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Ibrahimovic or Eto'o? The £50m question
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Samuel Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Two world class strikers, separated by just a single year in age, but rarely have two forwards been less alike in playing style. The proposed swap deal that will see Eto'o (plus cash and Alexandr Hleb on loan) move to Inter, with Ibrahimovic heading in the opposite direction to Barcelona, is certainly one of the more fascinating transfer deals that this summer of big names and big money has thrown up. Should the deal go through, how will the different styles of Eto'o and Zlatan gel with their new team-mates and most importantly, which club will be getting the best deal? On paper, it would seem that Inter appear to be the winners in the proposed deal.
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Seeing Anderson and Carrick being schooled by Spanish masters Xavi and Iniesta the other week got me thinking. It was an undoubtedly poor performance from United and man for man they simply didn’t match up to the Catalan giants.
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As the clock wandered towards midnight in Rome, fans of Manchester United and Barcelona wandered through darkened streets heading to coaches, trams and shuttle buses with highly differing thoughts. The Catalans were purring over the displays of the talismanic Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta and jovial about their unique achievement of clinching “the treble”, while supporters from the red half of Manchester contemplated on what might have been.
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So, three stonewall penalties not given, one almost certain penalty turned down and pretty much every decision on the night given in one team’s favour. You could be forgiven for thinking that you had just watched an episode of Dream Team on Sky One.
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