which would suggest..

O'Neill isn't a top Prem class player. Why would you sell a top Prem class player in order to avoid losing a player totally unproven at prem level? More likely, Pompey know Boro are desperate and are offering over the odds for a player they are confident they can do without.

PS I have no strong opinions about O'Neill's ability, it is just that this deal suggests to me that Portsmouth don't particularly rate him.

Posted By: mr carra on August 31st 2007 at 14:54:14

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re Gary O'Neill and £5m (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 31, 14:34:36
- if that was true... (Other Football) - mr carra, Aug 31, 14:38:10
  - Maybe Redknapp sold him so he doesn't have to sell Nugent.. (Other Football) - DemoniCanary, Aug 31, 14:50:35
    - which would suggest.. (Other Football) - mr carra, Aug 31, 14:54:14
      - Well, doesn't look like they're getting Anelka and an.. (Other Football) - DemoniCanary, Aug 31, 15:01:05
        
        surely if they aren't getting Anelka they don't need to sell anyone, even O'Neill? (Other Football) - mr carra, Aug 31, 15:21:01
      - demanding £5m before they'd sell him? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 31, 14:55:58
        
        £5m isn't much by Prem standards these days (sadly) (Other Football) - mr carra, Aug 31, 15:00:44
        
        Hang on - I thought he was over-rated further down the board? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 31, 15:01:58
        
        I'm saying nothing (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Aug 31, 15:18:25
        
        That was my initial point of the world having gone mad! (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Aug 31, 15:15:04
        
        surely whether he's over or undervalued depends on how good he is? (Other Football) - mr carra, Aug 31, 15:07:49
        
        Yup. Incidentally - do we want Middlesborough to go down this year? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 31, 15:16:02
        
        hard to care about Boro (Other Football) - mr carra, Aug 31, 15:25:21
        
        fair point. (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 31, 15:27:10
        
        Well after the English shite they've signed today, I'd say it was a formality (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Aug 31, 15:22:26
        
        Yeah and I quite like Sammy Lee so that's two of my (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Aug 31, 15:18:29
        
        Just stop. Walk away. Leave it Wayne, ee's not wurf it. (Other Football) - The Anonymous Blonde, Aug 31, 15:13:52
        
        I declare this thread closed on account of its utter tedium and smallmindedness (n/m) (Other Football) - The Anonymous Blonde, Aug 31, 15:04:35
        
        I'm just fucking confused now (n/m) (Other Football) - DemoniCanary, Aug 31, 15:07:05
        
        what all of it? (Other Football) - megson, Aug 31, 15:06:38
        
        Are you gonna start another thread about paris hilton then? (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 31, 15:06:37
        
        ONly if I can then post a dozen follow ups making nitty picky pedantic (Other Football) - The Anonymous Blonde, Aug 31, 15:14:59
        
        Can you do a bit more domineering s and m type remarks too (Other Football) - pants, Aug 31, 15:21:01
        
        I bet you wouldn't, though (Other Football) - The Anonymous Blonde, Aug 31, 15:23:35
        
        snakebite? (Other Football) - pants, Aug 31, 15:33:04
        
        Genuine rolf (Other Football) - The Anonymous Blonde, Aug 31, 15:38:05
        
        ooh yeah go on. (Other Football) - megson, Aug 31, 15:08:18
        
        or maybe got offered £5m and thought "we'll have that" (Other Football) - megson, Aug 31, 14:59:16
        
        yup. but getting £5m for him does not prove his worthlessness (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 31, 15:00:46
        
        it doesn't PROVE anything (Other Football) - mr carra, Aug 31, 15:06:27
        
        does it? i'm confoosed. (Other Football) - megson, Aug 31, 15:02:46
        
        agreed. (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 31, 15:04:11
        
        and the sad fact is that £5m may as well be £500m for us (Other Football) - megson, Aug 31, 15:05:50
        
        yup. (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 31, 15:07:39
  - could say tht of any sale. Would mean no player can ever be worth what he (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 31, 14:43:03
    - Id bite their hands off for 5m (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Aug 31, 14:44:33
      - I'd bite my own hand off for £5m. (Other Football) - megson, Aug 31, 15:01:05
  - Maybe Redknapp doesn't get on too well with him (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Aug 31, 14:39:30
- Top, or decent (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Aug 31, 14:35:52

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