January Transfer Window 2010/2011 Season Rumours/Signings

Apparently Liverpool have offered more money for Andy Carroll..

Beeb said:
BBC Radio 5 live senior football reporter Ian Dennis has heard that Liverpool HAVE made a second offer for Newcastle striker Andy Carroll. £35m per chance?
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Apologies if that was posted before but I didn't see it. ha! :D
 
Rooney has been over rated by people though, starting for Man Utd during a really successful period for them probably helped his scoring stats
 
I dont sense money is an issue for our current owners considering what they pay/paid for their players at red sox i think they would spend what ever if the value is right and has potential value later on i.e. resale and his age etc
 
The world has gone ****ing mad. £35m fee agreed with Newcastle for Carroll :o

We're being raped because everybody knows we've got cash to burn.
 
jakeke said:
Spending £30m (more than half of what you'll get for Torres) on Carroll makes no sense though. Surely save the cash, play Kuyt up front for a few months and get a much better player for £30m or less in the summer makes more sense
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BaZ87 said:
The money might not be able to be spent in the summer though. The way this window has gone, it appears as if clubs are taking UEFA's FFP regulations very seriously.
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As Baz said, its going to be about the regulations, spending 30mil in summer, on a three year contract will mean the transfer deal is amortized over 3 years, meaning a 30mil fee in will be 10mil a year and in the 3rd year add 10mil to the perceived expenditure for that season. I believe its that 3rd year from now that the £39mil(actually think its euros) will count and cause you to not qualify for the champions league.

Meaning spending now on a 3 year contract is the best way to do business for big money deals. I do wonder if anyone that signs will be on a 3 year deal as opposed to the more usual 5 year deals done recently?

Obviously leaves you a touch more open to players leaving more cheaply, but you can always resign them to a new contract later.


Seriously, 2-3 years from now the champions league could be ridiculous. Will Chelsea/City make it under the fee limit by then, City, unlikely, Chelsea, maybe, will be harder with another 50mil + 10mil a year wages deal on the books. Will Uefa slacken the rules or push it back when half the clubs involved miss the cut off, Real/Barca debt issues, aswell as most of la Liga, or will we have a champs league without lots of the usual top 4 clubs?
 
Rooney has been over rated by people though, starting for Man Utd during a really successful period for them probably helped his scoring stats
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I can't stand Wayne Rooney (even more now he's milking more money from United). It's bad enough he's an ugly, slimy moron. Nevermind possessing the first touch of a baby elephant.
 
drunkenmaster said:
As Baz said, its going to be about the regulations, spending 30mil in summer, on a three year contract will mean the transfer deal is amortized over 3 years, meaning a 30mil fee in will be 10mil a year and in the 3rd year add 10mil to the perceived expenditure for that season. I believe its that 3rd year from now that the £39mil(actually think its euros) will count and cause you to not qualify for the champions league.

Meaning spending now on a 3 year contract is the best way to do business for big money deals. I do wonder if anyone that signs will be on a 3 year deal as opposed to the more usual 5 year deals done recently?

Obviously leaves you a touch more open to players leaving more cheaply, but you can always resign them to a new contract later.


Seriously, 2-3 years from now the champions league could be ridiculous. Will Chelsea/City make it under the fee limit by then, City, unlikely, Chelsea, maybe, will be harder with another 50mil + 10mil a year wages deal on the books. Will Uefa slacken the rules or push it back when half the clubs involved miss the cut off, Real/Barca debt issues, aswell as most of la Liga, or will we have a champs league without lots of the usual top 4 clubs?
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All well and good, but you could get a better player than Carroll for a fair bit less than £30m.
 
jakeke said:
Spending £30m (more than half of what you'll get for Torres) on Carroll makes no sense though. Surely save the cash, play Kuyt up front for a few months and get a much better player for £30m or less in the summer makes more sense
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This makes more sense.

If Liverpool spends any more than £15m on Carroll after quibbling for 3 weeks over Suarez I will have lost what little faith I had in football.

If Carroll doesn’t get 20 goals+ a season you can pretty much write off the whole transfer fee after a year. Unless the owners have another £100m ready to spend they need to use any Torres money wisely.

aidan444 said:
Liverpool agreed £35M for Andy Carroll.
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FFS, they may as well sign me for £25m and save a bit of money.
 
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Ha i like how i post my view of our owners not being too fussed about money and then the Carroll news comes in o.O

I rate Carroll as a player but uhm HOW MUCH!
 
If we sign a decent winger (maybe even in the summer), Carroll's a decent player but he's not worth £35m, probably not even half that. But with clubs knowing we're desperate for a striker and cash on the hip, and him being English, we're being raped.
 
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