I would have thought that £45k to £50k a week is the going rate for a reasonable striker in the Premier League.
Davies? Huddleston? You say valueless, but we seem to have got £500k+ for each of Hobbs and Cairney, and they couldn't even make our squad.
This issue was done to death a few months ago, and you are right Peter, almost everyone on here seemed to agree that £40-£50k was about the going wage for the sort of player we needed.
I'm not in favour of spending money we cant afford. Do you seriously think Jelavic and Long will have signed contracts with relegation wage reduction clauses? If we go down during the duratioon of their contracts we're simply ****ed and I dont feel we've learned anything from last time.
What do you class as 'working out fine'? If we post £10m profit for the next 3 seasons then yes I'll be happy. If we spend beyond our means, dont make any profit (do any promoted teams ever stay up making a profit?), dont build a top grade academy and are left with players on massive contracts and get relegated anyway then what's the point? We need a legacy from our time in the Prem be that banked profit for times of hardship or a top class academy churning out future playable or bankable assets.
They were mentioned in the post before if you actually read the thread. Those labelled under 'the rest' I'd expect we could get between £500k and £1.5m each for them. Meyler and Elmo maybe a little more.
I just don't think the signings represent value for money. Jelavic might turn out to if he rediscovers his form, but how he's been the last 18 months we have overpaid on the transfer fee. His wage isn't far north of what you'd expect to pay him and is probably quite close to what he was on at Everton. Unless Long suddenly transforms he never has and never will be a £7m player worth £50k p/w wages. Its a lot of money we've committed ourselves to and I'd have been happier just signing one or the other. It's too much to gamble with when you're only 6 points off the foot of the table in my opinion.
People going about IF we're relegated, IF we're relegated Long only costs us 5.5m and Jelavic the same probably. Of that 11m, we're still covered by the fact that 6.5 of that was in the summer budget, which means that we're really out of pocket 4.5, which we could easily recoup from the sale of someone like Davies.
Cheer up you lot - the way some of you are going on anyone would think we'd just lost 2 of our best players rather than sign 2 players to address our obvious problem of finding the back of the net! Maybe you'd rather we wait until deadline day and get disappointed at the last minute again? Great work by SB getting the business done early.
ONLY £5.5m?! You haven't been following the tigers very long have you? Remember Jimmy Bullard? Seyi Olofinjana? Kamel Ghilas? It's also a myth about the summer budget, the season budget was widely publicised as being £15m which we'd spent before the Long saga. The Long deal must have been a bonus pot from AA himself.
Value and price are set by supply and demand, nothing more, nothing less. Chelsea have just paid £20m+ for another midfielder. Taking aside their ability to pay such fees by comparison to City, how do you determine value for money? Some top players earn £200k a week, i'm not agreeing with it but that's the market we are working within. We have two current international strikers in not the worst national teams, so by comparison we've done okay. Look at Rhodes, never played in The Prem yet demands a fee of £8m plus (in excess of what we've just paid apparently) and wages of £40k per week if you believe what the papers say. It may turn out we have a bargain or two , it may not. Only time will tell. One thing for sure, Brucey is attracting players who I suspect Browny wouldn't have been able to do!
