Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Kano]

this is also a terrible buying approach when you are not backed to the hilt with endless pots of cash.

ivan tells the world we have loads of money, the sky is the limit; perez tells his team to keep the price high and rinse arsenal for all the money they can.

seeing as higo has contract until 2016, madrid don't have to sell.

[Grebbo]

If we have actually bid for Suarez then it makes no sense at all. He's an excellent player but is he that effective in a 4-5-1 formation? I'm not so sure. Pretty sure he played on the wing when they bought Sturridge. No point spending £30m on anything other than an out and out striker.

He's also nuts and despised and on an 8 game ban for biting (doesn't bother me that much but should reduce the price) he also said he wants to leave England, which I can understand, so why would he want to come to us??

[Dicks and chicks]

anyone think we were behind the 30 million euro bid for stephen el shaarawy bid?

[Niall_Quinn]

Yeah I am kind of leaning towards that too. I geniunely think we are prepared to spend big but as usual it has to fit into our "flawed" approach of paying what we believe is the "right price", which more often than not tends to be quite a bit below the current "market price".

A lot of these big money offers we have put in tend to be "take it or leave it" type offers, in the sense that we put in an offer and then appear to walk away if the offer is rejected. This trend has been present for a few years now.

Come September when Sanongo is our only signing, Arsene and Ivan will come out with their customary "we put in big money offers for players but the price is too high"

First of all the chances of any of the stuff in the media being true is very low. Whether it's world news, sport even the weather the media almost invariably hypes it, leaves out half the story or gets it completely wrong. And then they just make up shit. The media is the very worst place to go if you want information on which to base an opinion or try to figure out what's happening.

Then there's greed. The transfer window circus has five primary parties. The greedy player. The greedy selling club. The suddenly frugal buying club (city and the chavs excluded because they are comedy teams). The unimaginably greedy and corrupt agent and the hidden parties who have to endorse everything (a euphemism for taking bungs I expect). Aligning all these interests must be difficult at the best of times but if you have four sharks and a lamb at the table it's going to be twice as hard. I can't help getting this impression of our crack negotiating team all dressed in sheep costumes. Our shark, DD, is long gone.

Then there's the philosophy of the club. If you aren't really in it for the football and instead need everything to balance up nicely on paper I guess it's a lot easier to leave it if the numbers don't add up.

If there's any truth at all about Madrid upping the demands I guess they are the villains, greedy bastards who are trying to pile a little more greed on top. Super greedy bastards meets the world's ultimate miser, it's going to be tough to get a deal.

[Syn]

I'd take Rooney. Not sure if Suarez is worth the hassle though. A lot of baggage. Damaged goods. A lost cause. But he's sooooo dreamy. Maybe we can change him?

[Özim]

Here we go. 3 pages of tedious bullshit about two players we haven't got a chance in hell of signing.

[LDG]

At least it's sunny out.

Lucky, because if it wasn't, it would probably be raining.

[GP]

No bid for Suarez.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...l-make-2037847

[Özim]

At least it's sunny out.

Lucky, because if it wasn't, it would probably be raining.

It could be sunny and raining at the same time though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Let's face it, the journalists are just making stuff up to keep themselved entertained. And by that I mean in a job.