January Transfer Window Thread - rumours and signings here

I'm really surprised that Man City haven't come in for Owen. When he's fit, he is still excellent up front, with Kaka and Robinho delivering the passes, he will score a lot of goals.

Still can't see City doing anything, even if they have Robinho and Kaka - they would be significantly better spending £100m on a full set of defenders. Why is it that Man U are playing mediocre in many respects yet they are set to go top of the league? Arsenal proved that a solid defense will win you the league when they went unbeaten and Chelsea went 80-odd games unbeaten at the Bridge, winning 2 titles in that time.
 
Gilly said:
I don't understand why they're going to pay such astronomical wages. How do they expect to attract other players without offering them the same wages?

A massive initial fee, fine. Massive wages and other players will want the same to be attracted to the club.
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£500k/week could just be the usual media crap though.
 
Gilly said:
How much will the world class defenders want paying a week?
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**** loads, I agree with you but to say that they are only going to sign Kaka and not strengthen in other areas is daft.

The wages will be a problem but they have enough money to build a super team on super wages.

Leave them to it, I can see it going spectacularly **** up.

Everyone said it about Chelsea with Romans millions, "They'll kill football with all this money!" they cried, now Chelsea are looking over their shoulders at Villa ffs :D
 
Manchester City are a laughing stock.

A team that is at the moment near the bottom of the league, are willing to pay 100 + million pounds for one player to "fix" everything.

No.
Spend that 100 million and buy better players in more then one position.

Why would Kaka swap AC Milan for Manchester City, there are two teams in Manchester a good one and a bad one, guess which Manchester City are.
 
Maybe kaka is a statement , to other players/clubs and the like. maybe just maybe there in it for the long haul. Either way its got ot be good for football if man city can break into the "top 4"
 
If they do break in to the top 4 they'll get absolutely no credit and it'll only be because of the money. Far better if Villa or Everton do it because they'll have done so due to hard work and good management.
 
It might not be to the same scale, but its still essentially the same thing. A new owner with more money allowed Villa to progress. Ditto Chelsea. Hell, ditto Hull City. Floating their shares at the start of the 90's gave Man United a tidy windfall to do what they do. Football is littered with examples of clubs who have achieved thanks to outside money.
 
I agree to an extent, but there's still never been anything on this scale. Abramovich was pretty crazy but even he is watching the pennies at the moment what with the credit crunch. Man City's owners are spending double the world record transfer fee during a global economic crisis! On the other hand Real Madrid's galactico's were a bit of a failure, I guess that's what makes football great, the unpredictability.
 
Real only ever made one big signing a season, City could replace most of their first team in the summer with each player costing as much or more than Real ever spent on a player.
 
Apparently we've signed Haris Vuckic, who was on trial at AC Milan recently.

I guess the opportunity to work under Joe Kinnear was too big an offer to decline. :p

Seriously though, we do seem to be signing some really good youngsters so should have a pretty decent team in 5-10 years time as long as we're still in the Premier League. :p
 
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