£40m Bid Made For Sigurdsson

[DualityNSNO]

Does anyone know what the process for making an official bid is? I know it's not going to work like FM, but it's always struck me a little odd how long it can take between bids.

Is there a mountain of paperwork or legal hoops to jump through to make it official? Otherwise I can't quite understand why there are often weeks between and a bid being rejected and another coming in. In my mind, it can't just be negotiation or the second official bid would surely be accepted every time.

It's because of the fax machines mate.

 

[Ebrell22]

I'm really glad you don't do our transfer dealings mate.

Id have signed hernadez for 16mil and sold niasse to the reds for 35

 

[Bob Latchford]

...so under the previous regime we would've seen the same spend as this summer and the significant hike in our salary structure? Even with the expected Lukaku monies I doubt that would've been the case. Indeed, the spend was largely made before the Lukaku income.

It's a bit daft to suggest we go out and spend the same amount again if the prime targets have been acquired. I know you don't like the club to be wasteful.

added to that is the investment in youth players and padding out the U23s (league champs) with up and coming players from the UK and Europe.

 

[coollino]

 

[Brisan123]

It's more that the fees have shot up
To what they used to be and people can't quite see that.

I bought my house for 30,000 in 1982
It's worth 600,000 now
I got paid 140 pounds a week in 1982
I get a hell of a lot more now
It's called inflation and the market

 

[Brisan123]

It's quite impressive but I wish these types of stats were based on minutes played. Think that's far more accurate. Bet someone like Cazorla would be top 5 if he wasn't injured every game he tried to play.

So you want to buy a better player than Siggy but never play him because he's always injured

 

[Groucho]

Ever ever ever ever ever. If we won the league he would probably still MOAN it wasn't by enough points or the trophy is blag. Some people aye

Anyway, this Siggurdson. On or off?

 

[DualityNSNO]

Is it his?

Hmmmm.

No mate, his account is joint-owned and operated by the Sasquatch and King of the Molepeople.

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[Groucho]

I bought my house for 30,000 in 1982
It's worth 600,000 now
I got paid 140 pounds a week in 1982
I get a hell of a lot more now
It's called inflation and the market

Christ you're doing alright aren't you?

 

[matty1878]

Anyway, this Siggurdson. On or off?

lol mate don't you know and I know it's onnnnnnnnnnnn

 

[matty1878]

I bought my house for 30,000 in 1982
It's worth 600,000 now
I got paid 140 pounds a week in 1982
I get a hell of a lot more now
It's called inflation and the market

That's groovy matey! Don't talk sence lol it's not liked on here

 

[MikeH72]

Well unless you want to stick this new center half upfront then we have to either wait as we have a striker to get first or rely on the centre halves we have.

That's why I said we're desperate for both. In fact we actually have more competent strikers than we have competent centre backs.

 

[Brisan123]

You KNOW which players I refer to. Dont act daft.

And I said ROSS Rom and Stones
They wanted to leave
They wanted CL football
We were never going to get it in a 1 or 2 year timeframe.
As I said every club loses players and moves on

 

[DualityNSNO]

I bought my house for 30,000 in 1982
It's worth 600,000 now
I got paid 140 pounds a week in 1982
I get a hell of a lot more now
It's called inflation and the market

Lend us a 5er mate.

 

[Zatara]

But that's what was required and it's what nearly every club uses - Spurs and Liverpool and probably Arsenal included.

Three clubs have the luxury of not having to, and even Chelsea have done so anyway in previous years.

Yes, we'd have loved to keep Lukaku, but he didn't want to be here so we've got a world record fee for him.

In the past, you know full well that wouldn't have been spent on several £30m players. It'd have been our entire budget. It isn't this year.

To keep pedalling that is utter tosh.

Deulofeu and Cleverley - two squad players who had no impact on the side - have brought in £18.5m between them, taking our up front takings (not inc. the Rom add ons) to £93.5m this summer, plus the fees of McGeady (250k) plus Kone (free) off the books.

We've brought in - again I'm not counting the add ons here - two players for £50m between them in Pickford and Keane.

Sandro is a snip at £5.2m, while Henri cost us £6.8m - so that's another £12m there; £62m so far.

Klaassen is £24m, giving us £86m 'reinvested' - leaving us, not counting add ons, approx £7.5m in the black so far this summer. Rooney and Martina are clearly on frees, though Rooney's wages are a big leap for us.

That to me, is great business. We've improved the squad by moving on players who weren't good enough or didn't want to be here. This needed to be done.

It's why, in the grand scheme, our £40m bid for Gylfi is irrelevant. We're still in profit so far and if the net spend mutants want to be pleased then they should be thrilled with this.

We are also chasing a striker, and another option for the defence. All in these three players will most likely cost £80m at the least.

Hypothetically, lets say that's the case and we add another £80m to the £86m spent so far (no add ons), giving us £186m total.

The only two first team players that may now leave imo are McCarthy - squad player at best - and Ross.

That'd be £55m easy between them, but we'd still be £20m in the red for this window even then.

I'd have no issue with that. The sale of Rom was always going to cause disparity and people seem to think that we should stockpile players for the sake of it. There's no need.

If Rom hadn't have left, we wouldn't need to spend big on a striker anyway.

Next year will be the litmus test if it comes to it that we are in the situation where we need to just add two-three quality players over the course of the window, which given our squad building this summer, you'd like to think that's a scenario we should be in come July 2018.

@davek is currently spot on about Moshiri;
a-- He stated as fact that our best players wouldn't be sold....
b-- He's not exactly thrown money around last summer when he should have done and also now
c-- Weve basically broken even and in @davek 's eyes we have sold in order to overpay on some players.

What I don't agree with him about is about all the transfer business in itself, I think we've made some good signings especially Keane and Pickford. These two will be lynchpins and top quality for us. Both will be starters for England before long.

If we come out of the window having spent anything under 50mil net then in my opinion we have failed in strengthening the squad in key positions or we have managed to land some real bargains.

If we drop 50mil on Sigurdsson then it makes no sense to me why we haven't gone for a superstar centre back for the same price...

Its all about opinions but imo if we don't go after a super centre back then I wont be happy....likewise if we blow 30mil on a soon to be 31 year old Giroud when Dolberg could be attainable....illogical moves.

Were not going to smash the top 4 next season so its best to go for the youth and build a team...not drop 80mil on a soon to be 28 and 31 year old.