** Official ** Summer 2010 Transfer Thread - Signings, Sightings and Rumor's in Here

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Haha was a bit odd yes :p

Also why is this FA guy being told off for letting Crouch go to a better side? Are there technicalities a noob like me wouldn't understand?
 
StewartMG said:
Haha was a bit odd yes :p

Also why is this FA guy being told off for letting Crouch go to a better side? Are there technicalities a noob like me wouldn't understand?
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something along the lines of the other club offering Pompey £2m more than Spurs offered (is the basis of the arguement - whether it holds water is another matter entirely)

Personally while Pompey could have done with the extra £££ with Crouch being in the "middle" as it were, it should have been his choice - even if from purely business reasons Pompey would sell to the highest bidder
 
Doubt it will be about the money, you dont have to take the highest offer. I reckon a few clubs would have been willing to pay more than £34 million for david villa but he wanted to go to barcelona.

And Marina Hyde, no, just no.
 
I cant help the feeling that english clubs are going to slowly get worse and worse over the next 10 years though. The only thing we had in our favour recently was our spending power.

Now we have players moving to clubs for less than their value and we have our lovely 50% tax rate to make sure they think twice about coming over here. Couple that with the british climate and you wonder why anyone signs for an english side.
 
David James signs for Bristol City!

Waaaaaaaaa!

One year deal with the option of another. That's about all I can manage right now, wee bit excited :D
 
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I was wondering about him but he might be one of the few 'home grown' players they have
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As I pointed out earlier in the thread, Man City have LOADS of homegrown players, they can easily offload 3 or 4 of them without batting an eyelid. Their main problem is they have more than 25 players over the age of 21. And that's only a 'problem' in that it means they will be paying lots of wages to players who will only be deployed in cup competitions and reserve games, and as we all know, money isn't a big concern to them.
 
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fez said:
Doubt it will be about the money, you dont have to take the highest offer. I reckon a few clubs would have been willing to pay more than £34 million for david villa but he wanted to go to barcelona..
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big difference of course that Pompey went into financial meltdown - and £2m would have helped a lot with the situation at that time

Despite the headlines recently - Barca arent anywhere close to that

As I originally said Crouch was in the middle and should have had the choice anyway :)
 
HangTime said:
As I pointed out earlier in the thread, Man City have LOADS of homegrown players, they can easily offload 3 or 4 of them without batting an eyelid. Their main problem is they have more than 25 players over the age of 21. And that's only a 'problem' in that it means they will be paying lots of wages to players who will only be deployed in cup competitions and reserve games, and as we all know, money isn't a big concern to them.
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I've said before, they've got lots of homegrown players, but when you think about who they'll be offloading in the next couple years, you realise the key men to be replaced with actual world class talent, are most of the homegrown guys.

So you have two options, keep the young home grown players to ride the bench at 20-40k a week, or ditch them, then be stuck unable to sell Lescott, Barry, Bridge and maybe a couple others, who will be on 100K a week, and kept at the club because they'll buy in replacements, but have to keep the others to fill the homegrown quota.

Bridge and Barry are history, the former is chronically injured but had some good games last year with a bit of form, Barry, just does nothing, pointless going forwards, horrible defensively, just worthless.

From recollection they've got, what 12-14 home grown players, but sell Ireland, SWP, Richards, Bellamy, and you're suddenly on the brink of 8 players. Now next seasons spending spree with a new manage, ideally then they'd want rid of Barry, bridge, and maybe Lescott.

Its that second round of replacements that will land them in trouble with the 8 homegrown rule as they'll be buying older established stars, Yaya, Tevez, Silva, etc, etc, they won't be buying the available English homegrown players.

For this season they aren't in any trouble, but get rid of the wrong homegrown players this year, and next year they'll be massively limited by who they can get rid of. Chelsea have long since stopped spending big every year, haven't for 4 years, and they are trying to get younger players in and ditch those wanting to high wages like Cole, and become profitable. You don't want 5-6 not good enough homegrown players taking 100K+ each a year, thats 5mil + a year EACH, because they were hasty and got rid of the wrong people this transfer window.

Ireland, Richards, Bellamy would be the worst choices to ditch and next season they'll regret it badly.
 
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FrankJH said:
big difference of course that Pompey went into financial meltdown - and £2m would have helped a lot with the situation at that time

Despite the headlines recently - Barca arent anywhere close to that

As I originally said Crouch was in the middle and should have had the choice anyway :)
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The difference is it wasn't 2 million less, it was 2million less in one lump sum upfront. The other deals for what 11mil was it, were installment plans, meaning maybe only a few million then and there, it makes a LOT of sense for a club having trouble paying wages that they want 9million that minute to try and avoid relegation/administration, rather than 2 mill extra, that they won't see for 3 years.
 
drunkenmaster said:
I've said before, they've got lots of homegrown players, but when you think about who they'll be offloading in the next couple years, you realise the key men to be replaced with actual world class talent, are most of the homegrown guys.

So you have two options, keep the young home grown players to ride the bench at 20-40k a week, or ditch them, then be stuck unable to sell Lescott, Barry, Bridge and maybe a couple others, who will be on 100K a week, and kept at the club because they'll buy in replacements, but have to keep the others to fill the homegrown quota.

Bridge and Barry are history, the former is chronically injured but had some good games last year with a bit of form, Barry, just does nothing, pointless going forwards, horrible defensively, just worthless.

From recollection they've got, what 12-14 home grown players, but sell Ireland, SWP, Richards, Bellamy, and you're suddenly on the brink of 8 players. Now next seasons spending spree with a new manage, ideally then they'd want rid of Barry, bridge, and maybe Lescott.

Its that second round of replacements that will land them in trouble with the 8 homegrown rule as they'll be buying older established stars, Yaya, Tevez, Silva, etc, etc, they won't be buying the available English homegrown players.

For this season they aren't in any trouble, but get rid of the wrong homegrown players this year, and next year they'll be massively limited by who they can get rid of. Chelsea have long since stopped spending big every year, haven't for 4 years, and they are trying to get younger players in and ditch those wanting to high wages like Cole, and become profitable. You don't want 5-6 not good enough homegrown players taking 100K+ each a year, thats 5mil + a year EACH, because they were hasty and got rid of the wrong people this transfer window.

Ireland, Richards, Bellamy would be the worst choices to ditch and next season they'll regret it badly.
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I agree with you here and although Ireland isnt the player he used to be i think we should either loan him or try and fit him in because for next season like you say Lescott,Barry will be on there way probably so we need the youngsters who can fill the homegrown places every year eg Richards,Ireland....but you have to remember we dont just have HG players on mega wages we also have Greg Cunningham,Alex Nimley and more who are HG and are going to be played this year...so this year i hope to see Bridge,Jo,Santa Cruz,Ireland (Right price) all leave then next year Nimley,Cunningham etc will step up and take Lescott,Barry places next year.
 
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