I bet Coates will give the new manager a big transfer kitty, maybe around £40 million, especially after the new TV rights money
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...l-as-Liverpool-striker-considers-options.html West Ham have also held talks to sign the prolific Vitesse Arnhem striker Wilfried Bony, although Stoke City appear the favourites to sign the Ivorian should he move to England.
Was he real though? Like his namesake Nessie (of the Loch), nobody has documentary evidence of him existing, let alone being seen on a football pitch!
http://www.thisisanfield.com/2013/05/reports-begovic-to-liverpool-arranged-pending-reina-departure/ Begovic supposedly certain for departure
97 What's the fee mate, I can't load that link? Sad if he does go he's a great keeper. Gutted if it happens but big club = money we lose a smashing player.
Roll up Roll up, get your championship players here. A job lot; Whelan, Whitehead, Shotton, Wilkinson, Etherington Not £10 million, Not £5 million, Not even £2.5 million. To you sir, £1 million plus the choice of our Academy.
12 million is not even close enough.... I would hope that the new Manager could have his say on who goes and who stays. Try 15/20 million that's more like his value. 35 approx. for A Carroll 12 Million to me is an insult. Begovic is worth much more.
Vermaelen? Is Vermaelen an option? He is only going for £5. Million I feel he would work well with Shawcross
http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/london-qpr/2013/05/30/82029-33404812/? Unsure about this really. Hoilett is quick, direct, good crosser but bit of a headless chicken and his move to QPR has made me question his attitude somewhat. The Crouch wages part is definitely rubbish. Pretty sure it was reported when he signed that Coates paid off his contract to make up for the loss in wages in moving to Stoke. More like £50k a week I reckon. QPR are set to lay the groundwork for an audacious swap deal that sees Peter Crouch on his way to Loftus Road â and Junior Hoilett headed the other way to Stoke. The Potters will unveil former Rs and Fulham boss Mark Hughes as the new man at the Britannia this morning, and Sparky plans to hit the ground running with a City team built in his own image that could include a player he bought twice. Back in west London, there is no shortage of admirers for a striker coveted by manager Harry Redknapp. Indeed, both Crouch and the Rs boss were at Tottenham and Portsmouth together, and Harry had a despairing go at bringing the Ealing born-and-bred player back to west London in January. That move foundered, but twice-relegated Hoilett has no desire to play in the Championship after he escaped doomed Blackburn last summer â and Stoke are in need of a winger. Like the Redknapp-Crouch relationship, Hughes was the manager who paved the way for Hoilett to make the breakthrough with Rovers in 2008 before reuniting with him a second time last summer. The sticking points could be 32-year-old Crouchâs £80k-a-week salary and any transfer fee vaguely approaching the £10m Stoke paid for the England international in August 2011. But Redknapp admitted already he was looking to add at least a couple of âlegendsâ to a squad of up-and-coming players as the club bids to bounce back to the Premier League at the first attempt. The giant forward started his career at Tottenham, but was bought by the club he supports when Rangers boss Gerry Francis paid £60,000 for Crouch in 2001 before he moved to Portsmouth for £1.5m just a season later.
I thought the same mate. TP used to brag about how he kept the wage bill down and I always used to say it was just false accounting - wages v transfer fee. That aside, I like Crouch but he was a bad signing - nearing the end of his career and very similar to what we had in Jones. I can understand the deal in principle but it effectively means we have lost 5 million and paid high wages - and this is probably one of the reasons for TP's departure - bad business.
Well, I woudn't say no to a pacy winger and Crouch doesn't strike me as the hungry striker i think we need.
I disagree mate if we play 2 good wingers crouch can score 15 in a season again. Lets not forget his first season how well he played then we played him upfont on his own and walters and ****ton were his suppliers. Not even shearer would score many with those 2 on the wing
Sad to say Hoilett has been absolutely dire for the last six months, no confidence at all. Definitely has the potential if his last season at Blackburn is anything to go by. Don't think Crouch will like the salary structure we are putting in place, not fussed about him to be honest.
Cannot see Crouch going down to the championship to be honest. A just promoted club would be more suited to him!
