Knowing our luck we'll sign some 2 legged ****ing donkey. I urge our club to appoint someone to work with our strikers and someone to identify ones that can actually score. Not the **** ones - we've had enough of those!!!
Wonder what the sell on clauses are to Man United for Brady and Chester. I reckon we will have to pay 25% of the profit we would make.
Given the prices we have paid for PL standard players, if we are to sell Elmo, I'd be wanting much more than £4m.
Yea I agree. The prices I am seeing in these articles (3mill for Jelly, 4mill for Elmo, 5mill for Chester) are so low I really wouldn't sell them for that much as it would cost us more than that to replace them.
The prices are low because alot the players we want to keep are the last 12 mths. Elmo, brady, ince, chester, davies can walk away in 12mths. so its goin to be hard to keep hold of them.
Well Ince I am not concerned about, he never played for us really anyway so it's basically free cash. Davies hasn't been anything this season and there are plenty of solid defenders who would be cheaper. For the money being quoted for Chester we could buy Gonzales from LA and Goodson from SJ and still have lots of money left over. Getting rid of Elmo would force Bruce to change the formation so that might be good. Brady is going to be really hard to replace.
I know you want to push the MLS but being honest it's not a great standard of football. Premier league standard defenders like Chezzy is are more valuable than £5m in the current market and I think it'd take at least £7m or so for us to sell him unless he demands a move, which would be unlike him.
Yeah chester worth 7-8m min but he only has 12 mths left on his deal. This could force city hand to take 6m because he unlikely to sign a new deal on championship wages.
The MLS sucks, it does though have very capable players within it. It would be fairly easy to assemble a PL squad from within it that would easly avoid relegation. Bruce, Davies, and Mcshane are not good enough to start for the local MLS squad, Aluko certainly wouldn't start as a striker. The MLS problem is quality as a whole, not really a complete lack of quality players.
That's a ridiculous thing to say. The MLS is a graveyard for players but yes there is some talent in there, most of it is on its last legs however. I haven't seen a lot of the MLS but when players like Kei Kamara, Bradley Wright Phillips, Obafemi Martins, Altidore, Giles Barnes etc can easily score a lot of goals it shows what sort of a level it is. Aluko would score an absolute hatful and I'd never buy a player from the MLS as the vast majority turn out to be utter ****e as the standard is completely different. From the games I have seen the defending is awful too and they are badly in need of decent defenders.
But then Defoe was playing in the MLS and he did well. Same could be said for David Villa, both would get into most PL sides. There's talent in there, it's clear. You can't assume that because the standard of the league is poor that it isn't worth signing any players from there, otherwise we'd never have signed Robertson from the SPL or Gedo from the Egyptian Premier League.
Sorry I should have said unless they have a successful track record in other leagues. Both Defoe and Villa are both getting on though. That's true about Gedo and Robertson, sometimes gambles pay off but Robertson was playing in the UK so at least it's a similar playing style.
Well possibly, but the SPL is so hit and miss that I think a player with genuine talent is pretty easy to spot. If you look at AS Trencin, who we played in Europe, they play in a pretty **** league, but a couple of their players (Simon and their other CM) stood out for me, they were clearly too good for that team.
Yes, that's a mickey mouse league but at least they play a very similar style to us, but North American football is very different and players from their tend to find it hard to adjust. I'm not talking about the has-beens that have played for some of the best teams either. I mean a home grown North/South American
The team created would have to be a mix of older players and young ones unproven in other leagues all would be international players. Bradley is certainly not that old, Dempsey, Kaka, Keane types are older but could provide roles. It really wouldn't be hard to find a PL capable squad, it's hardly rediculous. The problem positions would be creative forward types, the get in the box types would not be that hard to find, CB easy, LB RB a little harder, midfield not that hard, GK easy. You should watch more of the league because your opinion on it seems to be 5 or 6 years old.
