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elampiro: DSTV (SS3 today).

Or View Centres, hotels halls. Anyone you choose.

A statement released by Barcelona on Thursday confirmed the assignment for the promising winger.

“FC Barcelona and Sevilla FC have reached an agreement in principle for the loan of Gerard Deulofeu to the Andalusian club for the 2014-15 season, an operation designed to ensure that he gets to play as many games as possible and therefore develop as a footballer.”

It was reported on Thursday morning that Deulofeu was likely to join former Barcelona B teammate, Denis Suarez in Andalusia, after the 20-year-old failed to convince manager Luis Enrique that he was worthy of more consistent playing time with the first team.

Deulofeu will not undergo his standard medical before officially being presented by Sevilla and joining his new teammates as they prepare for their 2014-15 La Liga and Europa League title defense.

http://www.insidespanishfootball.com/120392/barcelonas-gerard-deulofeu-joins-sevilla-on-loan/

coogar: mourinho:
"During [his] period at the club he has had moments, some of them important moments,
He works hard for the team and brings things to the team. He is contracted and a good professional.

Yes, he's in my plans, Torres is a good player.
I keep saying the same - Fernando is not the kind of player that with half a chance, he scores a goal.

He's not the kind of guy that's going to score goal after goal. But the way he works, the way he moves, the work he contributes for the team... he is a player that I LIKE, a player that the club respects and we are happy to have him next season, no problem."
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coogar: no - it's not!
you have completely misinterpreted what he said.

another fallacy!
he said HE LIKED them - a decision made either by what giggs/woodward had told him about the new signings or he made that decision from what he read in their scout report.

van gaal never saw shaw/herrera play.

he said they had been lined up to be signed & he gave his approval to what was already on ground. whether we hired van gaal or not, herrera & shaw were always going to join united this summer.

Purist: I think some perspective is needed here. Here is exactly what LVG said:

LVG:
"My method is always the same. I want to look at the players now - the players present. And of course, I know the players - how they play. But I don't know the players who I have trained and coached. So first I want to see surely the first three, four weeks - what they can do and then maybe I shall buy other players. And the players that we have bought now, Shaw and Herrera, were already on the list; so I gave my approval because I LIKE them. But first I want to see the players performing my philosophy."

Keky: Let's face it, Woodward is about 2 weeks away from hitting the Ron Vlaar bid button.

Nihilist: Cheiiiiii

Shots fired! Shots fired!!!

You mean coogar should leave Wales and take up residence in Ebinpejo Lane in Idumota?

Or Pound Road in Aba?

Goddamn! Niggas be coming straight with the rocks!

coogar: afrodoc, stop lying to us you are a medical doctor. you were a truant in school. it was gathered you repeated each class in your secondary school & you were arrested in yaba area of lagos for exam malpractices. you spent 3 years in jail before a state governor pardoned you & the others caught.

no tertiary institution would take you then you were introduced into making traditional medicine. swear on your father's life you do not sell medicine on danfos & BRT buses. swear on your mother's life you don't use crooked tools to do abortion process for teenage girls in your area.

you came on NL lying to these innocent posters you are a doctor whereas you only peddle traditional medicine. don't you fücking have a conscience? why must you lie all the time to claim what you are not? oloshious fellow, 40 years of age and your life lacks magnitude & direction.

larride: Why is no one talking about Blankett. I like that dude confidence on the ball, he might still be young but he needs to be promoted asap.

StarBoard: That should answer your question about Shaw. The BBC even appears to infer that the deal was done in between windows before van Gaal was made manager.

That should tell you who originated whatever transfer there is about Shaw.

even more interesting is the discussion on the United fan board that seems to suggest that fans knew of the bid. Mid May around the time the season ended,again before van gaal was announced.
http://community.manutd.com/forums/p/281949/2542009.aspx

elampiro: The man knew what he wanted even before he was made coach. Gaal doesn't look to me like someone who Giggs/Woodward will force players on. He's too a domineering for that.

Alberto Moreno admits it was difficult to leave Sevilla, but he is looking forward to the new challenge of playing for Liverpool in the Premier League.

The left-back was taken out of the Sevilla team that faced Real Madrid in the UEFA Supercup on Tuesday and the 22-year-old was emotional after the match, as he bade farewell to the fans and team-mates.

The Spain international was at the club’s Melwood training ground on Wednesday to finalise a £12 million move to Anfield and he told ABC de Sevilla that he felt sad leaving his boyhood club, but Liverpool is a good step in his career.

“I am living a strange situation because I’m leaving the club of my life. I was always aware of the two teams (trying) to agree. I never got into that but Sevilla have understood that Liverpool’s offer was good and I am going.

“(I have) many feelings together. What happened on the pitch, with the fans, will remain forever etched on me and I could not help but mourn because I did not expect it.

“First came the parting with colleagues, then with the fans…all very complicated. Liverpool are a great team and of course I’m super-motivated. I hope things go well.”

http://www.insidespanishfootball.com/120257/alberto-moreno-its-a-strange-situation-because-im-leaving-the-club-of-my-life/

jaybee3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj72wS-BVhY

elampiro: Gaal admitted he sanctioned Shaw and Herrera deal. Some of you guys aren't fair in apportioning blame. He said he sanctioned them because he liked both players.

