Barca are the twats in this one. The sooner he goes and the more we get up front the better. Add on a few extra mil on top of what we offered for Mata and we can all move on.Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Barca are the twats in this one. The sooner he goes and the more we get up front the better. Add on a few extra mil on top of what we offered for Mata and we can all move on.
Dont hold your breath on that... or else Mrs. L will be a widow soon and I will not get to see you drinking alcohol in London next year!
World's premier players? Do me a favour. The figure quoted on BBC is £35m. He's not worth more.
And it's rather complicated by the fact that every year we keep him our position gets weaker as he'll clearly never sign another contract for us and there's only one club who will buy him (or, rather, who he'd sign for).
£35m is a decent fee in those circumstances and if we use that money to get 2, maybe 3, decent players not as a direct replacement but to bolster the squad in general then it'll have been a good summer.
What he said!!
2 CBs and a no nonsence CF would do me fine.
Take the money and run.
It's better to have the £££ than an unhappy player.
So long as you buy a replacement (or anyone in your case) of course.
Agreed. We certainly have the dosh to buy 2 CBs easily now. No excuse.
Misquoting people again Letters! Tut, tut. We insisted on £40mill and took £30mill + a conditional £5mill. We were well stiffed. Plus you can't buy 2-3 quality players for £30mill these days. A Samba (average) and a Cahill (decent) will cost us most of that. Which is why that Wenger bloke will probably hire a clogger from Brum and a lump from Germany - at best and then stuff the rest in the board's pocket. This club is becoming the biggest laughing stock in world football, people are just pissing on us whenevr they fancy it - on and off the pitch. And many of the fans are loving it, giving it the big "Can't do anything about it", routine. It's like we're wandering from pillar to post shouting "I'll be your bitch!"
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OK so Cesc looks to be on his way, I'd say last year he was convinced to stay one more year but we failed on the pitch again so that confirmed what he already felt.
We'll need someone to step up because let's face it he's been our main creative force for years now, without him we've looked completed devoid of ideas at times.
Will we re-invest....hmm not sure I suspect we'll spend 10-15 million and call it a day, so in fact we'll pretty much break even for the summer.......a familiar story.
It'll be disappointing to see him go as it always is with your best players, if we re-invested the money well on the defence and maybe a new striker that would be great, not convinced we'll sign the quality we should though.
Last edited by Özim; 10-08-2011 at 08:48 PM.
Who am I misquoting? The BBC said 'around £35m'. I didn't see the bit about £30m rising to £35m depending on performance although I don't see that being a problem. We may have said £40m but we could say One Billion Pounds :DrEvil:, us saying it doesn't mean he's worth that or that we'll get it. We have a player who doesn't want to play for us and who will only sign for one club. It makes our position weaker than if there were a bidding war over him.
It's certainly enough money to buy 2 decent players and IMO that would leave us overall stronger IF they're the right players.
So what are you suggesting we do? We keep a player whose heart isn't in it and then next summer we have all this again, and next year with another less year on his contract making our position even weaker?
IMO it's time to get rid and I'll bear him no ill if he goes. £30-35m is about right in the circumstances.
I think the clearest example of not being able to buy brilliant players for less than ridiculous sums is the fact that cesc could be going for £35m. Don't care about the fee...£20m or £60m, we won't see a return on the pitch.
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