Stoke Fucking City swoop for two of our better players, and get them at a bargain price. £11m for the Teuton and Turk…6 for Huth is job done – we recovered the original fee to Chelsea and don’t need to worry about more inevitable injury woes…but 5 for Tuncay? The comparisons to other summer movements have been well documented with lingering incredulity. Memories of the two goals bagged at Villa, winners at Portsmouth and home v the aforementioned SFCFC, his stunner to sink a then top of the table Arsenal, the goal-of-the-season bicycle at home v Villa, and the legendary indefatigability shall forever burn in our mind…if Turkey didn’t have such dodgy form we’d be guaranteed more of this brand of courage and spirit…
Could it be a damning augur that a team craving to settle into our vacated regular top flight berth is pilfering the pieces for their own consolidation? Absolutely – just another fortunate club exploiting our weakness for buying high and selling low, leaving a bare cupboard for another critical campaign…
August 31st, 2009 @ BA
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