Summer Transfer Rumour Thread.

My thought exactly! Apologies I hadn't realised it had broken on rumour thread. Just popped onto BBC site during lunch break read. News like this normally has a thread so I posted it!

 

I haven't seen much of him at Burnley but do you guys reckon he justifies that price tag?

 

Exactly.

Be fair to Nicola Cortese, everything he has promised he has delivered. Improvement of facilities, playing squad, promotions etc.

Lets see if he lives up to the: "this club will never be relegated with me as Chairman" - I have to say I think I agree.

 

Most people on twitter are taking the piss. I can´t say I disagree with them. Swansea bought Danny Graham last year and he only cost 3.5 million! (and he scored more goals than Rodriguez) 7 million is over the top in my opinion. 5 million would have been tops for me.

 

Not sure where the gripes are coming from on the transfer price.

As well as not being likely to be in one payment, it is also what we ended up getting for Bale for five years ago, and around the same as we sold Walcott for six years ago. Both were Champioship players going to PL sides, and both were able to eventually step up and do well in top 4/5 sides.

£7m to me is a snip, seeing that he has lots of potential suitors. I certainly would prefer young English talent that can integrate into a young, emerging, academy-based side of the future than someone like Yakubu, who I saw us linked with! And as for the QPR fan saying they didn't sign anyone costing that much - and yes, look where they finished. They were extremely lucky not to go down (despite their good home run at the end of the season). One Bolton result away from the drop. They are certainly not a well-run club, from what I have followed of them in the press over the last few years, nor is their transfer policy (troublemakers in; decent defender out that ended up helping get Reading promoted) I would ever want to emulate (and that includes an absolutely appalling choice in managers for years up until Warnock). We can't be compared to them.

£7m is the price of investing in the future. The club have a plan, and Jay Rod fits nicely into it. Nor is it knee-jerk, as we have tried to buy him before. There is a big difference between a wise investment and a profligate approach to spending - Cortese has shown he is adapt at the former.

And remember - people frowned at us spending £1m on Lambert not so long ago...

 

I was joking around mate , I don't mind if you post 100 threads a day. But think the mods would

 

just like my FM save!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Oh hell yes.

 

Graham is also older and has little else to his game?

 

Without a doubt. If he has a good season he'll be worth £14m this time next year.

 

22 year old with pace, skill, can score goals
or
26 year old with few goals.

HAHA

 

No worries!

 

Yeah this deserves it's own thread, just as long as we don't get a separate one for each rumour that gets churned through the rumour mill

 

Add a premium, as other have said, for him being English, and the fact that West Ham are still pursuiing their approach of buying anything that points forward and moves (ie. linked to Yak, Saha etc. - how many strikers do they honestly need?); plus the fact that - as a hot transfer target - he could have easily gone to a direct rival (eg. Reading)and end up taking points off us, I honestly do not know what people are complaining about. Yes, it's a risk, but is sure to be a calculated one - and aren't all transfers a risk?

Delap was only £2.8m less over ten years ago! This is just another brick in what will end up being quite a house!

 

He's as good as some of the guys who already play in the PL. To buy Daniel Sturridge off you lot would probably cost in the region of £20m, so in the context of young, English strikers, yes it is a good deal. Different players obviously, but rewards come to teams that take risks.

 

Think he will be a good signing tbh, only reason I said 7mil is alot is because it wasn't to long ago we were only paying a few mil for players. Guess I can get use to us paying these fees tho

 

You guys should read the Norwich board - Jay Rod hasn't even happened yet and they're freaking out! I like Norwich so won't write more, just that perhaps other clubs are beginning to envy us...

 

I completely agree with everything you've said. If we signed someone older for a lesser fee, say £5m, we'd have to replace them with another player in a few years for another £5m+ fee - With Jay Rod we won't have to do that, we're not only signing him for the here and the now but for the next 6 years or whatever, OR, in another scenario, we will sell him on to a bigger club for a bigger fee and reap the rewards from that, because he WILL grow as a player and he WILL be good enough for the Prem and he WILL play for the England Senior team one day.

 

What's with this trend of us being linked with players then signing them in the next transfer window.

Hooper to sign in January?

 

No more strikers please. Sharp and Lee deserve their share of the action.