NEWCASTLE have slapped a £15million price tag on in-form keeper Tim Krul

My Chelsea rumour from YESTERDAY ( yes, Holystone beats The Sun!) might just be true.

 

This week's scores

Bano 1-0 Pardew
The Sun 0-1 Holystone

 

Ive learnt through history that gk dont move for very much, only in the extreme cases people will pay out a huge fee

 

Why put a price tag on somebody you shouldn't even dream of selling.

When you've got the best you should try and keep them.

 

Why whistle? I am the new secret rumour guru!!!!! ( Not!)

 

Triple the 34

 

an extreme case like, say, buying a young keeper who's shown promise beyond his years and is probably the in form keeper in the prem from Mike Ashley? That'll be £100mil please.

 

You guys do realise that a £15mill fee would make Krul the 4th most expensive keeper in the history of world football, right? On par with Angelo Peruzzi and just under:

Gianluigi Buffon - £33mill
Manuel Neuer - £18mill
David de Gea - £17mill

Don't forget that at the time De Gea was bought, he was considered one of the best goalkeeping prospects in he world. His form now is irrelevant to how he was when Man Utd stumped up the fee.

Just look at Craig Gordon. When he was bought for £9million in 2007, it was the most expensive fee ever paid by a British club for a goalie, and was so until Man Utd bought De Gea.

This is a massive, massive amount for a goalkeeper who still has some weaknesses in his game (kicking and so on). To me, it seems like a fee to fend clubs off.

 

Agreed. Mike "never knowingly underpriced" Ashley

 

£15m is high in terms of goalkeepers, but it seems a price where a chairman would say "seems a lot. Are you sure he's that good?"
It needs to be a fee where a chairman says "how much? **** THAT!"

 

There needs to be a balance. If you make the fee too high, then people know that you're taking the piss and know that the fee is really a load of nonsense.

It's a bit like Hulk, with Porto saying he would only go for his 80million release fee. In reality, we all know that's a load of ****e, and it will be a lot less.

 

like " Jeez, we still haven't pi**ed Liverpool off , and they're still interested at £35M???" convo about Carroll

 

I'm sure I've said this before but I'll say it again.

Your club have a price for every player in your ranks for the following reasons:

1. Mike Ashley made it perfectly clear this was his plan from the start, to emulate the "Arsenal model", buy them young, prove they're good, sell them on for profit.

2. Mike Ashley has a good chief scout capable of finding adequate replacements for anybody who is sold.

3. Mike Ashley has invested way over the odds into your club. Would you buy a Porsche worth £50k for £100k? No you wouldn't so why would anyone want to buy NUFC before Ashley has taken back his money? Let him sell all of your players in a strategic, structured way until his investment has been repaid. He's not a spring chicken, why should his kids inheritance be sat in the coffers of your club? especially if you treat him like a tumour.

4. Every player you're bothered about leaving you is going to end up at a club with a better chance of winning trophies. Tiote, Cabaye, Krul, Ba...none of them are linked to Blackburn or Wigan or Leicester City, they're being linked with top teams. Believe it or not most players dreamt of winning trophies when they were kids, playing football in front of large crowds is great but achieving goals is what the dream is all about.

5. Back to Mr Ashley. The guy can get labourers to make him 2,000 T-Shirts in 12 hours for £0.70 per day. At what point do you think he's going to justify paying some foreigner £80k a week to kick a ball around a field for an hour and a half? He'd have your players on minimum wage if he could figure out a way to do that. It's not a case of loyalty, almost everyone would leave their job for a bumper pay rise elsewhere and given the shelf life of many footballers, you can forgive some of them for securing their long term future financially.

 

Our club has a price for every player because every player in every club outside Man City, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Barcelona (and maybe some new money clubs like PSG, Malaga, Anzhi and Monaco) has a price. The good thing is that due to our solid financial structure that price can be ludicrously high.

 

But by stating a price like £15m it leaves the opportunity to offer say 12 and add ons.
The salesmans adage of aim higher than what you want comes to mind. There shouldn't be any price associated.
Saying that coming from the Sun I'd guess its just a figure pulled from the bingo machine at Sun headquarters.
Cost cutting has led to the journalists sitting in there and connecting numbers to players. Using a system based on squad numbers and league rankings. Todays bingo draw will be conducted with machine "inside source". Eyes down, Number 7 (Newcastle United), number 8 (Danny Guthrie), Number 3 (available for £3 million), number 36 (going to Barnsley). BINGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO