Ha Ha typisk engelsk presse og typisk Brian Reade. Han lukker så meget lort ud. Som sædvanlig skriver han igen en artikel hvor han bare er bitter og lidt misundelig på Barcas succes, ligesom de fleste englændere eller fans af P.L og P.L klubber er. Barca har nu op til flere gange slået deres store engelske ud ud af C.L, og det endda i overbevisende stil. I stedet for bare at acceptere det, prøver de nu på at udnytte enhver mulighed for at svine Barca til.klogfyr skrev:Vidste ikke lige hvor jeg skulle poste den henne. Haters gonna hate
Why Barcelona are going from world's favourite club to its most hated
By Brian Reade
Published 05:59 28/08/10
Did you know the second most-hated team in South Korea after Pyongyang City is Barcelona?
Bit of a surprise eh? *Especially as the Catalans have done such a sound job convincing the rest of us they are divine missionaries sent to show sinners how to be successful yet humble, scornful of wealth yet rich in so many other ways.
A sort of Mother Theresa in Nike Mercurial Vapor Superfly II Elite FG boots.
South Korea used to like them. Up until three weeks ago, when Barca accepted £2million for the briefest of visits, and couldn’t contain their disdain for the place.
They fielded a team of reserves against a K-League All Stars team with ticket prices set at five times the going rate.
Lionel Messi was asked what he thought of the country and replied with a yawn: “I don’t know where I am and what time it is. I’m too tired.”
Furious fans demanded refunds after Pep Guardiola announced that Messi wouldn’t be playing. By the time he reluctantly threw Messi on for 17 minutes (to ride out contractual fines) the stadium was half-empty. As Barça swiftly departed Seoul an official K-League statement accused them of an “insincere attitude”, and the media lambasted their breath-taking arrogance, a feeling summed up by the journalist who wrote: “A club which is supposed to be more than a club isn’t much of a club at all.”
Which is a perception that’s been gathering pace all summer, kicking off with their attempts to nick Cesc Fabregas on the cheap. President Jean Laporta thanked Fabregas for saying he wanted to join them, adding he was sure Arsenal would understand and relent, while pointing out he would not be bullied over price.
So blatant was the tapping-up you wondered how UEFA could stay silent. And when senior players publicly demanded his release you expected the NSPCC to demand a child abuse inquiry.
Carles Puyol and Gerard Pique forced a Barca shirt on him, and Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi and Sergio Busquets all told the media how it was natural justice that Cesc should be playing with them next season.
It was an outrage compounded by Laporta refusing to go above £29m for such an immensely gifted 23-year-old, when they were flogging a reserve, Yaya Toure, to Manchester City for £24m.
Anyone giving them the benefit of the doubt over Fabregas, on the grounds that it was where he grew up, has surely binned such notions after their pursuit of Javier Mascherano. The tapping-up started last summer when Rafa Benitez gave it short shrift. But they’ve been tapping away ever since, exploiting the fact that his wife can’t settle in England in order to get him at a knock-down fee.
Once again they encouraged their stars to indulge in emotional blackmail.
“Javier won’t play for the club again, I can assure you of that. He is depressed. Liverpool must act humanely and let him go,” said world renowned peace activist Messi.
Humanely? Liverpool were always prepared to put the mercenary’s bags in a Davy Liver cab the second a £20m deal came in. Which was a reasonable request.
He’s the captain of Argentina, arguably the best defensive midfielder in the world, cost £18m and there was two years left on his contract.
Barcelona agreeing terms with Mascherano then offering his club £12m plus a reject, and saying they wouldn’t be held to ransom, was what I called inhumane.
This summer we’ve looked through Mother Theresa’s blue-and-red skirts and what we’ve seen hasn’t been pretty. It is as though the Catalans are so filled with self-love they don’t realise they’ve become a parody of their “more than a club” motto.
When they adopted Unicef’s logo in the most brilliant PR move ever, Laporta turned into a cheesey Michael Jackson clone by announcing: “The people of Barça are very proud to donate our shirt to the children of the world who are our present, but especially are our future.”
Especially if they can tap them up and nab them for sod-all when they grow up
Read more: http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opin...#ixzz0xtIcq2II
At Barca stiller et reservespækket hold i en træningskamp i Asien er ikke noget nyt i. Pre-season er for at træneren kan afprøve unge spilelr blandt andet, og det er ikke meget forskelligt fra alle de andre store hold som også stiller med reserver når de spiller træningskampe.
Og Tapping-up, endnu et klamt ord i øvrigt, opfundet af den engelske presse. Ja uhhhh barca henvendte sig til til Liverpool vedrørende Masch køb sidste år, ja det er Tapping-up?? Idioten kalder selv Masch for verdens bedste defensiv midt. Er det så ikke logisk at verdens måske bedste klub hold prøver at få fat i verdens bedste defensiv midt? Rafa afviste sidste år, og Barca gjorde ikke noget yderligt. Nu havde vi brug for en afløser for Yaya, og vi henvender os til Liverpool. At vi prøver at få ham billigt, hvad er der galt i det? At vi ender med at få ham relativt billig, igen, hvad er der galt i det?
Og Barca beder endnu engang en af sine superstjerner ( Messi) om at gå til pressen og stemple Liverpool som in-humane? Hvad har han beviser for at det er klubben der beder spilleren om det? Kan det måske være at Messi har handlet af egen fri vilje? Har han måske spurgt sig selv, hvilket spørgsmålet Messi er blevet stillet, hvad journalisten har spurgt Messi, før Messi måske/ måske ikke har svaret som han har? utroligt at journalistik i disse dage ikke er mere nuanceret end det er tilfældet!
