Octsky wrote:ok. lets take away the 17 mil, lets say the fee for Glenn Johnson is 10 mil.
at 10 mil, regardless of nationalities, are there better alternatives for a RB than Johnson?
i will believe there are better players out there for a lower fee than Johnson, we are simply not in a situation to pi.s.s away 17 mil like tat.
Well, I still believe Johnson woud be an ok buy at 8-10 million but since we aren't manure, Chelski, man pissy etc we can not make buys like this.
If Manure buys a Veron, Berbatov etc for 30 million and they turn out to be poor, they can shrug their shoulders and buy a Ferdinand, Rooney etc for 30 million and still have a great team.
Unless something at ownership level has changed we will never be able to do that. If we buy big and it turns out a poor buy
it will have a big effect and would would miss the opportunity to strenghten other areas of the team.
And I hate those petty remarks like "Oh, and how do you know what Rafa's bugdet is?"
Wtf is that for kind of question. We all know what we have spent during Rafa's tenure and with the losses twit and
has done any logic both financially and by experience suggestswhat the budget is.
So with 20-25 net spend take or give a few millions biting a 18 million chunk out of it is quite a fair bit.
Chelski, manure and man pissy might have 100 million to spend
so we can go into bidding war vs those teams, as that would be madness.
And everyone who talks about selling players. It might not be that easy.
Babel's agent says he won't be leaving. Dossena has no offers at all and neither has arbeloa. And with one year left and his "homesickness" he won't be signing a new contract.
I would be surprised if we got more than 7 million for him.
We have wanted to get rid of Voronin for ages and he is still in our books. I doubt very much we will get much for him.
And Pennant, Itandje will bring back nothing.
Kuyt would be ideal to sell when he finally has a good season.
He is 28-29, and last season was without doubt his most productive season ever. If it isn't then I'll eat my hat.
Not that it'll ever happen. Cos he works hard....
Seriously though, when you take into consideration the fact that he's just breaking into the national team, he's got bags of potential, he's new, quite fast and all that, then you also have to factor in the possibilitiy that we erm, feck it is that right S@int cos I'm struggling a bit here?
