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He hasn't really said anything though!
Planted a seed of doubt into the minds of the previously certain minded from here.
He hasn't really said anything though!
Yeah but its not a statement as such from the Club.
Planted a seed of doubt into the minds of the previously certain minded from here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...e-to-keep-him-out-of-clutches-of-Chelsea.html
from last week
A Villa statement read: "Having received his transfer request, we have also informed him that should we receive an offer within an appropriate timeframe during preseason which meets our valuation we would act upon it.
It was hardly a secret that they return on Thursday and he wants to leave. It's not a deadline as such, I should have corrected that in the post I quoted, but they will meet and discuss it. Besides, I didn't say 'deadline' myself - forgive me, I'm at work and it's Ramadan so there's no bloody food or drink in the office..
I'm still very confident we'll get him. Would of been far more concerned if the Journo had came out with something concrete that suggested we wouldn't get him. Which he didn't.
F*CK TALKING ABOUT MARIO GOMEZ ALL MORNING.
How much did you have on Gomez coming here then?
i read his post as though he's inferring there has been no bid, thus debunking jetset's info.
a formal bid is a multi(and in our case multi multi ) page document with every clause payment stage add on criteria etc etc etci read his post as though he's inferring there has been no bid, thus debunking jetset's info.
I certainly took the first part of what you're saying...no bid that's he aware of yet.
But we don't know in what order things are done. It could be that talks are advanced and we are close to agreeing a price and then we put in an official bid which they are likely to accept because we've negotiated it? Seems eminently more sensible to do it that way if the time factor is relevant, which we all think it is. As opposed to playing the long game of putting in a low bid for it to be rejected, then coming back with another one which is rejected....and on, and on all summer.
Perhaps because the time frame is pertinent here the negotiation process is a little different. Hence the Journo hasn't heard of a concrete bid yet. That doesn't mean that we aren't in talks and they're progressing well, certainly not IMO.
Just my take on it.
And fair play to him if that is the case.I get the feeling this whole saga might be a wee bit of a sticking point for Journo as he seems to be a bit less forthcoming. Usually Journo is good for responding to questions and expanding upon comments. Could also be that he doesn't want to harm his club by leaking any info
a formal bid is a multi(and in our case multi multi ) page document with every clause payment stage add on criteria etc etc etc
specified down to the finest detail. Huge amount of work effort expense etc.to produce. Iirc what JJ said was that we believed we had a proposal that satisfied villas requirements, and were feeling confident that they would find it acceptable. We are now thrashing over the details with them...."early days yet but we are confident."..to paraphrase. No point making a formal bid until you know what it has to comprise of to meet sellers needs, much more efficient to hammer that all out in advance informally then only draw up the formal Bid itself when you know what it has to contain.
The actual bid itself will probably be almost the last thing to happen before the signing on the dotted line.(..or not.).stage.
So no I don't think this debunks or even contradicts JJ info in the least.
That's poor, I only tickled his balls, you rimmed him.
And fair play to him if that is the case.
None of the itk lot should put our hunger for itk ahead of their respective clubs.
The creative one hasn't though!About jj's info regarding hazard and how he wanted to come before we lost cl. If he see us line up with his country men benteke, dembele and verts with a vacant left forward role i wonder if he regret not coming.
Hazard - benteke - bale
Dembele- paulinho - sandro
Ah what could have been! Young side with a young manager and several other belgians. If by any chance mourinho dont rate him maybe we should try a cheeky bid for him.
(luckily the optimistic rating has been removed)