The most expensive transfers in world football

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:45 am

What (with the exception of "everything") is wrong with this list?

1 - Cristiano Ronaldo - £80m (Man Utd to Real Madrid)
2 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic - £60.7m (Inter to Barcelona)
3 - Kaka - £56m (Milan to Real Madrid)
4 - Fernando Torres - £50m (Liverpool to Chelsea)
5 - Zinedine Zidane - £45.6m (Juventus to Real Madrid)
6 - Luis Figo - £37m (Barcelona to Real Madrid)
7 - Hernan Crespo - £35.5m (Parma to Lazio)
8 - Andy Carroll - £35m (Newcastle to Liverpool)
9 - David Villa - £34.2m (Valencia to Barcelona)
10 - Gianluigi Buffon - £32.6m (Parma to Juventus)

Yeah. I know.

I mean who the [composite word including 'f*ck'] would pay money for Zlatan Imashowponyovic. They even gave Inter Eto'o as part of the deal.

Christ.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:02 pm

I don't know if you follow the italian league, but Zlatan is a god over there. He's considered one of the best ever to play in the league.
Also, for seven years straight he's been a part of the team that's won the league (Ajax 03/04, Juventus 04 - 06, Inter 06 - 09, Barcelona 09/10). If Milan wins this season that number goes up to eight

On top of that he's won a bunch of cups, Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year (three times), Serie A Footballer of the Year (twice), and made the UEFA Team of the Year twice, etc.
In his first fifteen games for Barcelona he scored eleven goals and made four assist.
Basically, Zlatans a winner, and I would totally pay money for him

Oh, and he's known to not dive - which gets a big thumbs up from me personally.
I've grown so ******* tired of football the last two - three years. I have a sports channel that air every champions league game, but I've watched maybe five games the last two seasons (I didn't even watch the CL final or World Cup final!).
I tried watching a Real Madrid game a couple months ago - but after two minutes C. Ronaldo got "hit" on the chest (someone touched him), so he fell like a ******* tree and rolled around covering his face with his hands. I immediately switched to another channel.

Grown men acting like ***** and babies is not my cup of tea anymore. Diving, pulling shirts and shorts, disrespecting the refs... yeah, let the players continue with this ****, and then fine Messi for his "Congrats mom!" t-shirt

Thank god for ice hockey!

This is where it's at.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:48 pm

How to make Ob post. Lesson 1.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:45 pm

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:28 pm

Incidentally, Cristiano Ronaldo is generally hated by most non Man Utd fans in the UK. Not because of the smug face or the greasy hair or the ridiculous amounts of talent. Not even because he's a diving prick. But because he's so ridiculously talented that he doesn't need to dive.

Loads of players dive, and I'm not defending it, but when you see it coming from such an insanely great player it's just even more pathetic. He's the last person on the planet who should need to cheat... yet he does. It's sad.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:09 pm

I've seen ronaldo up close at a game, and he's built like a brick **** house... Doesn't need to dive.

U know what I find interesting about this list, Utd don't feature but still kick ass...

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:35 am

Brendocon wrote:Loads of players dive, and I'm not defending it, but when you see it coming from such an insanely great player it's just even more pathetic. He's the last person on the planet who should need to cheat... yet he does. It's sad.

That's why I don't like football as much anymore: super talented players would rather take a dive, than actually play football

Here's the incident I was talking about!
Gattuso should've kicked him in the nuts.

Post by **snarl** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:44 am

Reason why most people think Arsenal are *****, other than their fans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMyodSDQbXM

Soccer "hardman" Pat Vieira...

what a C.

Their club is synonymous with acting the ****, be it the *****, snide fans that only crow once they're in front, their dire brand of hoofy, fouly, defendy, jammy, blatant cheatery in the late 80's early 90's (which amusingly enough they've "forgotten" now, and accuse Bolton, Stoke etc of being crap for doing it when either of these teams use it against them and win), having a donkey cb that pissed, shat and car crashed himself to legendary status amongst their mongs, having a myopic, stubborn, shameless, classless, bitter prick for a manager, and in the modern era for having great players that moan non stop, are filth themselves but hypocritically cheat [composite word including 'f*ck'] loads, in the most cowardly snide way possible, when things aren't going there way, then have the front to moan if they don't get a decision.

