The Athletic - £222m for Shearer

[Qwerty]

Would Shearer be allowed to bully defenders nowadays? Half his shithousery would get picked up by VAR.

Cuts both ways, he will have put up with as much shithousery from defenders as he gave.

 

[Roker Mackem]

Shearer was a f***ing cheat tbf, dirty player.

Spot on mate

 

[Laidback Jack]

Very good striker. Not the best in PL history though.

 

[cluffy]

Shearers career was a fluke. Existed in a time that was a vacuum for good goalies by coincidence

 

[CaptainRed]

Used to have a photo on my wall of him taking a penalty many years ago.

 

[stan the man]

Kevin Phillips..... £500million to Real Madrid

 

[Hatful Of Hollow]

Worth every penny Shearer. The mags trophy cabinet is chocka thanks to him.

 

[League Wan]

Its mad to think that they broke the world record like whilst trying to buy the league, yet conveniently forget when criticising man city or Chelsea.

 

[dcl0sc]

Shows how much the Mags overpaid.

Not sure about that like. They invested in a top quality striker, who wasn't even at his peak years. They paid a premium but was a sound investment, as much as it pained me at the time.

For all he is a mag, I actually don't mind Shearer. Always been fair with SAFC, when we used to be on MOTD (during the halcyon days. )

 

[forever changes]

Would Shearer be allowed to bully defenders nowadays? Half his shithousery would get picked up by VAR.

He tried to decapitate a human being before the Saudis did

 

[Honess10]

222million . Almost double what city bid for Kane. Fuck off man. The athletic is like a Mag propaganda leaflet. Utter horse shit

 

[Biffo The Bear]

He was phenomenal until his first serious injury at the Mags under Dogleash. Then he went right off the boil till Sir Bobby sorted him out. He was class again albeit as a different type of player but at that stage he was behind the likes of Henry, Van Nistlerooy, Rooney, Drogba.

RVN was not better than Shearer

 

[tenpins]

RVN was not better than Shearer

Shearer 30 goals in 63.
RVN 35 in 70.
International goals.
I'd put them on a similar kind of level.
Hard to compare in the PL as RVN played for a better side.

 

[lemur]

Wouldn't pay that for him especially as he's getting on a bit now

 

[two left feet]

222million . Almost double what city bid for Kane. Fuck off man. The athletic is like a Mag propaganda leaflet. Utter horse shit

Another person who doesn’t get the point of the article

 

[Deleted member 1169]

Another person who doesn’t get the point of the article

Thank you!

I look at it another way - that they outspent everyone for many years, when there was only Man Utd and Arsenal as challengers, and still won zilch.

 

[wigwams]

I doubt this thread would look like this on any other teams message board.

 

[Deleted member 1169]

RVN was not better than Shearer

It is not the point of the article but as you mention it, it must be close.

Similar international record (RVN: 35 in 70 v AS: 30 in 63). RVN has 5 titles across three countries AS has 1.

But RVN win's in the manager stakes 32.3% win rate versus 12.5% - and zero relegation's for RVN

 

[Yer da claims JSA]

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Everything the athletic posts is complete horse shit

 

[Deleted member 1169]

Everything the athletic posts is complete horse shit

I have to disagree. By chance, from what newspaper do you get your daily news?