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You obviously don't rate him and are tailoring your argument to that view. Fergie was furious 'cos he thought he should've been in their team as he was good enough, that's why he let him go there. As to his success at Parma meaning he suits Italy better than England, I don't even know what that means. Zola was succesful in Italy, then came to England and was even better. I think that at ourlevel you can be a success in Italy or Spain or at United. Otherwise suggestions of signning any foreigners would be out the window. |
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I do like Rossi. He's shown a lot of promise and is clearly a class act. But he's also shown that he's lightweight and struggles to impose himself on games. I'm not questioning his technical ability, I'm worried he may not be suited to our game based on his limited success here and subsequent success in a league less physical. Admittedly, this could just be because he is young and needs to develop, hence Fergie wanting him to get Prem experience. However, the fact is that Newcastle didn't play him. Roeder had no reason to not play him, but still didn't. I don't know why you keep insisting on saying that Fergie was mad. I know he was and probably rightly so. He was sent to get games and didn't get any. But this isn't the point. We need to be asking why and the main reason for that would point to Newcastle clearly not thinking he was worthy of a place in the side. Zola was a success in both countries, yes. But Rossi was not a success in England in an albeit fleeting spell. He was sent on loan to gain experience and impress. Not only did he not do that, but he failed to even get in the side. The politics and resulting anger means nothing. I'm not anti- Rossi. I'm just making the observation and explaining why I think he may not make it. |
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This is exactly the kind of situation I feared, though: Eto'o being available for 30m odd, and we settle for someone like Huntelaar because we spend the bulk of our budget on Owen £#%&!ing Hargreaves. |
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I would be absolutely amazed if we let him go. This is the system we've been building towards for a couple of years. I'm personally quite giddy at the prospect of Rooney, Ronaldo and Rossi. I think they'll be phenomenal. Rossi will add that little turn of pace and cuteness in the box that we've lacked since maybe the days of Scholes at his peak and Cole and Yorke. We should also remember that the guy takes a pretty mean free-kick and we still lack that in this team. Get the right man to play up top and its a very very formidable looking forward line. I think we need to consider the situation last summer again. Ruud had just been sold in controversial circumstances and here was this tried and untested kid struggling for goals pre-season. It suddenly became very risky to throw him into the mix in terms of his longer term development. Being out on loan this year doesn't mean that the player is less in Ferguson's long term plans than the likes of Richardson, Silvestre and Kusczak, quite the opposite I'd suspect. Ferguson doesn't care too much about what the lack of first team football means for Richardson's development because he's never going to amount to much. |
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the only thing we learned from it was that Rossi didn't belong at Newcastle.
The few games he did get (which I made a point of watching whenever possible, just to see him) he was stuck alone up front of a mediocre team at its lowest ebb. He worked his little socks off, but achieved £#%&!-all because even a big centre-forward would have struggled in those circumstances, let alone a skilful little player who belongs behind the frontman. A complete waste of time, and no reflection on Rossi. Maybe he can cut it in English football; maybe he can't. But we were never going to find out from that. |
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The exciting bit for me now is that if we get a few signings right this summer, this team could then push on into the "great" category. |
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