£16m is what his club want. That doesn't mean he'll be sold for £16m. Bolton wanted like £15+m for Cahill and he went for less than half that.
They know he's leaving for nothing next year and they're trying to maximise what they can get for him. He'll probably end up going for something around £10-11m and that's very reasonable. If we could throw in a couple of our highly paid donkeys as makeweights, so much the better.
I'd love to see this happen but these things rarely seem to come off as you'd want or expect in the transfer season.
Podolski - Kagawa - M'vila + re-signing Van Persie and I really fancy our chances next year.
(Oh yeah, and Bould knocking the defense into shape...)
I think it's probably fair to say that Hazard probably has a higher ceiling than Kagawa. He's probably also a better player now. He's also going to cost £30m and suck up 4x the wages that Kagawa would and, simply put, he's a bit of a stupid cockface and doesn't want to play for us anyway and even if he did he'd not stick around long.
Last edited by Unai Tea; 21-05-2012 at 10:41 PM.
There was the drubbing in Milam but we only got one heavy beating in the league. We lost to Liverpool 2-0 - although we were a bit unlucky that day, had Frimpong not got sent off I reckon we'd have got a point. Every other league defeat was by the odd goal.
We also won more games and scored more goals than anyone bar the top 2.
Just saying is all![]()
Most teams want Hazard. But they were after the Japanese lad before Hazard anyways. and they don't play in the same position anyways.
Hazard plays on the left well has been in france anyway. The other lad plays in the middle.
Hazard has the potential to be great but now not sure how good he really is. Its easy playing in the french leageu but the EPL and La liga are diffrent class.
I don't think what we achieved constitutes a good season though, anytime you're out of everything by the 2nd month of the year you can hardly see things have been great.
There were a couple excellent games against Chelsea and Spurs but not a lot more, we won a fair few games without really being that great either. 10 defeats in a league season is not a very good record though.
with luck this season would have been better i think, how many decisions went against us doesnt help. i dont think we are that far away from challengeing next season with the squad we have. zimm saying our midfield isnt great, that midfield destroyed both the scum and the champions this year. the problem is injuries so singing players like kagawa would be great. when one injured another good player replaces them rather then makeshift players in wrong posistion. we dont need much to challenge imo. couple of singings and rvp and something special will happen. i firmily believe in it, call me deluded or whatever but there was enough last season to convince me that a trophy will happen next year