Comments on: River Plate Should be Kissing Domenech’s Boots

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:49:41 +0000

Abdel, I’m a Ribery fan also. (Aside from the fact that he seems to cut his own hair with a weedwhacker.)

By: abdel

abdel — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:39:55 +0000

le tee shirt que je préfere ici c est zizoo.

By: abdel

abdel — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:38:39 +0000

tu sais le premier joueurs que j’aime c est franck ribery ok bonne force atoi franck atres bientot

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:17:21 +0000

Skywalker, I wasn’t trying to say that nobody had heard of him before France called him up. (Although…hmm…rereading this, I did actually say that, didn’t I?? My bad.)

What I meant was more that when you’re dealing with an unknown quantity (which all eighteen-year-olds basically are,) and you want to get a lot of money, it helps to have a lot of hype and headlines.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the events of the last couple of weeks added a third to his asking price.

By: skywalker

skywalker — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:31:07 +0000

I think pretty much everyone who follows South America soccer knows who he is; and subsequently, so do the big teams in Europe.

Don’t forget, when Ronaldinho, Kaka and all moved from Brazil, not many people know who they were initially…