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- May 12, 2006
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Petrov. Well, three months after signing a four-year contract with us, we won the title, he wandered around on his own refusing to celebrate, and then allowed stories to be leaked that he'd had a huge argument with our manager, Gordon Strachan, these stories were later proven to be false, and he basically used them to try to get the fans to turn on the manager and stay on Petrov's side through the whole thing. Then he starts pushing for a transfer, and even has the cheek to claim that the only reason he signed his new contract was so Celtic would get more money for him, despite the club saying explicitly that their understanding was that he fully intended to stay until 2010, which is why they went to the bother of offering him a new contract in the first place. Anyway, Martin O'Neill goes to Villa, off goes Petrov, we're £8 million richer, all is done, right? Nah, then he has to start with moaning about how he was treated, how every Premiership game is better than any Old Firm game and so on. There were also a few other things, he faked injury more than once, threw a couple of fits over contracts and so on. Basically he just represents the money-hunting no respect for the club footballer, but it's the fact that he tried to engineer situations and lie about things to make people like him that was the final straw. Football is an entertainment industry, to treat fans, who are of course the lifeblood of any entertainment industry so badly is very poor. If he'd left under normal circumstances he'd have remained very well thought of, a player who was with the club for a long time, and whilst not as good as our truly legendary players would have been remembered universally as a great. Larsson did it the proper way, a model professional in every way, Petrov behaved about as badly as a player can in a transfer situation, I probably overreact, because it's common in football these days, but it was really depressing days after winning the league.
What do you think of Carew in general? I haven't seen much French football recently, but I remember him from Valencia and I saw highlights from the Real Madrid v Lyon game this season and he's always seemed a very good player to me. Is he unsettled because he's not getting enough games at Lyon or is it for another reason, because it seems strange he'd want to leave probably one of the top three teams in the world right now. Lyon would have been my favourites for the CL a few weeks ago, but Man Utd are looking great now, although it'll be interesting what Ferguson does if Roonery goes another four or five games without scoring.
What's up with Riise?
What do you think of Carew in general? I haven't seen much French football recently, but I remember him from Valencia and I saw highlights from the Real Madrid v Lyon game this season and he's always seemed a very good player to me. Is he unsettled because he's not getting enough games at Lyon or is it for another reason, because it seems strange he'd want to leave probably one of the top three teams in the world right now. Lyon would have been my favourites for the CL a few weeks ago, but Man Utd are looking great now, although it'll be interesting what Ferguson does if Roonery goes another four or five games without scoring.
What's up with Riise?
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