Allardyce idiocy and Ancelotti's scouting
Tuesday, 07 July 09, 05:28 PM · Comments(1)
By Michael Sinnerton
Sam Allardyce wants to perform felattio on Sir Alex Ferguson. That's the conclusion I've come to after he initially suggested signing Michael Owen was too much of a gamble: "It's unfortunate for Michael but if you look at the last three years I cannot take a gamble on that." It wasn't that unfortunate for Michael in the end was it. Allardyce later went on say that Owen could be a very good signing for United. Strange.
This comes after Allardyce jumped on the back of Ferguson's criticism of Rafa Benitez's "game over hand signal". Despite having said nothing in the days after the game, Allardyce after Ferguson's outburst finally piped up, ""I was hugely disappointed by those gestures. I think they were disrespectful and quite humiliating. Having looked at them again this week, I think I'm right and everybody will see why I'm complaining."
Having written Owen off as too big a risk, Allardyce is hilariously eyeing Christian Vieri who is 35 (6 years older than Owen and with no Premier League experience. "He's obviously out of condition compared to the rest of the lads, but at this stage of the season, joining us in the pre-season shows a certain amount of commitment from him that he wants to try and play football again, and he fancies a go over here in the Premier League." Doesn't that sound like more of a gamble? I wonder who'll have the last laugh there.
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Carlo Ancelotti impressed everyone with his grasp of the language and sense of humour at his first press conference but the more shrewd observers among you will have noticed perhaps the best thing about Ancelotti is his commitment to the job. Already his scouting of last year's reserve leagues has seen Chelsea swoop for Ross Turnbull and Daniel Sturridge, big money moves for Nabil El Zhar and Febian Brandy seem nothing more than rumours at this point.
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I think, but may be wrong, that we had Sturridge lined up beforehand. There was talk of us following his progress at Man City for three years. Good stuff though.