He said: "Sometimes good players cannot settle down in the team and when this happens you have to consider the situation and try to react quickly.
"If it is not good for the team then it is better for everyone to make a decision and because of the situation in the transfer market and for the opportunity for the player we had to do it now.
"I have to analyse things and try to look at the bigger picture and this means thinking of the club and the team and what is best for them."
He added: "We still have Babel, Ngog and Kuyt as well as Torres. It is a risk but the situation was not good and we needed to do something.
"Now I would like to wish Robbie the best because although things did not work out he has been working hard for us.
"He was trying to do his best and the key was that Spurs showed a lot of interest and they were pushing really hard for him.
"The player needed to play and he was not doing that as much as he would have liked with us.
"But I cannot criticise him in any way because, as I have said, he tried to do his best for us."
I'd seen that before, but still, everytime I watch it, I gape with amazement. It's absolutely fantastic.^ ^ ^
BTW, a lot of people are talking about Quaresma's trademark 'outside of the foot' cross. This I gotta see.
Woot!! It's called 'The Trivela'. Check this out:
*in.youtube.com/watch?v=kNoFJTOEUPg
It was obvious, wasn't it?Lampard wins appeal over red card
Arsenal Football Club is delighted to announce that Russian international midfielder, Andrey Arshavin has joined the Gunners from Zenit St. Petersburg on a long-term contract for an undisclosed fee.
"I didn't have many opportunities to show my qualities at Inter but I believe these two are two great leagues in the world and all I want is to show what I am made of, to show hard work, to show all my qualities here."
"I don't like to talk about myself, I prefer that other people talk about me."
"I was happy that I was able to score here at Chelsea and when I hit the bar, unfortunately I couldn't score there but it was a great experience for me. I hope now to do the same things for Chelsea, rather than against them."
enough is enough .... the trouble started when there were talks abt we not playing sexy football and Roman also wanted the club to be more popular playing Barca kinda game.
Thats whn Jose Mourinho ran out of options and had to leave. Till then it was 3 points in the bag week in and week out.
i had criticized JM a lot once. Now i realize i was wrong. the 4-1-2-2-1 formation with genuine wingers (not Kalou and Malouda pleaseeee) is what we need. Bring back Robben and Duff and kick out Ballack and Deco.
all of Mourinho's effort in making a deadlock defence has been sent down the drain by stupid club policies.
At current rate Liverpool will finish below Villa,so if we have a chance to go 3rd or even 2nd if chelsea implode tooPool Out of the FA cup
whats even more interesting is Gerrard got injured [hamstring] during the game and Lucas was sent off for 2 yellows ....
now hamstring injury == 2 or 3 weeks KO [approximately] and hope Torres picks up an injury too... then Pool have no goal scorers ... only Babel, Kuyt n Ngog as strikers...
possibly in a couple of weeks we'll see normalcy restored on the PL table...
1. Man Utd
2. Chelsea
3. Pool
4. Arsenal [hopefully Ar$e_shaving will help Arse Kl@w back ]