well yes... that's the internet; in 2 mins, you can declare yourself a 'guru' or something. I was the first to 'confirm' your post about that 'notorious tuesday', because i read it on vecchiasignora. And i don't even blame that one guy over there. He probably was fooled himself, it's just like that. There's nothing we can do about it. We still appreciate the 'inside-hints' you provide, heads-up
As for Alonso, well there's VERY little talk right now and everything ponts towards a juve 08/09 WITHOUT the Spaniard. But if we all think about it for a minute, take a step back and look at what happened, i think we are making the right think not to give in to pool's game. We offered something around 16mio they wanted something more than 20mio. That's not just a sum you can 'discuss' about. It's like 20% difference, and that's a whole lot of money. In the end, Alonso is surely a wonderful player, but is he THAT world-class really? I already posted the question here. I'd be the first to welcome alonso, don't get me wrong, but in the end, 20mio could be spend otherwise i think. We have Tiago in that position, and i don't know really how much better alonso really is. I don't want to make him any worse than he is, but is he really THAT MUCH better that he'd be worth spending 20mio and benching the 13mio-tiago?
I'm not that sad that we signed Poulsen. We need a sub for sissoko at least, or if we play with 2 DMs, we need at least one replacement-DM (Zanetti/Sissoko/Poulsen - 3 people for 2 positions, that's definately NOT top-depth). The price was ok (he is considered one of the best DMs in Spain right now)... Let him show he's worth it. Gattuso said an interesting thing about poulsen, and i agree with him; he said that at the very least, poulsen has showed that he has some balls for coming to Serie-A where he's surely not the most welcome.
Let's wait; There's supposed to be a 'surprise' remember... tomorrow we'll know probably. If we look at it as a whole, i must say that i'm a little disappointed; we were promised 'lampard-like' transfers (quote!) and end up with amauri, knezevic, mellberg and poulsen; except the first i don't know really... but that so-called fans are now canceling their subscriptions or call poulsen names is just not acceptable... It's not THAT bad in the end. We recalled a lot of young people and still have everything to show.