Has the bubble burst?

Not much spending in the EPL league today. Not much spending around Europe to be fair.

Has the bubble finally burst for the debt-ridden EPL and European teams or are clubs just ignoring the January window this year?

I personally think it is the right time to buy. A lot of these players will be at the World Cup and could see their value skyrocket/nosedive. Buying now surely represents the best chance of paying a fair amount for a player.

 

Makes you wonder why Chelsea were so hellbent on appealing the transfer embargo & done **** all!!

Man City will get Johnson from Boro & I imagine Mancini will be keen to get someone special in as his own signing now Robinhos left.

Alot of it is waiting for other clubs & seeing what they're doing though. Arsenal are not title contenders for me, but if they were to get Villa or Huntelaar Man Utd may be forced in to action to improve their options.

Teams like Spurs are wanting to do business but need to offload Keane, Pavlychenko & Hutton before they can buy. Its the same for many others.

 

Forgot to add.

Man Utd have announced they'll have £100m in the summer to spend which would suggest many clubs are ignoring this window.....unless another side amongst them makes a huge signing.

If say Wolves picked up Huntelaar on loan so he can games before the world cup clubs at the bottom would be forced to do something to try & make sure they're on par with Wolves. They'd have to spend £5m or so to give them a chance of not losing the £40m+ that EPL status/tv rights give you.

Same with teams fighting for European competitions.

Spurs/Villa/Man City/Liverpool would all have to do something should one or two of the other clubs pull a signing out of the bag.

 

We wont see any drastic positive impact on the economy until April. Thats when we'll begin to see some growth so I think clubs will spend in the summer. Especially with the whorehouse that is the World Cup.

I still think the EPL are spending above their means, especially with wages but the bubble has not yet burst. Give that a few years yet

On a side note, since we are out of recession the economy is starting to grow and one way or another interest rates are going to go up. In my industry alone we expect a lot of spending after April, and I can see it being similar elsewhere in the construction industry.

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