City transfer thread
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It's been to many years since I took Greek, I don't remember anything. I left Greece in 1994 I think.
Having had the benefit of a classical education (very common down Boulevard) I can state with absolute confidence that 'πλακα κανεις' means 'no, absolutely **** all'.
Think the last time I was in Greece (pre-Euro) was 1989 and I seem to recall there being around 525 Drachma to the pound back then. Italy (2001) I think there were just over 3000 Lira to the pound.
Assuming we get £7 million for Brady and £8 million for Chester along with the money we got for Ince, we should have £19,750,000 to spend on players, not to mention any money we'd get for the three strikers. We should at the very least put a bid in for Whittingham.
I'll be disappointed if we resort to giving the likes of Palacios a contract.
I'll be disappointed if we resort to giving the likes of Palacios a contract.
Because that money will go to things like the wage bill, stewarding costs, a new swivel chair in the board room, not to mention the money we still owe on some of the players that are here (Huddlestone, Livermore, Jelavic etc).
I hope these 2 bids just flush out more. Southampton/Swansea would be better.
Aren't parachute payments supposed to cover that to an extent? Either way, we've reduced our wage bill since being relegated by releasing and selling players. I think it's pretty obvious the Allam's aren't going to splash the cash because they've have their ridiculous name change rejected for a second time but replacing our players with inferior ones on the cheap won't get us back to the Premier League.
I still don't understand why we released Rosenior only to replace him with an injury-plagued liability like Taylor.
The good thing is with two matching bids is I would assume £8m is the release amount? We can now stipulate that that amount is full amount rather than add ins etc. so we could end up with the full £8m in one hit.
Rosenior wanted to stay. We didn't offer him a deal; we let him go.
Well... I feel much more positive about things after that interview.
Sounds like he has a reasonable budget, and has been given the go-ahead to spend.
Taylor will play for us at massively reduced wages to what Rosenior wanted. You also can't criticise Taylor until we've seen him play.
pudseytiger
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Its a time of change, nobody like's change but its a part of football, over the setback of relegation, looking forward to the rebuilding period.