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Originally Posted by Giovanni
I don't think Gilardino is in that cathegory. Add an "h" and Gilardinho would be 10 m + worthy.
Fans like the "idea" of new players, just for the sake of it. Many fans ask for new players without even having actually watched them play. You see that when some names get all of a sudden fashionable.
There's a big aesthetic issue on football. The player's image can drive them to success or not. A player like Pirlo will never win an international award, because he comes from a small town on the Alps. He's not fashionable enough. The names represents the players, especially on internet. In some ways, the name is the player (especially in the written system of internet). People love a player or not firstly starting from his name.
A few years ago, you could ask any Milan fans if they wanted a guy called Toni, who played for Brescia. They would have replied you : "WTF " ! If the same player would have been called Van der Tony or Thonelaar i'm sure many fans would have reacted differently.
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True 'dat. I can probably put up a list of over 25 players, people have been baying for since I got here, and almost every one of them either did nothing or next to nothing after we didn't buy them.
Come to think of it, that's make a good topic...