The widely reported figure when Cardiff bought him was a mere £650,000 - chicken feed. In 2009 Sunderland paid Man Utd £3.5m for him (potentially rising to £6m, although given his record there it no doubt didn't).
To be fair I think he is exactly the type of player we need, pacy, direct, good aerial ability and movement but I just don't see it happening for a number of reasons. I'm not sure whether his goalscoring in the Prem for Cardiff would be too much of an issue, it might be a very different story if he was playing in the right set up with a good supply but as I say I think it's all pretty irrelevant, as there are just too many reasons why it wouldn't happen.
Phil Brown favourite for Cardiff job! Apparently he knows what it's like working in the Premier League with a crazy Tan.
FC for under a million would be good business. If we got him along with Long in January I'd be well made up.
No I meant the "lightning fast" Fraizer Campbell...not the "ponderous" Rhodes. Got the Cardiff figure wrong though. But Mackay did pay some ridiculous money for a couple of other signings which obviously contributed mightily to his sacking. Thank God for Steve Bruce.
So you criticise Mackay for his signings then suggest we sign FC for 7.5m? I'm either not getting the joke or you're being plain ridiculous.
It's easy to say Cardiff should be higher with all the money they spent, but on that basis so should Norwich, Fulham, Sunderland, West Brom and West Ham. Who 'should' take the relegation spots? In fact it should just be us and Palace miles adrift at the bottom shouldn't it? What if there's 20 good sides? 3 still have to go down don't they?
It's the combination of several factors though. No doubt in the summer MacKay and Moody were saying £35M was going to be enough to get the players needed to stay up. Then it wasn't enough for the players they wanted even though the players to do the job were available within that budget. Then suddenly even that wasn't enough for MM and he wanted more money throwing at him. MM has no doubt been told that he's gone and spent too much so he'd be on a limited budget as the owner starts to lose faith in his judgement, so MM started discussing things publicly. The fact the new manager is going to be given significant funds shows it's a lack of faith in MM's ability in the transfer market that's played a significant role in it, they're prepared to support a manager they've got faith in.
Let's wait and see who comes in to manage (Sven for me - I hope), who he brings with him and what funds are made available against who he has to sell. They seem like big words aimed to insult MM. To be fair though I would drive down and get FC myself for anything under £1.5m.
Managers don't decide how much to pay though. They give lists to chief execs who do most of the negotiating. If they weren't able to get decent players without paying over the odds it's as likely to be the fault of the chief exec or whoever does their transfers as it is the manager. The fact that Cardiff have a mental owner and a manager with a decent record prior to this suggests to me it's unlikely Mackay was to blame. You really can't blame a manager for overspending in my opinion. No manager chooses not to spend money which is available. Someone obviously let him spend it and it's down to them. The same is true of Brown at City when Duffen was in charge.
Oh please god not another Campbell thread. That boat has sailed. He is a greedy bastard that is heading towards the Championship.
I thought Mackay paid ridiculous money for all his signings, including Corker and Campbell, who are both excellent players. But I was wrong on what I thought they paid for FC. Corker is nowhere near worth 4x what we paid for Davies, and FC is in the Long range (5 mill) but definitely better value at that price than Rhodes who Blackburn apparently are talking 10 mill+ for. If Cardiff got FC for under 1 mill. as reported above he was a steal. I'm not suggesting we offer 7.5 mill. for FC btw. Just asking posters what they think he would be worth to us given our striker deficiency.
Well you're entitled to your opinion. Its certainly not mine. Until his injury he was knocking on the England door. He's now fully recovered it seems. He scored two against Man City this year. I'd triple your number.
Meyler has scored against Liverpool and United, how much would you say he's worth? He's also just recovered from a couple of injuries.
