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Joaquin
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Reading more rumours of our impending bid today. I know its all rumours at this stage, but I have everything crossed on this one. This player makes Christiano Ronaldo look slow and clumsy.
Check this article out and watch the video of Joaquin at the bottom, I have watched it 3 times.
Sublime skills and pace to burn. for me this is the player that would bring us into the top 4.
Stuart Mitchell, Posted 18/05/2008 at 12:45:31
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2 Posted 18/05/2008 at 14:56:37
3 Posted 18/05/2008 at 14:58:18
4 Posted 18/05/2008 at 15:06:12
5 Posted 18/05/2008 at 15:00:32
Saying this though I still so believe Moyes is looking for a big signing. Someone who will cost the money but will produce the goods. I think this player will either be a winger or a striker.
Not "world class" because lets be honest this calibre of player will not join us but it will be a quality player. I think Yakubu’s signing proved that if you spend the money you get the player.
People might say the big player will be a centre midfielder but I don’t think so. In think Moyes has set his sights on Manuel Fernandes, Steve Sidwell and Michael Bradley as his centre midfielders. I would expect alteast two of them to join us. I’d prefer Bradley and Fernandes in all honesty.
People have mentioned Arshavin as our next centre midfielder but I advise them to watch him because he is by no means a centre midfielder nor would he ever ply his trade in that position in England. He’s be bullied in the middle. If he’s got a future in England its as a striker or a winger.
6 Posted 18/05/2008 at 15:09:54
We can only hope...
7 Posted 18/05/2008 at 15:33:34
8 Posted 18/05/2008 at 15:48:35
For what it?s worth his verdict was not incredibly likely, but not out of the question.
We?ll have to wait (and wait) and see ? no question it would set the pulse racing were he to join, though.
9 Posted 18/05/2008 at 15:30:47
I think that Fernandes is still in the frame because he was mentioned on the OS very recently ? if he was already on his way this would not have happened. I can only suspect that DM would see Bradley as a real candidate for the up-and-down central midfield role ? and Tim Howard could help if he did. Sidwell? Who knows?
I go along with Connor about Arshavin ? wonderful player, but not perhaps in the role that we need the most. And maybe ditto for Joaquin ? but it would be great fun to find out.
ps Rob ? its hwa-keen. The stress is all on the ?een? at the end which means you can?t stress the front of the word as well.
10 Posted 18/05/2008 at 15:30:56
. Also, his response to Scum interests..."?I have always loved Manchester United but personally the main club of the last two seasons has been Chelsea." Would suprise me if we did snap him up but Moyes will need to break the bank to do so.
11 Posted 18/05/2008 at 15:52:24
12 Posted 18/05/2008 at 16:03:20
He isn?t coming though, is he?
13 Posted 18/05/2008 at 16:13:44
The lad has an arsenal of skills and it would be a masterstroke and a pinch at £11m.
14 Posted 18/05/2008 at 16:23:45
Still, I suppose we might just squeeze him in somewhere.
15 Posted 18/05/2008 at 17:03:52
16 Posted 18/05/2008 at 17:14:04
Said it was a big possibility, Guillem is normally on the ball.
17 Posted 18/05/2008 at 18:44:49
18 Posted 18/05/2008 at 19:03:41
Adam Hunter, I?m not too concerned if he hasn?t quite cut the mustard at Valencia as they?ve been shite this season and Moyes has a canny habit of getting the best out of players. I seriously hope we sign this guy!!!
19 Posted 18/05/2008 at 19:24:50
20 Posted 18/05/2008 at 19:19:43
It's nice to see we are being linked with players of his quality but never in a month of Sundays will he be playing for us if avaliable. Surely there are Champions League teams after his signing with bigger wallets.
21 Posted 18/05/2008 at 19:56:11
22 Posted 18/05/2008 at 19:51:16
The talking needs to stop and Moyes needs to step this week!
23 Posted 18/05/2008 at 20:24:27
24 Posted 18/05/2008 at 20:58:19
25 Posted 18/05/2008 at 21:05:26
26 Posted 18/05/2008 at 21:15:57
27 Posted 18/05/2008 at 21:42:14
28 Posted 19/05/2008 at 00:17:10
29 Posted 19/05/2008 at 04:53:03
More realistically maybe... one post a while back mentioned the boy Ramsay at Cardiff calling him "absolute class". After watching his eye-catching if all too brief appearance in the FA Cup Final, which simply lit up what was otherwise a pretty dull game, I think DM should snap him up!
30 Posted 19/05/2008 at 07:00:17
31 Posted 19/05/2008 at 08:59:53
Whats going on here?? To be fair to Joaquin, he is a good player who has had a bad couple of years, but I suppose you dont become a bad player overnight, but if you watch the Spanish footie anytime Valencia are on he has been sluggish, low on confidence & one of the quiet/poorer players in a poor Valencia team.
