Just to balance the Man U love in threads on this page!

[MarkD]

Love this when the failed ex-Real Madrid manager talks about investing in youth - and the two in the picture cost nearly 40 million pounds!!

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...utd/6367551.stm

Edited February 16, 2007 by MarkD

[Bigal]

I was going to post this.

 

f***ing set of c****

[mally]

i really really hope they appoint him to take over from ferguson. if not him then steve bruce will do

[johngibo YPC]

It was good of them to give the little known Rooney and Ronaldo a chance. Many other managers would have kept these lads in the reserves but not our Fergie

[L19red]

i really really hope they appoint him to take over from ferguson. if not him then steve bruce will do

how can you say that when Bryan Robson is available?

[Stevie H]

Love this when the failed ex-Real Madrid manager talks about investing in youth - and the two in the picture cost nearly 40 million pounds!!

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...utd/6367551.stm

how is that not 'investing in youth' though? they invested a lot of money and a lot of time in two young players and are now seeing the benefits.

 

can't see a problem with the piece myself.

 

caveat - all mancs are c****.

Edited February 16, 2007 by Steve H

[Coyler]

how is that not 'investing in youth' though? they invested a lot of money and a lot of time in two young players and are now seeing the benefits.

 

can't see a problem with the piece myself.

 

caveat - all mancs are c****.

See johngibo's post. It's not being paranoid or bitter to suggest that the implication Queiroz is trying to make is that Rooney and Ronaldo are an example of United's romantic nurturing-of-youth-above-all ethos, supposedly an unbroken golden thread back to the Busby era but in reality consisting of George Best (as a result of United's policy of cynically sweeping Ireland for any decent player, a leechy and uneven symbiosis that leads some poor deluded FAI- and IFA-heads alike to think they have some special relationship with the using c*nts) and then that shower of talented f*ckers from the '90s.

[MarkD]

how is that not 'investing in youth' though? they invested a lot of money and a lot of time in two young players and are now seeing the benefits.

 

can't see a problem with the piece myself.

 

caveat - all mancs are c****.

 

I think that he is being disingenuous to be honest. If he had said, paying top dollar - and very much over the odds - for two highly promising players that required very little scouting and were very well known is the way to develop youth, I would be less cynical.

[Ostrich Man]

See johngibo's post. It's not being paranoid or bitter to suggest that the implication Queiroz is trying to make is that Rooney and Ronaldo are an example of United's romantic nurturing-of-youth-above-all ethos, supposedly an unbroken golden thread back to the Busby era but in reality consisting of George Best (as a result of United's policy of cynically sweeping Ireland for any decent player, a leechy and uneven symbiosis that leads some poor deluded FAI- and IFA-heads alike to think they have some special relationship with the using c*nts) and then that shower of talented f*ckers from the '90s.

or you could look at the next photo with giggs and scholes and ronaldo in it.