in high school, so must have been late 90s. We were echelons below Barca so even teenage me knew that was hog swill.

The absolute peak for me was when you had to watch Futbol Mundial to know what was happening in the other leagues. My first proper PC game I bought was CM2 Italia, and having players like Ravenelli just randomly pop up in the PL. I don't know who will remember,but there was a football cereal that came out and had all the new PL signings on the ad, and I think Ravenelli said something like "I come to england because I am hungry" or some shit like that. Stickers free in corn flakes, and all that. Proper times when no cunt knew everything about everything and was banging out trapezoids to prove a player was decent.

You can tell that era is on its arse now as you'd pick up a red-top rag for 20p for all your football gossip, occasionally with a token for a Mars Ice Cream, and I looked recently and I'm sure that the rags are all near if not more than £2 now. Mental.


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Think my first Championship Manager was 95 or 96. Took a literal day to load a new season lol

On one of them, I shit you not i signed both Ginola and Ferdinand before it happened in real life.
 
GOAT said:
I gave a straightforward, direct answer. No waffle.

Just because you don't like the answer, doesn't mean that it isn't true.

Gotcha.
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There's nothing to like or dislike. I couldn't care less if the fat man is behind this or not. Just wanted to see how sure you were about yourself, even though you have absolutely no clue what is happening behind the scenes.
 
Herclueless said:
Not true, I vividly remember the Teletext page with the clickbaity rumour headlines advertising ITK phone lines!

The more things change...

Also, having chosen Spurs based purely on not wanting to support Leeds Utd, knowing the name Klinsmann, and liking the kit, towards the end of the 94/95 season, I only learned that Klinsmann had left when buying the 95/96 Panini sticker album and finding him not there...


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0891 100 500 was Spurs.

May have got in some trouble about the phone bill in my youth.
 
Herclueless said:
It was so much better then, as a kid I just assumed that anyone playing in Italy or Spain must be a football God!

I don't think the relative quality of football in England at the time did much to dispel that notion once they arrived, you'd see Ravanelli just materialise in Middlesbrough and bang in 30 goals his first season, Chelsea signing over the hill players like Gullit/Vialli/Zola or random people like Le Boeuf who would slot in effortlessly and look good, random jobbers from Serie A like Benito Carbone...

Juninho, Kinkladze, Asprilla, what a time!

Meanwhile we took advantage of this by signing Paolo Tramezzani...

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Pre-Oligarch chelsea was pretty much peak PL. You had Man Utd doing Man Utd things back then (£30m spends even back then) but it felt like it was a plausible dream to win the lottery, rescue spurs from Sugar, and then sign some amazing Serie A talents.

I don't like to get too "deep" into other players in other leagues because I prefer the excitement of a new player, rather than people moaning about Guiseppe Bolognaise being not technical enough to play a high press as a 6, before I've even heard of him
 
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