transfer round up

[jazzypom]

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[thinkweism]

oh! and gerrard did an interview the other day and said that he was no beckham because he was not as good looking as him. la galaxy are so awesome because they upload their training photos on imgur in folders so you can creep/save all you want (the latest set of training pictures is here, and super HQ ones of his first training here. they're seriously ridic and beautiful, i love galaxy's photogs so much)

but to make matters relevant gerrard is supposedly starting in tomorrow's match in the icc against américa but bruce only confirmed that he would definitely get 45 minutes.

Gerrard and Beckham are different ball of wax

[jazzypom]

Personality wise. Whereas Beckham always seemed to have the Kleig lights of the press on him (and he and his wife seemingly sought it because it would help their own commercial ventures), the Gerrards seem to be a different breed. In that, yeah, Mrs Gerrard will do the gym and be a total valley girl, but she seems to have worked the lookatmeeytis out of her system circa 2010, and Gerrard just seems to be a bloke who wants to spend time with his kids.

It will be interesting to see how MLS and Gerrard relate to each other. But I think Gerrard might be more Thierry Henry (kept a relatively low profile, worked for his team, and seemed professional and reserved) rather than Beckham. But we'll see!

I'm interested to see if Pirlo will speak English (does Andrea Pirlo speak english?).

RE: Gerrard and Beckham are different ball of wax

[chrysa]

I'm interested to see if Pirlo will speak English (does Andrea Pirlo speak english?).

I don't know, but this is literally what I thought yesterday about Schweinsteiger. His English comments after games have always been interesting.

But I feel like going to the PL and not speaking English (when your manager speakers german) is not quite the same as going to the US and not speaking English. Period.

RE: Gerrard and Beckham are different ball of wax

[thinkweism]

Definitely. Gerrard is going to be a bit more high profile than perhaps he might expect but is used to? Beckham was somewhat the first to really have that WOW factor, the ultimate star status among the MLS players. But he is going to be a posterchild somewhat like Keane, Henry, Pirlo, Kaka, Lampard, dos Santos, Villa, and the like because the MLS clubs want people to come out and have an "experience" at the matches so they will spend $$ but because they also want people to keep coming back for more. I LOVE the fact that LA has Gerrard because, personally, he has that appeal to American footie/soccer fans for being a former European player and Liverpool favorite. So he is dissimilar from Beckham immediately and I am very hopeful and looking forward to see his popularity grow in the coming months

[the4thjuliek]

Personally, I've always found Stevie much sexier than Beckham. I'm still laughing at those pictures of him with Robbie Keane.

[aquaecolore]

lmaoo, so did i. but that was in, what ... '98 o_O

[the4thjuliek]

He's trash now but he was so hot till like, 2004.

[thinkweism]

I think they are all sexy, oop @ me. But I will say Beckham is so much more attractive in person.

I added the photos because I knew you would get a good laugh! Bruce says they are getting along famously :P