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For as much of a twit Ronaldo might come across as, i really doubt he'd be so crass as to celebrate scoring at OT. And Tevez not doing so doesn't make him any less of a twit, either.

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Well when Ronaldo scored for us against Sporting Lisbon, in Lisbon, he deliberately did not celebrate then.

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Ronaldo will most likely get a good reception, although there were some season ticket holders last year that i know who were against him then so i doubt their opinion will have changed.

As for Tevez, for me it's not that he's joined city, it's that it seems now from what Fergie has said is that he lied to us. He said he wasn't offered a new deal, which is why he is leaving but it seems he was, on more than one occasion as well. By the looks of it he's just another money grabber, whereas Ronaldo has joined his boyhood club and has been very respectful in his coments about United and Ferguson.

Personally, i don't think either of them would celebrate if they scored against us and it would be Ronaldo who will get better reception.

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I think the Teve deal shows how much agents affect the game these days. if it was just down to football then I think he would still be with us. The fact we can't just offer a deal to Tevez but have to go through the agent all the team means it's all down to the agent who will get more of a cut with a transfer than just staying with us

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From the point of view of what has kicked this all off, it's his agent, I think since West Ham it is fairly clear he is in it for himself before client. But Tevez is no dummy, he would have been on a big wage and for fiive years. Not playing enough games is crap, not being offered a contract till the last min is crap, any excuse to save face. He has gone for the money, and I already said, that is fine, but be a man and admit it, don't make UTD/Ferguson look bad, and then try to get fans to side with him.

Tell you what, before I read Fergusons comments today I would have had Tevez at UTD next season in a heart beat, I actually felt a bit sorry for him, I wondered why he was on the bench for certain games. Now we have the full picture, he was on the bench for treating Ferguson and the club with complete disregard. To go to the press and say what he said knowing full well he had been offered a contract "TWICE" he is lucky he got another game.

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from things i;ve read on the press I think there are some players who listen to their agents so much their own intelligence doesn't come into it.

The stories I read about Robinho wasn't that he was told he was signing for Manchester and assumed it was United but that he was just told by his agent to sign and he did without even knowing the club he was signing for. He got rid of his agent not long after the move to City so there could be some truth to that.

The other season we had Wes Brown whose contract was about to run out. Every time Fergie tried to talk to him he got the old don't talk to me go through the agent. The agent just wanted more money and Wes nearly ended up at Newcastle, not better for him in a football sense, but they listen to the agents so much they don't think for themselves.

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16.42 Sky Sports sources understand Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor will have a work permit hearing in Manchester tomorrow ahead of a proposed move to Manchester City.

See ya money grabber \o/

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Drogba's appeal heard by UEFA what did they do, increase it to send out a clear message no they reduce it, planks

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/fo....cut.boswinga/

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He ought to have a 3 match ban every season just for being Didier Drogba.

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He's now been granted a work permit. I'll be looking forward to seeing how we spend the £25mil (Or whatever percentage of it Wenger spends)

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I`m a City fan and i really hope (allthough it seems unlikely) that we do not sign Mr Adebayor. Firstly i do not rate him that highly as a player and feel that he is to similar to Santa-Cruz in his style.
Another thing is he seems to be just going for the spondoolies not for owt else. I certainly wouldn`t trust him as far as i could spit and think Arsenal fans deserve better from him after standing by him this season. IMO he`s just like Drogba attitude wise!

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The sooner the premiership disappears up it's own rear end the sooner football can return to being a sport again.:)

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I've heard from a good source that Alonso to Madrid is a done deal for £25 million and that Mascherano has been offered a new three year deal doubling his wages and is expected to sign soon.

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So now apparently Ade is stalling on a move to Man City to see if a bigger club comes in for him, can he get any worse?

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I read somewhere he is unsure of City cos of the stigma ie a money grabber, no idea if that is true.

And Man Utd were all set and Gill opens his mouth on possible signings, we all know someone is coming (I bet at work if Villa get Downing it might be Young) but it was diffused, I was suprised the papers fell for it, not a story about us in three days, back to them attaching everyone to us in the morning.