**Summer Transfer Thread: News, Rumours and Speculation**
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Your not making it a fair argument though, how can you suggest that Wigan wouldn't be charging £40-£50 per ticket if they were winning everything and getting to the finals of every Cup and not have a similar fanbase to Newcastle?
Success comes along and you pick up more fans, it's inevitable.
If you are arguing the fact that Newcastle were winning everything and so were Wigan - then it's fair to assume that Newcastle could fill a 50k stadium at the same price that Wigan could fill a 25k stadium although I concede £30 is probably cheap for a team winning everything.
Aye, spot on on that - just reread everything today and I did start going on about wage structures and live games - which would be identical again I presume?) Again you can compare the two if you're not going to give each team identical comparisons.
Checking the number of games we played last year, you'd be looking around the 60 mark. It's not that much more
You're saying simply because Newcastle have more space to advertise, they can charge twice as much money to put advertising in? (I guess you mean charge not change??)
Well that's fine, but you've changed your arguement here - you started by saying by winning everything and filling the home stadium Newcastle would make £50-£60m more than Wigan... that's just simply not the case.
More people in the stadium doesn't automatically mean an increased revenue in shirt sales either.
I don't know why anyone rates Bellamy, he's got pace and is a decent finisher but he's a complete knob head.
He goes through almost a team every two years, he can't be that great =/
And don't get me wrong, I like Huntelaar... but it seems we've lost our main target this summer in Benzema to Real Madrid... so now we're going after a player who Madrid are probably replacing this summer?
Gah... still it'd still be a good signing as long as it's not stupid money... his scoring record in his career is fantastic to be fair to the lad. 203 games and 143 goals.
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Does anyone think Blackburn will get Pennant for free? Isn't he out of contract? I just made this transfer up lol but it would kinda make sense for all parties, we need a RM, emerton can then cover RB again.
I would love to see Crouch and Bent at ewood park but don't think Big Sam has the money
I would love to see Crouch and Bent at ewood park but don't think Big Sam has the money
Yeah, reading around the Milan thing seems to be a loan though?
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1015: Bayern Munich have set a price tag of £69m for French midfielder Franck Ribery. The German club have given Real Madrid a deadline of 16 July to match the price.
Full story in German: Bild
Well that prices ManU out of it. Cant see them spending most of their money from Ronaldo on one player. Just wouldnt make sense.
I think its going to be down to either Chelski or ManC but I cant see him leaving for either of those.
And it would be insane if RM paid that as well.
Full story in German: Bild
Well that prices ManU out of it. Cant see them spending most of their money from Ronaldo on one player. Just wouldnt make sense.
I think its going to be down to either Chelski or ManC but I cant see him leaving for either of those.
And it would be insane if RM paid that as well.
Wow £69mill for Ribery??...thats crazy and stupid money for a player whos good but not that good imho.
Didnt he say a few weeks ago that he wouldnt consider coming to England as the weather is similar to Germany or something like that??.
I dont see him going anywhere but RM in all honesty.
Didnt he say a few weeks ago that he wouldnt consider coming to England as the weather is similar to Germany or something like that??.
I dont see him going anywhere but RM in all honesty.
RM will probably offer 55-65 million or give a dutch player + money
Absolutely stupid money - mind you, even with the best will in the world £80m IS stupid money for Ronny (the difference between the two is bigger than £11m though - more like £25m difference if not more, due to what he has done and what Ribery hasnt)
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Plus Ronaldo is younger as well isnt he?
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Considering the massive number of German league "stars" that have flopped after transfers to the big three leagues I severly doubt he'll be anywhere near as good as people expect. I mean Ballack might have been one of the biggest German players at the time and he's hardly set the world alight. Gomez, Toni, Hleb, "world" stars who made their name in Germany, and have been utter utter tosh in internationals and other leagues, and those are the best of the best from the German league.
I'd think Ribery was a risk at £25mil tbh, its all well and good trying tricks and getting lucky against probably the slowest league in the world up against 6'5 lumbering idiots. But the second he's up against smaller quicker players in a much faster league and suddenly its not easy to get around everyone and his confidence drops........ well, Malouda. Again i'll point out at the last semi decent showing in internationals it was Malouda who looked better than Ribery, Malouda who got the big money transfer, and Ribery who looked not fast enough, not good enough, easily contained and only Germany wanted him.
Bayern are running a massive risk, they think other people aren't considering how he'll do in a better league and they are hoping Real Madrid are going to continue to be stupid and ***** money, thing is they are screwing themselves, if they say they want 30mil, they might encourage a bidding war, at 69mil no ones going to bother. They'll price him out of the market, have a player who doesn't care about the club and feels screwed by them for a year, and he'll be worth a lot less next year when Real aren't spending silly and pumping prices up.
The Bayern owners have gotten greedy and will likely lose a lot more money due to their stupidity. That or Real really have gone nuts but I can't see it. 56mil for Kaka, a world proven star whose done it in a top league and for country for quite a long time, I don't think they'd spend anywhere near the same amount on an unproven, won nothing, playing in a crap league player. I mean they paid a good value £13mil for Abiol, 56/80mil for Kaka/Ronaldo aren't bad prices for proven stars and big money earners in image rights. Ribery is none of that.
I'd think Ribery was a risk at £25mil tbh, its all well and good trying tricks and getting lucky against probably the slowest league in the world up against 6'5 lumbering idiots. But the second he's up against smaller quicker players in a much faster league and suddenly its not easy to get around everyone and his confidence drops........ well, Malouda. Again i'll point out at the last semi decent showing in internationals it was Malouda who looked better than Ribery, Malouda who got the big money transfer, and Ribery who looked not fast enough, not good enough, easily contained and only Germany wanted him.
Bayern are running a massive risk, they think other people aren't considering how he'll do in a better league and they are hoping Real Madrid are going to continue to be stupid and ***** money, thing is they are screwing themselves, if they say they want 30mil, they might encourage a bidding war, at 69mil no ones going to bother. They'll price him out of the market, have a player who doesn't care about the club and feels screwed by them for a year, and he'll be worth a lot less next year when Real aren't spending silly and pumping prices up.
The Bayern owners have gotten greedy and will likely lose a lot more money due to their stupidity. That or Real really have gone nuts but I can't see it. 56mil for Kaka, a world proven star whose done it in a top league and for country for quite a long time, I don't think they'd spend anywhere near the same amount on an unproven, won nothing, playing in a crap league player. I mean they paid a good value £13mil for Abiol, 56/80mil for Kaka/Ronaldo aren't bad prices for proven stars and big money earners in image rights. Ribery is none of that.
He must mean Luca Toni! Kroos is like 18 and isnt a star yet. Drunken, Toni made his name in Italy btw.