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West Ham bag Tevez and Mascherano.
amazing..
Tevez and Mascherano...
I am in shock...i have no idea what happened today...but West Ham have signed Tevez and Mascherano...West Ham for ****s sake...Im a Villa fan and people would have been surprised if they signed for us...Clubs in Italy and Spain i doubt have even heard of West Ham...this is crazy...and where would that money have come from...
The fees are undisclosed which suggests somethings weird is going on...whatever has happened this is the most amazing couop i have ever seen...We are away to West Ham next...i hope our new signing Petrov can do something...
Meanwhile im gonna go have a smoke...try and understand what happened today lol...
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God there really arent enough football fans on Gupshup...Ashley Cole has finally gone to Chelsea...with Gallas going in the other direction...finally this saga has been brought to and end...
Poor Middlesboro...the Huth deal couldnt go through cos Kenyon was too busy dealing with the AshleyCole business to bother with it lol...They must be so annoyed...
Reyes has gone on loan to Real...good signing for them...Reyes is a good player...he was just homesick here...and Baptista is coming the other way...i think hes uselsss but maybe a big guy is what Arsenal need...
Tootenham have signed Chimbonda and Malbranque...
We were supposed to sign James Milner...the guy had his medical and agreed terms and Newcastle cancelled it at the last minute...d*******....
But nothing today is going to beat the shock of Tevez and Mascherano...its ridiculous...
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good to see Reyes at Real, although I think they will be disappointed that they could not off-load Ronaldo to Inter
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Naughty: I totally agreed with you. I could NOT believe what my eyes read when I saw about this transfer. It is THE coup of the season. I really dont see Tevez staying there for long but hten again I could never have thought in my wildest thoughts that could happen. He is a fantastic player and one of the best strikers in the world. He could have gone anywhere but to go somewhere where he wont likely win any thing, just plain inexplicable.
Ashley Cole thing finally ended and I am glad he signed because he would have struggled to perform at his best had he stayed there. I feel for Wayne Bridge because I really thought he finally got his best Ranieri days form back during this start of the season.
Reyes is not a player who would set a stage alight. I agree with Nescio that Real would be more worried about not getting rid of Ronaldo.
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The Tevez Mascherano thing has sort of beeen explained...its not quite the coup it first appeared...
In SAmerica clubs operate on a loss in the transfer market so tend to let companies take care of player interests...In this case MSI owned the rights to both Tevez and Mascherano...they bought both off Corinthians...
Now how this company make money is by massive sell on clauses when the player is sold within Europe...so the deal pretty much is we sell them for a small price to West Ham and then when a big club comes in for them we'll pocket say 30% of the transfer fee...Thats big money...It makes West Ham kind of a feeder club...the guy behind the deal said that discussions have already begun as to when these players will be leaving for bigger clubs...
Dont expect these players to be around next season for West Ham...
You may ask why the big clubs didnt bid...they did but they didnt meet the valuation...West Hams valuation is different cos it is set in stone that these players will be sold on hence making use of the sell on clause...If Man Utd bought Mascherano on the cheap then the clause wouldnt be used cos they wouldnt let him go...
West Ham however are going to make money and so are the company that owns the rights to both players...Its really intelligent...i dont know why more agencies like this dont exist...