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Good on Man Utd signing Alan Smith and getting close to Heinze before Euro 2004 kicks off. Same to any team that buys the players they've been tracking for a while right now, because during Euro 2004, anything can happen.
Buying a player based on their performances at a major tournament is dangerous business. John Jensen wasn't the goalscoring midfielder he appeared to be during Euro 1992 was he? Karel Poborsky wasn't half the player he appeared to be at Euro 1996. Rio Ferdinand would no way have cost £30 million had it not been for the last World Cup boosting his price.
You just know it's going to happen though, a player that's not part of the first 11 will get a chance, and he'll be highly impressive. Big clubs will see him, and when one approaches to sign him, the others will worry that they could miss out, and the price will go sky-high - even if they barely did enough to scrape into the squad for the national team, and just happen to hit the form of their life during the tournament.
Imagine if one of the other participants has a player that's the equivolent to Darius Vassell. Not greta for his club, but does significantly better for his country. What if due to injuries he plays in every games, and scores 3 or 4 goals. He'd look good. As soon as he was snapped up and went to a new club, chances are he'd still be the same disappointing player at club level.
You can tell it'll happen though. One English club will buy based on performances this season, and will take the risk of not really getting what they think.
Buying a player based on their performances at a major tournament is dangerous business. John Jensen wasn't the goalscoring midfielder he appeared to be during Euro 1992 was he? Karel Poborsky wasn't half the player he appeared to be at Euro 1996. Rio Ferdinand would no way have cost £30 million had it not been for the last World Cup boosting his price.
You just know it's going to happen though, a player that's not part of the first 11 will get a chance, and he'll be highly impressive. Big clubs will see him, and when one approaches to sign him, the others will worry that they could miss out, and the price will go sky-high - even if they barely did enough to scrape into the squad for the national team, and just happen to hit the form of their life during the tournament.
Imagine if one of the other participants has a player that's the equivolent to Darius Vassell. Not greta for his club, but does significantly better for his country. What if due to injuries he plays in every games, and scores 3 or 4 goals. He'd look good. As soon as he was snapped up and went to a new club, chances are he'd still be the same disappointing player at club level.
You can tell it'll happen though. One English club will buy based on performances this season, and will take the risk of not really getting what they think.
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I agree completely Meka, but also, when you take a similar perspective on this matter, you see players like Nicky Butt, who have been called up to the national squad ahead of the likes of Scott Parker. Now I'm not saying Butt's a bad player, but it seems to me the only reason he's apart of that squad is due to his impressive World Cup performances. He's played very few times for United this season, and not shown me anything that suggests he should be in the national squad, whilst Scott Parker has been excellent.
Then again, I think very highly of Parker anyway.
Then again, I think very highly of Parker anyway.
El Hadji Diouf being another one! one of the major factors in houllier losing his job!
Good on Man Utd signing Alan Smith and getting close to Heinze before Euro 2004 kicks off. Same to any team that buys the players they've been tracking for a while right now, because during Euro 2004, anything can happen.
Buying a player based on their performances at a major tournament is dangerous business. John Jensen wasn't the goalscoring midfielder he appeared to be during Euro 1992 was he? Karel Poborsky wasn't half the player he appeared to be at Euro 1996. Rio Ferdinand would no way have cost £30 million had it not been for the last World Cup boosting his price.
You just know it's going to happen though, a player that's not part of the first 11 will get a chance, and he'll be highly impressive. Big clubs will see him, and when one approaches to sign him, the others will worry that they could miss out, and the price will go sky-high - even if they barely did enough to scrape into the squad for the national team, and just happen to hit the form of their life during the tournament.
Imagine if one of the other participants has a player that's the equivolent to Darius Vassell. Not greta for his club, but does significantly better for his country. What if due to injuries he plays in every games, and scores 3 or 4 goals. He'd look good. As soon as he was snapped up and went to a new club, chances are he'd still be the same disappointing player at club level.
You can tell it'll happen though. One English club will buy based on performances this season, and will take the risk of not really getting what they think.
Buying a player based on their performances at a major tournament is dangerous business. John Jensen wasn't the goalscoring midfielder he appeared to be during Euro 1992 was he? Karel Poborsky wasn't half the player he appeared to be at Euro 1996. Rio Ferdinand would no way have cost £30 million had it not been for the last World Cup boosting his price.
You just know it's going to happen though, a player that's not part of the first 11 will get a chance, and he'll be highly impressive. Big clubs will see him, and when one approaches to sign him, the others will worry that they could miss out, and the price will go sky-high - even if they barely did enough to scrape into the squad for the national team, and just happen to hit the form of their life during the tournament.
Imagine if one of the other participants has a player that's the equivolent to Darius Vassell. Not greta for his club, but does significantly better for his country. What if due to injuries he plays in every games, and scores 3 or 4 goals. He'd look good. As soon as he was snapped up and went to a new club, chances are he'd still be the same disappointing player at club level.
You can tell it'll happen though. One English club will buy based on performances this season, and will take the risk of not really getting what they think.
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