There's a great little scene in "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" where the Ugly one starts negotiating to buy a gun. The gunsmith says $50 dollars, then drops to $30 then to $20, then suddenly says $50, $100, $200 and finally, "That's all I have". His product has been pointed against his temple and the negotiation positions have been reversed.
Well, Luckless Neill has shot himself in the foot by turning down our initial contract offer and walking away from the club. He expected a host of other clubs to be falling over themselves to sign him, not realising that his lack of pace has been noted by every manager in the Premiership and even, it appears, as far away as Greece.
Now, if I was in the negotiation, I would delight in saying, "We offered you £40k a week last time so now we are offering 30. Delay 24 hours and it goes down to 25, delay another 24 hours and it's down to 20. You want a pen? Well ask nicely. On your knees!"
Well, with Zola in charge, why shouldn't we have a rerun of the most famous spaghetti Western of them all?
9 comments:
you twat we would lose him with that atitude
Lucas is worth every penny. Great captain.
lucas has no pace atall, whenever hes on the ball he Sh*ts himself nd just wants to get rid of it, he may of had a decent season but there are so many better options the zola and clarke could attract to te club.
Lucas is like Murray a loser
we wanna be keeping Niell, we're a much stonger side when he plays
lol I like the way people turn on Murray as if he isn't a brilliant player.
I suspect Lucas Neill will not feel embarrassed in coming back to us, as self pride hardly exists in football, just look back to Di Micheles dive.
Lucas Neill is simply not good enough - end of. Some poster said he was a great Captain? You must be joking - great captains simply can't wait to bugger off on a free fishing for the highest wage they can get can they.
We've got a couple of perfectly adequate replacements in Upson and Parker, so we don't need neill for his captaincy skills.
Neil may be a satisfactory defender - but I lost count of the number of time I saw him play the negative ball when supposedly coming forward. He either played a sideways or backwards pass inside [ignoring the player running into space on the attacking overlap] or he put in a totally shit cross and lost possession. He seemed to get a nose bleed over the half way line.
Good riddance mercenary to Neill.
Oh FFS, what is it with this site? Far out, if you were in training to be a writer for the most rubbish of sensationalist newspapers, you are doing really well.
0434, It is The Sport in blog form. Wait for the article, Lucas Neill Found On The Moon!
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