**Summer Transfer Thread: News, Rumours and Speculation**

I'm not sure if I can post this here or not but I need one supporter from as many prem teams as possible to write up a mini look forward to the upcoming season, looking at players that have come in, their rivals, predictions etc.

Anyone interested?
 
ONESHOTKILL said:
you think fergie will stump up for silva now nani is going to miss the start of season?
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I'm not buying any of this Silva stuff. I would love it but I've never heard Fergie mention his name, we've never made any bid as far as I'm aware. Just seems to be media rumours from what I can tell. We still have Park, Obertan, Valencia and Tosic on the wings.
 
still think we need another forward and left midfielder,i mean every season you should strengthen you team so its better then the season before.Selling Ronaldo and getting shot of tevez and replacing with valancia and owen just isnt going to be strong enough in my opinion
 
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Sucks for Nani, he was having a blinding game on the left with Evra and now this. Hope it doesn't set him back to much and when he comes back he continues to show the form he has all pre season

Wrap Valencia and Park in cotton wall from now on, cant afford to have to play Rooney wide again.... or even worse play Tosic full stop :p
 
ONESHOTKILL said:
still think we need another forward and left midfielder,i mean every season you should strengthen you team so its better then the season before.Selling Ronaldo and getting shot of tevez and replacing with valancia and owen just isnt going to be strong enough in my opinion
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I see where you're coming from but we haven't really done that. We've replaced them with Valencia, Owen, Obertan, Fabio, Tosic (the last 2 are basically like new signings considering Fabio's injuries last year and Tosic's late transfer. I would like to see a 'big' signing though, it would be a massive boost to the squad. Silva really fits the bill, especially his use down the middle. I just don't know if:

A.) He'd want the transfer
B.) He'd be available at a reasonable price
 
Interestingly Roma have announced the exact details of the Aquilani deal on their website and to the stock exchange:

We're paying a basic fee of 20m (currently £17m) Euros over 4 installments:
-5m Euro's upfront
-3m Euro's by 4th January 2010
-7m Euro's by 30th June 2010
-5m Euro's by 30th June 2011

and further add-ons of:
- 300,000 EURO for every year Liverpool qualify for the Champions League from 2010/11 to 2014/15
- 250,000 EURO everytime the player reaches 35 appearancs, 70 appearances, 105 appeances and then 140 appearances.
- 1 million EURO the first time Liverpool either wins the Premier League or Champions League by 30 June 2014.
- 5% of any future transfer fee will be paid to Roma.
 
Burned_Alive said:
Seems like a weird structure to me, but then I've never seen a transfer broken down like that.
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First time I can recall a club ever announcing the details, to that extent, of a deal. However, other than the size of the initial payment, there's not too many suprises there. 99% of deals these days are structured in a way where there is a basic fee staggered over several payments and then further add-ons based on success.
Shamikebab said:
Well you can knock 1 million Euro off right there then :p
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Didn't see that coming :p
 
BaZ87 said:
the point is we had already committed ourselves to paying that ~£12m so I see no reason why last summer we were able to spend that £12m but now we can't.

Regardless of that; we signed Johnson before anybody was sold so clearly we had some money, whether that be the Keane money or not, available.
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You've almost contradicted yourself there though... I agree with the first point, but you could argue that simply because Johnson was signed before anybody was sold doesn't mean to say that there was necessarily a lot of money to spend, future sales could have been factored into the decision to buy him. e.g.

Buy £18m
Sell £18m

Is not really that different from:

Sell £18m
Buy £18m

The net result is the same, the fact the purchase came first would only matter for clubs with extreme cash flow problems, and fears about whether the sales would go through later on.

Same goes for Arsenal, people are like, Vermaelen was bought before Toure and Adebayor were sold, surely that means there's at least £40m cash lying around to spend? That's not the way football club finances work, it's not a day-to-day operation where you have a bank balance which can be spent, it's all factored over the medium term at least and previous purchases do come into consideration when thinking about the overall situation.
 
Sorry, when I said; 'whether that was the Keane money or not', the 'not' wasn't refering to future sales but money the Americans may have given.

But regardless of whether sales had already been factored into the Johnson deal; since January we've made a profit of ~£20m so unless our lovely owners are going to be skimming some of that off to pay their debts, Benitez should have that to spend.

edit: also given the difficulties we're having trying to sell certain players, I don't think Benitez would have been allowed to sign Johnson before selling, if there wasn't money already availabe from the Keane transfer or what he was given by the Americans.
 
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Roma really wanted to get rid of that player badly didnt they (after all £5m upfront is **** all nowadays)

Of course Roma have a slim chance of making big bucks in the future (I only say slim because who really knows what the top four will look like in a few seasons time given the huge amounts of money flying around - and Liverpool really needing the new stadium to compete on an even keel financially)

Fantastic deal all round for Liverpool will be interesting to see what contribution he can make to the next few seasons when he is fit
 
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