Porto are a much bigger club than us or West Ham or Swansea, think he would have ended up there anyway even if we had all had bids accepted
Villa have signed Carlos Sanchez for £4.5m. Was very impressed with him in the World Cup, weren't Saints linked to him a while ago aswell? Or am I thinking of another French based guy called Sanchez? Nope same one - http://www.tribalfootball.com/artic...ez-gains-french-passport-3691371#.U-6YVPRDt1Y
Ok Porto are champions league, but many players would choose the PL over the Portuguese league, especially Dutch players.
Indeed. Porto may be a bigger club, but so are Celtic and look what happened there. Being bigger in a less competitive, generally lower quality league, paying lower wages, is no guarantee of keeping the best players.
Ta. Thought I heard Jim White's sources saying he was on his way to Manchester for talks. Is he Moroccan?
Sky are saying he is going to Man U, other sources are sayinv Bayern and som Italian are saying he i staying. But money is being put on him going to Bayern.
So that would make it De Guzman, Chico, Michu, Vorm, Davies and Hernandez. (I know JDG was only on loan at Swansea, but for two years he was an important player for them). I guess it's because our players are going to big money to fellow English clubs, that our summer makes the media headlines, whilst Swansea's does not.
I don't think he was ever Swansea's player though? He's had a 2 year loan there I think, was a Villerarell player.
Swansea still have fantastic attacking players., And I can see Sigurdson getting a lot of goals and assists.