Quite a coup by west ham, i heard that tevez had been in discussions with man u and arsenal, but neither had guaranteed him first team football, but west ham did... yeah, like they were going to put someone else in the team ahead of him...
Ireland... bad... Germany were the better team, but they weren't all that... Ireland need a spark... big time...
I personally prefer Phil to Gary Neville, so i was pleasantly surprised...
Wes Brown... so glad to see him get a game, and i sincerely hope he's still in the team for the next match...
I thought Hargreaves was ok... and the midfield seems more balanced than it did in the summer... but as was said, its Andorra... the real test is yet to come...
That's not what I'm asking.
EDIT: Aha! Here's the answer:
For as long as the pair remain at Upton Park, the Hammers will pick up half of their salaries, the relatively modest sums of £1.5m for Tevez and £1m for Mascherano. However, the club is also contractually obliged to start each in the first team whenever they are fit to play. A buyout clause does allow West Ham to assume “normal†control over the players, but for a prohibitively high payment of about £60m.
While West Ham officially trumpeted Thursday’s acquisitions as “a massive coup for the Hammers, who have beaten off some of Europe’s biggest clubs to secure the services of the duoâ€, the reality of the deal was rather different. MSI’s original intention had been to use the World Cup to maximise its profit on the striker and midfielder, bought for Corinthians from Argentine football for about $35m two years previously. Unfortunately, first Chelsea — after a whistlestop scouting trip by Jose Mourinho — and then Manchester United, Sevilla, AS Roma and Arsenal refused to meet the asking price. By the early hours of Thursday morning, MSI had been reduced to offering what amounted to glorified loan deals to Portsmouth and West Ham until Pompey balked at the stringent terms.
Though Corinthians received nothing from the deal, the club’s president, Alberto Dualib, travelled to London last week to sign over the players’ registrations. “Do you know why they are at West Ham? Because they were the only club that would take them,†he said.
yes, yes it is lol...
the England team is composed of world class players (arguably) but that doesnt take from the fact that the Andorra team is composed of professional or semi-professional players as well.
They were rubbish in professional terms, but i can garuantee they'd still kick the shit out of your sunday league team.
Defoe, one of Englands greatest finishers, and Crouch... who cant stop scoring atm, only managed 2 each...