A DEGEN VERDICT
Trawling the web the other day, I found this rather worrying assessment of the Swiss full back from a Dortmund fan.
Entitled Thank you Liverpool, they're hardly crying to see him go.
Doesn't bode well.....Another Josemi you reckon?
http://dortmund.theoffside.com/team-news/thank-you-liverpool.html (I'll paste it here for you too....)
"In his most brilliant transfer move yet, Rafa Benitez has taken Philip Degen off of our hands. It's all part of his "rebuild the team so we can finish higher than fourth place" strategy, and apparently he thinks Degen is capable of providing an "attacking spark" down the flank. I'm a little disappointed that we couldn't get a transfer fee for Degen, but having someone actually pay something for this guy would be pushing it. I'm just glad he's gone."
That's the view of someone called Steven anyway. Prepared to give the lad a chance and all that, so reserving my judgement.
Here's the comments from the blog and after that another pic that seems to fit in with his Spice Boy image. Seems likea taking the piss thing, Teammate with hair dryer in his hand, probably winding him up on his coiffeured routine and some of the catalogue poses.
"Now that he is moving to Liverpool, will his stats on Football Manager 2009 be doubled? Looks like Benitez did not learn his lesson on free transfers from the Voronin move."
Posted from United States
Carsten | May 21st, 2008 at 4:20 am
"We'll miss Philipp, it's a shame it did not work out for him here but he is talented, I guess injuries and bad management stopped him becoming the player he could be. Good luck in Liverpool Philipp."
Posted from United Kingdom
Ahmad Bilal Khalid | May 24th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
"Well i for one would like to say, put your hands off our degan, now as he has joined the liverpool fc (greatest club ever) we would not let nobody say bad about our players and in this upcoming season all dagen haters will have egg on their faces......"
philpp dagen YNWA
Posted from United Kingdom
Phillip Deegen | May 24th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
"Hey folks,
Liverpool Fan here!
Can anyone on here enlighten me as to how good Philip is?
What i do know is that he is pretty fast and goes forward well, it's also been said that his defensive qualities can be lacking at times! So what else is there? Did he fall out of favour with your boss? Doe she have a good temperment? Come on give us the gossip?"
Posted from United Kingdom
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He will be like Josemi and every other flop full-back we buy. In fact he is another insipf fourth place orientated signing.
when will rafa realise we need better players than full-backs who don't even play international.
sick of these lame buys. Time for Rafa to have a re-think or jog on. I reckon Gus Hiddink would do a better job.
That post contains possibly the gayest picture ever to grace a footballing website!
He looks like a pyar schweinsteiger! A ruddy zellwegger!
A German speaking version of Harry Kewell. Not the bost!