Barry Silkman on SSN

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Anyone else just see that?

I was watching it while I was having my tea..

In his words...

"I like to work with certain clubs, I can pick out quality players, take Fabregas for example, I offered him to one club when he was at Barcelona, all the deal including paperwork the lad came to 600k, the Chairman came to me and said I need a player who can make things happen, I offered them this lad and they never took me up on my offer.

A season later the same Chairman came to me and said Silky, I need a player who can play out wide... I saw a young lad at Sporting Lisbon by the name of Nani, I said look, this kid is great, sign him, he'll only cost €3m, they never went for him, instead they decided to go in for another player who ended up going to Portsmouth, unfortunately he never made it. - I'm thinking Douala

A season later he was now worth €5m, I said again, go look at him, sign him, they cheif executive said he had him on the edge of his seat, but this unnamed club had a new manager, he was new to the Premiership and didn't know the lad so they never went for him... Nani then went on to sign for Manchester United for €28m.

1 Player for example I said have a look at him, see if he works out, it'll only cost you 6 months wages and if we works out great, that lad stayed for 3 year" - Doriva?

I wonder who he was on about...

Just seen this on Middlesbrough FC || Boro news, reviews and comment Looks like they are talking about Middlesbrough!!

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Apparently he said something about offering us Kaka too but we didn't want him 'cos the Permit would of taken 6 months to get.

We apparently also, turned down Ronaldinho in McLarens 1st/2nd year because €2m for an unproven player was "too much"

yes: yeah right!!!!