Hopefully they will sell him at the death for £30m and every club they try to buy from doubles their prices. Would be nice to see Levy getting a little of his own medicine.
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Hopefully they will sell him at the death for £30m and every club they try to buy from doubles their prices. Would be nice to see Levy getting a little of his own medicine.
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You would think Levy would learn from previous windows and change his ways but it doesn't seem to be the case. The Modric saga seems a replica of Berbatov where he was literally sold in the final minutes of the window giving us zero time for a replacement. While we got a great fee for Berbatov (30M for a 28yr old) we got nothing to show for the money. While Levy runs an incredibly tight ship, and is one of the most prudent chairman around there comes a time he has to take a hit of a couple Million on a player for the good of the club.
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Jesus I'm fitter than him so I would play more games and get almost half of that a YEAR!!
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Because they don't have CL football obvious....... oh wait
Because they overpaid most of the lesser players in the squad, are telling Rodwell and his agent they think he's worth 17mil or so, and so they need to give him pay parity to other people they spent over 10mil on.
Chelsea's big plan was, pay people too much early to get to the top, then pull back wages when you sign new people. THe problem was everyone knew what they could get and no one later on would accept either, lower wages, and clubs generally weren't accepting "normal" transfer fee's.
City and their plans for FFP involve the same thing, shifting expensive players and bringing in cheaper younger players on realistic wages.... but what they find is Rodwell costs 17mil and wants 100k a week... lol
liverpool are not man city. i wouldn't be too surprise if rodwell was on £100k. bridge is
Thats madness, Rodwell is 2 years away from every even looking likely to be good enough for a starting place regularly at City. In which time they would have spent 10 million in wages. It's not like their was a bidding war. So I can't believe they had any need to pay him 100k per week, regardless of what others are on.
Rodwell is the footballing equivalent of the Emperors new clothes. You will be hard pushed to find an everton fan that remotely cares even if the money goes straight to debt and not on a replacement. I mean after all how do you replace a player that's done nothing?
Rodwell is the footballing equivalent of the Emperors new clothes. You will be hard pushed to find an everton fan that remotely cares even if the money goes straight to debt and not on a replacement. I mean after all how do you replace a player that's done nothing?
£90k/£100k still bonkers and different phase or not, still, bonkers.
good job you don't really have to care.
I knew I would get picked up on that. My phone crashed so couldn't edit it.
Anyway it isn't 100k a week and by the marwood bit I was trying to say the transfer cost.
well, it is a bit bonkers but that's the way football has gone. massive investment, massive loss all for a title.
i and most other fans have accepted the way it is and i'm only mentioning city as they're the club in question. chelsea were the same and had roman chosen spurs instead of chelsea, i'd have enjoyed the success but it wouldn't have changed my opinion on just how bonkers the money has got.
if anything, it's good that city have come into the mix. 5 years ago, who would have thought it?
i wasn't the one who originally posted he may be on £100k, i was merely pointing out why i wouldn't be that surprised if he was.
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hmm not sure, I think the first phase was a bit of disaster.
2nd phase of Silva, Yaya, Balotelli, Clichy, Nasri, Aguero has been good though and pretty spot on.
3rd phase should be interesting as they push for CL and Premier League and balance the books.
I don't blame them one bit for what they've done, it was the only way to get there in modern football without having history, which you can't magically create. So they needed to pay a high price, for good talent, to build a squad capable of fighting for silverware, which would then genuinely interest other talented footballers. They'll settle down I imagine.
Financially maybe but football wise it can't be called a disaster.
City couldn't go out and buy the likes of Silva and Aguero straight away. They had to buy players a rung or two below that and because of the money they had, they had to pay way over the top too. Those players though got them into a position where they could then attract better players and not only for the money.
well, i always thought the first full summer (2008) was when they bought robinho, jo, bridge, cruz etc. adebayor and tevez came after.
I have had this arguement so many times. Our position in the league and new found wealth meant that we had to pay for the likes of RsC and Bridge etc.
We had to sign those players to get to where we are today. We are now in a position where we spending similar money and wages but getting vastly superior players.
Since the takeover I consider just 2 players complete failures. Bridge and RsC. The others played a big part in our previous seasons. Their price and wages were inflated in cases but we had no choice.
We had to sign those players to get to where we are today. We are now in a position where we spending similar money and wages but getting vastly superior players.
Since the takeover I consider just 2 players complete failures. Bridge and RsC. The others played a big part in our previous seasons. Their price and wages were inflated in cases but we had no choice.
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