by Sabre » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:20 pm
Of course Valencia are a big club, and of course I could tell a lot of decent things they've done.
Needless to say, I don't consider my country a banana republic neither. But to be perfectly honest mate, I see Valencia in turmoil, as far as I could hear to a couple of Valencia fan mates and as far as I can read in their papers and forums.
In that scenario, selling players is more likely. Plus, those players are making the right noises such as "It's the club that have to decide that but I'm happy at Valencia bla, bla, blah". When it comes to pay lots of money, English clubs are a step beyond Spanish clubs -- fact. We could easily outbid even without being Chelsea the offer of Atletico for Silva, for instance.
We're talking about a league that pays 10M for a striker that has one year of remaining contract!! (that 15M € mate, almost matching the offer that Atletico considers "serious" for Silva!)
So it's not a thing of disrespect in that case, but a thing of the money that's being moved in the premiership these days. Madrid is the only team that can outbid us and they're at their stupid deeds of bringing yet another galactico, they won't be competing hard for the likes of Silva unless the Ronaldo operation goes down. Barcelona never paid astronomic fees for their players neither, they always got their Romarios from PSVs and their Ronaldinhos from lesser French teams.
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