Glen Johnson?? £18 Million? Pah!! Waste of Money! - Poll Results, Links & Other Assorted Bits
To one and to all,
I'd just like to alert your attention to a couple of miscellaneous bits of site news and other stuff whilst we all take a short repose during the quiet summer months.
First off, recent poll results. Over the last few weeks, since the Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid transfer broke we've run a couple of polls inviting you to give your opinion in vote format to some burning summer issues (if you can really call them that). First we asked if readers of Just-Football felt Ronaldo's £80 million transfer was great business or a disaster for Manchester United.
Well, I can now reveal that 71% of readers thought it was a good deal for United, while 28% think it will prove a disastrous sale. So if it does all go pear-shaped for Fergie next season at least he and the Glazer family can take comfort in the knowledge that they were not alone in seeing it as a good deal, a vast proportion of Just-Football readers also approved.
Days later we turned our attentions to Liverpool, who raised a few eyebrows, not least those of the men in Portsmouth's boardroom, when they won the race to bring right back Glen Johnson to Anfield. The entry fee for that race was around £17.5 million pounds, or roughly 1/3rd of Kaka in real (Real?) terms.
We asked if you thought it was a great signing or a complete waste of money. The results showed a big swing in the opposite direction here - 75% thought it a waste of money while 25% considered it a great bit of business by Rafa Benitez.
Time will tell on this one, but I do think it could prove a good signing given Liverpool's obvious need for width from the full back positions. Then again, wouldn't a few extra million buy Maicon?
Anyway, enough transfer speculation and pondering. Here are a few rock solid links that are keeping us entertained at the minute. Something to read whilst you try and work out how Mark Hughes is going to fit 9 strikers into his first-team. (Oh Benjani, we hardly knew ye...):
David Conn analyses boardroom politics at Arsenal.
Livingston FC on the brink? courtesy of Pitch Invasion.
The thoroughly enjoyable Footsmoke on sports journalism, sports blogging and humanity as we know it.
And, in case football is boring you to tears right now, Free Darko on the phenomenon that is Usain Bolt.
All are very interesting articles if you have a spare few moments and want to do some reading.
I'd just like to alert your attention to a couple of miscellaneous bits of site news and other stuff whilst we all take a short repose during the quiet summer months.
First off, recent poll results. Over the last few weeks, since the Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid transfer broke we've run a couple of polls inviting you to give your opinion in vote format to some burning summer issues (if you can really call them that). First we asked if readers of Just-Football felt Ronaldo's £80 million transfer was great business or a disaster for Manchester United.
Well, I can now reveal that 71% of readers thought it was a good deal for United, while 28% think it will prove a disastrous sale. So if it does all go pear-shaped for Fergie next season at least he and the Glazer family can take comfort in the knowledge that they were not alone in seeing it as a good deal, a vast proportion of Just-Football readers also approved.
Days later we turned our attentions to Liverpool, who raised a few eyebrows, not least those of the men in Portsmouth's boardroom, when they won the race to bring right back Glen Johnson to Anfield. The entry fee for that race was around £17.5 million pounds, or roughly 1/3rd of Kaka in real (Real?) terms.
We asked if you thought it was a great signing or a complete waste of money. The results showed a big swing in the opposite direction here - 75% thought it a waste of money while 25% considered it a great bit of business by Rafa Benitez.
Time will tell on this one, but I do think it could prove a good signing given Liverpool's obvious need for width from the full back positions. Then again, wouldn't a few extra million buy Maicon?
Anyway, enough transfer speculation and pondering. Here are a few rock solid links that are keeping us entertained at the minute. Something to read whilst you try and work out how Mark Hughes is going to fit 9 strikers into his first-team. (Oh Benjani, we hardly knew ye...):
David Conn analyses boardroom politics at Arsenal.
Livingston FC on the brink? courtesy of Pitch Invasion.
The thoroughly enjoyable Footsmoke on sports journalism, sports blogging and humanity as we know it.
And, in case football is boring you to tears right now, Free Darko on the phenomenon that is Usain Bolt.
All are very interesting articles if you have a spare few moments and want to do some reading.
Also, if you read this post within the next day or so, do have your say in our latest poll asking whether Real Madrid, having won the Champions League of outrageously wanton money squandering (they beat Royal Bank of Scotland 2-1 in the final, Ronaldo's late winner cancelled out Fred Goodwin's second half penalty) can win something in the actual real football world. Will they win next season's La Liga? Have your say by voting in the right hand sidebar.
And if anyone wants to guess which striker Manchester City will buy next (after Adebayor) please feel free to speculate in the comments field. My money's on Jimmy Greaves.
And if anyone wants to guess which striker Manchester City will buy next (after Adebayor) please feel free to speculate in the comments field. My money's on Jimmy Greaves.
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