Eden Hazard | "I am signing for Chelsea"

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wr8_utd said:
Lille's coach believes the Hazard has changed his mind about his future club in the past few weeks.

I don't believe it'll be Chelsea then as they just came in the frame yesterday. City was always supposed to be his likely destination so maybe it's United now?
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Chelsea and United were talked about by his agent back in Jan
 
Chelsea need wide players but I'd be surprised if they got Hazard now that they have Marin, it's a right winger they need.

Can't look past City myself, it's the type of player they need and they can pay the best wages.
 
Editors of the major papers need to put a policy in place that sports journalists taking quotes from twatter without checking their validity will be sacked. It really is beyond a joke.
 
R_Kelly said:
Editors of the major papers need to put a policy in place that sports journalists taking quotes from twatter without checking their validity will be sacked. It really is beyond a joke.
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The sale of papers is more important to them than integrity. They used to make it up themselves, how is taking it from a dodgy twitter source any worse?
 
It is amazing really. Even years ago they proved it to be lazy, by creating a BS story about Masal Bugduv, a moldovan wonderkid, papers ran with it and listed in the top 50 youth players to watch by the likes of goal.com and The Times. When all the info about him was a wiki article and a fake Moldovan newspaper website. the name was derived from an irsh story M'asal Beag Dubh (Lazy Ass) about a lazy donkey. Half the shit in papers is copied and pasted, so I take everything with a pinch of salt.......usually.
 
Pexbo said:
The sale of papers is more important to them than integrity. They used to make it up themselves, how is taking it from a dodgy twitter source any worse?
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There's a massive difference between creating a bullshit 'source close to the player' and actually attributing false quotes to a player directly.
 
Mr Anderson said:
It is amazing really. Even years ago they proved it to be lazy, by creating a BS story about Masal Bugduv, a moldovan wonderkid, papers ran with it and listed in the top 50 youth players to watch by the likes of goal.com and The Times. When all the info about him was a wiki article and a fake Moldovan newspaper website. the name was derived from an irsh story M'asal Beag Dubh (Lazy Ass) about a lazy donkey. Half the shit in papers is copied and pasted, so I take everything with a pinch of salt.......usually.
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My favourite was the story of Manucho having a head injury and waking up a savant who could play football like nobody else.
 
Pexbo said:
My favourite was the story of Manucho having a head injury and waking up a savant who could play football like nobody else.
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:lol: I remember that when in the newbs. Didnt the article have him down as a 29-30 year old or something like that aswell? Must look for that again, it was a funny read!
 
Sounds like its Chelsea now from the Lille director's comments. If he's changed his mind just as Chelsea have come in for him and have won the champions league, plus there he'd have a guaranteed starting spot
 
Ekeke said:
Sounds like its Chelsea now from the Lille director's comments. If he's changed his mind just as Chelsea have come in for him and have won the champions league, plus there he'd have a guaranteed starting spot
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Hardly, what was the point of signing Marin then?
 
Mr Anderson said:
:lol: I remember that when in the newbs. Didnt the article have him down as a 29-30 year old or something like that aswell? Must look for that again, it was a funny read!
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IIRC it was quoted by a few big sources but they have long been removed in quiet shame.

Brilliant read though :lol:
Elliott said:
Petro Luanda's Manucho Goncalves doesn't strike you as anything special at first glance. He's short, slender and shy, but looks can be decieving. The man I'm shaking hands with is one of Africa's most feared predatory soccer players, a goalscoring machine with pace, power and aggression to burn. He seems to have put on a pound or two from the pictures I went through preparing for our meet-up, but he certainly deserves to enjoy the off-season having put the ball in the back of the net 16 times in the Girabola that just ended. That would make him the top scorer for the second year running, a feat surprisingly only done once before; the late Dandan Sooberecht was king of the goalscorers in 94 and 95, and would have made it a hat-trick of golden boots had he not been murdered by his 9(!) year old son a few months into the 96 season. "I remember Dandan very well," Manucho tells me. "He played for Petro too and his spirit is still very much alive in the dressing room, the training ground and on the pitch at Luanda Stadium."

But enough about Petro Luanda and past stars. Manucho's meteoric rise to fame has been so extreme he is training with the biggest club in the world, Manchester United of Manchester, England. He's been given two weeks to prove his worth to the Godfather of European football, Sir Alex Ferguson. Even though it will mainly be left to his assistant Carlos Louiza Queiroz, the man who invited Goncalves in the first place, to make the judgment call on the strikers abilities, there is no doubt Sir Alex will have the last word. "He can handle the level at United," Manucho's agent and former star of English football, Steve Ogrizovic, predicts. "It's a million miles away from the Angolan Girabola South West division, but then Manucho is head and shoulders above every other player in Angola."

Indeed he has been for the past two seasons. So how did that happen? He worked as a carpet salesman and played lower division football three years ago. And then, at 28, something very special happened to Manucho Goncalves. So special in fact, American news show '60 minutes' is planing to make a segment on him. "I simply went to bed, feeling fine, and did not wake up until 3 weeks later in a hospital 200 kilometers away from where I fell asleep!" He laughs out loud at the thought of this. But what had happened to him is no laughing matter. He suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage and was inches, seconds from death. "When I finally came to I did not feel the way I used to." he says. "I couldn't speak properly but I felt very strong and I had this enormous inexplicable desire to draw everything around me. I couldn't speak, so i drawed." he laugs. The strange thing was, he was very good at it. He had hardly held a pencil or a paint brush in his life, and now he was turning heads with beautiful, realistic drawings and paintings. His brain was completely transformed as a result of the haemorrhage and he was, is and will forever be suffering from a kind of autism. The medical term for autistic people with one or several extreme talents is savant. Dustin Hoffman portrayed one in the movie 'Rainman', but while Manucho's gifts are great, he has a very light form of autism and only a slight facial tick every now and again suggest you're talking to a man with a very special brain.

