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Listed below are comments made by Henry between Thursday, 16th July 2009 and Saturday, 24th October 2009.

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Scottish football needs 'czar' 11:35pm on 24 Oct 2009 4. At 8:59pm on 24 Oct 2009, btccmatt wrote:
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What about the scenario where Scottish football slips further, the money dries up, and it slips into obscurity - not enough talent to get big again, not enough money to invest in infrastructure to generate talent, and not enough talent to bring any money in.
Maradona singing in the rain 12:24pm on 12 Oct 2009 Hi Tim,

Just wondering what your opinions are on the continued absence of players like Walter Samuel, Javier Zanetti, and more importantly (in terms of the length of his absence), Esteban Cambiasso?
Sony PlayStation 3 and the "yellow light of death" 11:37am on 18 Sep 2009 Under consumer statutory rights, (with burden of proof on the consumer) if there is a fault within the electrical goods, we can have it replaced free of charge for quite some time after. Up to six years, apparently, or further.

This is why Sony have given you the response they have above - because any other comment would lead to them having to admit that the fault is systematic within their own manufacturing process [removed for legal reasons] and thus having to replace all of this free.
Maradona learning the hard way 11:33am on 07 Sep 2009 Hi Tim

I'm very interested to hear your opinions on the constant exclusion of Cambiasso from this side?
In light of what I understand to be poor form from Mascherano, should he perhaps not have described his side as "ten + Mascherano"? What are your opinions on stripping Zanetti of the captaincy?

The last thing I'd bring up is Samuel - albeit not playing great at the moment for Inter, but surely still worth an inclusion, now that he's technically fit?
South America's wayward footballing stereotypes 11:14am on 05 Aug 2009 71 -
Couple things

Burdisso's first season was average at best, and then he had to take some considerable time off to look after his daughter. After that, he's been a sub player at best for us, and hasn't really performed up to his early career promise.

Samuel is hardly a player who spends more time on the treatment table, in his years of service at Inter (I think since 05? I don't remember off hand when exactly we signed him - yeah Wikipedia says 05) I don't remember him being injuried very often. I think you're only referring to his very terrible cruciate injury last dec (dec 07) in the Milan Derby that kept him out until roughly Oct 08. He's been a fairly solid performer for us always, and is slowly returning to form after his knee injury.

I'm still a bit shocked that Cambiasso isn't playing for Argentina - surely a world class player? Oh well, I Don't mind too much, it means he plays less games in a season. Better for us (Inter)
Spanning the South American age spectrum 1:25pm on 27 Jul 2009 15 -

I completely disagree.

If you look into the Serie A, there are plenty of alternatives for Zlatan already - though I don't expect my team to be splashing out on any of them.

Mauro Zarate has had a wonder season at Lazio - showing all the hallmarks of a complete striker, just needing a bit more time to develop it. Goran Pandev, again, is an all action striker. Further afoot, Fabio Quagliarella - whilst he might lack the tricks of Zlatan, has the ability to finish, quite literally, from anywhere on the pitch, and his move to Napoli should allow him to become a much more recognized player. Then you have to look at people like Edison Cavani, etc. I know these aren't current world class players, but certainly in a couple years at least a couple of them will be. Oh, I forgot to mention Ezequiel Lavezzi.

Defense, admittedly, Italy is somewhat lacking at the minute. For the centre-back area, only Santacroce and Kjaer (Danish) stand out of the youth players. With the emergence of Motta and Santon, the full-backs have gone from very susceptible in a couple years to actually possibly quite solid.

The alternatives are there, you just have to look for them - something that, it would seem, Barca and Real aren't interested in doing this summer.

The classical place to buy young players, of course, is South America. The S American clubs realize this, and they've jacked some stupid prices on their places - for example Hernanes at 20mil, or Douglas Costa - a player whose only played a couple, if I remember correctly, first team games. Even Coutinho, who Inter have signed, was bought for about 5 million, a year before he played any first team games for his side.

There's talent in Europe, a lot of it, I would cite Genoa and Napoli as the main clubs to watch, that I know of, who actually buy smart. Genoa paid a combined 8m for Milito and Motta (on a free) and got Roberto Acquafresca and 30 mil (Euros) back for them a year later.

Felipe Melo is another one of these success stories, this time at Fiorentina, as is Kjaer.

I hope I don't even need to mention Marek Hamsik in much depth? A player who had a bid of 32million euros rejected last summer for half of his contract. Stunning stuff.
Spanning the South American age spectrum 10:52am on 27 Jul 2009 Hi Tim

As an Inter fan, I'm curious what you think about the addition of Milito and Motta to the Nerazzurri. After the 2-0 derby win last night in which Milito scored two solid goals, I'm very hopeful (For him and Motta)... But given the formations, etc, how do you think Milito will pair up with Eto'o? I was definitely looking forward to his partnership with Ibrahimovic, but I think if we can learn to play better through balls to Eto'o we could have two strikers hit 20+ a season - a first for god knows how many years.
Arsenal will not miss Adebayor 2:15pm on 16 Jul 2009 1. At 12:05pm on 16 Jul 2009, lionihatethisgame wrote:

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Dont follow football much, then?
Melo signed for Juventus a couple of days ago.
How long will China finance America? 10:18am on 16 Jul 2009 Rockantero -

I assume Robert is using the US system - 10^6 is a million, (eg 1,000,000), 10^9 is a billion (eg one thousand million) and 10^12 is a trillion (one million million)

The way you are talking is the old British system, mainly not used anymore (where a thousand thousand is a million, a million million is a billion, a billion billion is a trillion).

The US system uses increments of 1000 (and thus follows physics in its use of standard notation), whereas the UK system uses squares, and thus gets very messy
How long will China finance America? 10:01am on 16 Jul 2009 Oh, I've remembered now.

This would all be so much easier if there was some kind of genuine ever constant currency, not susceptible to fluctuations and booms and crashes... Now I know some of you will say that gold is exactly that - except it isn't, as gold is susceptible to supply and demand like the rest of it. Obviously, this hypothetical currency is some kind of limitless commodity yet still with fixed value, blah blah blah. A nice idea but for very obvious reasons wholly impossible.

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