Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Niall_Quinn]

Park's big chance.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

£131K per week? Sounds wrong or crazy. That's probably full of clauses like winning the CL, being voted world player of the year. But even if it isn't there's no way the board and manager are going to spend a whole summer cleaning up their wages mess and then wreck it again by paying a decent but hardly world beating player silly money. So I guess they are right in this respect and you have to question a player who wouldn't mind being relegated as long as he gets a barrow of cash. QPR mercenary mentality. Then you have all the other players crying to their agents and agitating for more cash.

Higuain was the deal. World class, wanted to come here and his wage demands appeared to be reasonable. Missing that one fucked everything else. Actually seeing Higuain turn up and put the shirt on would have been a much bigger message that pretending we are ready to spend £40mill on a player. Seems to me the Higuain transfer was achievable rather than a fairy story like Suarez.

Nothing that I can add to that...sums up my feelings entirely

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Park's big chance.

That sounds like one of a series of kids book published involving Arsenal and it's football players

"Girouds left foot" "Chin up Theo" and "Where are you Lukasz?" also feature

[Power n Glory]

Nothing that I can add to that...sums up my feelings entirely

He plays for the European champions. If we want to sign players that will be happy on £90k-£100k, we’re going to have to look lower down the division. If we make a mega signing this summer, it’s going to swell up the wage bill regardless. Money shouldn’t be a factor for the fans. All I care about is the quality. Is he good enough? If we’re saying he’s not worth £130k he’s not worth purchasing at all.

[Niall_Quinn]

He plays for the European champions. If we want to sign players that will be happy on £90k-£100k, we’re going to have to look lower down the division. If we make a mega signing this summer, it’s going to swell up the wage bill regardless. Money shouldn’t be a factor for the fans. All I care about is the quality. Is he good enough? If we’re saying he’s not worth £130k he’s not worth purchasing at all.

Whole point of his move is he won't be playing for the champions any more. Of course, the club has fucked up in this window but there's nothing to be gained from going crazy now and wildly tipping the wage structure. The other players would accept a Suarez on big money, but this guy getting what was close to our offer to RvP? And then the next guy to come wants the same, and then the next. Pretty soon we can't compete for a whole different reason.

[Power n Glory]

Whole point of his move is he won't be playing for the champions any more. Of course, the club has fucked up in this window but there's nothing to be gained from going crazy now and wildly tipping the wage structure. The other players would accept a Suarez on big money, but this guy getting what was close to our offer to RvP? And then the next guy to come wants the same, and then the next. Pretty soon we can't compete for a whole different reason.

Then we really shouldn't be looking at him at all if he's not worth that money.

[Niall_Quinn]

Then we really shouldn't be looking at him at all if he's not worth that money.

Agreed, if his demands were known. But then again we thought Suarez has a release clause and we let a trialist play when we didn't know his work permit status so we are a little light in the due dilligence department.

[Power n Glory]

Agreed, if his demands were known. But then again we thought Suarez has a release clause and we let a trialist play when we didn't know his work permit status so we are a little light in the due dilligence department.

Even if he only wanted £80k-£90k, I wouldn't want him if he's not a major upgrade.

[Fist of Lehmann]

Trouble with a lot of these douchebag players is, they want a pay rise when they move on, even when they're been downtraded.

He's on £81k at Bayern, Wolfsburg are fucking idiots to offer £135k, but they're willing to pay the money in order to improve.

Our principles are admirable in an idealistic world, out here, in greedy unscrupulous real life, it gets you left behind.

[Özim]

Why go out for burgers when you've got fillet steak at home?

We've got fillet steak right, it's not rump or anything?