Great Goal by Pongolle....

[Mad_Fer_It]

Scored a great diving header a few minutes ago...

[Guest Kev]

Yes it was, but he missed a sitter before that.

[Mad_Fer_It]

didnt see it, started watching the match at halftime, with the first half highlights...

[Guest Kev]

didnt see it, started watching the match at halftime, with the first half highlights...

 

About a yard out, totally missed the ball.

 

He is playing very well though. The only reason why he went on loan is because he's the lowest paid forward that was still at the club.

Edited March 5, 2006 by Kev

[Nebraska Red]

About a yard out, totally missed the ball.

 

He is playing very well though. The only reason why he went on loan is because he's the lowest paid forward that was still at the club.

 

why would his low pay be a reason to send him out on loan?

[Guest Cardie]

why would his low pay be a reason to send him out on loan?

 

Easier for a club to take on his wages.

 

Blackburn wouldn't be able to affor the 30k plus we pay the rest

[Mad_Fer_It]

so another team could loan him paying his wages???

 

i love the lad GREAT ASSIST JUST NOW!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!

 

he just beat ledley king to the ball, passed the ball to bellamy....

great technical ability....

[Guest Kev]

He just made a plonker out of King and laid on the equaliser for Bellamy.

[Guest Sabre]

How long before someone says that it was stupid to loan him out because he might help Blackburn beat us to a CL spot?

[Guest Kev]

Easier for a club to take on his wages.

 

Blackburn wouldn't be able to affor the 30k plus we pay the rest

 

 

Spot on, look at the forwards we had.

 

Cisse = too much wages.

Nando = too much wages and to loan him out would be seen as a failure on Rafa's part.

Crouch = Only just signed, there was no way it would be him.

Sinama = Fourth choice, low wages. bye bye.

[Guest Cardie]

How long before someone says that it was stupid to loan him out because he might help Blackburn beat us to a CL spot?

 

Happily say it was stupid to loan him out (said so at the time) wouldn't go that far though.

[Mad_Fer_It]

id say hes getting some much needed playing time... we could use him at the mo.. but this is for his own good....

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

better to loan him, him to get games, impress & come back a 1st team player than not to & then let him go

[Guest westang]

he looks like he will come back a better player with more prem games under his belt; on the other le tallec isn't doing so good

[Guest Jack Bauer]

Good goal, shame that we didn't send Morientes there instead.

[Mike]

can't belive we kept cisse and loaned pongolle, personally.

[Bjarkinn]

Sinama and le tallec missed a sitter today.. What up with our forwards:O

 

but excellent goal by sinama anyway

[Dule]

Sinama will come back a better player after this loan period, that is for certain.

[Snoeker]

If only Crouch could've nailed that diving header from the teasing Cisse center

[Leo No.8]

Pongolle is definitely benefitting from a run of games - he looked superb yesterday, very lively.

 

FSP will come back a better player without a doubt, although personally I'd have preferred him to be getting his games with us.

 

The lad has a great touch, unlike a certain forward we kept hold of whom I would have loaned out and continued to pay half his wages as a sweetener, just to get him out of the way.

 

But lets get one thing straight - Rafa has decided to let Pongolle go out on loan instead of the others as a football decision, either because he's rather have kept Cisse or there were no takers. What people are saying above about wages doesn't make sense; after all if it was Cisse we wanted to loan out, couldn't we just whoever wanted him to pay the same as Blackburn are for Pongolle, and we'd pay the rest?

 

It adds up to us saving the same amount of money and them paying the same amount of money doesn't it?

 

I think it's possible that no-one wanted Cisse. I reckon we'll be lucky to get £5m for him when he goes. But he the boss was favouring Cisse anyway when he had both players at his disposal.

Edited March 6, 2006 by Leo No.8

[Guest Sabre]

If only Crouch could've nailed that diving header from the teasing Cisse center

 

It wasn't even a diving header. He just fecked up a simple header.

[Guest Anders Honoré]

I think it's possible that no-one wanted Cisse. I reckon we'll be lucky to get £5m for him when he goes. But he the boss was favouring Cisse anyway when he had both players at his disposal.

 

Come on, Leo. Surely you must know your view of Cisse as a footballer is far too radical to be normative.

[Earl Hafler]

I reckon £7-8m in the summer, Leo.

 

One positive about his performance on Saturday is that he took up a few good positions and had some chances on what was a rare start. This could bode well for the Benfica match as i think he might start that game aswell.

 

The other forwards have been given ample time to hit form but it's not happening. Maybe Cisse will now get his chance.

[Snoeker]

It wasn't even a diving header. He just fecked up a simple header.

 

Much as it pains me to say this but it was a diving header for him.

[Guest Sabre]

Much as it pains me to say this but it was a diving header for him.

 

For Crouch?! He ran onto it and buggered it.