Won't happen , he's to important to Leeds . If Bates is all about promotion , Becchio will run out onto the pitch for the first game of the new season for Leeds . Leeds weren't that far off last season really . They need to hang onto their players , which won't be easy , & add a few to improve . Good luck with that .
I can't be bothered with idiot trolls like you. You're not funny and you just get everybody's backs up. The unfortunate thing is we have to put up with 10 more months of this "we're better than you we're in the premier league" rubbish despite the fact that I guarantee we'll enjoy our season far more than you enjoy yours. Relegation battles are horrible and I couldn't bare another one. Your status is temporary, it does not make Swansea City a better club just because you decide to forget statistics, history and go into short sighted mode where the only thing that matters to you is this horrible battle against the drop that you're about to endure, not enjoy. And don't give me the "well we'll be watching better football than you" line, because that's a load of rubbish. The only better football you'll be seeing is the teams you're playing against as they take you to the cleaners. I personally can't enjoy watching my beloved Leeds United get taken to the cleaners by a better team, no matter how good the football is that they play.
No you don't have the money to take him off us. You can't afford £6-8 million for a squad player. That would be stupid. A lot of your £90 mill payout will go on wages, remember. You can't just blow the lot on transfer fees. And yes, it would take at least £6 mill to get Becchio off us. He's one of our best players, we don't want to sell, and he's got 3 years on his contract. All things that result in a price tag that's way over what he's probably actually worth, and way over what you can afford.
Marko, We had an entire season of we are bigger than you, we have more history than you, you are only top because we got 15 points deducted, and so on and so on But the fact is, if the Swans wanted this player we would take him, I am sure when Leeds were in the Premier League you took players off teams in the lower divisions, despite everything they did to keep em! And lets look, can history get you results? Can crowd size get you results? Can stats get your results? Stop living in the past, and try living in the now, at the moment the Swans are a far better proposition than you , ask any player who has ambitions where they would love to play , and that will be the premier league, your club cannot offer that to any player at all!
swansea are not after becchio, it's just paper talk, our chairmans out in barcelona sorting out the soriano deal.
We tended to buy proven talent from the Premiership and abroad (as well as bringing through our own Academy players). Buy a squad of lower league players and that's where you'll end up. Don't think Norwich seem to have grasped that concept either.
Doesn't make you any less of a complete bellend. You can't get hold of a player from a club who have that player under contract who don't want to sell. I will refer you to the Arsenal-Barcelona-Fabregas situation. Barcelona really really really really want Fabregas, but they can't get him because Arsenal have him under a really long contract and don't want to sell. That is on top of the fact that it's clear Fabregas wants to leave. So don't give me that "if we want him he's ours" rubbish, because if we don't want to sell then you will not get him, no matter how hard you try. Now piss off back to your little tin pot board and enjoy the novelty of playing against the worlds best clubs for 10 months.
When we do buy (largely) unproven players it's from abroad aswell, Becchio was playing in the Spanish 3rd division. Also, Somma, Nunez, Grella etc.
I still believe he is in it for the money. The BIG money will arrive when he sells the club to some very rich character(s) who want a PREMIER club. He needs sucess early on next season in order to kep the fans happy and the cash rolling in so I can see him hanging on to our top players and adding 2 or 3 in the next few weeks to make a seriouis challenge next season. If I am wrong ..he can stuff it
If that statement was true, Norwich would be back in League 1 after the players they signed last season but they are not. The whole is far greater than the sum of it parts. PL doesn't seem to want seasoned pro's demanding high wages and buggering off the first chance they get to increase the salary somewhere else. He wants to create 'a team' full of hungry youngsters with only the odd older, experienced player mixed in. For 2 seasons it has paid full dividends. Perhaps next season will be a step too far on his philosophy but maybe not. Until relegation becomes a reality there is little point in saying Norwich have gone about their business in the wrong way, it might just come back to haunt you
Recruiting decent lower-league players works in the Football League but the an entire squad of Championship-standard players trying to survive in the Premiership is significantly harder than the odd talented player's ability to step up to a higher level. I can't think of where the strategy of buying lower league players has worked to be honest, Stoke's method is the way to do it - they bought established Premiership players and ground out results to consolidate their place. Maybe I will be forced to eat my words, but judging by the established trend, I don't think I will be.
Did you know, the Norwich team that was challenging for the PL title for a few seasons in the mid 90's had just 5 proven PL players or old division 1 players in their squad , expect for the players they had when promoted? Gary Megson, Rob Newman, Jon Newsome, Neil Adams & John Polston and I would guess you would say 2 or more of them were no good
Challenging for the PL title in the mid 90's? That's stretching it a bit isn't it ThaiCanary??!! I can't for the life of me ever remember Norwich challenging for the PL title! Unless you meant the East Anglian 'we've got more tractors than you' title you contest with your neighbours Ipswich year in year out!
It is stretching it a little as the PL has changed quite drastically over the last decade or so but the point I tried to make and the end of my initial post remains pretty valid - Until relegation becomes a reality there is little point in saying Norwich have gone about their business in the wrong way, it might just come back to haunt you We may well come straight back down but who knows, maybe we will get lucky. Maybe PL will prove be a genius/maybe not but neither would I write off any team just because they have only just been promoted and do not have a team full of household names demanding £50,000 a week. I can't for the life of me ever remember Norwich challenging for the PL title! Our best shot was when we came 3rd behind Man Utd & Aston Villa. We still had a chance of winning the league with 3 or 4 games to go (I think it was 3) but blew it big time.
Well Leeds are knackered then by your reckoning, because you have no proven premier league players, and if by freak accident you do get promoted captain Birdseye will go on his proven track record and not buy anyone, the Swans and Norwich will stay up and qpr will come straight back down as they are not being backed by their luny board! Leeds for me won't reach the play offs next season as you will have a worse team than last, your talented players will be looking to jump ship when serious offers come in, and it won't be from the swans as we don't want your players as they don't reach our grade and will just be on the bench as we have better at our club! Now enjoy your weekend as you ponder the alleged offer we have put in by the pond life at the sun, they are as bad as the scum at the mirror
Yes I do remember that season,& your run in europe the following season,its just that you made out you were challenging throughout the mid 90's & not just that one flash in the pan season. Presonnally I think Lambert has done an outstanding job,he has his own philosophy & its worked wonders-cant fault him at all,so if he feels acquiring journeymen from the lower leagues with no PL experience is the way forward who's to argue. Be interesting to see how it pans out.
and we get called arrogant They've been in the Premier League less than 2 months and they are already acting like a well established top tier team End of the day if or when we go up we'll have players banging on the doors to play for us. Argue as much as you like but Leeds United in the Premier League is a very attractive prospect for the majority of players.
you made out you were challenging throughout the mid 90's & not just that one flash in the pan season. Actually in the PL it was only 1 season, the first year of the PL, before that in the old division 1 we flirted with 4th & 5th place too in it's last few years. So we're actually talking about the early 90's not mid 90's We twice, qualified for Europe previously too but could not play thanks to Liverpool in the Heysel stadium. All in all, not bad for a little club with no big names
