I was there for business a few years back and got a ticket to watch Real play Bayern in the CL. Got the ticket from a Tout for less then the cover price!

Hull manager Phil Brown is queuing in his local building society, when a gunman bursts in through the door demanding money. Phil attempts to tackle the raider, but gets knocked over...as he falls, his head smashes the counter and he's knocked out cold. The robber escapes and the cashier tries to revive Phil.
After a few minutes he comes round and looks bewildered. His first words are "Where the hell am I?".
The cashier replies: "don't worry, its ok, you're in the Nationwide."
Brown replies, "F**k me, is it May already?"

Not if they can get Frank Ribery? If I were you I would fear for next season anyway


Not like Man U then who owe ~£700M at present then???

In reality revenue at both clubs is well over £200M annualy, so although cash flow would be a problem is the debt were to be called, the reality is that all that would happen is a change of ownership....although thats far easier to do at Man U than Real due to the way the clubs are set up.

i must confess, i have not seen enough or know enough about ribery to comment. only time will tell if he is suitable, or even a replacement, seems 20m deal for valencia from wigan is pretty much done, if so this appears to be the replacement. bank the difference? hope not.

Ribery seems a pretty decent hard working player. Bit like Tevez but a bit tougher?

yes, i got that impression from the bit of the bayern/barca game i saw. i do remember him scoring the one goal when france beat us 1-0 last year but thats it. he sort of looks like an even uglier version of gary neville with no sideburns, odd and almost unbelievable. still i bet there is many a manchester lass who will bed him if he comes over. has he won any french footballer awards?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck_Rib%C3%A9ry

right, ta, i always forget about this place, very useful though.

Never too sure how accurate the info is, but I wouldn't have thought anyone would put up spurious stuff on FR!

Is that possible?..to be uglier than Gary, 'I speak in the 3rd person' Neville.

What I can't understand about the Neviller is how or why is he still the MU captain. It should be Ferdinand.

Ribery is the real deal and I believe one of the few french internationals who doesn't throw strops and is a players player a la Scholes.

More an EPL type player than most french players. He can come and play for my lot any day!!

Agreed. I'm in Germany a lot and see many Bayern matches on TV.

Ribery is good, very good.

Unlike Thierry Henry for example, who is brilliant one match and anonymous in another.

Hardly, he was by far and away one of he best players to have played in the Premier League.......truely world class

Very true, a brilliant player, but on his off days, Arsenal had virtually 10 men and an uninterested Henry on the pitch.

I'd imagine that with Ribery, however well he was playing, you'd get 100% effort. Not as talented as Henry, but..... You pays yer money.....