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I remember when we signed him, an italian football journalist told us he would be an average Championship player. He probably was that but he was a genius in league one. If Bradley Wright-Phillips can be a smash hit in MLS, so can Guly.

bet they wait for the steam sale though.

subliminal messages on the video replays. buy more bovril.

Looking up this fella reminded me of the Ryan Gauld hype during the summer. Apparently Gauld is three years older though and just looks like he's 15

Of course not. it's the paper towel on the other side.

Glad we had another go with the three at the back, two up front. Haven't seen the game but glad that by all accounts this seemed to suit Mané better, as it suited Long better. It gives me fewer concerns about using Yoshida as well.

LISTEN TO YOUR FANS (then tell them "Go **** your self") I like his Zippy cap, but i'm waiting for the George and Bungle companion caps before I commit. Not sure about the Bergkamp 69 shirt.

Our pitch squirts regularly before the game and at half time so it shouldn't be a problem. We should be more concerned that this may have recently been outlawed by amendment to the 2003 Communications Act.

Very droll, but you'd be happy to announce matter-of-factly that Gaston is not and was not lazy based on nothing but assumption and a haughty sense of political correctness. It wasn't all assumption. His lack of urgency on the pitch was observed as is his failure (for whatever reason) to change that. I didn't say that proves he's lazy. I listed a couple of things that make him look lazy and don't help any lazy foreign player stereotype. Assumptions all round, let's all mock and feel superior on the internet. You can argue that he is intrinsically unable to improve his strength on the ball but I find that improbable for a tall lad with no obvious physical disadvantage and in any case that wouldn't explain his dawdling on and off the ball and a paucity of constructive involvement in general. As doddisalegend has assumed, mental weakness fits the bill. From the point I said "For me" yes that's assumption. That's what it was meant to indicate. I'm happy to compare him with Osvaldo because like Osvaldo he's come to us from that **** poor italian league and he wants to go back (source: his agent) to that comfort zone and play their lethargic brand of football with the likes of lazy Saphir Taider (source: SFC). Sadly there's apparently only one team in Italy with a pot to **** in, so he's probably looking at another year of going out on loan to milk the rest of his contract with us and we can try to recover a fraction of his employment cost. Gaston reminds me of a poor man's Anders Svensson. Svensson improved in his defensive contribution as time went on, and was always trying to do something with the ball, but while his technique was good he was too ponderous for the premier league. Gaston often just dawdles, doing nothing on or off the ball. The stock answer is that he's looking for the killer ball and the other players just aren't on is wavelength. Brilliant. Well for the occasional five minutes when he comes alive we had a player who is slow witted in every other way, unable to contribute to a team effort, and it's someone else's fault. Out of interest, on the subject of the "lazy foreign footballer" stereotype, where has this come from? I looked through our squads over the years and tried to think who could be characterised as lazy. Fox- Barely moved most of the time and would kick the ball directly into the man in front of him on a regular basis. Easily dismissed as just being crap although there are plenty of people who defend him as a key to our promotion even to the point of making up team of the year awards for him. In all fairness his set pieces were handy that year. Guly- Apparently some others thought he was lazy. I felt he was more of a cowardly lion Puncheon- At times I think he got this label. Not one I subscribed to but with his general behaviour he was always going to be under the microscope and the "it's cos he's black" brigade revelled in any criticism of him. Saganowski- After he got his contract he conformed to past performance and earned his lazy badge in record time. John- Renowned lazy bones. Good goal scorer. Rasiak- Very similar Jones- He's been called lazy everywhere he's been. Jakobsson- useless, slow, waste of space. It is apparent that the bulk of this unscientific sample have come from abroad. They are exclusively players we have bought as well, but we do buy a high proportion of foreign players. As noted in the Elia thread, we usually can't afford to buy talent unless it's flawed. When we bought english players we mostly were not able to afford talent. Gaston vs Mayuka vs Mané? None of them look functionally superior at the moment. Why did we get rid of Gaston? He's got the shortest contract, no future here, and we managed to get someone to cover a portion of his employment cost. He's a bosman walking.

He showed a complete lack of urgency when things weren't going the way that suited him (bar occasionally lashing out), which was most of the time. He never adapted his game to deal with english football, though he had ample opportunity. Alarm bells should have gone off when "so much money" was the focus of his interview before signing for us. For me, he's been dreaming of a return to italy since his first set back like Osvaldo did from the moment he signed for us. Perhaps contact with Osvaldo didn't do any good for Ramirez's desire to prove himself here either.

they would have done, but they got distracted by arguing with someone on a forum and fapping simultaneously.

lazy foreigner stereotype suffers from Gaston.

I didn't see that game, so i'm comfortable in my assessment. Without checking, I believe it has been mentioned that although Tadic made the assist from the right, he was not there for the whole game. Before Mané got into the first team Tadic would pop up on the right at times, but wasn't stuck there. Mané looks to monopolise the left IMO, which I think is Tadic's best position. The guy got dog's abuse as much as he was defended. It turned out that he was useless, had a **** career, and probably warranted the criticism, but that doesn't mean he didn't draw heavy criticism from internet forums. Do Paul Telfer and Neil McCann count as foreign out of interest. And does Jermaine Wright count as Black?

Danny fox, Paul Telfer, David Prutton. Some people can only see grief given to minorities. I suspect i'm on my last post of the day so i'll qualify my last post before a nit picker tears me apart, of course Mané didn't get into the first team immediately as he arrived at the club. I meant from the moment he came into the first team he monopolised the left.

Every game I've seen Tadic play well in he was on the left. Mane comes along, immediately monopolises the left side, and Tadic's performances dropped. Note that I'm not insisting that this change is what made Tadic's performances drop, but saying that this was when they dropped.

TBF, most of us expected Long to be **** and Tadic was doing well before he was shunted out right to accommodate Mané

Overconfidence? Very bold to to say you want to make up for poor performances with a win in your next game. I very much doubt any other footballer would be so bold.

then he had that thigh injury and those international matches for uraguay. hang on, who were we talking about?

should have kept the council house. could probably swap it for buckingham palace by now.

One of the best players and the top assister in the dutch league was on our radar. ****ing patent it.

Rodriguez maybe? newspaper articles indicated that Wanyama and Forster were his picks.

sane targets

sanity.

how did we get boruc, lovren, and osvaldo then?

that's probably why we never signed rodriguez.