.. I think £50 million for Sterling was incredibly good business to be fair ... Suarez in contrast would, undeniably, be a loss for any team he leaves .. fabulous player, right up there with the very best in the world IMHO....
you mean with the TV deal that's almost doubled this season and will double the next, dwarfing all other income? QPR went down last season, did you know they recieved more prize money for coming last than United did for winning in 2012? they're winning the richest football competition in the world at the perfect time to do it
You may well be right, but if everyone is getting the money what changes? I think there may well be more instances of clubs saying no as in with Berahino but will then contracts change? Will players start putting in transfer requests and forcing a valuation? The big clubs will still have more money and will still offer bigger wages and players will still want to move. I could be wrong players will get better wages at so called smaller clubs and may well be happy enough to stay because of this. The PL may well ravage Europe this Summer taking all of its talent because they can afford it even if clubs up the price. It's going to get a bit strange.
What you will see more of is what Berahino has done at WBA - telling clubs that they won't sign new contracts. That means that club is faced with a dilemma - let the player's contract run down, but then end up letting him walk away for nothing (or peanuts, if he gets into the last 12 months of the contract), or cash in on him before that happens. This is why I knew that Pixie was on a fool's errand in trying to wum us Yids that Berahino would sign a new contract. Either that, or Pixie (as I have long suspected) knows nothing about how football actually works (he is a Gooner, after all). So, yeah, Leicester's uber-rich owners may well be able to say to Mahrez, you're not going to Barca, whatever price they offer for you, but all Mahrez has to do is tell Barca, "wait a couple of years and you'll get me for nothing, because I'm not signing another contract with this club!"
Clubs will be able to afford to run down the contract and let the player walk which is probably what's on JP's mind at this point. Clubs like Barca don't wait about they'll move for another target. This takes away player power it does not add to it. The only players who really have some power are the ones like Mahrez who will command a very, very large fee.
I don't watch them each weekend. We are a selling club - my point was so are you lot. But, feel free to bury your head in the sand
Possibly. However, I have absolutely no doubt that Berahino is doing it exactly how I said. He hasn't signed a new contract, and I think it's patently clear that he's not going to. If Peace doesn't sell him this Summer, Berahino will be able to walk away in January for peanuts. Do you really think that clubs are seriously going to turn their backs on a player with Berahino's qualities if he becomes available for peanuts?
It's not a question of burying one's head in the sand. Neither 'Pool nor Spurs are selling clubs; neither club buys players to sell them on for profit, certainly not their star players. It's a stupid thing to say that either of these clubs is a selling club! What you do have, however, is the fact that neither club is deluded that they can keep hold of a star player if he genuinely wants away. Typically, both you and us have sold such players to the likes of Barca or Real (or, unfortunately, United). It's a bummer when it happens, but when it does happen you cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, say that it's proof that the club is a "selling" club, because the sale has been forced upon the club own wishes. If you are going to claim that Spurs and 'Pool are "selling" clubs, then that means that every club in the world, apart from Barca and Real (and possibly £ity, when Pep arrives), is a "selling" club. Think about it, please.
the bit in bold is what changes, the premiership has been won by teams spending what they havn't earned through success, Platini bought in FFP and it looked like those teams were set there forver, but with the TV deal and FFP English football is going back to it's roots, it's better that all have money than just a few with sugar daddies or foreign bankers
You've sold every single one of your star players HIAG, Every Single One The offer comes in, Levy talks ****, you spout crap about no one is being sold, player gets sold. that's how it goes pretty much every time
come on then HIAG, name a Trotter people wanted that stayed? and don't go back to Bill Noicholsons era.
That's the same for every single club, Ern... every single club Ern If Spurs is a "selling" club, so is every single club in the land... in the land I appreciate that it doesn't happen that often to you Spanners, but that's because West Ham is not a big club... WHUFC not a big club
No club can keep players that don't want to stay. Equally there must be someone interested in your players for them to leave - I don't think Man Utd struggle to hold on to much of their team to be honest. The likes of Defoe, Carrick, Cole, Ferdinand, Lampard etc. I suspect you'll be reminded of this with Payet. He is a proper player. When we sold Carrick, Berbatov, it was because we couldn't offer them a chance of the trophies etc they wanted and Utd could (and did). Not so true any more.
Peace will sell him this summer .. simple ... but it will be to the highest bidder and not necessarily to the club of the player's choice ... serve him right for behaving like a spoilt **** too ...
I have to disagree. Players have a considerable say over where they go nowadays. With only a year left on his contract, I think you'll find that he has an even bigger say in where he goes next.
