Summer Transfers 2014

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Love that character, it's basically nearly any shop in London.

" got this old toilet from a council flat in Stepney, soiled shabby chic. £5k should do it. Also got a Colombian table with dodgy legs "

[Innova]

Loan deal for Falcao at £200k/wk.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

[Gym Beglin]

Not sure why they need LVG to oversee this mass-purchase of all humans.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Loan deal for Falcao at £200k/wk.

Know nothing Ballagay saying it was a £50m deal.

[Gym Beglin]

They're spending the money, while out of the reach of FFP, and then won't need to spend as much ever again.

 

That's the idea anyway, but if they fail to get CL again this season then that plan quickly implodes.

 

This has Leeds United-esque vibes.

[Innova]

Apparently there's a £50m buy option at the end of the season.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Reporter on Harry Redknapp " he likes to work with players he's worked with before "

 

He means agents he knows.

[Horus]

He's gonna be on massive wages I'd say, if they're giving Rooney £250k+ and Welbeck £90k.

Christ, even Shaw is on the guts of £100k I think.

 

If they don't make top 4 this year, they're rightly fucked.

 

How do you work that out? A money making behemoth will never be fucked. They can afford those wages easily, when we can't afford players like Johnson on ridiculous wages. People keep saying they'll be fucked, I've heard nothing but the same things for the last however many years, and each year they make record money.

 

Bit of wishful thinking on your part.

[Ginny]

What happened to Leeds will never happen to United. FACT. 

[Mook]

How do you work that out? A money making behemoth will never be fucked. They can afford those wages easily, when we can't afford players like Johnson on ridiculous wages. People keep saying they'll be fucked, I've heard nothing but the same things for the last however many years, and each year they make record money.

 

Bit of wishful thinking on your part.

They are shite on the park though.

 

Which is nice.

[Elite]

With a team packed with that much attacking talent they surely must improve?

[Red Banjo]

Top players will only go to teams in the CL.

 

Fact.

 

Oh shit. Seems that was complete horse all along.

[Elite]

Top players will only go to teams in the CL.

 

Fact.

 

Oh shit. Seems that was complete horse all along.

Or teams that will pay them highly inflated salaries.

[Ginny]

He'll be looking to plug defensive gaps and midfield in Jan i reckon. He's already come out and said that it will take a year to rebuild. He's pretty much signing all new players that he wants. They will come back i reckon. 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

I was worried they'd buy Vidal and Hummels, sort out their midfield and have one of Europe's best CBs. Instead they're buying players like Garth Crooks assembles his team of the week; if there are three good left backs, just pop them in different positions and say it's a great team.

[Red Banjo]

Or teams that will pay them highly inflated salaries.

So why didn't we offer them highly inflated salaries to go along with... You know... CL football?

 

They are making a complete mockery of this insistence that seems to be attached to every player that top level European football is a minimum requirement.

[Elite]

So why didn't we offer them highly inflated salaries to go along with... You know... CL football?

Because we are being run like a sensible business?

[Mook]

So why didn't we offer them highly inflated salaries to go along with... You know... CL football?

 

They are making a complete mockery of this insistence that seems to be attached to every player that top level European football is a minimum requirement.

We maybe didn't want to pay £250k a week to Falcao.

 

Which is fair enough.

[xerxes]

They are making a complete mockery of this insistence that seems to be attached to every player that top level European football is a minimum requirement.

Man City lured players with inflated wages pre CL, Man U are doing the same. The LVG factor will also help them.

 

This is a Jason Donovan situation isn't it? It could go either way. If they are going to go on to buy defensive and central midfield quality they will be fine, if they don't they will be in for a tough season.

[J-V]

So why didn't we offer them highly inflated salaries to go along with... You know... CL football?

 

 

Which players?

 

 

They are making a complete mockery of this insistence that seems to be attached to every player that top level European football is a minimum requirement.

 

I've said that was bollocks years ago.  City proved that when they got their windfall.  Pay the high wages you get the player.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Falcao already moved to one non-CL side, why the shock that he'd move to another?

 

Is it true he's only played one season of CL football, or is that bullshit?

[Mook]

Man City lured players with inflated wages pre CL, Man U are doing the same. The LVG factor will also help them.

 

This is a Jason Donovan situation isn't it? It could go either way. If they are going to go on to buy defensive and central midfield quality they will be fine, if they don't they will be in for a tough season.

It is a bit like Jason Donovan.

 

In that they've gone completely mental.

[Salou]

So why didn't we offer them highly inflated salaries to go along with... You know... CL football?

 

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Because we have nowhere near as much money as Man Utd? Simple.

[xerxes]

Because we are being run like a sensible business?

FSG will make more money doing an Arsenal, staying in the top four without buying the absolute top players and losing money to win things.