January Transfer Window 2010/2011 Season Rumours/Signings

Moses99p said:
Chelsea are pushing towards breaking even - that's why they'll choose to avoid retaining older players (Ballack, et al), and try and use youth more/bring through talent. They're also going to shy away from making massive signings, probs (obviously they could go out and buy Neymar in the next transfer window... but hopefully this post'll be forgotten by then!)

Arsenal also have quite a strict wage structure, no?
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Chelsea can still blow anyone but City out of the water whenever Roman decides. Fact is Spurs cannot compete with his billions if he puts his hand in his pocket.

Arsenal have more money to spend on wages due to the bigger stadium, it's why teams do it and why Spurs are currently trying to do it, no?
Moses99p said:
What would be your counter to this,

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/league-tables/2006-2011.html
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Do you think that's news...? It just shows what a great job Levy is doing to manage that without putting the club in danger.

That only shows transfer fees, it doesn't show the whole picture and doesn't include the biggest part of what I'm saying. Yes we're big spenders but we aren't big payers. It's all well spending money on players as long as you can keep recouping the cash on player trading. Now the link shows Spurs have a net spend around the £90m mark but what you need to realise is the value of our current squad. It cost £200m to put together and that's with players like Bale, VdV, Modric, Kranjcar who's current market value compared to what we paid would boost it further.

Wages are a different matter altogether as it's dead money if you like, there's no way to recoup. It's where Levy has been very shrewd and allowed us to compete better by playing hard ball with players and their agents. I believe the top earners at Spurs are on £70k a week, we signed Modric on £45k! Missing out on Joe Cole is one example as Levy wouldn't pay his wage demands. The problem we face to keep momentum and moving forward is we simply need more income. With a capacity of 36,000 how can we possibly compete? Spurs don't have bottomless pockets, there are books that need to be balanced.
 
guyfawkes5 said:
And Arsenal doesn't?

Remind us why you got Gallas again?
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Of course they do pedant... but it's not as tight or as small as Spurs, do you see?

Also Gallas took a pay cut to join Spurs ;)
guyfawkes5 said:
Loving that Tottenham 'salt of the earth' Hotspur are only beaten out of the top spot for overall spending by Mercenary City. :D
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Your point being...?
 
Extract from that "article".

"But Liverpool are also keen to balance their books by *shipping out a central *defender to make way for the highly-rated German. They will look to cash in on Daniel Agger before they make a move for Mertesacker."

How can he say this? He must have seen Liverpool ship Alonso and Masc over the past two seasons collecting tens of millions of pounds and lining the Americans pockets without forking out for any new players in return.

He also has absolutely no indication on the agenda of the owners and the plans they want to execute over the Jan window and over the summer.

Argh!!! :mad:

Edit - Happy with the player being linked though :)
 
He's a fantastic player, as said above, it'd be great if he could join us. However we were linked with him years ago, he had a good world cup but we got giants such as Kos and Squillaci.

In fact (tangent) the only 'amazing' player I think we have ever got in recent years has been Arshavin.
 
Nasri is this season, Arshavin has been poor this season when I've seen him, he has been brilliant before this season though.
 
Problem is they throw Nasri out wide when Fabregas plays, when he was playing centrally he was awesome. Arshavin... meh I just don't rate him, he'll occasionally do something good but it's getting rarer and rarer and yeah...
 
I think Nasri has done well given his run in the team and the lack of Fabregas.

I don't know what's up with Arshavin, he looked a real gem when he first joined the league. I think Arsenal could do well with adding to their team though :)

Still think their fine going forward, and it's not really there that they need to strengthen too much.
 
I doubt we'll even make a bid for Mertesacker. As much as I think the fans will think it would be a brilliant signing, I think Wenger looks at it as we have Vermaelen, Koscielny, Djourou and Squillaci, as well as Alex Song who can play at CB and then we've got other young defenders like Nordtveit and Cruise, Eastmond could probably play there too. As much as we need a proper, tried and tested defender like Mertesacker I think Wenger is too stubborn to admit that so far the ones we have, apart from Vermaelen and recently Djourou don't cut the mustard.


StewartMG said:
Problem is they throw Nasri out wide when Fabregas plays, when he was playing centrally he was awesome. Arshavin... meh I just don't rate him, he'll occasionally do something good but it's getting rarer and rarer and yeah...
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He's got a lot of assists so far this season as well as getting on the scoresheet a few times as well. He can be pretty lazy, but he's starting to work a bit harder and even though he doesn't do the spectacular that he's capable of week in week out when he does manage to get his arse out of 2nd gear he's an amazing player to watch.
 
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andy@moFo said:
Extract from that "article".

"But Liverpool are also keen to balance their books by *shipping out a central *defender to make way for the highly-rated German. They will look to cash in on Daniel Agger before they make a move for Mertesacker."