Special is also a fitting word for Goncalves' first football training after the brain haemorrhage. "I was feeling very strong all through my rehabilitation. I lifted weights I couldn't lift before, and I was supposed to be on the mend!" He breaks out in laughter once again. "But all in all I figured I was pretty much the same physically as before the incident. That changed as soon as I started kicking a ball with the boys again. I felt faster, stronger, perhaps even more skillful. At first I thought it was an illusion, but it soon became clear it was for real. I was flying! I must have scored a hundred goals in that training session!" While tests indicate that there was some improvement in Manucho's physical abilities, the main change was mental. He used to be a winger scoring a small handful of goals every season, now he was a goalscoring machine. "I just could not be stopped. After 5 minutes I was able to predict everything that would happen on the pitch. How my marker would move, where the next pass would come, all these things. Suddenly I had become the best player on my team, the best player in the league!" He was so good in fact it didn't take Girabola club Petro Luanda more that a few weeks before they offered Manucho a contract. "They thought I could be very special, but they didn't know me that well. So we agreed my wages would be decided by how much I played and how many goals I scored. Now I have been the top scorer for two years in a row, I play for the national team and I'm still on this ridiculous contract!" However, you can tell he isn't too bothered by it. Even at 31 he knows there are much bigger things in store for him. Being the son of an Angolan mother and a Nigerian father, Manucho could have decided to play for the much more high profile Nigerian team. "The Nigerian coach, Augustine Eguavoen, called my a few times. He said he promised to have faith in me and to give me playing time, but there was some pressure from him and other members of the Nigerian FA for me to not be true about my age. 30 wasn't a very good age if I ever wanted to play in Europe. But I don't believe in lies so in the end the choice was made for me. God wanted me to play for Angola."

Perhaps the fact that Manucho is now in Manchester, training with the likes of Ronaldo, Rooney and Fletcher, will teach the Nigerian FA a lesson about integrity. Having covered European football from an African point of view for over a decade, I know integrity is a rare thing in the game these days. But when it comes to rarities, nothing can match the story of Manucho Goncalves. And it's only just begun. I wouldn't bet against Sir Alex Ferguson adding an African striker to his ranks in the near future. Because what Rainman did with numbers, Manucho can do with a ball.

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Thanks his club on twitter....
AND HES IN A RESTAURANT WITH HIS COUSINE !

EDIT: WTF my french is bad !
 
Our wage policy leaves us unable to compete for the top talent.


I am certain we will get Kagawa and he will be a good buy but as for the best youngsters in Europe, they will remain elusive to us.
 
Ekeke said:
Cheap.

Chelsea need players to replace Malouda and Kalou.
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Yeah fair enough, suppose it's a possiblty.

I think they need to strengthen other areas though, so can't see them going for Hazard unless they were dramatically going to change how they play. Right back, right wing and arguably stiker, although personally I would give Torres one more year, all need improving more than left wing.

Aye he was cheap, but I think it's pretty accepted that they got a brilliant deal on him. Think he will prove a good signing myself.
 
Honestly, this is like the Robben saga all over again. It's fairly obvious that he'll play for Chelsea or City.

Players these days don't pick clubs for the prestige/history anymore - its all about the money.
 
mlclauhk said:
Honestly, this is like the Robben saga all over again. It's fairly obvious that he'll play for Chelsea or City.

Players these days don't pick clubs for the prestige/history anymore - its all about the money.
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And you people have the audacity to laugh at RAWK.

The last few pages of this thread are just priceless.

As for Hazard, my guess is he's using Chelsea interest to get more out of City.
 
Ekeke said:
Sounds like its Chelsea now from the Lille director's comments. If he's changed his mind just as Chelsea have come in for him and have won the champions league, plus there he'd have a guaranteed starting spot
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He said "a few weeks ago". Chelsea hadn't won then..
 
antihenry said:
And you people have the audacity to laugh at RAWK.

The last few pages of this thread are just priceless.

As for Hazard, my guess is he's using Chelsea interest to get more out of City.
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Big difference is that RAWK members are actually serious about all the rubbish they post.Really fecking serious cats over there, here it's the place for piss takes
 
antihenry said:
And you people have the audacity to laugh at RAWK.

The last few pages of this thread are just priceless.

As for Hazard, my guess is he's using Chelsea interest to get more out of City.
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Read back the pages, not a single guy is serious.
 
It seems with Chelsea winning the UCL and subsequently qualifying for the tournament has made them the favourites.
 
Anyone who wants to pick Chelsea or City over United, they're welcome to it. It's club first at United, anyone who is attracted to a club like Chelsea or City more than United, I'd rather they didn't choose us.
 
Chelsea does make sense for him in terms of the number of starts he'll get. He'll have very little competition there and would pretty much be a guaranteed starter. Here he'll have to deal with Nani, Valencia and Young to get a place. And City, they're stocked with wide-ish playmakers that they use in that system.
 
A question for those who watch him regularly; Is he better than Nani, Valencia, and Young ?
 
He's playing this like he's fecking Messi. He hasn't achieved anything in the game.
 
find it a bit strange Chav$ being linked seriously with anyone when they haven't sorted their manager out yet - then again, probably Roman's choice
 
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