lets sell him **** borini off and put the £14 million we were gunna pay for borini and the money off wickham together and go get bony
There is also the theory that none of us have a ****ing clue what is happening, on here, on twatter, in the press, zilch..Only those that are involved know, the rest is pure guess work, and utter bollocks.
They'll be plenty of strikers who'll become available and are available. Hernández has just been made available. Eto is available, Guidetti is probably available. Remy, Adebayor, Welbeck. There's loads of strikers out there not to mention lots of hungry player from the continent chomping at the bit for a chance at the Premier League. For me if he won't sign for a fair wage then we need put a price tag on him. we've got the luxury of compensation to fall back on so don't need to sell him for any less than we paid for him. But I'd set the price at 10m with 15% sell on clause.
Sorry is it's already been posted but heres the Echo's bit on it. SUNDERLAND have rejected a £4million offer from West Ham for striker Connor Wickham, the Echo understands. Wickham is one of the strikers West Ham have been considering after ex-Newcastle frontman Andy Carroll was ruled out for four months with an ankle injury. Reports earlier today revealed the Hammers had made a formal bid - thought to be £4m - for the hero of Sunderland’s escape from relegation last season. But Sunderland have immediately turned down that offer, with the Black Cats not looking to offload the 21-year-old. Sunderland have been in talks with Wickham’s agent throughout the summer over tying him down to a new contract, with less than 12 months remaining on his current deal - albeit the Black Cats would be owed compensation if he left next summer, due to his age. The club have not yet made a concrete contract offer, but head coach Gus Poyet does ideally want Wickham to be part of his plans. But last week, Poyet admitted that if Wickham didn’t sign a new deal at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland would look to sell the 21-year-old. Sunderland are keen to avoid a repeat of the Jack Colback situation, when the academy product left for nothing at the end of his contract this summer. Poyet said: “For me, Connor’s situation is clear. He needs to sign a new contract or we let him go – we sell him. There is nothing in between. “He is an asset to the football club and we paid a lot of money for him. “Last year, he was a key part of us staying up and he was very important. But he needs to realise that the club needs to look after the interests of the football club as well. “I suppose that, one way or another, we are going to have an agreement.”
Benteke is out till late October, this window is too soon, besides, he probably wouldn't move to us now, but a strong first half of the season and money available to push on then you never know.
Let us not forget that Ipswich will probably be entitled to a share of any sale of wickham. It would be in my opinion ridiculous to sell him. We gain nothing and lose a very good striker. I have said many times I think Wickjam is a top top striker. So he gets a £20,000 pay rise, £80,000 a month, so we pay that so we pay an extra £960,000 a year over 4 years. (Less than 4 million pounds) if he flops (which I don't think he will) he wants to play for England he is very ambitious. . Them he will still be saleable but probably at around £4-5 million. Which covers the wages. Say he scores 10 goals this season he probably goes into the £10 million bracket. If he does better we are quids in. For me it's simple, give him a contract. I thoroughly believe he should be our first choice striker. The club is to blame for this situation arising but if he has said what he wants pay it unless it is £100,000 a week kind of stuff but I've heard he wants £42,000 and he is currently on £26,500. That's less than £20,000 a week rise. Otherwise we sell for buttons and who do we bring in, how much of a fee, on what wages, no promises of success.
Let us not forget that Ipswich will probably be entitled to a share of any sale of wickham. It would be in my opinion ridiculous to sell him. We gain nothing and lose a very good striker. I have said many times I think Wickjam is a top top striker. So he gets a £20,000 pay rise, £80,000 a month, so we pay that so we pay an extra £960,000 a year over 4 years. (Less than 4 million pounds) if he flops (which I don't think he will) he wants to play for England he is very ambitious. . Them he will still be saleable but probably at around £4-5 million. Which covers the wages. Say he scores 10 goals this season he probably goes into the £10 million bracket. If he does better we are quids in. For me it's simple, give him a contract. I thoroughly believe he should be our first choice striker. The club is to blame for this situation arising but if he has said what he wants pay it unless it is £100,000 a week kind of stuff but I've heard he wants £42,000 and he is currently on £26,500. That's less than £20,000 a week rise. Otherwise we sell for buttons and who do we bring in, how much of a fee, on what wages, no promises of success.
If we sell Connor for less than £6m we ought to be flogged as any less would be economically stupid. We'd be taking a loss, require a further sum added to replace and have to bed Yet Another new face before kick off. Wickham has disappointed up to the final 7 games of last season but showed what a potentially devastating striker he can be in those games. We should offer him a decent new contract and build in incentives to increase it on performance. The lad could well he leading the line for England at the next championships if he keeps up that form and a major asset for us in the EPL. If they offered stupid money I may be more tempted. They paid £14m for the plank Carrol and Conner is at lest twice the player he ever will be.
Was it? Bollocks. There it is. But it's in Metro, so it probably is bollocks. http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/727872976?-11058:809
