I get the joke but I was thinking more a Harry Kane type although we couldn't afford himAs for a different type of striker, nippy and mobile, you mean like Jordan Ayew or Albert Paloschi or Borja Baston?
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I am being realistic...£50m for a player not worth £20m is a great deal.....Gylfi has only been good with us but that has not been every game either. He has been just as bad as others in a lot of games but fans will only remember the good games when he scored from free kicks or tapped in goals that anyone can do in his position. He dont want to be here having his head turned with a mega wage......Do the inevitable and sell him now so we will have time to buy some quality players....
Trying to value Gylfi Sigurdsson - why Swansea's Everton and Leicester target is worth nowhere near £50m
Swansea are resolutely clinging on to their Icelandic talisman so we asked football recruitment analyst Ted Knutson to analyse whether they should be turning £40m or £50m offers down
The Premier League transfer market is seeing a lot of inflated prices this summer, to the extent that it's becoming difficult to tell a good deal from a bad one. £42.5M for Bernardo Silva or £30M for Jordan Pickford. "Overpaying" seems to be the going rate for basically everyone not named Wayne Rooney.
In spite of this, I still managed a laugh of disbelief when I read that Swansea had turned down a £40M bid for their midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson. Even now, £40M is a big figure for a midfielder outside the Champions League, but Swansea are holding out for more. Maybe I was missing something?
Swansea are resolutely clinging on to their Icelandic talisman so we asked football recruitment analyst Ted Knutson to analyse whether they should be turning £40m or £50m offers down
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The Premier League transfer market is seeing a lot of inflated prices this summer, to the extent that it's becoming difficult to tell a good deal from a bad one. £42.5M for Bernardo Silva or £30M for Jordan Pickford. "Overpaying" seems to be the going rate for basically everyone not named Wayne Rooney.
In spite of this, I still managed a laugh of disbelief when I read that Swansea had turned down a £40M bid for their midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson. Even now, £40M is a big figure for a midfielder outside the Champions League, but Swansea are holding out for more. Maybe I was missing something?
I do have some empathy with this point of view.
Didn't we have a similar problem with Michu where he was a very hot property after having a sensational season. The Big Boys sniffed around, big money mooted, but no sale. Next season he was finished and we got nowt.
The more money Sky, etc. throw around, the more transfer fees escalate.
Fact of life.
You need to know what is a good deal and not a good deal and if we can get £50m for Gylfi then to me that is a storker of a deal....But leave it until the last week then we will be asking for trouble...
Again.....have to agree.
And,we always leave things late.
Why don't we loan him for the season, but with a price agreed upfront of say £10m-£12m.
If he's sh*te, all he's cost us are his wages for the season.
If he is the Bony of old, then we have a bargain - particularly when you consider what we paid for Baston.....
Similar to Bodde on a lesser scale . Got a 5 million bid on him in the Championship and we refused and Bodde went through a sequence of bad luck and done .
It was obvious what would happen. Remember the season before last it was all " oooh nobody wants to get relegated because the new bigger TV money comes in" when all it meant was that transfer fees would raise dramatically.
Teddy can **** off and stick his head down a toilet. The reality is this, without Gylfi we'd have been relegated last season. On that basis alone, he's worth £100m to the club.
Why don't we loan him for the season, but with a price agreed upfront of say £10m-£12m.
If he's sh*te, all he's cost us are his wages for the season.
If he is the Bony of old, then we have a bargain - particularly when you consider what we paid for Baston.....
But Huw isn't that smart to think of that but that's the best option.
I think his time with us showed that for him to perform at his best he (a) needed regular football and (b) he had to be the focal point of any attack. He had neither at Man City or Stoke, but I see no reason why he wouldn't flourish again in the right team. If we're going to sign him, we need to do it quickly to ensure he is up to speed as soon as possible.
Agree. Gylfi sat on the bench for a few years at Spurs, came back and it was if he'd never been away. Bony and Gylfi had a ridiculous understanding. If the opportunity to sign him in a deal that suits us should come about, we should go for it.
Gylfi dont want to go out on loan, He wants the £135,000 a week that is what he is after.....
We were talking of taking Bony on loan....
hit the nail on the head there, why he cant get a gig at Stoke is beyond me, Man City I can understand. Trouble with clubs like City etc, they buy lower clubs best players then sit them on the bench or loan them out and in reality who can blame the player going as he will no doubt get higher wages and I think the majority nowadays dont give a rats if they play or not, just after the cash