How can he say this? He must have seen Liverpool ship Alonso and Masc over the past two seasons collecting tens of millions of pounds and lining the Americans pockets without forking out for any new players in return.

He also has absolutely no indication on the agenda of the owners and the plans they want to execute over the Jan window and over the summer.

Argh!!! :mad:

Edit - Happy with the player being linked though :)
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certainly would be gutted to see Agger go
 
Chong Warrior said:
Of course they do pedant... but it's not as tight or as small as Spurs, do you see?

Also Gallas took a pay cut to join Spurs ;)
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Maybe you can refer to the posts above yours which explain why Arsenal's wage budget seem higher but are in reality nothing out of the ordinary. Regardless, no Tottenham fan can reasonably claim to be outspent by anyone but the sole worst culprit.

And maybe you could stand to be a slight bit more pedantic yourself - Gallas was facing a pay-cut from his previous wages at Arsenal too, so I don't quite see the relevance of him taking a dent in salary given that neither of the clubs concerned were willing to pay his old wages anyway.

Chong Warrior said:
we simply cannot match the spending power of the teams we're trying to finish above.
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Moses99p said:
Link to spending table showing Spur...7621"]Your point being...?[/QUOTE] :rolleyes:
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Andybtsn said:
Nasri is this season, Arshavin has been poor this season when I've seen him, he has been brilliant before this season though.
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Nasri is better this season but there's few attackers who are better than him recently. Arshavin already has 11 assists and 7 goals this season and is actually playing well, I think getting dropped has improved his attitude. He's a great player and an awesome option, he'll lay a chance on a plate or score one nearly every time he plays which can't be said for many players, probably the most naturally gifted attacker at the club

Also, Nasri has been deadly from out wide, he influences the play much less but he's more potent coming in from the wings, I suppose it's a question of efficiency. It's encouraging that he's amazing at both though, versatility is the true sign of quality
 
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Chong Warrior said:
Chelsea can still blow anyone but City out of the water whenever Roman decides. Fact is Spurs cannot compete with his billions if he puts his hand in his pocket.
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I don't want to go into Chelsea's changing transfer policy at the moment, you'd be better asking the Beeb or something, but the ultimate point is that Chelsea have decided it's not financially viable to keep having business as usual in the transfer market.

Hence why I think it's pointless to say that Chelsea have the 'capacity' to spend high amounts of money given that most clubs could probably spend similarly high levels of cash because of their access to credit, it's just that they choose not to as Chelsea have.

Chelsea have decided they're not going to spend huge amounts anymore, and to say they 'could' is the same as saying that since Levi probably 'could' get a huge loan for transfers, he will, and hence should be considered alongside the likes of Man City.

Chong Warrior said:
Arsenal have more money to spend on wages due to the bigger stadium, it's why teams do it and why Spurs are currently trying to do it, no?

Do you think that's news...? It just shows what a great job Levy is doing to manage that without putting the club in danger.

That only shows transfer fees, it doesn't show the whole picture and doesn't include the biggest part of what I'm saying. Yes we're big spenders but we aren't big payers. It's all well spending money on players as long as you can keep recouping the cash on player trading. Now the link shows Spurs have a net spend around the £90m mark but what you need to realise is the value of our current squad. It cost £200m to put together and that's with players like Bale, VdV, Modric, Kranjcar who's current market value compared to what we paid would boost it further.

Wages are a different matter altogether as it's dead money if you like, there's no way to recoup. It's where Levy has been very shrewd and allowed us to compete better by playing hard ball with players and their agents. I believe the top earners at Spurs are on £70k a week, we signed Modric on £45k! Missing out on Joe Cole is one example as Levy wouldn't pay his wage demands. The problem we face to keep momentum and moving forward is we simply need more income. With a capacity of 36,000 how can we possibly compete? Spurs don't have bottomless pockets, there are books that need to be balanced.
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Where on Earth does this direct corelation between stadium capacity and wages come out of? :confused: If it were true then wouldn't Newcastle have a higher budget than you lot? :p

But :rolleyes: + :D at most of your post anyway.
 
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lol At Graig Brown of Aberdeen asking SAF to loan him anyone.. even a reserve player.

Also, what the hell. Just read Chelsea and Man Utd want Kaka but not untill the summer transfer window.
 
jakeke said:
Nasri is better this season but there's few attackers who are better than him recently. Arshavin already has 11 assists and 7 goals this season and is actually playing well, I think getting dropped has improved his attitude. He's a great player and an awesome option, he'll lay a chance on a plate or score one nearly every time he plays which can't be said for many players, probably the most naturally gifted attacker at the club
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Yay! :D

We love a bit of Arsh, that cheeky little Russian. :)
 
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