so according to the evening post,brendan says the first 5m player to the club is not too far away (gylfi?),he alsosays that we wont be spending 10-15m too regularly,,,jesus these figures are mind boggling,lets pray we dont get carried away,whilst i accept we probably do need to spend on gylfi,plus a second gk,too be honest thats about it!
next season we;ll need a few defender's i fancy, certainly need somebody to replace caulker, also i'd be very surprised if we don't see big offer's for vorm, allen, dyer and williams, i don't know if we'll be able to keep hold of all our gems.
I can see one of the 4 mentioned above going for big(ish) money. If there was a choice as to who had to go, I couldn't pick, I really couldnt. That said, I'd like to sign Siggy, but we don't want to start bad habits and spending, spending, spending.
£5 mill is well within our reach next season imo.....sig may cost us that much i think if we can get him, plus we need another quality defender that wont be far off that price also.......
Amazingly, I am in agreement with Dai. 5mil on Gylfi and 5mil on a CB would be appropriate considering the increased revenue that a second season will bring. I also imagine that a lot of the revenue will be spent upgrading existing player contracts. We did that this season and it paid dividends. Keeping Ash, Dyer, and Allen would be akin to spending 15mil on equivalent new signings. Well worth the wonga!
My thought is that 5mil was mentioned by BR as a benchmark figure, as in Swansea City's first 5mil+ player. If Gylfi costs 6.5mil (which I heard is his buy-out clause??) it's surely worth the money, considering his age. If I was to estimate a rough figure on transfer spending this season, including improved contracts for our existing players, somewhere around the 10mil mark would be my guess. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to assume that 15-20mil could be spent this coming season which, although an astronomical figure for our club, is not, I imagine, all that disproportionate to the level of increased revenue that a second season in the Prem will bring. We also have the safety net of knowing that all new contracts offered to our players have relegation clauses in them so that we do not have to worry about paying Prem wages if we slipped back into the Championship. The second season is invariably tougher than the first so responsible spending on playing staff is essential. Stay up next season though, and surely an academy has to be our top priority. I'm dreaming big, but, in twenty years, why couldn't we be the next Barcelona? When there is a shared idea and understanding (I'm beginning to tire of the term "philosophy") running down from the board to the manager to the team to the fans, a collective power is born that can propel a club to extraordinary places. I, regretfully, use Stoke City as an example. It is important, no, essential, to exist within our means, but it is equally important not to imagine perceived limitations based upon our past.
i would like us to stay within the maximum of £5 million for a single player for next season and increase by say £2 million season by season as long as we stay in the premiership, we know that you dont have to go overboard for a player because at the end of the day it is the manager and team mates and style of football that makes a successful player........give me danny, luke more, sinclair over torres any day of the week and look what was spent on torres.....I think jenkins and the board have got the balance spot on now by spending £3.5 for danny and £2 million for others and for next season we should keep our spending down to like i say a max of £5 million. we may need 3 maybe 4 players depending on who we may lose in the summer and should we lose any of the big guns then the money we would get would cover most of the money anyway. we should in our second season still bring in quality loan signings from home and abroad to help us cut the cost down to a minimum....
i agree dai, you dont want to go overboard and gamble the clubs future by spending £15m in january like you said norwich and wigan would if you sign a player for £5m, it will cost you about double or triple that over the course of a contract. alot of money for a club with an attendance of 20,000. you can only strike gold once or twice IMO, it would be unrealistic to expect rodgers to unearth gems season in season out, if i was the chairman i would continue the policy of spending little, so that even if you do get relegated you can go straight back up. gamble away the clubs future like teams like hull have done in the past and QPR now, is irresponsible and means the club faces financial ruin if the club goes down
swamp,your dai comment is now becoming repetitious.You need some new material if you intend to seriously needle,which you are clearly trying to do. "if I was the chairman" -- thank goodness you are not.
Dai - you really do get it right occasionally. Well done. Your call for high spending earlier this season was well off the mark and I think you know that. Seriously - glad you're home safe and well. But now it would be folly not to spend a wedge of the money we've got coming in on some decent players, provided we're sensible about it - and I'm sure we will be. We may well lose some of our better players with offers that can't be refused. Couple that with the inevitable loss of Caulker and we will definitely have to shell out. Siggy will be a bonus. A fantastic asset but not a disaster if we miss out. The loss of Caulker, however, is massive. Rodgers' comment about £5m recognises that fact.
The good thing about our success and burgeoning reputation for playing good football is that we are likely to attract the better quality players on loan from the "big" clubs. If Spurs, for instance, can't accommodate Caulker next season, I'm sure they'll be more than happy for him to return to us. The only problem might be is that these clubs could now regard us as a real threat to their own ambitions and be reluctant to give us too much help - particularly as we are certainly going to buy more quality to add to what we've got making us a dangerous team for anyone to play. We might also be an attractive proposition to a number of quality players from abroad. We sniffed around a few who were reluctant to commit because we were newbies to this league. Next season, especially if we finish top half, could see a resurgence of interest from these type of quality players anxious to play in the PL. Interesting and exciting times ahead for sure but, first, let's make absolutely certain that we do in fact remain in the Premier League for next season. Then we can begin to dream.
i'm hoping that soriano from barca b is regretting not coming here when he was invited. i wonder if he'd be coming cap in hand this time around saying, "please take me, i'm fed up of playing for the b team. i want to play for the best team."
The Dutch market seems to produce good quality at reasonable prices, i would still think we will be very cautious with money,having said that i see the club securing Gylfi for £5-6m pounds, this will be the exception rather than the rule IMO. I would like us to continue being a "nursery" for the big 4/5 teams, it would be a good thing for all concerned and they may well see it as a sound investment to get their players schooled by a top coach before they go into a first team/champions league environment. The relationships built up with big clubs could later work to our advantage if they feel the need to off load squad members, perhaps getting them at a fair price instead of an inflated price, this scenario has been going on with Everton and Man utd for years and works well for both clubs. Dai is not alone in thinking that we should have spent big in January, in a way we did but by paying high wages to loan players Gylfi and Josh mac, we also were prepared to go to 4,5m quid on a player from posh, if buck had wanted to spend £10m IMO the board would have backed him, bucks hand is even stronger now because the success of Gylfi has pretty much secured 40-50m quid next season, its all been done with the right amount of ambition, a small gamble here and there but only spending what we can afford to lose. Cardiff have proven that money alone is not enough and they also proved "name" players garentee you nothing but great expense, we will be shopping around in the bargin basement for years to come, but we will also spend out big when the right player becomes available to us and our style of play.
Caulker will be with Spurs next season imo, barring something unforeseen happening. Siggy a very long shot.
I agree with you there,knackered. Anybody fancy a sneaky bid for Whittingham? If the bloobs blow it again,maybe he could be tempted.
Caulker I would have thought will be first choice CB for Spurs next season after the way he has played for us.
