Summer Transfers 2014

[Adebisi]

No wonder Colback's gone, he was on 6k a week. To put that in perspective Altidore is on 42k a week and plays nowhere near the amount of games, taking the piss that is.

Apparently West Ham offered him 50k a week! God knows what Downing/Cole is/was on. 

[Gym Beglin]

It would be like buying an Xbox One when you already have a PS4.

It would be like buying a kestrel when you've already got a hawk.

[redfromtubebar]

I'd love to see us take a punt on Ben Arfa at 6m.

[Barrington Womble]

When Lallana chooses us over Spurs.

 

Lallana at £25 mil and say £70k pw is about half the price of Fabregas on say 200k pw over a 5 year contract. Cesc is clearly the better player but we gotta be pragmatic about these things, will he be twice as effective as Lallana?

Have we signed lallana?

[Barrington Womble]

I'd love to see us take a punt on Ben Arfa at 6m.

I wouldn't. Fat, injury prone, lazy and has about 3 good games a season.

[Boss]

Apparently West Ham offered him 50k a week! God knows what Downing/Cole is/was on. 

 

Google says Downing is on 72k a week, which is a fucking piss take, thank god for fat sam.

[Phoenix]

Google says Downing is on 72k a week, which is a fucking piss take, thank god for fat sam.

 

 

He was on 80 k a week when he was here wasnt he? We are probably supplementing his wages.

[Phoenix]

It would be like buying an Xbox One when you already have a PS4. 

 

That doesnt work unless you are saying Coutinho is better than him.

[Elysian Red]

He was on 80 k a week when he was here wasnt he? We are probably supplementing his wages.

Hush money.

[fowler9]

Colback gone on a free from Sunderland to Newcastle. Gonna be some unhappy mackems tonight

 

They should be delighted he is as pointless as Cleverley

[SammyAftershave]

One month now their so called committee is trying to strike a £10m deal with Leverkusen for a 21yr old Turk.... and they can't, they just can't. Is it because they are incompetent? I think it's both incompetence and lack of funds.

 

 

 

I think he may well turn out to be a delight and full of Eastern promise.

[Jairzinho]

That doesnt work unless you are saying Coutinho is better than him.

 

Coutinho is better than him.

[Horus]

I'd love to see us take a punt on Ben Arfa at 6m.

 

I'd love to see us take a punt on Ben Arfa at 6m.

 

So would every place that sells food in the north west.

[El Dangerous]

Have we signed lallana?

No. We've bid for him which has allowed me to make a hypothetical point about why the club/money men can justify why signing Lallana is viable and players like Cesc isn't. Fuck perspective though, let's sign the best, expensive players and win trophies. This football thing is easy.

[Barrington Womble]

No. We've bid for him which has allowed me to make a hypothetical point about why the club/money men can justify why signing Lallana is viable and players like Cesc isn't. Fuck perspective though, let's sign the best, expensive players and win trophies. This football thing is easy.

Why do you assume he will pick us over spurs was my point?

[MLB]

I would assume he would pick us over Spurs because I would assume he's not fucking nuts.

[El Dangerous]

Why do you assume he will pick us over spurs was my point?

Champions league football, better recent track record, common sense? Some of the more reliable journos reckon he's stated us as his preference. The only thing Spurs has over us is location and his old manager who won't be there more than 18 months anyway.

[MLB]

Looks like Moreno is very close to being announced.

 

I would still expect Lovren and Lallana to sign but they look like taking a bit longer.

[Barrington Womble]

Champions league football, better recent track record, common sense? Some of the more reliable journos reckon he's stated us as his preference. The only thing Spurs has over us is location and his old manager who won't be there more than 18 months anyway.

Plenty of reliable journalists have told us countless players wanted to join us over the last 12 months, a lot if them have ended up playing their football elsewhere. CL football will never match money for 95% of players, it was true last year when we weren't in it, it'll be true this season now we are

 

[TheHowieLama]

Did any of them go to teams not in the CL?

[MLB]

Classic Barry Wum.

[Anubis]

No wonder Colback's gone, he was on 6k a week. To put that in perspective Altidore is on 42k a week and plays nowhere near the amount of games, taking the piss that is.

 

I'll take his £6k a week job!

[stringvest]

So...when is our yearned for Champions League cachet going to bear fruit in the transfer market? Years of being blown out by a player because a competing suitor trumped us with the CL card. When do we get to trump? That's what I want to know.

How dare you trump in front of my wife!

 

 

I'm sorry, I didn't know it was her turn...

[stringvest]

I wouldn't. Fat, injury prone, lazy and has about 3 good games a season.

I suspect you can apply that to Fabregas these days as well

[Anubis]

Did any of them go to teams not in the CL?

 

Anyone Monaco signed for starters.