yorkie 10 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Many people can understand written English at a good level, and even write themselves, but if it came to the actual speaking of the language they would struggle a lot. It used to be like this with me for instance, and probably is similar with Eto'o. After learning English at school for 7-8 years you can basically write and understand most words, tenses, etc but speaking wise you can only string a few sentences together. A bit like mastering theory of football from textbooks but not being able to play the actual game.I think members whose first language isn't English, would probably agree with me. Indeed, when you write it you have a lot more time to come up with an answer then in a conversation. John1611 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adyfosiel 4 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 haha. reception-production theory of language is beyond this thread. Welcome Eto'o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDA 10,227 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I personally am a huge fan of this man as a footballer from his past but just a quick question to some of the standard fickle fans of Blue...Why is it ok for Eto'o to speak pure shit about our club but it wasn't for Rafa Benitez??.... sooo strange what our fans decide to like and dislike at times.Or is it that we actually learned from our lesson with Rafa and have decided to give Samuel a chance before we place his head on the chopping board.! Stats and Tomo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petre.ispirescu 4,928 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 STAY FIT, MATE!!! Don't you dare getting injured or we're all fucked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 9,102 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Reckon this guy will roll back the years under Jose. Jose got a lot of good and great performances out of Eto'o when he was at Inter, hoping he can do something similar with him again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ainsley Harriott 2,732 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I personally am a huge fan of this man as a footballer from his past but just a quick question to some of the standard fickle fans of Blue...Why is it ok for Eto'o to speak pure shit about our club but it wasn't for Rafa Benitez??.... sooo strange what our fans decide to like and dislike at times.Or is it that we actually learned from our lesson with Rafa and have decided to give Samuel a chance before we place his head on the chopping board.!Liverpool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeboii 1,844 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 But how come he's answering in English when he could not speak English in his first interview with the club? He has time to translate on twitter but in the interview he has to respond fast. Maybe he just wasnt comfortable speaking english. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vybz Kartel 1,613 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Our only hope is if he scores 20 + goals otherwise we might as well kiss goodbye to the title Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 I personally am a huge fan of this man as a footballer from his past but just a quick question to some of the standard fickle fans of Blue...Why is it ok for Eto'o to speak pure shit about our club but it wasn't for Rafa Benitez??.... sooo strange what our fans decide to like and dislike at times.Or is it that we actually learned from our lesson with Rafa and have decided to give Samuel a chance before we place his head on the chopping board.!I hated him at Barcelona just like i hated Rafa at Liverpool. But (im only speaking for myself) when i found out Rafa was Chelsea manager i put that all for one side, focused on the positives he had as a manager and got on with supporting him (while he was here) and the team. For me it's the same with Eto'o, it will be more respect for the job he does (like with Rafa) than love.To put it simpler Eto'o's my striking Rafa while Drogba's my Mourinho. Yeboii 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANDRECHO 432 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 I will do etoo vs newcastle.. The Skipper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superblue 6,372 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 I personally am a huge fan of this man as a footballer from his past but just a quick question to some of the standard fickle fans of Blue...Why is it ok for Eto'o to speak pure shit about our club but it wasn't for Rafa Benitez??.... sooo strange what our fans decide to like and dislike at times.Or is it that we actually learned from our lesson with Rafa and have decided to give Samuel a chance before we place his head on the chopping board.!I wasn't that bothered about it and like Tomo said just got on with supporting the team last season.I think the three biggest differences for many however are:1. Liverpool - We hate them so much, particularly when he was still held in high esteem by the bin dippers.2. His comments were much more personal in their nature, criticising us fans, whereas Eto'o's comment is much more general.3. Benitez replaced Di Matteo, a club legend who a few months prior had won us the Champions League. Barbara and The Skipper 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The only place to be 11,313 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 I wasn't that bothered about it and like Tomo said just got on with supporting the team last season.I think the three biggest differences for many however are:1. Liverpool - We hate them so much, particularly when he was still held in high esteem by the bin dippers.2. His comments were much more personal in their nature, criticising us fans, whereas Eto'o's comment is much more general.3. Benitez replaced Di Matteo, a club legend who a few months prior had won us the Champions League.Benitez comments about plastic flags also had a grain of truth about it. Eto'o was angry, whereas Benitez was fairly incisive. kellzfresh, The Skipper and Barbara 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie 10 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 I hope that Eto turns out well, cuz els we are stuck with Be and Torres .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! ANDRECHO 432 Posted September 3, 2013 Popular Post! Share Posted September 3, 2013 JDY, Bir_CFC, Spyker and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediator 2,026 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Omagad, this is really what we need, he is so good in tight spaces, would be great with mata and hazard can't wait to see him play for us...Thanks for sharing this video Andrecho bababoom, Barbara and BlueLion. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyker 27 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Holy shit! he played like a class no.10 there.... Barbara and mediator 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! The Skipper 20,609 Posted September 3, 2013 Popular Post! Share Posted September 3, 2013 I love how this signing has practically gone under the radar now.Eto'o will shock a lot of opposition fans (and our own) this season. He's still a very, very good player. bababoom, Barbara, Milan and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! zolayes 14,489 Posted September 3, 2013 Popular Post! Share Posted September 3, 2013 if he is even half as good as he was ..he will be twice as good as any other striker we have Stingray, Milan, mediator and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara 15,149 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 amazing link up, good vision, his first touch is one of the best (in strikers) I've seen and his finish is still quite good - based on what I've watched from Russian League last season. I don't think he'll be a 'matador' for us, but we have so many guys with good finishing that will benefit from his linkup and he himself will also have chances to finish and hopefully score.As I said - in agreement to Muzchap - strikers don't have the easiest time to score in our defenses, so while he won't be the guy with a lot of pace we have that on Hazard, Willian, Kevin, André and they can run and do things similar to our first goal against Bayern. It's somewhat a relief to have someone that is still good. Maybe even Torres will benefit a bit from it. One can hopeLast comment: that sort of talent and class one is born with, can't develop with years - only improve, but it has to be there in the first place and it never goes away. thankfully zolayes, bluesman2610 and The Skipper 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesman2610 1,430 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Last comment: that sort of talent and class one is born with, can't develop with years - only improve, but it has to be there in the first place and it never goes away. THIS!!!! I love this line.. I know former international players that coach the kids around my area who are well into the 50s and can play the game just as good as anyone today they may not have the pace or stamina anymore but the touch never leaves zolayes and Barbara 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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