I personally have no problem with people dong blatant fouls to save their club, because the ref can see it and deal with it.

it's the snide little ankle kicks, leaving your foot in, tripping people over, diving that really ****s me off.

It is "spoilt brat" behaviour. At school, any little **** that did this would be dealt with a la laws of the playground and laughed / slapped out of town. Arsenal is the team that these ***** now support, and that's how their players also act.

:-)

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:09 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ZY9sJe ... re=related

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:25 pm

"This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
What is this ****? Come on Sony, stop ******* around. This is doing you no good.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:00 pm

snarl wrote:Reason why most people think Arsenal are *****, other than their fans:

i hate to break it to you chief, but i think most people who like KICK!ball, bar Spurs, Chelsea and Man U fans, think the Arse are quite good value.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:13 pm

Arsenal's side is full of twats, but they're twats who play some quite good football.

Though in far more interesting news, Shola Ameobi suffered a broken face tonight, which means Geordie FC have to manage the last half of the season with Leon Best* and Nile Ranger** up front. Only six points above the drop zone too, so not the best point in the season to decide to give up on goalscoring.

* - aside from only being able to score against West Ham this season, the muppet scored an own goal and missed a penalty as Saints went out of the Championship play-offs a few years back. To Derby. The Derby side that went on to set new records in being **** the next season in the Prem. Yeah.

** - kicked out of Saints youth team for being worse than Scott McDonald.

Naturally I think this is quite funny. That £35m will cushion the loss of TV revenue, though.

Post by **snarl** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:29 pm

Best First wrote:
snarl wrote:Reason why most people think Arsenal are *****, other than their fans:
i hate to break it to you chief, but i think most people who like KICK!ball, bar Spurs, Chelsea and Man U fans, think the Arse are quite good value.

Ah, I know they're a good team.

That starred out word isn't the s word, it's the c word.

They are defo a bunch of Cs mate. 100% nailed on.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:40 pm

Their manager is french - of course they're *****.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:32 pm

snarl wrote: They are defo a bunch of Cs mate. 100% nailed on.

no more or less than most other socher! players tho.

Or Droopy Faced managers come to mention it.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:49 pm

I remember [ha, check out my one-week long term memory] watching ITV's coverage of the Saints/ManU game last week. Strachan and Southgate in the studio. Was sat there thinking "bet Besty's loving that pairing."

Loved the montage of Strach getting us to the FA Cup final. Nice that they glossed over him completely undermining the balance of the team in the wake of it though, then buggering off the moment results started to dip so he wouldn't be saddled with the blame. Cited the need to have a break from the game. Yeah, if things were collapsing around me I'd need a chuffing break too.

FriendlySixshot · Post by **FriendlySixshot** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:45 pm

Felt I had to re-register just to restore the balance in the north London bunch of ***** debate. See here for a prime example of a **** - even Andy Gray agrees so it must be some serious ****:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmxm0ArnCLg

And another video that's pretty legendary amongst Pompey fans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz5t-Kx1zd0

Mind you, we also have the Pires dive in the season that Arse went unbeaten (not morally though, god damn them) and we never beat them during our short stay in the Premiership, which makes it ultra ****:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 109874.stm

Moral of the story is, everyone is a ****. I've also just noticed that the Spurs badge appears to be a big cock.

Post by **snarl** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:30 am

Put the kettle on love [/Richard "the wolf handed ****" keys]

FYI, Zokora got taken to town by the club and fans over that embarrassing little incident, so fair ****s to us - Wenger wouldn't have seen it, the myopic ****.

Bif, Arsenal are way bigger ***** than most other teams. Ask anyone with any decent exposure to their fans. I know a few - they agree with me. Their only chant is "who are ya"... Which is the second biggest mark of a ****, behind having the name "Piers Morgan" on your birth certificate.

Harry is a **** - but he's our ****.