In same vain, you guys blamed Moyes the last time for our transfer deals or no deals. It is surprising you people aren't blaming Gaal this time around despite the fact he has several times alluded to be the one calling the shot or guiding our transfer activities. You put the whole blame on woodward instead.

Dadehmola: In his first United press conference on Thursday afternoon, Van Gaal said: 'Shaw and Herrera were already on the list. I gave my approval because I like them.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2696066/Louis-van-Gaal-says-gave-approval-Manchester-United-sign-Luke-Shaw-Ander-Herrera.html
Van gaal should take responsibility for this Abeg

tess1: I don't think Woodward would be messing around with Van Gaal over his targets. I still believe every transfer rests on Van Gaal coupled with the fact that they had to sort his approvals before they could buy the two they bought so far. It is only for Van Gaal to tell him who he is interested in before he goes for such.

afrodoc: No one is saying they are definitely winning all competitions, however you have to admire their attack. And i so no stifling last night. They flowed quite well from midfield to attack considering they have had very little time to train together.
Parking the bus is very effective against tiki taka teams that look to pass you to death and over-elaborate, not as effective against teams with pace and long distance shooting like this team.
I repeat nobody is saying they will win all but that attack is looking very promising

StarBoard: Until I see it before I believe it.
Not as if you don't make a point but Louis van Gaal will die first before going route one.
He would rather lose playing the "right way" than going direct.
He could have done plenty of that against Argentina, mexico and Costa rica in Brazil but stuck with his tactics.

afrodoc: That is why i said they have to sort out their defence, but anyway when they are scoring 4 goals against the organized side that side better score goals too

StarBoard: van Gaal is not a route one person.
He despises that method.
Whatever plan he has must involve quick movement of the ball.

codedguy1: When do we expect a coach like LvG to play route-1?

Monchi: The man who made Sevilla

It was in the autumn of 2003 that I first realised that it was time to know a hell of a lot more about Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo. Also known as "Monchi." Also known as the brains behind Sevilla FC's football operation since retiring as their goalkeeper about three years previously (and subsequently for the ensuing 11 years).

Monchi, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason that the city of Sevilla, one of Spain's most prodigious and important talent factories, has a team in the Primera Division.

He may, although this is hypothetical and hard to prove, also be the reason that Sevilla still has two football clubs. Because how this organisation would have survived the dearth of money for clubs outside the big three or four over the past handful of years if they didn't have this 45-year-old 'Big Brain' of football watching over them is a mystery to me.

Temporarily, however, back to the autumn of 2003. A friend of mine, a football lawyer by trade, had been at Highbury to do business and spotted a taxi being called for a Ramon Rodriguez. It was evidently a football matter given the fuss being made over the Spanish visitor and, one tip-off later, I was on the case.

The deal turned out to be Jose Antonio Reyes, about whom most Gunners will have mixed feelings -- but not so in Sevilla.

He's back there now, with his hometown club, but the 2003 sale to Arsenal -- for significantly more than it cost Barcelona to buy Ronaldinho six months earlier -- was the beginning of a selling spree where Monchi's prodigies, like Julio Baptista and Sergio Ramos, earned Los Rojiblancos close to a 90 million-euro profit.

In fact, rather than Monchi, his nickname should be "Margin". His metallurgical ability to spot, sign and plump up a player other clubs are simply not interested in and then sell him for a huge profit is simply remarkable.

Not every single time. Not everything he touches turns to gold or else he'd be "Midas" not Monchi. But I don't believe that in modern times there's a trader of horseflesh anywhere in football with a record to compare to his.

In his time he's either helped promote from Sevilla's youth structure or signed to the club: Dani Alves, Freddie Kanoute, Luis Fabiano, Julio Baptista, Sergio Ramos, Jose Antonio Reyes, Andres Palop, Adriano, Renato, Gary Medel, Geoffrey Kondogbia, Jesus Navas, Alvaro Negredo, Seydou Keita, Christian Poulsen, Alberto Moreno, Kevin Gameiro, Enzo Maresca, Carlos Bacca, Diego Lopez and Ivan Rakitic.

Not all have been sold, a couple were allowed to leave for free given their age. But every single one of those players has brought, or will bring, vastly more to Sevilla in terms of sale price, prestige, sponsorship and trophies than they cost to acquire.

By the time they are all sold, I'd estimate it'll be at a net profit of around 200 million euros.

And the cherry on the icing, certainly for me because this is not an accountant's column, is that Monchi the Margin Man's driving philosophy is that he and his network can buy short and sell long but all the while, win trophies. Thus it is that during his time as the grey matter behind the club, Sevilla have reached 10 finals (including Tuesday's UEFA Super Cup against Real Madrid) and won seven of them.

http://www.espnfc.com/blog/espn-fc-united-blog/68/post/1981765/monchi-the-man-who-made-sevilla