Talk:Eyal Berkovic
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[edit] Merger with Eyal Berkovich
from Talk:Eyal_Berkovich:
If I'm not mistaken his name on the jersey is actually Berkovic; also in Google there are ~10,000 results for "Eyal Berkovic" and only 615 for "Eyal Berkovich". Not to mention [UEFA calls him Berkovic] as well as [Eurosport]. unsigned comment by ip 217.132.239.14
- Agreed, there has also been a request to merge the two articles, which are identical bar the spelling of his name. Have redirected Eyal Berkovich to Eyal Berkovic. Grunners 15:54, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
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- Thank you for your efforts, Grunners. <font color="green">gidonb</font> 21:51, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Changes
Other than general tidying and adding a few stats, I've changed the figure for the West Ham to Celtic transfer fee. The West Ham Player List, Soccerbase and ESPNsoccernet all say it was £5.75m. A comment on a message board says West Ham "held out for 6+ million", so I guess this could be wrong too, but I think I'm more inclined to believe the other sources as opposed to one random message board poster. Jewsinsports.org says it was 9.3 million dollars (~£5.3m at todays rate). I've changed it from "$10 million (£6.5million)" (which sounds like a rounding up to me anyway) to the figure quoted on those three pages. Also, the national cap and goal stats were out of date, but I'm having a bit of trouble finding definitive figures for these. PlayerHistory.com goes with 78 matches, 14 goals, but this recent article from ESPNsoccernet says he has 82 caps. I can't seem to find any more up-to-date information to know if he scored any more from those other 4 games, but I'm going to presume he didn't for now and go with 82 (14). If anyone can find more recent statistics, then please change it.
I've made a start on the infobox, but it still needs some fields filling in:
- 'youthyears' & 'youthclubs' (if any)
- 'caps(goals)' (for each club)
- 'nationalyears'
- 'image' (if possible)
- N (talk) 23:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] POV
This article has some POV issues e.g. "Berkovic is regarded both as a real professional with a truly sportsmanlike attitude towards the game, and as a football genius who improves all the players around him and breaks opponent's defences with his masterpiece passes" Oldelpaso 18:00, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Removed some of the outlandish POV script in the interests of balance. Best taken out when we consider that, to a great many people (fans, management, playing partners), Berkovic was as far from 'sportsmanlike' as it is possible to be, and is reputedly a very unpleasant individual indeed. magpie1892
