Nah, still hanging around the centre-spot. edit. just saw your post balkan tiger. You gave him too much credit on the mobility front
It's what SB has been quoted in the interviews I've read as saying they are looking for. Right now we'd be lucky to get £3 for him let alone £3 million! Having said that, I said in another post that maybe we are all being a bit unjust on him as he's getting no service, he had one shot & it was well blocked by the defender, if it hadn't I doubt the keeper would have stopped it, the header should have been buried but again it's never going to be as bad a miss as that one v Lichester last season!
The sponsors of CSI on C5 used to have an American guy calling it Lichester, if you look at other posts, I always refer to it as Lichester.
The £9m myth dispelled... Burnley confirmed to a journalist yesterday, that the fee for Gray was £6m and there's only a potential £750k in add-on's, the Brizzle manager also said yesterday that the £9m fee claim was nonsense. He's a good deal at that money.
Yes, but I think people are missing my point. It's not what he's worth, it's what his buy out clause says. if we want rid we can let him go for any figure. If we want to keep him we can unless someone triggers the release clause. That would usually be in the region of ( or higher than) what you paid for him. The idea is that he can escape but the club doesn't get shafted. I cannot remember any such clause where the release figure is less than tne purchase price - otherwise someone could come in after his first game and say you paid £7m for him a week ago, we'll offer £3.1m and trigger his release clause. of course it's a different issue if we want to sell.
riginallambrettaman, post: 8283254, member: 1000044"]The £9m myth dispelled... Burnley confirmed to a journalist yesterday, that the fee for Gray was £6m and there's only a potential £750 k in add-on's, the Brizzle manager also said yesterday that the £9m fee claim was nonsense. He's a good deal at that money.[/QUOTE] The figures are nearly always exaggerated, usually by journalists who think bigger figures sell more papers. So they "roll" all the figures together. Ie £6m fee, plus £20k a week wages on a 3 year contract equals £9m. So their headline trumpets "£9m Deal Struck".
There are dozens of players out there who do that. Messi and Ronaldo to name two who we haven't a hope in hell of signing either. So what is your point?
The problem is, if we don't get rid of Abel & jelly we will be playing them & we simply can't afford to buy another striker! Hopefully SB will have another loan lined up if one goes on dead line day? But we obviously couldn't commit to grey while we had the big earners still on the books.
So we were in at what, £4 -5M and we thought £6M too much for a striker of quality? Our lack of ambition is shocking and a stunning inability to sort priorities is even worse. The limp excuse posts I've read on here, from folk who are usually very high in the whinging order, just proves what a bunch of soak-up-the-**** sad-sacks they are. Aye, the club is being run brilliantly, isn’t it? We have a manager who is a well known spender and two ****-wits who are supposed to be commercially astute and aren't, certainly not in the football market. Clubs will be lining up their cars to bend us over their bonnets.
The fact that we can't shift either of our existing highly paid strikers. I don't think it's a fee issue, it's simply that either we have to go with Jelavic and Hernandez, or we shift one and replace them.
simple we need to get rid of these strikers who want to go but does anybody really want them? if not we are stuck with players who don't want to be here on high wages. Somebody take them away so we can strenghen sooner rather than later. its so easy on here to say buy him but how can you until you know who's leaving. Its frustrating for everyone. If our strikers had been any good clubs would have took them weeks ago
Nakhi wells (apologies for spelling!) is the latest rumour I've heard - probably bollox just like all rumours!!
Two clubs failed to buy the player, Bristol have a completely different financial set up to ours and yet you not only attack our owners. Show me the evidence that we only bid £4-5m. Everyone knows that we are restricted by FFP rules and that as a club we have reduced our wage bill. Could it have been that we would not pay him the weekly wages he demanded? Just like Bristol? Very poor post from you Fez. You should have stopped after the first sentence.
That we need an attacking midfielder who can link up play and create something out of nothing? Critical much?
