I don?t want to be the one who said ‘I told you so’ (see Arsene’s done it again), but everyone is raving about the boy Fabregas. This article was on the BBC website and it reiterates what I said before, this kid is going to be brilliant. I don?t want anyone posting any comments about ‘its still early days’ and ‘he hasn?t come up against anyone yet’, I?m telling you that in all the years of watching football (and mark my words that?s a lot) I have never seen a better 17 year old and that includes a round faced Englishman who spends too much time with hookers. You may all come out with, what about this player and that player being better and I am not saying he is going to be the best player the world has ever seen but he is going to be a world star and we should enjoy him for now because I get the feeling in the next couple of years all the big guns will be after him, especially Barcelona, who are still pissed off that they lost him in the first place.
Date: August 2004
The Norwich Canaries
Glancing at the scorelines of Norwich’s last two fixtures and one tends to be mighty impressed. Travel to Old Trafford and manage a 2-1 loss and then travel to the north to see a 2-2 draw to Newcastle. Well scorelines are deceiving and that’s why you have me; to invest four hours of the last week and watch Norwich. What do I have to say after these matches….ManU and Newcastle aren’t very good. I’m sorry we were talking about Norwich, and I still say ManU and Newcastle aren’t very good.
A seven-week-old baby may be our main threat…
It seems every comment Jose Mourinho has made so far, there must be a few key words in the content – “I”, “Me”, “Top Manager”, “European Winner”. If a manager is judged by his own words, then without a doubt Mr. Mourinho would be the GREATEST manager in world football today!
Jose Mourinho, when being compared to Arsene Wenger, claimed “Chelsea is a 7-week-old baby, Arsenal is a 7-year-old young boy… People should judge Mr. Wenger’s first 3 matches in charge comparing to mine…” Fair enough, though what he failed to mention is Arsene has spent a net transfer fee less than $30 million pounds in 7 years, Mourniho has spent over $90 millions in 7 weeks.