You forgot the "We're going to sign Michael Owen and Alvaro Negredo...Oh and we're also selling Michael Turner for peanuts "
Haha! Yeah, but you forgot the Brownie "Ron Manager" style phrases like "Daniel has thrown his hat into the ring" or "Young Danny needs to put his best foot forward" or my personal favourite "young Ayala knows what it takes to play in a 'Phil Brown' team". Can't knock the Tanster's record in those first couple of years, but he really did make me cringe sometimes. Can't really seen Big Nige fabricating a story about stopping a woman from jumping off Humber bridge or appearing on goals on sunday with a pink jumper draped around his neck can you?
His one today on SSN about him and Graham Alexander being ' on the same page' was vintage Brownie. I'll always respect his achievements with us but the bloke is ****ing mental. I might be imagining this but I'd swear he's on SSN more than ever. The piece on him wanting his players to have the same mentality as Royal Marines going to Helmand says it all really.
Pearson said: "We've enquired after the player, we've put a bid in." He added: "Whether that develops before the weekend I don't know. "We'll try and do it as we always do it, in a quiet way, but for sure that's where we're at." how is this a quiet way ? a quiet way would be not to announce it to the press before the offer is accepted and the players signed.
To be fair, he will have been asked a direct question, probably by the BBC at his press con today, so its either give them the above bit of info or tell them that he is not answering the question. As it had already been reported in the national media that we had made a bid he was hardly announcing it to the press.
http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/HULL-CITY-Ayala-deal-wait/story-13067641-detail/story.html Still ongoing.
The quiet way is going down the road with the club and letting the press find out afterwards rather than making noises in the press before you've started negotiation.
If it involves paying an extra £500,000 up front for a player you like then go for it. Ayala surely is worth £1m. Liverpool don't need the money so I can't see them backing down. The only other way is to fiddle around with addons.
I can't see how we as a club value Ayala at £300k less than Hobbs? Hobbs is a good player, but I thought Ayala was a cut above. £1m would still represent a good value buy for Ayala who is the right age/ability and should only improve.
It depends on how much money we have (and how much the Allams would be prepared to commit). It could well be that they want £1 million, we offer £500k, and a compromise is reached somewhere between - with add-ons being the deciding factor. That is likely what is being negotiated now...
Maybe we need need some cash to pay off Jimmy B. If it were a straight choice between buying Ayala and paying off JB then I would sooner buy Ayala and make JB wait. One may not depend on the other but I have a feeling it may do. If the mighty tigers have got a million quid in pub change lying about then like others I would like to see the Ayala deal done. Maybe we don't have the money to do either. If this was all about a small amount of money before then it is about a smaller amount now. We have made a bid. I wish I had mr French Ticklers confidence over this, he has assured us that Bullard is not getting another penny and Ayala will shortly be a City player. I would like him to be right.
Surely if this is within the £7 million 2011/2012 budget announced earlier by Mr McQuire, then what has it got to do with the Allams?
I was given to understand that the Allams would be prepared to help finance the purchase of necessary player(s). I may be mistaken.
I don't this has got anything to do with the Allams, it looks like the football budget is somewhere near its limit.
