Glen Johnson....

[stesle]

I hope this is the fallback plan in case Srna falls through. 1.5m less than we paid for Torres!!!!!!!

 

About 7.5m less than what the papers said we paid for Torres.

[SpeedyG]

About 7.5m less than what the papers said we paid for Torres.

 

I notice Torres costs 20m or 26m depending on which argument your having. I guess in this case we want to convince ourselves Johnson is cheaper so 26m it is.

[CWD82]

think they still owe us 7-8 mil for the Crouch sale.

 

Even if they do that money will have been already accounted for in our projected accounts. It's not as if we wouldn't have taken £7m into account when making future predictions and allotting budgets.

 

Although Rick may have been having an off day

[Unrighteous]

I would suspect that there are addons included in that price like "If we win the Premiership or Champions league" or so

[paddyberger15]

I would suspect that there are addons included in that price like "If we win the Premiership or Champions league" or so

 

I'm hoping one of the clauses is "5m extra if we beat Real Neptune in the intergalactic Tournoi".

18.5m, fuck me, that is scandalous.

[Torvald Utne]

I would suspect that there are addons included in that price like "If we win the Premiership or Champions league" or so

 

I suspect it's a completely made up fee along with the rest of the story.

[Josef Svejk]

I miss Steve Finnan.

[Torvald Utne]

I miss Steve Finnan.

 

Even with his spanish clone arbeloa here?

[James Dean]

It's a comma error imo.

[philyhamann]

Gay.

 

He'll play him on the right wing too.

[ToxtethTerror]

Why do people go on about he £7m we are owed? For fucks sake, we are OWED it, so we still pay the full figure for Johnson whichever way we look at it.

[SpeedyG]

Why do people go on about he £7m we are owed? For fucks sake, we are OWED it, so we still pay the full figure for Johnson whichever way we look at it.

 

Must be a football manager thing.

[coop]

£13.5m for Englands number 1 right back is to be expected though.

[Josef Svejk]

Even with his spanish clone arbeloa here?

 

Finnan was a better player. And he looks like Hilary Swank. Or vice versa. A delightful family film, starring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage. Though much inferior to Big. Which, fortunately, stars neither Judge Reinhold nor Fred Savage.

[Unrighteous]

£13.5m for Englands number 1 right back is to be expected though.

 

Yup. I can't really argue with that price. It's a tad steep but whatever... We need more english players, and hopefully, he'll work out like Rafa thinks that he will.

[Guest simon]

It's a great price for a great player Top left and right backs are hard to come by.

[ToxtethTerror]

£13.5m for Englands number 1 right back is to be expected though.

 

Don't talk soft Coop.. not long ago the nailed on Right Back was Gary Neville and he wasn't worth that even when Ferdinand was going for £30m.

[Unrighteous]

Finnan was a better player. And he looks like Hilary Swank. Or vice versa. A delightful family film, starring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage. Though much inferior to Big. Which, fortunately, stars neither Judge Reinhold nor Fred Savage.

 

Calhoun, High school patrol!

[coop]

Johnson is still young, under a long contract and is now England number one right back.

 

If you thought we were going to get him cheap Rashid then your dafter then i thought.

[Josef Svejk]

Don't talk soft Coop.. not long ago the nailed on Right Back was Gary Neville and he wasn't worth that even when Ferdinand was going for £30m.

 

I hate agreeing with Rash. But, if this happens, I hope to be proven very wrong.

[lamai]

Is the Times a good source like say skysports?

[Guest RafaIsRafa]

It'd be interesting to see if the same ones complaining about the fee are the sames ones who big up an Eastern European full back theyve never seen play apart from watching a long shot he scores on youtube.

 

Well it wouldnt be interesting to be fair!

[Karl_b]

Johnson's an excellent player but £18m is about £5m too much. I hope Coop is closer to the real value.

[JohnnyH]

Johnson is still young, under a long contract and is now England number one right back.

 

If you thought we were going to get him cheap Rashid then your dafter then i thought.

 

Thank you. I'm waiting for some people to say if we pay more the £11m for David Villa we're nuts. This "We shouldn't pay more the £8m" stuff is nonsense.

[rebel23]

I reckon it's 15m plus 3m add-ons.

 

if he flops we'll get 10m for him anyway so it's not much of a risk. it's an ok deal. he is probably the best English player we can get hold of over the next few years, hopefully we look at Joe Cole as I can't think of many more.