: Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:23 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

He of the mole like eyes and horse like teeth is supposed to be leaving the San Siro/Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in the summer.

Milan are in rotten shape. They still look poor and they're making no progress in the market, well, barely any.

: Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:07 pm  

Mark wrote:

How many times have you seen Tosic?

About 5 times, admittedly not enough to form a true opinion but I just don't think he will make it.

: Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:34 pm  

Phelan blames work permit problems for the collapse of the Llajic deal. Surely, it would've been better from the club to announce this at the time rather than say it was due to his development.

Phelan blames work permit problems for the collapse of the Llajic deal. Surely, it would've been better from the club to announce this at the time rather than say it was due to his development.

: Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:38 pm  

Nemanja wrote: Phelan blames work permit problems for the collapse of the Llajic deal. Surely, it would've been better from the club to announce this at the time rather than say it was due to his development. not sure i am buying that

Nemanja wrote: Phelan blames work permit problems for the collapse of the Llajic deal. Surely, it would've been better from the club to announce this at the time rather than say it was due to his development. not sure i am buying that

: Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:53 pm  

flipper wrote:

not sure i am buying that

Me neither. He's more talented than Tosic, who got a work permit on "special talent" grounds. Strange how Phelan was sent to do the press conference and not Fergie.

: Fri Dec 04, 2009 3:05 pm  

Nemanja wrote:

Me neither. He's more talented than Tosic, who got a work permit on "special talent" grounds. Strange how Phelan was sent to do the press conference and not Fergie.

Not watched the video - put reports suggest he looks very uncomforable and might aswell have liar tatooed on his forehead

: Fri Dec 04, 2009 3:26 pm  

flipper wrote:

Not watched the video - put reports suggest he looks very uncomforable and might aswell have liar tatooed on his forehead

He confirmed what we all knew already...it wasn't down to Llajic's talent, which makes yesterday's statement even more stupid.

“As you can see we’ve got young players and we’re a team that requires young players to come through and develop and bring into the first team. We’ve looked at Adem and he has the potential to do that but you can’t fight these things sometimes.

“Some people you can get work permits for, some you can’t. Adem fell into the category of being hard to get a work permit for, so we made the decision (not to pursue it).”

The fact that Fergie hasn't turned up / spoke up about it, makes me think that he is pi$$ed off, IIRC he personally attended a hearing last year to push for reasons to get Tosic a work permit, if Llajic was more talented, I'm sure he'd have done the same with him.

: Fri Dec 04, 2009 3:54 pm  

But hadn't Tosic already been fully capped by Serbia quite a bit before going United? I'm pretty sure one of the big things for getting a work permit is international caps, so that may have made things easier for Tosic, even if he didn't require the 75% or whatever it is.

: Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:13 pm  

Not the first time I've said this and certainly won't be the last: what the funk is going on with Beckham's hair?

: Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:56 pm  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

But hadn't Tosic already been fully capped by Serbia quite a bit before going United? I'm pretty sure one of the big things for getting a work permit is international caps, so that may have made things easier for Tosic, even if he didn't require the 75% or whatever it is.

Aye he had.

Not sure if Anderson had for Brazil though, and he was awarded a WP on similar grounds.

Phelan didn't rule out the possibility that we could still sign Llajic in January / summer, it seemed as though he'd be chucked out there without been informed of the full story. "I don't think so" was the response to a question on whether money was to blame.

Robbie Rotten wrote:

Not the first time I've said this and certainly won't be the last: what the funk is going on with Beckham's hair?

No idea. It won't be long before it's seen on lads' heads up and down the country though.