By Matthew Jones
July 27 2003

I have had several e-mails with ideas about why Freddy Shepherd in in Los Angeles. There is one or two which make sense, but I will share a couple with you and let you make your own minds up. Any ideas? E-Mail jones_ufc@hotmail.com! Here are a few e-mail's which I have recieved off fans with their ideas as to what Freddy Shepherd is upto in Los Angeles.

Sorry about the "English", but I have just copied and pasted e-mails.

RSMIT1977 said:
its gotta be barcelona that he's doing the deal with, patrick kliveurt being the business that he was refering to. we need another striker to weigh in with as many goals as shearer, and at the moment i feel we are lacking in a striker that can weigh in with 15- 20 goals a season, other than shearer. chopra may be able to given the chance, but lomana + shoala just aint good enough. bellamy is good, but i dont see him scoring 15 goals a season. perhaps we should snatch kevin phillips from the makems for £1 million and stick him on the bench.

Hameed said:
I can reveal that he is there to seal the signing of the Barca Player Juan Roman Riquelme on loan till the end of the season but without a view to a permanant transfer. tribalfootball.com stated that Riquelme is being offered to english clubs and newcastle could be one of them, its just one of the possible reasons for fred flying off to the US.

Freddysminder said:
Could be this. AEG own MLS, the American League, and the bloke that owns AEG is worth 20 billion dollars. We'd make Chelsea look poor! AEG is based in LA!

On this subject, Sky sports have said that some american lawyers representing a south american consortium are in talks about buying a major stake in a preimers league club and its not Villa.

DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA?
Either leave a message on our message board, or drop us an e-mail (jones_ufc@hotmail.com)

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