Joey Barton Poll Added Info
The vote is close in number, yet all the comments are no.Please leave a comment on the poll announcement post below. I would especially like to hear from yes voters.
Kev
Joey Barton, a New Poll
We are being linked with Joey Barton, (again).There is no doubt he is a good footballer and would bring graft to the midfield. However he has got a history.
If the bloke has changed, would you want him at the club? Or is the thought of him in a Blues shirt so abhorrent that you couldn’t speak, well please vote.
Kev
Penny For Your Thoughts?
Here is akvbcfc’s latest article.————————————————————————————————
The Merry-Go-Round Begins…
Kaka to Madrid. Done.
Ronaldo to Madrid. Done.
Those two monumental transfers seem to be only the tip of the iceberg as the influx of money into English and Italian football has set pulses racing. United have cash to spend. AC Milan, a team who never spend big, have money to spend. Then, of course, there are also teams such as Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, Inter and Barcelona who have excess cash burning holes in the owners’ very large pockets. Oh, and there is the small matter of Real Madrid.
It seems that this summer will be the summer when we see transfer fees explode from top to bottom. The steady rise in fees paid for players has been absolutely obliterated during the close season after a couple of big, big money moves.
This has set the wheels in motion and an extraordinary process is set to unfold where Europe’s top clubs battle for the signatures of the very best that this world has to offer. Karim Benzema. David Villa. David Silva. Samuel Eto’o. Xabi Alonso. Didier Drogba.
Let the games begin.
It seemed that United had made the first move, when it was reported that they had agreed a £35 million transfer fee for the Frenchman. However, Real Madrid have trumped their English rivals (again), as they have agreed a £30 million fee for the striker.
With Benzema off the table, the scramble for players will intensify yet further, with fewer and fewer clubs looking to sell their top players. The likes of Manchester United and Barcelona will be desperately searching for new talent due to the transfers that have already taken place; United have lost (a lot) of ground on their rivals by selling Ronaldo to Madrid, and the return of The Galacticos Era to Madrid has put Barca at a disadvantage in the transfer market and on the field of play.
Exactly which players will be on the move is debatable, but what can be said for sure is that things are going to get interesting. Watch this space.
Beaten, but not Humiliated
Yes, the England Under-21 lost out to Germany in the Euro Under-21 Championship final on Monday. However, the side and their manager, should not be written off. Pearce has worked wonders with the side, turning them into a well-drilled, efficient and determined side. It is my honest opinion that losing this final will be the making of this side. If they had won, then the pressure of a nation would have shifted onto the new Golden Generation, thus making prospects of success at forthcoming tournaments seem as bleak as ever.
Team spirit will raise yet further by this latest setback, and the team will bounce back. Again. A new generation will come and fly the flag that has so elegantly soared in recent times. These were Pearce’s boys. These are our boys.
A Return to The Way It Was
The BBC will show 10 live Championship games during the 2009/2010 season, as football reverts back to the old ways of showing live football on free-to-air television. Personally, I think that it is an absolutely fantastic idea. Many football fans nowadays are blinkered by Premier League football and the coverage that it receives from media outlets across the world. For many fans, the Championship and the lower leagues are unimportant, and that view is one that should be changed as soon as possible.
Highlights of the lower leagues can be found on ITV at times that are inconvenient to the masses, so that doesn’t help. However, with the deal in place that the BBC shall show 10 live games during the season; this should enable a larger number of fans to gain access to one of the most exciting leagues in the world.
Summer Time Fun
Can you feel it? This is it. This is the time when fans implore their club to sign new talent, but at the end of the day, they don’t really care about us. This is the time of year when managers have tough decisions to make. They will wanna’ be starting somethin’, holding on to some players for dear life, and telling others to beat it. Don’t bet against Spurs coming back to Berbatov, desperately pleading I want you back.
The game has moved on, and signing a player is not as easy as ABC. With foreign players and agents approaching clubs all the time, you don’t know your Ben from your Billy Jean.
For years, United fans have praised Ronaldo for the way that he makes them feel, but his promises that he’d be there did not prove true has he has gone off to Madrid. Perez snuck up on English football and stole its brightest star like a smooth criminal. Ronaldo’s stay at United was a thriller…He rocked our world…But United fans will hope that the old adage that there ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone is false.
As he looks at the man in the mirror, Sir Alex will know that he has a job on his hands. He needs new blood. Be they black or white, young or old.
R.I.P. Michael Jackson – the King of Pop.
By akvbcfc Please visit my website for more of my views on the beautiful game.
Proper Preparation Prevents Pretty Poor Performance
Here is an article by Kaje, one of our forum Admins.————————————————————————————————————————–
I’ve been having a little think recently. Not that it’s out of the ordinary….thinking, that is….but something has got me rather excited about the coming season. Preparation.
Every previous season, we’ve seemed sluggish to move for players. We haven’t really done any business, with the board stating time and time again in the Press (along with Bruce) that the most work is done in August.
Shove August!
In August, a player joins you after pre-season. You have no idea how well the pre-season training was at his old club, if he has had one at all! This leaves you with a sluggish, tired, lethargic player who invariably ends up injured for most of the season, if he even passes the medical.
But this season…..we seem to have figured that out, or at least McLeish knows it to be poppycock. We seem to be preparing well. We’re bidding for players, signing players, ready to take them with us on our pre-season tour and give them the time to integrate themselves into the side and work on any language or fitness barriers they may have.
How many clubs have practically wrapped up their summer dealings within a month of the season finishing? From close of play in May to the end of June we’ve recruited FIVE new bodies. Practically a whole new back like in Danns, Espinoza, Johnson, one of the country’s most highly rated young ‘keepers in Joe Hart and an exciting forward prospect in Benitez.
We actually seem to have a management team who know how to build a football club. You know the sort, an enthusiastic, driven, determined bunch with foresight and that invaluable quality of being able to ‘take a punt’.
I mean, it’s not just the scouting team and McLeish; our board seem to have jumped on the enthusiasm bandwagon. I genuinely can’t remember a time they’ve backed a manager to the hilt in the transfer market as much as they’ve backed McLeish. The excitement on David Sullivan’s face as we signed Christian Benitez said it all for me. They’ve got their enthusiasm, their drive, their ambition back.
All of this excites me.
I don’t know about you, but for me McLeish and his crew seem a world apart from previous management teams in terms of preparation. They also seem to know how to motivate the board, too. Especially in removing money from Mr. Sullivan’s wallet, something which previously required a large amount of anaesthetic and one of the surgery teams from Selly Oak Hospital!
I’m thrilled to bits that we seem to be making the right moves and long may it continue. Good times ahead I think!
Of course, knowing Blues on the pitch……
Kaje
Well you got your wish
In our last poll of who you wanted Blues to sign, Roger Johnson got the most votes and subsequently turned up at St Andrews a few days later. Unfortunately the previous favourite Jordi Gomez signed for Wigan instead.1% of people voted for Zat Knight. Probably Villa fans.
Our new poll concerns David Sullivan’s comments today that we are looking for three more players. Which positions should we be looking to fill?
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