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ruskiy playmaker wrote:Oh great, why don't we just sign Downing as well.

ConnO'var wrote:

Bamaga man wrote:

I think we are being raped in the transfer market this year

Yep it appears that way S@int, it always seems that way come to think of it. Why is that ?

Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dumb.....

Everyone knows we're strapped for cash coz of these two idiots and we need to seel before we can strengthen the areas in need. Hence they'll all drive a hard bargain. Same on the buying front..... they know where we need re-inforcements and hence the prices miraculously goes up.

While that maybe a factor at moment,however long before they arrived. We always seemed to get screwed over in transfers both coming and going out. Thats impression I always  have had since 80s when Laudrup spurned us for Juve.

bigmick wrote:English players have obvious advantages in that they are used to our league, they tend to turn up and not mind overly if it's a bit cold or if somebody kicks them up in the air, and much more significantly they aren't currently trying to win Euro 2008.

A couple of seasons ago Mick, a lot of people on here were crying out for Rafa to buy some English based players with Premiership experience, rather than foreign players.  Rafa duly delivered and brought in Pennant and Bellamy.  Did they turn out to be good players?

Where you have played your football makes little difference imo. Bellamy had bags of Premiership experience and didn't succeed here.  Torres had zero Premiership experience and did.  The reason being that Torres has a lot more quality.

Players will do well if they are quality and if they can hack the pace of the Premiership (unlike Morientes).  I personally think Barry will be a good signing, although I am not happy with the way we are being held to ransom over him.  He is a quality player.  I do not rate Milner as a quality player.  He is a young lad who can be good on his day but is never going to be top drawer and won't improve our starting 11.  If he is not going to improve our 1st 11 then we'd have been better spending the money on that Ramsey kid from Cardiff who may be an even better prospect.

stmichael wrote:I personally would keep Pennant who has been faultless with his attitude over the course of the season.

Faultless?  Remember Porto away St Mike, the pathetic red card?  Remember the countless stupid free kicks he has given away this season through sheer petulence?

He may have kept his mouth shut off the pitch this season, but his attitude on it is far from faultless.

JBG wrote:Milner is a good decent Premiership player. He's tough, a good athlete and has got a great attitude. His playing style would remind me slightly of Lee Sharpe in Sharpe's early years (although that's where the resemblance ends, Sharpe is/was a ) and I think he may become quite an effective footballer by the time he reaches his mid twenties.

However, he is not and probably never will be Premiership top four class. He is a modern day Jason Wilcox who would do an extremely good job at Villa or Everton but he won't help us challenge (let alone win) the Premiership.

He's a handy player and I like him, if I was a fan of, lets say, Everton, I would be excited by my club being linked with him, but our rivals are spending £15million + on wingers these days and Milner is not going to help us reach the next level.

completely agree. He is not top 4 material. even as back-up, you have to ask is it worth the extra cost or should we just keep pennant, who scores roughly the same amount of goals per season and averages more assists.

yes he's young and has a better temperament, but is thhi really where we wanna go?

s@int wrote:Not exactly the player I was hoping for, but I think he will be an improvement on Pennant. If the rumours about transfers have any foundation, I think we are being raped in the transfer market this year. Riise - £3million! ffs......... I know he had a bad season but he is worth much more than that.

Unfortunately clubs know we have to offload players and are taking advantage.

Another player in the mid-range price bracked, Milner's ok but as a top club we should be looking for a bit more quality.

Maybe Rafa's worrying too much about this 6+5 business, if so perhaps he should have bought Warnock back and gone for Bentley/Defoe

Still just a rumour so the topic has been relocated.  That said, I think it will be interesting to see what happens if this deal goes through.  Is Milner world class?  Not even close, but he's got talent and has the attitude that Rafa loves.  He might be just what we need when facing bottom-half teams away in the dead of winter.  I'd like us to be buying in the top bracket of world footballing talent too but that's apparently well beyond our means at the moment.  As Barry's said, I'd take Milner ahead of Rieira--or whatever other decent-but-not-great-foreign-winger is available at this point.