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Holtby City

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Baldini signed Batistuta and discovered Higuain.

If he really likes Leandro, as well as AVB, then that's plenty testiment enough.

Baldini certainly knows his onions when it comes to world class South American #9s.
 

danielneeds

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Baldini signed Batistuta and discovered Higuain.

If he really likes Leandro, as well as AVB, then that's plenty testiment enough.

Baldini certainly knows his onions when it comes to world class South American #9s.
To be fair even Stevie Wonder could see Bati-gol was world class at Fiorentina.
 

Speedy

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I went to arsenal v foirentina at wembley circa 1997? And batistuta spanked them back down the met line. Also saw rebrov and shev demolish them. Sat in the home end with my spurs shirt under my jacket.

Yeah
 

Danners9

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To be fair even Stevie Wonder could see Bati-gol was world class at Fiorentina.

Deciding a player is good and actually prizing him away are very different, he'd been at Fiorentina for 9 years and was a hero there. Baldini is seen as a gentleman in the game and conducts business with class, good at convincing players and dealing with agents/chairmen (unlike, say, Mr Levy who is capable of irritating them). One of the Italian journalists on twi... last night was saying Baldini has the gravitas to seal the David Villa deal for Spurs.
 

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Deciding a player is good and actually prizing him away are very different, he'd been at Fiorentina for 9 years and was a hero there. Baldini is seen as a gentleman in the game and conducts business with class, good at convincing players and dealing with agents/chairmen (unlike, say, Mr Levy who is capable of irritating them). One of the Italian journalists on twi... last night was saying Baldini has the gravitas to seal the David Villa deal for Spurs.

Money talks and BS walks, no amount of gravitas will get you player X without cash.
 

playboypaul

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Bringing it back to the math for a minute.

So, case in point being: -2+1-2=1

This would be: -2-2=0

Because the +1's cancel each other out, not the -2's as you stated.

That would then be gibberish because that would mean the actual answer should be -4 and not 0.

If you had some ()'s in there then the equation would work: -2+1-(-2)=1

It would work out like this:

-2+1-(-2)=1 The +1's cancel each other out leaving:

-2 -(-2) = 0 The ()'s make you able to take away -2 from -2 that then equals 0.

Even so, those ()'s would be in the wrong place as the only place you could put them to be true to the 'one step forward, two steps back would be here:

-2+(1-2)=-3

Which would also give you a negative answer.

That all said and done, the initial equation was flawed as it should look like this:

1-2=-1
-1+(1-2)=-2
-2+(1-2)=-3

And so on and so forth. There is no way of getting a positive outcome from the equation.

So that means we are getting constantly further and further away from signing Damiao and that Strader was lucky to get an A* for his exam.

:confused:
 

danielneeds

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Deciding a player is good and actually prizing him away are very different, he'd been at Fiorentina for 9 years and was a hero there. Baldini is seen as a gentleman in the game and conducts business with class, good at convincing players and dealing with agents/chairmen (unlike, say, Mr Levy who is capable of irritating them). One of the Italian journalists on twi... last night was saying Baldini has the gravitas to seal the David Villa deal for Spurs.
Never said he wasn't well connected and good at closing a deal, just that Batistuta at that time is not a good example of being able to spot a good striker.
 

Archibald&Crooks

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I can't believe PlayboyPaul went to such great lengths only to delete the post. He could have won a Nobel prize for that.
 

Wiggly_worm

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Bringing it back to the math for a minute.

So, case in point being: -2+1-2=1

This would be: -2-2=0

Because the +1's cancel each other out, not the -2's as you stated.

That would then be gibberish because that would mean the actual answer should be -4 and not 0.

If you had some ()'s I there then the equation would work: -2+1-(-2)=1

It would work out like this:

-2+1-(-2)=1 The +1's cancel each other out leaving:

-2 -(-2) = 0 The ()'s make you able to take away -2 from -2 that then equals 0.

Even so, those ()'s would be in the wrong place as the only place you could put them to be true to the 'one step forward, two steps back would be here:

-2+(1-2)=-3

Which would also give you a negative answer.

That all said and done, the initial equation was flawed as it should look like this:

1-2=-1
-1+(1-2)=-2
-2+(1-2)=-3

And so on and so forth. There is no way of getting a positive outcome from the equation.

So that means we are getting constantly further and further away from signing Damiao and that Strader was lucky to get an A* for his exam.

:confused:

Unless we are going sign him by moon walking to brazil to sign him and then moon walk him all the way back to White Harte Lane. That would be a impressive first signing for baldini
 

CoopsieDeadpool

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Never said he wasn't well connected and good at closing a deal, just that Batistuta at that time is not a good example of being able to spot a good striker.


Neither was Danners, I believe? I think he was pointing out that Baldini has the ability to also attract players of large profile (No ot the Huddlestone type of large), via being a 'gentleman' and treating the player with respect. This is also what the Italian woman was suggesting last-night when she said that Baldini would be able to get David Villa to sign.
 
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