I remember a big rumpus about that. Wasn't there a particular case with a kid from a Dutch club - was it Ajax?
Only me that thinks that would be a good signing for them? Zaha, Bolasie and Townsend getting the ball in the box to him! I predict he will get 15 goals next year with that supply
Could well have been. They were signing them from all over the world. Don't quote me on the percentage but I'm sure it was less than 1%. If you look at Chelsea when Mourinho was in charge - very few players stepped up from within. Loftus-Cheek is probably the only notable inclusion recently. Mourinho prefers to buy rather than promote from within. Maybe it's just the way the PL is with the amount of money available. In contrast Liverpool in particular always seem to promote academy players.
He did the same at Inter. When they won the treble, including the UCL, they had the oldest average age of any professional football team in Europe. FACT. There was something like 7 or 8 national team captains in the first XI.
Well no, I said if they sign him they'll be guaranteed not to be relegated. He'd be an extraordinary signing, 12 months ago he'd have got in most sides in Europe.
I thought you'd blocked me? We could all see it coming, it's Palace. The fact they were 5th to fall from was exceptional. What position were Newcastle in when he left?
You mean like we all saw Leicester and west hams finishes coming? Pardew has history for over achieving then failing miserably. Think Newcastle are pretty happy rid of him.
Yeah they must look back at the season they finished fifth under him and thank God they're playing Burton next season. I thought you'd blocked me? You took great delight in announcing it on here. Strange.
I did. I thought I'd give it a try having a civil conversation with you. I don't hd grudges. If course Newcastle would love 5th but pardew just showed with palace what inconsistency he can bring. The position he left toon in was a dire one.
Yeah 10th and in the black on spending is really dire compared to their current situation after being one of the highest spending clubs in Europe last summer. So you went out of your way to unblock me? Curiouser and curiouser.
They were in the black because they were selling their best players and were on a downward trajectory. Their fans were desperate for him to leave. What is fascinating you?
All transfer business so far... 1. AFC Bournemouth IN Lys Mousset (Le Havre) Undisclosed Emerson Hyndman (Fulham) Free Nathan Ake (Chelsea) Loan OUT Matt Ritchie (Newcastle) £12m Tommy Elphick (Aston Villa) Undisclosed Glenn Murray (Brighton) Loan Jayden Stockley (Aberdeen) Free Sylvain Distin (Released) 2. Arsenal IN Granit Xhaka (Borussia Monchengladbach) Undisclosed Takuma Asano (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Undisclosed OUT Daniel Crowley (Oxford United) Loan Tomas Rosicky (Released) Mathieu Flamini (Released) Mikel Arteta (Retired) Joined Manchester City coaching staff 3. Burnley IN Jamie Thomas (Bolton Wanderers) Free Robbie Leitch (Motherwell) Free OUT Joey Barton (Rangers) Free Luke Conlan (Morecambe) Free 4. Chelsea IN Michy Batshuayi (Marseille) £33.2m OUT Stipe Perica (Udinese) Undisclosed Lewis Baker (Vitesse Arnhem) Loan Nathan (Vitesse Arnhem) Loan Mitchell Beeney (Crawley) Loan Charly Musonda (Real Betis) Loan Joao Rodriguez (Santa Fe) Loan Nathan Ake (Bournemouth) Loan Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield) Free Marco Amelia (Released) 5. Crystal Palace IN Andros Townsend (Newcastle United) £13m Steve Mandanda (Marseille) Undisclosed OUT Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) £10m David Gregory (Cambridge United) Free 6. Everton IN Bassala Sambou (Coventry City) Compensation Chris Renshaw (Oldham Athletic) Undisclosed Maarten Stekelenburg (Fulham) Undisclosed OUT Tim Howard (Colorado Rapids) Free 7. Hull City IN Jonathan Edwards (Peterborough United) Undisclosed Will Mannion (AFC Wimbledon) Compensation