Rumour on Twitter saying the fee for Livermore was actually £8m! Fantastic business from Levy if true.
The fee is £7m, with a potential extra £1m in add-on's. For anyone who's interested, here are Jake's thoughts on becoming a City player(it's now official)... [video=youtube;mIvlxNNo6hQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIvlxNNo6hQ#t=89[/video] It looks like a potential deal for Dawson is also moving forward... http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...alks-over-4m-michael-dawson-deal-9562469.html
I haven't got sound here at work but I might give it a watch later £7m+ add ons is still great in my eyes, especially for a guy who wasn't really going to feature for us, top bloke though, as I've said before whenever I've met him he's always had time for a chat and seems a real chilled out guy. As for Daws, will be sad to see him go if the move does happen but I'll only have good things to say about him, he was one of the players that really helped steer us from a mid-table/ bottom half side into a top 6/ top 4 challenging team. Great servant.
Best of luck to Jake. It's funny he's ended up going with Huddlestone, when they both are excellent people and make sense as a midfield pairing. It sounds like good business from our POV for Jake. I wish we'd kept Huddlestone, in case I haven't mentioned it... I'd also rather we kept Dawson. I think he may be our best defender against sides/attackers up to a fairly high level. Keeping him to rotate with Kaboul, Vertonghen and Chiriches makes sense to me. But it may be he wants to start almost every game, not one in two or three.
Good player, I'm glad he'll get regular games as I think he needs them. And potentially Dawson as well, are we Hull's feeder club now?
I read that Zinedine Zidane became manager of Factitious Madrid's feeder team. MoPo didn't last long, did he?
Few players have hurt their reputation more in a year than Jan. ...not to mention Khaboul, Chiriches, Rose, Dembele, Townsend, Lennon, Dempsey, Soldado, Lamela, Levy, Baldini and AVB.
Lamela just about manages to escape the flak due to being injured, while Soldado can say that in the Europa League games where the midfielders passed forwards instead of sideways he looked lethal - only for Sherwood to come in and promptly drop him to the bench.
"Soldado is another player we may be pleasantly surprised by this season." The day before the WC start he was probably a bit depressed about his season. The moment FT came in the Chile/Spain game and he is probably overjoyed that he dodged the collective bullet.
Out of Chaldi, Lamela, Soldado and Paulinho we're taking the approach we may be pleasantly surprised? I should hope so considering the combined cost! Plus our new manager (on a five year contract) may pleasantly surprise us.
In some cases it's quite simple, yet we somehow didn't get it right last season: Lamela needed games, while Soldado needed service (and, when Sherwood took over, he also needed games) Paulinho's the tough one, as he had plenty of games yet seemed less and less influential each time out - for club and now country.
One concern is Gervinho looked hopeless in the Premier League but went onto to star in Italy (for Roma). We could have spent 32 million (or there abouts) on a player who is as talented as Gervinho.
It would seem so, you've taken over from Man United, we signed five of theirs in one season a couple of years back. I understand that the Dawson deal is also now agreed.
The only guaranteed way of never wasting money on transfers is never to buy anyone. At least by spreading the Bale money over 7 players we've got a good chance of 3 or 4 of them coming good.
I plan to retain my Rebecca-of-Sunnybrook-Farm sunny optimism right up until the moment the first ball of the season is kicked. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MT5WJ484L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
