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The Old 606

I remember in the old 606 during the transfer window after we signed Bennayoun and Ramires I suggested that we should sign Ozil (who hadn't been signed by Madrid yet) and Aguero. People told me that I was being unrealistic and I should stop playing FIFA or Football Manager. I remember specifically that someone was convinced on signing Andy Carroll. I said that Ozil could be a younger replacement to Malouda but people shouted at me saying I knew nothing.

I was thinking that if I said what would those people have said if I suggested signing Fernando Torres and David Luiz in January. Or if I suggested we signed Mata and Modric as well. They would have screamed at me. At least this version of 606 is a lot more reaistic.

posted on 20/8/11

Whether we wanted Oz\il ir not he had his heart set on a move to Spain. Arguero would have been great but we got Torres instead as we have great thought in the transfer market

posted on 20/8/11

Ozil and Aguero would of been fantastic unfortunately though we could not sign them because of what Kenyan said .

posted on 20/8/11

It works both ways, some will say unrealistic, others will say not good enough, that's just the way it goes when you have many people on a forum.

You get kids chatting rubbish and judging players on youtube and Football games but then there is the reaction to that, some people so desperate not to appear like said kids will discredit these out of hand all together. No of course you can't get a complete idea from a player based on youtube, after all most videos can't convey how consistent a player is, or how good they are at tracking back but to dismiss it out of hand all together is it's self naive, it's a video medium and of course can show technically ability, pace and attributes like that.

There is some truth to the old saying that frequents football forums that 'you can make any player look good on youtube' , I actually thought I'd test this theory with the ultimate challenge and the truth was
Ade Akinbiyi still looked utter tripe. So it failed that test, of course the other side of this is you could easily make Joe Cole look like Messi, presumably Gerrard is a youtube fan.

I've called for a couple of players on the old 606 that were received badly, firstly actually was Ozil before he made his name, no one agreed. The second was David Luiz almost a year before we signed him and I got an article with 10+ 1 stars - I don't think a single person agreed with me, all I got was 'we've got Alex', 'he's not good enough' etc etc.

The other side to that is I was once desperate for Chelsea to sign Wayne Routlege!

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