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The meticulous nurturing, tending to our whims and fancies, showering unwarranted love upon us, all this ensues our birth.
At this a question brews:
How would we know it all?
For we look everywhere but at their selfless eyes, waiting indefinitely for us to spare some of our glimpses.
For we bring into our lives other players.
Our friends, colleagues, careers are exalted to the highest of stature.
But those two individuals, they the very reason for our existence, are damned to living it all by themselves.
Alas! We do not repay them, one bit.
We don't pay the slightest of heed to their needs.
A jolt of a misfortune temporizes our affection for them.
Such is the expectance of these two sacred individuals that they cherish those short lived moments we spend with them, with joy and happiness.
"Reciprocal love" is what they yearn for each passing day.
Not once letting their prayers dwindle for us.
For ever harboring good wishes for our sundry pursuits.
Verily, our unstinted indifference, burdens them with great pain!
This creeping pain, by the time we succeed in our pursuits, to start caring for them, gets the better of them.
At this another question brews, reluctantly, in our deep pits:
Who knows our feats may be reciprocated by the coming "new opening eyes in the world"?
The Red Devils manager's reply was swift enough. Clearly rankled by Rafa's remarks, the Scot had the club's number crunchers calculate whether or not the Spaniard was onto something. And he was quite satisfied with the findings.
"I was amazed at that one. I got some of the people in the sports technology department to check that out,”
The press has offered a startling variety of figures in response to this debate, with some sources claiming that United have spent comfortably more while others indicate that Liverpool have in fact splashed more cash since Benitez's arrival.
The confusion was ended by getting out the calculators and tallying up one by one every transfer each club has completed over the past five years. Only the straight-up, basic fees were considered - no toying around with signing-on costs, agent's stakes, player wages and such - and the figures make for interesting reading.
Initially, the sums seemed remarkably tight - literally a matter of a few hundred thousand pounds separating the two teams' gross expenditure. But upon closer inspection, it became apparent that the observers had overlooked one rather important deal.
The thing is, most 'official' or rigidly correct lists of transfers had a certain Javier Mascherano's switch to Anfield marked down as a freebie, due to the complicated nature of his contract at West Ham United. He actually cost around £18.6m, and it is this deal which tipped the scales.
According to calculations, Liverpool have spent a sizeable £190m on players (over £195m with known add-ons) since Benitez succeeded Gerard Houllier - and that figure doesn't include the purchase of Djibril Cisse, whose move from Auxerre was agreed just prior to Rafa's appointment.
Man United, on the other hand, have forked out around about £172m in basic transfer costs, with add-ons potentially taking that figure to the £180m mark. So much for the "£100 million" that Benitez believes is the reason for the gulf in quality between the two teams.
In terms of NET expenditure (i.e. the total when player sales are taken into consideration), the numbers are much, much closer. While 'Pool have recouped £102m or more, the Mancs have got back around £82m, leaving the NET sums at £88m and £90m respectively.
Not including Bosman transfers or free youth-signings in the mould of Giuseppe Rossi and the Da Silva twins, Manchester United have bought 18 players since the summer of 2004.
Of course, these can only ever be ball-park figures, but the exact amount is unimportant. What matters is that Benitez clearly hasn't been outspent by
Let’s have a look at the spending patterns of some other clubs. The source is http://transferleague.co.uk/index.php.
The table below represents the clubs per season net spends on purchasing players from the beginning of the premiership season 1992/93 to date. Purchases is the total spent on buying players, sold is the total received from the sale players and net is Purchased minus sold giving a total of the money spend on players . The per season column gives an average of the money spend in each season in the corresponding period.
Source: http://transferleague.co.uk/index.php
The table below represents the clubs net spend per season from the beginning of season 04/05 to date. This was the season that Rafa’ Benitez became
The per season column gives an average of the money spend in each season in the corresponding period season 04/05 to date.
Source: http://transferleague.co.uk/index.php
Anticipation for Relapse has been building since the fall, when Eminem first announced the album title and debuted the freestyle, “I’m Having A Relapse,” during an interview on his Shade 45 satellite radio station. Last month, the release of “Crack A Bottle” from Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent brought that anticipation to ahead. The track soared to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Eminem’s second #1after 2002’s “Lose Yourself”) and set a Nielsen SoundScan record for opening week download sales (418,000). The recording ranked third in the history of all weekly download sales. “Crack A Bottle” will be included as analbum track on Relapse.
With the announcement of the release date for Relapse also comes confirmation of something that had been rumored in recent weeks: Eminem is already working on a follow-up album, Relapse 2, that fans can expect in the second half of 2009. "A lot of people were expecting Relapse to drop last year," said Eminem. "I was one of them. Then Dre and I went back in the studio in September for a few days, and that turned into six months. We were on such a roll;we wound up with a ton of new music produced by Dre. Putting out Relapse 2 will let everyone get all ofthe best stuff."
Eminem has sold more than 75,000,000 albums worldwide. His previous studio album, Encore,reached #1 and dominated the charts in late 2004. Certified quadruple platinum and spinning off four Top 40 Hot 100 hits, the Grammy-nominated disc has sold more than 11,000,000 copies around the globe. The #1, double platinum, 2005 greatest hits collection, CurtainCall: The Hits and #2, platinum, 2006 various artists compilation, Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, followed. In October 2008, Eminem released "Eminem: The Way I Am", a book compiling thoughts, stories, and memorabilia from various points in his life.The book entered the New York Times Best-Seller list at #11.