Wasn't it Osman who wrote in his autobiography that Moyes tried to teach him to head the ball properly in training?
Worst team to buy players from
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"On his very first day of training, the gaffer took him to one side and started doing heading practice with him, like you would with a seven-year-old. It was a case of holding the ball, saying: 'Are you ready? One, two, three – jump."
Yeah, he was 6ft 4, couldn't jump or head the ball properly. Decent on the ball though, but this was 2005 and centre halves had to defend first and foremost.
More I think about it, we didn't scout him properly clearly, couldn't play him to his strengths and broke him within about five minutes.
Yeah, probably not much of that on Udinese to be fair.
Yeah, probably not much of that on Udinese to be fair.
The success to failure rate with players leaving the RS has got to be really poor.
So we all agreed it’s 100% Swansea?
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BornBlue76
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Here I am scratching my head wondering who we should be buying from! We've been pants for so long. Used to be Barnsley, Southampton, Sheffield Utd and lately Norwich
The binman chronicles
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Wonder if Swansea have a creative number 10 who scores lots of free kicks, our one is knocking on now. 
It's 100% Liverpool. Massively overpriced, already on big wages, usually overrated. I bet some mug gives them 30m for Keita
Essentially it is the reserve teams of anyone we buy from, that is usually the role of the 'talent' we acquire.
Noble Savage
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Yep , I'd say so . I was going to go for Utd just because of O'Kane but we did manage to snag Kanchelskis off them so they are forgiven .
You gotta admire Swansea though . The great Welsh robbers .
Pulled out pants down over Williams and Siggy. Williams was made out to be a Welsh Sergio Ramos. Con artists.
They can't be con artists can they? The con artists are the scouts we employ and then managers/directors of footie who spend somebody else's money and get paid to do it!
I would say Everton, but we don't even sell players anymore. They just see out their contracts before disappearing from the game forever. Nobody will pay for them.
artetas_biggest_fan
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Looking at that list, bar Rooney (and to a lesser degree Lescott and Vlasic) there haven’t been any major successes. Big Dunc at Newcastle, Jeffers at Arsenal, Michael Ball at Rangers, Nick Barmby at the RS, players that did next to nothing at their new clubs. Fellaini was the poster boy for United’s demise and their putrid football while Lukaku never looked right there (done well at Inter since). Jack Rodwell tops the lot as he benefited big time from the ‘English player’ hype in rinsing two clubs.
Of those who aren’t on the list as they were sold cheap, Beardsley and Materazzi are the two that stand out who did well.
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