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• #3302
Steve Bruce is new Sunderland Manager
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• #3303
He can fuck off, the little Welsh cunt!
Bellamy?
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• #3304
Owen
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• #3305
Silly Season's started! Jesus fuckin wept!
Spurs plan to take the Mikel out of Everton with Arteta coup
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• #3306
They've just read out a statement by Gareth Barry on SSN, what a load of old shite!
Did he say:
"blah...blah...blah...not about the money...blah...club with ambition...blah...judas...bollocks."
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• #3307
You can guess what he said....
"City showed they are ambitious..."
"As soon as I spoke to Mark Hughes, I knew there was only one place I was gonna go...."
"I can win things here....."
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• #3308
Barry's letter to the Birmingham Mail in full: -
AFTER all the speculation over the last 12 months, I want the chance to explain my decision to the Aston Villa fans.
Firstly, I want to thank them for the incredible support I have received over the last 12 years. This football club has been a huge part of my life. I joined a 16-year-old boy and 12 years later I am moving on as a 28-year-old man with a wife and two children.
A lot of things have changed in that time, players, management and a chairman, but every season bar none, whether we have been bottom half, mid-table or challenging for Europe, the support myself and the team have received has been fantastic.
My one huge regret is that during my time at this club we have not brought the fans the success they deserve and I obviously have to take my share of responsibility that we have not been good enough to win trophies.
I feel the club is in the best position it has been in during my time here, I think we have a group of very good young players, we have a fantastic chairman who is here for the good of the club and one of the best managers in the game.
Obviously people will ask why I am leaving if I feel like that.
I have honestly been very undecided what to do, the manager and the whole club have bent over backwards to try and persuade me to stay and made me a fantastic offer, which I am extremely grateful for.
But after changing my mind lots of times I came to the decision that the time was right for me and for the club to part company.I need a new challenge, I have a massive fear of going stale and falling into a comfort zone.
I believe the deal is a good one for the club, I am sure the manager will use the money well to strengthen the team and the club will go from strength to strength.
I am also excited now about my new challenge, a lot of people will question my decision to join Manchester City. They were the club prepared to meet the valuation, which for a 28-year-old, with a year left on his contract, I think shows how much they wanted me.
Once I had spoken to Mark Hughes there was nowhere else I wanted to go. I was also desperate to avoid any long drawn-out saga.
I feel I am joining a club that will seriously challenge to win major honours, people might doubt that, but I am convinced with the plans the club has short term and long term, and the backing the manager will receive from the owners, that we will be a major force.
Also the World Cup has always been a major part of my thinking and I feel at Man City I will get the chance to play regularly in my best position and play a big part in a successful side. Time will tell if I am right or not, but those are my reasons.
I have grown bored of all the speculation surrounding me over the last 12 months and I am sure all the fans have as well.
I am glad I never left last summer because I would have left under a huge cloud.This year I feel things are different. I havent used an agent, I have discussed things with my best friend but ultimately made my own choices and I think the situation has been handled properly by everybody involved and, once again, I have to thank the manager and the club for that.
I genuinely wish the club all the best for the future and want to thank everyone who has helped and supported me during my time here.
For the rest of my life Aston Villa will be the first result I look for. Thanks for everything -
• #3309
bollox
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• #3310
Once I had spoken to Mark Hughes there was nowhere else I wanted to go. I feel I am joining a club that will seriously challenge to win major honours, people might doubt that, but I am convinced with the plans the club has short term and long term, and the backing the manager will receive from the owners, that we will be a major force.
farts in a cup, sniffs it
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• #3311
He can fuck off, the little Welsh cunt!
Isn't Michael Owen from Chester?
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• #3312
Aon are to sponsor ManU.
Why on earth would they want to do that?
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• #3313
because they're powerful?
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• #3314
Aon not Eon
Aon are one of the two largest insurance brokers in the world. Why on earth would they want to step into AIG's shoes? AIG is not exactly a premium brand in the insurance sector at present. Also, why on earth would they want to sponsor a brand like ManU?
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• #3315
is it really bollox? he sounds like he means it.
also sounds like he has above average intelligence for a footballer. maybe he's gay? like graham le-saux? cos all them gayers are brainy and like wine and art n stuff don't they? -
• #3316
Michael Owen apparently went into a club on Tyneside and walked straight up to a blonde standing at the bar and asked her for her phone number.
"You're a little forward" she replied.
And yes he is Welsh.
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• #3317
when i toured the ajax arena last summer they had just signed a big deal with Aon
there must be some money in insurance these days -
• #3318
Ajax's sponsor is Aegon, a Dutch insurer and no relation to Aon a global broker.
But yes, non life insurance is one of the only areas which is seeing good inward investment at the moment.
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• #3319
Isn't Michael Owen from Chester?
Yeah, which is practically in Wales, all is family are taffs too
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• #3321
give him a chance to get up to liverpool for the first time in years
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• #3323
lol. I was expecting a very similar response from Pisti
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• #3324
give him a chance to get up to liverpool for the first time in years
what he doesn't live there? you are kidding?!
why leave the home of football if it means so much to you. -
• #3325
You mean he lives here with us cockney shites?
He can fuck off, the little Welsh cunt!
They've just read out a statement by Gareth Barry on SSN, what a load of old shite!