Cairney vs Shelvey

Not really he's a Man City player

 

yes but he'd be more willing to sign for Hudersfield if they were in the Prem.

 

Aye but if Huddersfield go up they'll undoubtedly put a bid in if they can afford to. And he might well want to stick to the team/city he knows.

 

This was what I meant - thanks!

 

I think realistically, and I'm the first to preach realism when people link us with Fabregas etc, money and stature talks when it comes to players. I think it fairly likely that if Mooys is offered the choice, it will simply be a case of playing time/role as opposed to him having played on loan for Huddersfield. Player loyalty died a long time ago, if we are both offering the same deal I'd be fairly confident he'd choose Newcastle. Players don't care. If it means they can jump up a division, table or simply earn more money then loyalty/sentiment/familiarity is out the window.

 

Well it's in the papers now

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...gn-fulham-star-tom-cairney-rafa-beniteztries/

 

We really are talking silly money for unproven players here. Yes they could turn out to be good signings but seriously £12-20m for a mid-20's lad with no experience in the Premiership?

James McCarthy, Phil Jageilka, Lucas Leiva, Danny Ings, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Matheui Debuchy (remember him), Claudio Yacob, Jay Rodrigues, Jack Wilshere (may as well ask!), Leonardo Ulloa, Loic Remy, Mamadou Sakho (£25m for a proven defender or up to £20 for a possible midfielder?), Ben Gibson, Yann M'Villa, Gylfi, etc.

There's a huge list of players who are either on the peripherals of their team, on loan from bigger clubs or who we have nothing to lose from going for and yet we're talking about splashing huge wads of cash on unproven players. I'm not saying we'd get any of the above but I wouldn't start looking downwards until I was sure we couldn't get some mi-table experience. Honestly I'd prefer ****ing Lee Cattermole to half the names mentioned and I don't want him either!

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, I get the feeling that you're not part of this Cairney love in thing, are you?

 

From talking to a mate today - Fulham season ticket holder who's Mrs works for the club (this bit is legit).

We've bid £12m for Cairney - this has been rejected by Fulham

Cairney wants to come and will put in a transfer request if necessary

Fulham have suggested a bid in excess of £15m (plus clauses - goals/appearances etc) will be accepted as the recognise they need money to add to squad etc

 

Well we did bid for Cairney in January I believe so it could be true.