Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

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Originally Posted by AFC Leveller

He's only 25 and has loads of experience in the league. Will only get better and would add so much to our attacking side.

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We agree, but basically I am saying if we have a budget of 60 m. In need of a striker, DM, RB, keeper and Possibly 2 CBs, would you spend 20m on the RB.

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Originally Posted by Globalgunner

We agree, but basically I am saying if we have a budget of 60 m. In need of a striker, DM, RB, keeper and Possibly 2 CBs, would you spend 20m on the RB.

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We have around 70 m according to the rags but im sure we can afford to spend properly with the Puma deal + new sponsors.

Striker (s) would cost around 40m (30m for a world class dude and 10m for a Ba, Remy, Bony etc).

DCM for around 20m and 15m for a RB.

We should have a lot more fuckin money to spend than £70m

It's always been £70m for the last few years, now we have the puma deal in place and other extra commercial revenue that 'warchest' with the dust on it should have a lot more in it!

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Originally Posted by AFC Leveller

We have around 70 m according to the rags but im sure we can afford to spend properly with the Puma deal + new sponsors.

Striker (s) would cost around 40m (30m for a world class dude and 10m for a Ba, Remy, Bony etc).

DCM for around 20m and 15m for a RB.

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70m :haha: :haha: :haha:

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Originally Posted by Globalgunner

30 goals total, which is not beyond a top striker, Giroud has 21, overall I hear, and we mostly think hes inadequate. My fear for Costa is not that he's no good but the dogshit refs in the EPL will target him like flies because he is abrasive by nature.....They would love to pick up on the narrative of how many red cards Wenger has accumulated....Whats the point of a CF if he's banned all the time, We need a wily, fast striker like we missed with. Higuain or maybe could still get with Benzema or Balotelli...another card magnet, but with a higher ceiling than Costa and still young. Not knocking Costas abilities, he would improve us no doubt,,,if he stays on the pitch.

The great thing about Athletico is that they function as a team. Its not just about Costa. I really love what Simeone has done there. They will simply replace him with another striker and keep moving on.

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I think Costa is well capable of 30 goals total..... he's extraordinary record would seem to suggest that......and I'd argue the quality of service here would supersede what he has become used to at Atletico. Giroud is inadaequate as a number 1 but as a number 2 he's okay. We wouldn't be relying on just Costa either, providing we don't offload Giroud.

Costa could start a fight in an empty room, I tend to agree, but Balotelli is certainly his equal in that respect. Especially if you factor in the fact that whatever qualm Balotelli is having at any given time is just as likely to be with a team mate than it is the opposing players, refs or team......then his rap sheet does not appear any better. Moreover, Balotelli's success was hardly resounding here either and in that respect didn't prove himself. Don't get me wrong, if we signed him I would be happy, simply based on his raw quality, but I'm not all that convinced he represents less of a risk than Costa even if he represents more potential. Suarez is reprehensible and missed 6 games yet most fans would have seen him here with glee. He's attracted less bad coverage because his team have been in less competitions and have done well in the league but he still has that side to his character.

Benzema would cost us about 50 million...and that would be if they even entertained making him available at all. Ozil cost us 43 million despite Real already having replacements in Isco and Bale.

The main thing Balotelli has in his favour is that he has caused so much trouble in his short career that he is likely to cost much less money than his ability might otherwise suggest.....he is young as you say and there is a severe and I mean a severe lack of top class/ world class options available for less than 40 million.

On a side note, the man who signed Coleman for 60,000k for Everton, is the man being roundly ridiculed now in Moyes....

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Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice

I think Costa is well capable of 30 goals total..... he's extraordinary record would seem to suggest that......and I'd argue the quality of service here would supersede what he has become used to at Atletico. Giroud is inadaequate as a number 1 but as a number 2 he's okay. We wouldn't be relying on just Costa either, providing we don't offload Giroud.

Costa could start a fight in an empty room, I tend to agree, but Balotelli is certainly his equal in that respect. Especially if you factor in the fact that whatever qualm Balotelli is having at any given time is just as likely to be with a team mate than it is the opposing players, refs or team......then his rap sheet does not appear any better. Moreover, Balotelli's success was hardly resounding here either and in that respect didn't prove himself. Don't get me wrong, if we signed him I would be happy, simply based on his raw quality, but I'm not all that convinced he represents less of a risk than Costa even if he represents more potential. Suarez is reprehensible and missed 6 games yet most fans would have seen him here with glee. He's attracted less bad coverage because his team have been in less competitions and have done well in the league but he still has that side to his character.

Benzema would cost us about 50 million...and that would be if they even entertained making him available at all. Ozil cost us 43 million despite Real already having replacements in Isco and Bale.

The main thing Balotelli has in his favour is that he has caused so much trouble in his short career that he is likely to cost much less money than his ability might otherwise suggest.....he is young as you say and there is a severe and I mean a severe lack of top class/ world class options available for less than 40 million.

On a side note, the man who signed Coleman for 60,000k for Everton, is the man being roundly ridiculed now in Moyes....

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So sign Moyes? :unsure:

We didn't spend all the money available last summer..... This summer we should be given at least 50 million. Doesn't that leave 70 million as a minimum. I know it is fashionable these days to factor in wages in accumulative years and actually suggest a transfer kitty of 70million is actually 2 pounds in transfers and the rest on wages but come on....... do we want to sign quality or not?

Gazidis said they can do things that will excite us.....so excite.

You only have to look at Spuds to see that 100 million spent on a load of good/decent players but not necessarily players of top quality won't move you on.

One or two of our signings at least needs to be of the utmost quality.

Our manager has made it clear he's staying so no need to continue the manager debate, but we do need to think about who will succeed him eventually.

Moyes was and is (imo) a good manager..... but Manure required a ready made great manager which Moyes wasn't. But if we're listing great managers in the prem, how many names would any of us actually put on that list....

I not sure about Costa. Have a feeling he'd get bogged down in the ball to feet, coming short, looking for space on the flanks with nobody in the box style of play. He doesn't look that agile and quick when dribbling cause he's a big guy and he doesn't look like the type that likes to bang shots from distance or the super clinical type.

That is closer to my own personal reservations about him, but he has seemed to deal with every challenge going his way for some time now. I have to say I thought Atletico would run out of steam, in the league AND CL, but they've just kept it up and Costa is no small part of that.

Even Simeone came out and said that Costa is as important to them as Messi to Barcelona or Cronaldo to Real. I think that was possibly overstating it, but it does show you what a role he has there.