But how often are bosman's truly free transfers? I heard somewhere that Goran Pandev got as much as 10m Euro's from Inter as a signing on fee when he signed for them on a 'free'.
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But how often are bosman's truly free transfers? I heard somewhere that Goran Pandev got as much as 10m Euro's from Inter as a signing on fee when he signed for them on a 'free'.
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Well of course you get signing on fees, but that happens with normal transfers as well.
Typically a Bosman player will get a larger signing on fee but then again often that is just an alternative to paying them a huge salary (take Sol Campbell, at one stage he was the highest paid player in the Premiership, because Arsenal negotiated to spread his signing on fee over the length of his contract).
I think he'd be a great signing for Arsenal, had he not been more or less the same age as VDS I'd want him as the big Dutchman's replacement when Edwin calls it a day
One of the best keepers in the league over the last couple of seasons
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^^That's interesting though to be fair not really anything new. Hopefully we will focus on getting another CB or two considering now two have left. While we do need a new keeper (and for one or both to leave) I feel a good defence with adequate backups would serve the side better.
Both for £33million? If Loserfool decline that then they are bunch of fools.
Proof that Rafa is clueless though, you'd of thought he of had enough of the best defensive striker in the world after having him at Liverpool
Rafa loves Kuyt though. Let's not forget his excellent work rate.
I do like Kuyt though and will be sad to see him go, but with £33 million for both of them it could be a good bit of business.
And the thing with Masch is if he wants to go then he should go, we cannot have any lacklustre people in the team moving forward and anyone who wants to go should go.
I do like Kuyt though and will be sad to see him go, but with £33 million for both of them it could be a good bit of business.
And the thing with Masch is if he wants to go then he should go, we cannot have any lacklustre people in the team moving forward and anyone who wants to go should go.
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Seems like a stop gap signing. At 37 we are only going to have to replace him in a season or two. I am sure there are some great gaolies available. Maybe he thinks fubbles (could be either of our goalies
) will improve over the next season or two?Personally I think this is the position people should pay the big money. £20m on the best goalie available would do me fine.
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Just read this in an Arsenal blog and I had to laugh. 
Seems like a stop gap signing. At 37 we are only going to have to replace him in a season or two. I am sure there are some great goalies available. Maybe he thinks fubbles (could be either of our goalies
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Agh, forgot about the witty Irishman!
The guy's awesome, I hope him (and Holland) win just so he can ask what the **** that useless paper churns out these days.
There's a Youtube video of him out there (means nothing really) that shows some of his good saves. Hopefully he can bring such form into the Premiership in a few years, hell we're due a bit of luck from our reserves.
The guy's awesome, I hope him (and Holland) win just so he can ask what the **** that useless paper churns out these days.
There's a Youtube video of him out there (means nothing really) that shows some of his good saves. Hopefully he can bring such form into the Premiership in a few years, hell we're due a bit of luck from our reserves.
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yes, I've been saying that for some time. Sol was one of the first big wage Bosman signings, today big wages are normal and 100k is nothing, Joe Cole would be looking for a very large signing on fee.
People can choose to be ignorant, or accept the fact clubs talk with players without permission meaning Joe Cole would have had several options on the table 6 months ago, speak a few clubs, find some deals, work out that he can save a club a transfer fee if he doesn't sign a contract and in saving them X amount in transfer fee they will give him 50% of X as a signing on bonus. Club saves money, player makes a killing.
Sol also got a large signing on fee but the 15-20million he would have cost if he was under contract, a large portion of that became wages and I have fairly little doubt he would have spoken to clubs indirectly to know he could get a better deal if he waited out his contract.
Schwarzer is a great keeper, but at 37, even if he's fit enough that doesn't mean he'll choose to continue playing. He might be fit enough to play til 42 but decide after a single season of intense media pressure at a higher club that he just wants to retire. Considering they've said no to our initial approach it might take a decent fee to prise him off them, and thats a huge risk for someone who will probably just retire in a year or two.
Basically absolutely and utterly ridiculous short term and expensive attempt to fix our keeper situation. Almunia will never be good enough and is almost done anyway, Fab hasn't shown any signs of being good enough for a top 4 club. We can spend 10-20mil on a quality younger keeper now, or pay more in a few years when they are even more proven.
Lloris, Akinfeev, they'd cost a decent amount but, are fairly well proven to be better than what we have, have a decade + ahead of them, have massive resale value, infact if they got even better in 4-5 years if we found a cheapo keeper we could sell on one of them for a huge profit aswell as have them for years inbetween without constantly changing keepers.
http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/38017/Wenger_pulled_out_of_deal_for_Russian_Number_1.aspx
According to that, we full well could afford a decent keeper but Wenger again decided at the last second it wasn't required, at that point less people were interested, Shay Given injured and 34, no where near the end but City could decide to go for a big star name, Utd look like they need someone long term.
Fact is in the past 10 years we've missed out on a bunch of times we could have gotten Schwarzer, Shay Given, freidal, all essentially ridiculously cheap players that we could have gotten many years use out of who are all far better than what we have. Now he's going for one of them, 3-4 years too late in a completely pointless move that will help nothing.
Defences are built around long term keepers, chopping and changing every couple years helps no one and costs a lot of money.
No it's not. Masch is worth that on himself. And the story's no doubt bs anyway.
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