Although he was undoubtedly a superb player, he played in a variety of positions where he was either scoring or creating goals, so he wasn't an out-and-out goalscorer. I should have remembered Hasselbaink, Van Persie and Suarez. Maybe I was trying to forget them because they played for such...
Apart from Ruud van Nistelrooij, I can't think of any specialist strikers/centre forwards from the Dutch league who've been successful in the PL. I'd be a bit wary.
Another example is Steve Tasker (officially a receiver) of the Bills. If memory serves, some other team cut him before he played a game for them, the Bills grabbed him, and the rest is history (possibly HOF-level history, in some people's opinion).
Edit: Tasker played 9 games during his time...
I remember reading a few months ago that Bayern would be paying him 25 million euros a year, which would be about 480K euros a week. When you throw in his income from endorsements, incentive clauses and so on, he's doing quite all right, thank you very much, just like Harry with his daytime job...
For the last 20-odd years, Brazil's team's been living on the achievements of its predecessors. I haven't seen anyone recently to mention in the same breath as Zico, Socrates and Ronaldo, let alone Pele or Garrincha (a name I only know by his great reputation).
Nail on head. I've been following the game for more than 50 years, and I can't remember them having anything even remotely resembling a bad break.
You could put some Arsenal officials in a big room full of 100 identical boxes. 99 boxes would be full of dust and rubble, and the 100th would be...
The MCG has AFL games scheduled for Saturdays May 18 and 25, so the grounds crew will have plenty of time to do the necessary work before and after the Spurs/Bar-codes game. The AFL won't suffer financially, so it shouldn't be a problem.
As far as I can tell, he isn't. He was born in Catalunya and raised in Andalusia, the southern-most part of mainland Spain. I don't know if the club makes allowances for players with Basque ancestry or whether Gil has any Basque ancestry.
In the long term, all these 'great deals' mean players who can't be shifted. The short-term thinking needs to be binned, because it's hurting the club and the team badly.
Maradona dragged a so-so Argentina team to the 1986 World Cup. That's part of the reason why he was undoubtedly elite. Then there's Steven Gerrard. How many of those trophies during his time would Liverpool have won without him?
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