OUT Max Clark (Cambridge United) Loan Ben Clappison (York City) Free 8. Leicester City IN Ahmed Musa (CSKA Moscow) £16.6m - Awaiting official confirmation Nampalys Mendy (Nice) £13m Ron-Robert Zieler (Hannover 96) Undisclosed Raul Uche (Rayo Vallecano) Undisclosed Luis Hernandez (Sporting Gijon) Free OUT Andrej Kramaric (Hoffenheim) Undisclosed 9. Liverpool IN Sadio Mane (Southampton) £34m Loris Karius (Mainz) £4.7m Joel Matip (Schalke) Free OUT Jerome Sinclair (Watford) Compensation Lawrence Vigouroux (Swindon) Undisclosed Joao Teixeira (Porto) £250k Jordan Rossiter (Rangers) £250k 10. Manchester City IN Ilkay Gundogan (Borussia Dortmund) £20m Nolito (Celta Vigo) £13.8m Oleksandar Zinchenko (Ufa) Undisclosed Aaron Mooy (Melbourne City) Free OUT Seko Fofana (Udinese) £3.8m Jack Byrne (Blackburn Rovers) Loan Martin Demichelis (Released) Richard Wright (Released) 11. Manchester United IN Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) £26.3m - Awaiting official confirmation Eric Bailly (Villarreal) Undisclosed Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint Germain) Free OUT NONE 12. Middlesbrough IN Viktor Fischer (Ajax) £3.8m Bernardo Espinosa (Sporting Gijon) Free OUT Rhys Williams (Perth Glory) Free Luke Coddington (Huddersfield Town) Free Jonathan Woodgate (Released) Damia Abella (Released) 13. Southampton IN Nathan Redmond (Norwich City) £11m OUT Sadio Mane (Liverpool) £34m Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur) £11m Juanmi (Real Sociedad) Undisclosed Jason McCarthy (Walsall) Loan Gaston Ramirez (Released) Kelvin Davis (Retired) 14. Stoke City IN NONE OUT Mark Waddington (Kilmarnock) Loan Yusuf Coban (Hoffenheim) Free Steve Sidwell (Brighton and Hove Albion) Free 15. Sunderland IN NONE OUT Santiago Vergini (Boca Juniors) £1.5m Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers) Free Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) Free 16. Swansea City IN NONE OUT Eder (Lille) Undisclosed Alberto Paloschi (Atalanta) Undisclosed Oliver Davies (Kilmarnock) Loan Liam Shephard (Yeovil) Loan Kyle Bartley (Leeds) Loan Raheem Hanley (Northampton Town) Free 17. Tottenham Hotspur IN Victor Wanyama (Southampton) £11m OUT Christopher Paul (QPR) Free 18. Watford IN Isaac Success (Granada) £12.5m Christian Kabasele (Genk) £6m Jerome Sinclair (Liverpool) Compensation OUT Miguel Layun (Porto) Undisclosed Gabriel Angella (Udinese) Undisclosed Joel Ekstrand (Released) 19. West Bromwich Albion IN Matt Phillips (QPR) £5m - Awaiting official confirmation OUT Callam Jones (Accrington Stanley) Loan Anders Lindegaard (Preston) Free Victor Anichebe (Released) Stephane Sessegnon (Released) 20. West Ham United IN Toni Martinez (Valencia) Undisclosed Havard Nordtveit (Borussia Monchengladbach) Free Sofiane Feghouli (Valencia) Free Domingos Quina (Unattached) Free OUT Elliot Lee (Barnsley) Undisclosed Stephen Hendrie (Blackburn Rovers) Loan George Dobson (Walsall) Loan Kyle Knoyle (Wigan) Loan Joey O'Brien (Released)
Well yeah but that wasn't down to Pardew. Do you think he woke up one day and thought 'I'll sell for great profit all the players I personally picked up at a bargain price after painstakingly scouting them and go through the whole process again to bank loads of money for the club'? It was Ashley's business model. If Pardew had been given the money that McLaren was who knows where they'd be now? I'd wager it wouldn't be the Championship. I'm just flattered that you woke up one day, realised something was missing in your life and unblocked me.
No, but you used it as a factor that made him the better manager so I explained why it wasn't actually a good sign. I think they're pretty happy to have Benitez, be investing in a better quality player than McClaren thought they needed, and they'll be pl in 16/17. Haha actually my phone prompts me to "see blocked content", and I was getting one sided arguments in half the threads which was getting on my nerves.
