Typical Ashley

Firstly, delighted with signing of Marveux, great player. However, look at our three signings so far:
cabaye- 4.5 million
demba ba - free transfer
Marveaux- free transfer

Pardew said a few weeks ago we would be signing up to six new players. So, assuming we get Neil Taylor for the reported fee of 1.5 million, we would have almost 30 million of the Carroll money to spend on two players, which seems pretty unlikely. Once again it looks as if Ashley is trying to satisfy us fans with new signings in the cheapest way possible. Dont get me wrong the three signings so far are great but if we really want to push for Europe we need to spend big, especially on a top class striker. also the signing of Marveux means we must have given up on n'zogbia...

 

Neil Taylor- £1.5m
Zogs- £10m
Romelu Lukaku- £20m....

 

To be honest I'm not bothered how much we spend, people are getting too worked up about fees. If we can sign quality players on the cheap then great!

 

Cheer up man, worry later! There's always somebody ready to put a downer on things. We just nabbed a great player from the arms of Liverpool and you're upset that it may mean we arent getting Zog and that we only have several months left in which to spend some money. Stop fretting for now, get excited about our new signings and then you can complain if the transfer window ends and we've not spent big.

Much better to wake up in the morning to loads of articles drooling over our new player than some usual Typical Ashley every time something happens.

 

god us mags fans really can put negative spin on a good thing cant we.

We've signed three v promising players for next to nothing and we're complaining.

 

It's being so cheerful that keeps us going!

 

I can't believe anyone would be disappointed with these three (4 including Abeid) transfers we've made during the window, especially seeing as it's only been open about 1 week. Our lack of strength in depth was a big problem last season and this has already massively improved the squad as a whole quality-wise

 

Long way to go in this transfer window. Keep the faith, its already proving fair better than previous windows under the Ashley ownership.

 

why is it so important to everyone especially the media that we spend all this money in one go, im sure a good chunk will have gone by august but i for one am very impressed with what we have done so far

 

I think all 3 signings are very good players. A lot better than what we have. I have not heard much of our recent new signing but after reading up about him it sound positive.

Cabaye and Ba would quite simply walk into our first 11 and this new chap would mean that Jonas could move onto the right side so would probably start (assuming Barton plays a more central role or moves on).

I still think we will sign another 3 players and 2 of them I would imagine will command transfer fees.

Even still there is another transfer windown in January so lets not get to carried away with the £35 million at this moment. We could be in a position in December and need to strengthen even further for a second push and thus we would still have money to spend.

 

NUFC WIN PREMIER LEAGUE - (put complaint here)

 

Having said that he only played 10 matches last season due to.... Injury. Similar situation to Damba.

 

I think some of you are naive thinking the lack of spending is due to Ashley's long term planning... Besides, as good as these signings are, like I've already said, it means for certain we won't be buying the likes of n'zogbia that you were all drooling over the prospect of getting.

 

We've got to have something to moan about haven't we?

 

Most of it has already been spent since Ashley has said it would include wages.
Cabaye & Marveaux have signed five year deals, Ba has signed a three year deal.
Lets say for the purpose of my point they're all on around £40,000/week.
The two 5 year deals:
40,000 x 52 = 2,080,000 (that's what one of them earns a year)
2,080,000 x 5 = 10,400,000 (that's what one will earn over the 5 years)
10,400,000 x 2 = 20,800,000 (that's what both will cost over those 5 years excluding transfer & agents fees)

The three year contract:
Same again, 40,000 x 52 = 2,080,000
2,080,000 x 3 = 6,240,000

Combine the two numbers together (20,800,000 + 6,240,000) and that's a grand total spend on wages so far of £27,040,000.

However we have got Nolan off the wage bill and his transfer money probably covers Cabaye's fee. Also if we take a look at Nolan's wages of £50,000-60,000/week (rumoured).
That's 50,000/60,000 x 52 = £2,600,000/£3,120,000 (saved a year)
For the two years - 2,600,000/3,120,000 x 2 = £5,200,000/£6,240,000

So if we take that away from the previous total of £27,040,000:
£27,040,000 - £5,200,000/£6,240,000 = £21,840,000 / £20,800,000

I'd like to add that there's probably more money than the £35,000,000 we were going to spend and that they may not be on £40k a week as well as the fact the contracts may be more incentive based & pay as you play. Also Carroll was also on a hefty chunk too I'd imagine so we should still have a good amount of transfer money left but I don't expect any major money signings beyond the £10m mark.

 

You should be a maths teacher !

Also Sol is off the budget and I Smith gets sold, we will get some more money from that!

 

You can take Smith's wages off that as well, and Enrique's. Plus fee's for both players and fees for Best and Ranger.

We will spend a 5-6mil on a LB to replace Enrique and we are in talks with 7mil Erdinc. Also Matuidi for example has a 13.1mil release clause, so we will spend.

 

Brain hurt!!!!!!

 

and Sols, he must have been on pretty big wages as he is quite old

 

Let's just spend 35m on Titus Bramble, that'll cheer everyone up won't it? Signing good players for low fees is a good thing, how hard is that to understand?