22-08-2003 15:29									#1
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closing in on diego

quote: Tottenham and Santos have agreed a fee for teenager Diego, BBC Sport understands. The Brazilian club had initially rejected a £5.6m bid for the 18-year-old, but Spurs have now increased their offer to £7.6m. A stumbling block in the negotiations had been that Santos own only 60% of the player's registration, with Diego's father Djair da Cunha holding the remaining value. But Diego's father has now agreed to reduce his percentage of the deal to 30%. The two clubs are still negotiating over when Diego will join Spurs. The Premiership club want the player to move immediately while Santos had hoped to keep him until the end of the year so he would be available for the rest of the Campeonato Brasileiro. Eighteen-year-old Diego, who wears the Santos number 10 shirt which once belonged to Pele, has already broken into the full Brazil squad. The Santos playmaker, nicknamed ''Zidane Jr'' after World Player of the Year Zinedine Zidane, is in the second year of a five-year contract with the Brazilian club. Diego was the key player in the Santos team that won last year's Brazilian Championship, and then went all the way to the final of the Copa Libertadores, South America's Champions League.

i wonder if he'll sign or be like all the other 'big stars' tottenham have been linked with over the years (rivaldo, morientes anyone )

	22-08-2003 15:31									#2
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quote: Originally posted by C0ckney (lo FP)

The kid sounds really good and 7.6 million is a good price. If he plays well and the transfer market picks up he could easily be worth double that in a couple of years.

That aside, I fully expect him to reject us. If he's half as good as people say he is there will be at least 10 European teams better than Spurs interested in signing him.

	22-08-2003 15:32									#3
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oh, and Sol Campbell was a nice boy when he was playing for us (usually only booked 3 or 4 times a season). He moves to The Arse and all of a sudden turns into this thug with a disciplinary problem. What's up with that?

	22-08-2003 15:34									#4
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well maybe he's just got more passion now he plays for a good team

(and of course the refs have it in for us )

	22-08-2003 16:29									#5
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Cry me a river. When's Campbell been punished for something he hasn't done...?

	22-08-2003 16:36									#6
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I think C0ckney knows that the supposed anti-Arse bias amongst referees is a load of bollocks.

Now, the pro-United bias amongst refs ... THAT'S worth talking about.

People of North-London Unite!

	22-08-2003 16:42									#7
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Pro-United bias my arse...

	22-08-2003 20:22									#8
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It was reported on another football message board I frequent from a Dutch TV show, that the reason Sol Campbell gets so wound up, is that he's an open homosexual and opposing players always wind him up about it.

It is odd how we don't have more professional footballers outed and jeered.

	22-08-2003 20:30									#9
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I'd heard the "Sol is gay" rumour too. I forget the source now, but remember thinking at the time that it sounded reasonably credible.

It's worth pointing out, Bods, that Sol isn't an "open homosexual" since if he was then everyone would know about it (rather than it being merely a rumour).

	22-08-2003 20:31									#10
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With 90+ professional teams in this country, each with 20+ professional players, one would assume that there are at least a couple of dozen gay footballers in this country. I can't think of any who are openly gay. Does anyone know of any?

	22-08-2003 20:32									#11
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Le Saux?

	22-08-2003 20:33									#12
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Of course the logical conclusion would be to say that the reason we hear of none is that there aren't any.

Football is a man's game, is it not?

	23-08-2003 04:58									#13
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Le Saux isn't gay, he just got targeted by ignorant cunts rather like yourself...

	23-08-2003 06:14									#14
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The BIG footie rumour on merseyside last year was that Diouf was gay and Hyppia had serious problems coming (oh er!) to terms with it!

	23-08-2003 06:19									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Boddington's Le Saux?

Too right! that wife and kid are just a smoke screen, otherwise why did he get so 'aroused' when Robbie Fowler took the p1ss 3 or 4 seasons ago?

he even took part in a program with Owen and Beckham, they interviewed Owen playing snooker, Beckham playing golf and LeSaux....at his home surrounded by his family!

	23-08-2003 09:51									#16
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so , knowing jocks, there are probably higher than everage number of homosexuals playing

Jon Miller

	23-08-2003 11:40									#17
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Maybe they all got outed in the changing room at 13 and were made to give up the game for the sake of all. Communism at its best.

	23-08-2003 14:59									#18
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quote: Originally posted by reds4ever The BIG footie rumour on merseyside last year was that Diouf was gay...

until they found out he was just rubbish

e.i.f the djemba-djemba incident springs to mind, a yellow card and a good talking to on a bad day, maybe, but a red card and suspension, pull the other one...

we actually had a gay bloke playing for us when we got relegated (talking about the team i used to play for), he wasn't camp or anything, just rubbish but yeah i think you won't that many gay people playing football, it's a bit like asians, i can't think of one (sub-continient) asian who gets a regular game in the premiership, although that said leeds have an excellent indian left-winger coming through, called harpal singh. the reason is probably that most young asians don't play football, they prefer other sports. it's the same with gays, except most gays just hate sport

	23-08-2003 17:13									#19
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quote: Originally posted by C0ckney until they found out he was just rubbish e.i.f the djemba-djemba incident springs to mind, a yellow card and a good talking to on a bad day, maybe, but a red card and suspension, pull the other one... we actually had a gay bloke playing for us when we got relegated (talking about the team i used to play for), he wasn't camp or anything, just rubbish

Did he go down in the box too easily? (sorry! )

As for a the Asian thing, when I played Sunday football you'd never hear the last of it after the game if you got 'skinned' by an Asian player, they were percieved to be slow

	23-08-2003 19:04									#20
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well in the somerset leagues you don't get to play against many asians but this one time we played a team from bristol (this was when we were in the regional league) with a really quick asian striker, we were 2-0 down at half time because of him, luckily thouhgh i absolutley clattered him at the start of the second half and he had to go off injuried (and i only got a yellow ), we went on to pull it back to 2-2 .

	23-08-2003 19:11									#21
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quote: Originally posted by C0ckney i absolutley clattered him at the start of the second half and he had to go off injuried (and i only got a yellow ),

Ah, the ideals of the Corinthian spirit are alive and well in amateur football!

	23-08-2003 19:21									#22
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exactly fair play and may the best team win...as long as it's ours