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Shevchenko didn't need a scouting record to show his talent, £30m later and Chelsea regretted not staying English. Though that said, they stayed English (league, anyway) when they threw £50m at Torres and he's not setting the league on fire just yet.
 
Looking at the deals on more successful strikers from last season, Danny Graham £3.5m and Steve Morison £2.8m, then £6m does seem steep, the only deal at anything like that was Shane Long at £4.5m(with the potential to rise to £6m), but he's better than Rodriguez.

I'm in a position to help you out though, I can sort you a deal for Aaron Mclean for £1.3m(which is all we paid for him), I can ever drop him off tomorrow. And I'll buy you all lunch. How about it? :emoticon-0112-wonde
 
st_brendy said:
You escape these ludicrous prices by going abroad for your signings. The market doesn't appear to be too inflated outside of England. As has already been pointed out on here, Utd managed to get Hernandez for just £6 million.

By all accounts, Guly didn't exactly cost us too much (£750,000 was it?). De Ridder likewise.

For sure, there's always a risk over brining someone in who has never played English football before, but if you have the right scouting nextwork then that should lower the risk. No-one knew who Pahars was when we signed him, and he wasn't half bad for a striker.
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Exactly my post above :emoticon-0148-yes:
 
originallambrettaman said:
Looking at the deals on more successful strikers from last season, Danny Graham £3.5m and Steve Morison £2.8m, then £6m does seem steep, the only deal at anything like that was Shane Long at £4.5m(with the potential to rise to £6m), but he's better than Rodriguez.

I'm in a position to help you out though, I can sort you a deal for Aaron Mclean for £1.3m(which is all we paid for him), I can ever drop him off tomorrow. And I'll buy you all lunch. How about it? :emoticon-0112-wonde
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Hmm... I'll tell you what, you give us £1.3m and we'll take McLean.
 
saintgreg10 said:
Thought it was about that, if true - it seems we can get quality from abroad for a lot less money than if we were to get the same quality in England. The downside; players from abroad wont have the experience of playing in England. It's all swings and roundabouts really!
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De Ridder will be a rough diamond. He isnt quite fit enough yet and certainally not English match fit but we have seen signs of what he can do and there will be a few full backs this season in need of changing their shorts at half time!
 
originallambrettaman said:
Looking at the deals on more successful strikers from last season, Danny Graham £3.5m and Steve Morison £2.8m, then £6m does seem steep, the only deal at anything like that was Shane Long at £4.5m(with the potential to rise to £6m), but he's better than Rodriguez.

I'm in a position to help you out though, I can sort you a deal for Aaron Mclean for £1.3m(which is all we paid for him), I can ever drop him off tomorrow. And I'll buy you all lunch. How about it? :emoticon-0112-wonde
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completely agree. i think it is a lot of money, and with that price tag comes a lot of pressure on him, agree he is a good player but that good??

Would rather go and spend 2-3mill abroad, and then leave the rest till christmas to see where we are, see what gaps need filling
 
-Dan said:
Excellent :D

Well worth it, we'll just have him taking shots at our keepers in training, it'll be a great boost to morale :D
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Actually, someone on our board has as their tag line 'If I'm ever to sentenced to death by firing squad, it is my final wish that it's Aaron Mclean who does the shooting'. :emoticon-0120-doh:
 
originallambrettaman said:
Actually, someone on our board has as their tag line 'If I'm ever to sentenced to death by firing squad, it is my final wish that it's Aaron Mclean who does the shooting'. :emoticon-0120-doh:
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That's brilliant :p Just seen you paid £1.2m for Matty Fryatt... the fact you paid more for McLean is quite an achievement!
 
-Dan said:
That's brilliant :p Just seen you paid £1.2m for Matty Fryatt... the fact you paid more for McLean is quite an achievement!
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We paid less for Matty Fryatt than he's worth and we paid more for Aaron Mclean then he's worth, but we make ourselves feel better by pretending Matty was £2m and Mclean was only £500k.
 
ChocolateBoxKid said:
Don't understand that logic at all. Delap was 8 or 9 years ago now. Would you have been happier if just before going into administration we had spent £5m on a player?

Plenty of examples of clubs that overpay for players and wages and don't get success and just get into a mess.

Bolton & Stoke and the others are spending more because the TV payments in the Prem are way more now per season than years ago. So clubs like that, who have avoided relegation can bank more and then spend more (partly because they know they'll have parachute payments as a back up).

We don't fill our stadium. We fill our stadium 2 or 3 times a season on average. We would in the Prem, we are NOT in the Prem.

As I said earlier, I can guarantee the same people DEMANDING we spend lots of money will be the same people who will slag off Adkins & Cortese if those players arn't instantly amazing.

Football fans = mostly fickle idiots with no grip on reality.
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What he said. Thanks CBK. Saved me ages writing a rant myself. <ok>
 
Trouble is clubs know we have the money because of the sale of Chamberlain........They want a cut of it. Sorry guys he is not worth £6m............No different to Maynard....he too is not worth the money they are asking.........Championship to championship players are not usually in that kind of bracket. Although with greedy clubs trying to get that kind of money it is likely that you are going to have to pay that kind of money in the not too distant future. The higher prices will work there way down the leagues too. I would be very surprised if NA were to break our outlay record while in a lower league.......He might match it but not over it. Just my opinion....more likely we will be looking to the continent for players.
 
I don't think it is just greed, though, it's what the player is worth to the club. Jay Rodriguez is not only a young prospect, a very good player and a local hero, but he's their only striker they can rely on injury wise. They have a thin looking and injury prone front line - not without talent, they have some very good strikers, but Paterson played just over 10 games last season and Austin, though only having half a season, only played 4, so to them, he is worth far more than £3.5m or whatever our idea of a "reasonable" figure is. And with Maynard, Bristol City just don't have anyone else like him. Look at their other attackers - Jon Stead, good for scoring goals but won't do anything else. Ryan Taylor, far from prolific and playing at a new level. David Clarkson, hardly setting the Championship alight. Marlon Jackson, ready to be a first teamer? I think not. Brett Pitman, okay he was good in his spell last season, but can he carry that on? Even so, Nicky Maynard offers so much more than the rest of them. They have creative forces with people like Albert Adomah and Martyn Woolford and Cole Skuse is an excellent player but losing Maynard loses so much to their attacking force. He probably is worth £4-5m in fairness to him but they'll want more because of how important to the team he is - a team who can't afford to bring in that many other players, another reason why they'll need a lot of money.

It's not a case of "ooh moneybags Southampton at the door, let's see how far down their pockets go" like many suspect, it's "please don't take our stars".
 
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