Beefymcfc wrote:Can I ask, 'Are we the new Chelsea or the new City?'.
Ie, Are we doing it with morale's?
We're the new City.
The only complaints we've really heard from other clubs are just points-scoring.
We now know that Kaka was already involved with Real. Real were happy enough with us over Robinho. Tottenham accepted a late bid over Berbatov, scum were the assholes there. Bresciano and Benjani deals were close enough to trouble, bit last minute and money was tight.
Villa seemed happy enough with Barry, Liverpool caused most of their ire. I can't feel bad about signing Tevez. Arsenal were happy enough with what they got for Adebayor and we can consider him as having been on the market (again he's a player unsettled by another club). Inter have been friendly over Vieira.
Real are pissed because they overplayed their hand and left it too late. We had a strategy that could have salvaged the deal at that late stage for everyone (the Defoe plan). They didn't want to do it, bit rich of them whining.
Chelsea happily took our money for Ben-Haim, Bridge, SWP... and we never did anything like Sturridge (those rotten bastards).
Blackburn made some noises over Roque Santa-Cruz but we waited in the end and it never escalated. The only really sour deal was the Lescott one. But I'd generally been leaning towards believing the rumour that a deal was done over Moyes head much earlier. The Jô thing is decent evidence, as is the parallel with the Rooney deal. Moyes was just pissed we didn't go through him, shouldn't have leaked it though.
Chelsea went straight after everyone and used every dirty trick they could think of. It was the first thing Kenyon did. Real were properly angry when Chelsea became so arrogant that they used Real's own trick against them: showing off the player's jersey before the deal was done.
They were pushing the line over which is kidnapping in the Mikel transfer and they received a suspended ban over Cole.
