How the **** do you replace Williams for 3M. Surely this is another big club taking the piss on valuation. Maybe they should give us vermalen and 3m then I may be tempted.
Leave him run his contract down, he will be 30 by the time that comes, and Arsenal won't likely want him then. So it doesn't bother us either way. He goes for what we want, or he stays. If he stays, we have a year to find a replacement, think we can cover £3m.
Agree with that, pay up. If they won't meet a reasonable asking price, then let him run his contract down.
Not much new at the moment. Interesting though that the majority of articles out there re: Bony express shock at £25m price tag (for a striker just turned 25, about to go to the World Cup where prices usually increase, who has scored an incredible amount of goals in the last 3 seasons, has proven he can do this in the Premier League and has done so in the big games to boot).........yet sometimes the same paper report that Arsenal and Spurs are falling over themselves to pay £15m for Cardiff goalkeeper David Marshall...unbelievable really. I wonder if a lot of the chinless wonders who write this nonsense are in fact fans of the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool etc. and write pieces from that perspective? There seems to be a feeling that the big clubs can take our key players for relative peanuts; Vorm - £5m Ash - £3m Bony - £18m What are they basing this on? We've never allowed this to happen and have allowed our players to run down their contracts rather than be mugged off by our rivals on numerous occasions. What do the players themselves make of this? It would seem to me that the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal would quite like some of our guys to sit on their bench and are not prepared to pay the market rate to achieve this even....if it were me I would be insulted.
Anyone else wondering why we're looking at Fabianski and not Pantillimon? The Man City keeper is also out of contract this summer...Sunderland are sniffing around according to the papers.
Why Bafetimbi Gomis would be a terrible signing at this point... His agent has obviously put out that he expects £100k a week. Assuming this figure is anywhere near the truth....to get him to fit into our wage structure we would have to pay him, say £40k a week and make the rest up with a signing on fee. He's 28 so I would guess a 2 year contract for such a striker....that's a £6m signing on fee!!! and that's assuming there's not another club out there prepared to pay him £100k a week and a large signing on fee on top. If things don't go well immediately, where would he find the motivation from to knuckle down and make it work? He'd already have £6m in his back pocket and would be sure of finding another club who will pay him £40k per week. He would be a more expensive version of Kenwynne Jones imo. We should be looking at younger, hungrier players when we're talking about that kind of money. e.g. Bony was 24 when he signed and had proved himself too good for the Eredivisie....in order to get to the big time he first had to go to a smaller club in a top division and prove himself. We have given him that platform and now he has the option of making the next step. You could see he was motivated when he arrived...when things didn't go so well in the Prem early on he knuckled down to Laudrup's individual training regime. In the same situation I feel somebody like Gomis would spit his dummy.
No need for us to pay silly wages to anyone. jinx wont do it anyway, As for ash then there is no way we will let him go for £3 million in a month of Sundays. he had a good season relatively speaking and is the captain of Swansea and wales... What valuation i don't know but at the very least double that and probably more...
Sell Williams for whatever we can get , he's earned his right to move on and money is money . Why do some want players to come here for peanuts and no matter how long they stay and play must leave while fans bad mouth them . Let him go if he wants and thank him for his contributions.....
"Why do some want players to come here for peanuts and no matter how long they stay and play must leave while fans bad mouth them". A sad reflection on the "some".
If you ever watch Sunday Supplement on Sky Sports the journalists endlessly talk about Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs and West Ham so of course they are fans of these clubs.
If you ever watch Sunday Supplement on Sky Sports the journalists endlessly talk about Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs and West Ham so of course they are fans of these clubs.
Yes Nosugarman it is breathtaking to see how little interest they have outside those clubs. The pictures of the Managers on the studio wall says it all.
Strong rumours that Fabianski has signed today. If he has he'll want to be first choice so Vorm probably off. If we get a few mill for Vorm it's a good deal IMO.
