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Honestly, if all Levy did was buy Benteke and Chadli I'd be satisfied. I don't think I'm being overly greedy with that.
The daily star. My god! Time for bed.Quotes from the Valencia president about Soldado. Star reporting that we are back in for him.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/fo...20m-move-for-Valencia-striker-Roberto-Soldado
Has there been any recent ITK on this guy?
Quotes from the Valencia president about Soldado. Star reporting that we are back in for him.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/fo...20m-move-for-Valencia-striker-Roberto-Soldado
Has there been any recent ITK on this guy?
Surely there's a happy balance where a club can see that at times they need to pay a bit extra to get a player in a position they really need to boost the team and bring them success that won't happen if they don't add a bit of quality. Take last season surely rather than haggling over a couple of million we had tied up a quality striker chances are we would be in the CL this season and even a decent early run should have given us maybe £30 mill in extra revenue.
It's easy to quote Leeds but they were just reckless in throwing high fees and wages at for the most part some pretty average players. Speculating to accumulate by making well considered timely investments in players can pay huge dividends
You're right... a bit easy to quote Leeds but guess I meant that I prefer our well run, financially sound club that is gradually improving through careful investment into both personnel and facilities
You're right... a bit easy to quote Leeds but guess I meant that I prefer our well run, financially sound club that is gradually improving through careful investment into both personnel and facilities
It's probably done. It's just our website team need two weeks to figure out how to upload a picture of Christian and then they'll need to find the £ sign so they can tell us the fee.
Complex stuff.
I find it ridiculous that we were all desperate to sign Adebayor last season, and now most of you cannot wait to get rid of him.
He had a difficult season last year, in which he had largely no pre - season and ACN.
He was fantastic season the before and almost unplayable at times last season.
Personally, I would prefer to have him than not - especially at the rate strikers are disappearing at the moment.
He also seems to have a good realationship with Bale.
I want at least 3 strikers and 1 wing forward.
It's funny how if a player has a great season a lot of "fans" expect a player to show "loyalty" and turn down bigger clubs and more money, but one bad season and you are sending him down to the glue factory.
I agree with your overall point but Ade had no pre season because he dicked us around delaying the transfer so thats his fault.
I know the links are tenuous at best, but Benteke and Chadli with Oliveira and Neilton sounds like a fantastic way to add talent that is ready to produce and ones that will need some time but could become great.
When you think about the costs involved (Benteke for around 18-20m, Chadli for 7.5, Neilton 7m, Oliveira 1m loan fee with a 6m buyout as rumored) it's a very cost effective way to address a couple of the biggest question marks on our squad.
For £5m i might have dicked around.
I'd like to see that happen but I reckon we'll just sign Chadli and Benteke... Annoying we aren't adding any young upcoming talent.
Go to the Bale thread if you want to see some serious backscuttling from the Mirror...over the shit they caused last night!!!
Wazza said: ↑
I find it ridiculous that we were all desperate to sign Adebayor last season, and now most of you cannot wait to get rid of him.
He had a difficult season last year, in which he had largely no pre - season and ACN.
He was fantastic last season and almost unplayable at times this season.
Personally, I would prefer to have him than not - especially at the rate strikers are disappearing at the moment.
He also seems to have a good realationship with Bale.
the only time he was unplayable was against chelsea, he was class. the rest he was dog turd. He put the effort in that game, whats his excuse in the rest of the poor games.?
For £5m i might have dicked around.
He was not signed in time for pre-season..