Obviously I believe that if we could get him & Moyes got him going & he had a good pre-season then we could get the best outta him, but I wouldnt pay over £8/9 million for him & I would consider that taking a chance with our funds the way they are. If he doesnt come i wont lose sleep, 5 years ago maybe but now???
If you had to pick between him for supposedly £11m & Arshavin for (again supposedly) £7m then I would pick the Russian everytime.
ps: I hope the Ronaldo comment at the top was tongue in cheek or I fear for my sanity!!!
32 Posted 19/05/2008 at 09:06:50
Yet more Football Manager unrealistic piffle.
33 Posted 19/05/2008 at 10:31:13
I?ve watched Joaquin for the past few years while he was playing for Betis and Valencia. I would fear this would be an Andy van der Meyde signing all over again.
The lad has great pace and skill, but his attitude is the thing that would worry me. He?s not a Moyes type player at all. If things aren?t going his way, he drifts out of games.... Tends to get lazy if he isn?t involved and he doesn?t like getting kicked....
I can see him coming to the Premier League and being a marked man by every team to rough him up and not let him play. Another Morientes I think. Great in Spain... Just couldn?t hack the physicality in England.
If he does come, I hope to God that he proves me wrong, but that is what his past is telling me anyway.
34 Posted 19/05/2008 at 11:17:27
35 Posted 19/05/2008 at 11:22:21
36 Posted 19/05/2008 at 10:52:49
37 Posted 19/05/2008 at 11:58:27
Just read that Cars has decided not to take up the offer of another year to be closer to his family in the midlands. I for one hope he ends up at West Brom so we can show him how much we appreciated him next season. Never a top player but his experience & ability to fill that holding role has been instrumental to us last couple of years. Shown when he was injured in 2006, we didnt half miss him!!
So good luck to a top, top fella. Super Lee Carsley!!
38 Posted 19/05/2008 at 12:13:59
I agree though about Joaquin. I think he could make it in England. Not at Everton like because I don’t think the rumours are true but at a Champions League club definatly. All he’d have to do is up his work rate and he’d be fine.
Oh an I’d like to say good luck to Lee Carsley. I’ve thought he’s been past it for a while now but you can’t doubt he’s had a good season nor can you doubt his contribution to Everton since he’s been here. A fantastic servant to this club.
I’d like to see Alou Diarra replace him to be honest. I mentioned Diarra last season and I think he’d be an excellent asset to us. A more mobile version of Hamann and at 6ft 3 offers the stature where looking for.
39 Posted 19/05/2008 at 13:18:35
40 Posted 19/05/2008 at 13:27:22
If so I dont wanna piss on your bonfire but he’s never 6ft 3, more 5ft 7/8. Good player but deffo not the physical stature Moyesey is after....
But if you dont mean him, apologies brother
41 Posted 19/05/2008 at 13:28:20
My point was more that his reaction to getting kicked is to become distant and lazy... He won’t get stuck in for the cause.
All the players that you have mentioned are well adapted to the English game and are quite strong players and just get on with it.
Fernandes in comparison to Joaquin is a lot stronger physically/build wise. He can take a bit of rough and tumble, whereas I don’t think Joaquin could as much.
42 Posted 19/05/2008 at 13:34:17
He’s 6ft 3 aswell which is means he has the right stature we are looking for and lived on Merseyside for 3 years which is also a bonus.
I think we could be after him.
43 Posted 19/05/2008 at 13:45:24
Anyway, even if we did sign him then we need FAR MORE than him to take us in to the top 4 and then further again.
Get real.
44 Posted 19/05/2008 at 13:51:24
We’ve gone from buying second rate older players, to being in the hunt for younger, and far more quality players these days - if you’re still not happy with our progress I would suggest you need to learn a little patience - not to mention respect for the job done by our management team, board and players in recent seasons.
If you’d prefer us to be going for Championship level players to develop them into Premier League stars then fine, but its not a sustainable way of progressing a team and thats a fact.
45 Posted 19/05/2008 at 14:40:26
46 Posted 19/05/2008 at 14:49:27
I am really gutted to lose such a strong character and consumate professional from our ranks. Whoever we replace him with has got some boots to fill.
Good Luck for the future Lee, You will be sorely missed.
47 Posted 19/05/2008 at 14:55:05
Of course who that will be is anyones guess but I am liking a lot of the names mentioned!!!
48 Posted 19/05/2008 at 17:57:43
49 Posted 19/05/2008 at 21:44:53
Price tag aside, (If we can splurge for the Yak, we can splurge for him, surely, considering this campaign has been more successful than the last) am I the only one remembering being wowed (on youtube no less) by skills of a Mr S. Piennar not so long ago?


1 Posted 18/05/2008 at 14:46:46