£40m Bid Made For Sigurdsson

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ToffeeTim said:
I'm happy with our signings but the striker situation needs to be sorted by the 31st. If we haven't a proper striker who can link the play, occupy defenders, and above all stick the ball in the net, then we will struggle to improve on last year. If our first few games weren't so flipping tough it would be less of a concern but we really could do with a couple of good early results.
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Heard a rumour Valencia is on his way back 23.59 pm evening of the 31st ....... watch this space
 

CRIMHEAD said:
That's why you buy Sandro, Pickford, Keane, Henry, etc.

Again, name another player we could buy for less that would be better.

Isn't the POINT to win silverware?
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Begovic would have been a third of the price paid for Pickford and just as good if not better

No problem with Keane quality wise, but that was a £10M payment over the odds.

Klaassen was a poor signing at £24M. My choice would have been from a far superior league: Kagawa of Dortmund or Osako at Cologne, and each would have cost less.
 
ToffeeTim said:
I'm happy with our signings but the striker situation needs to be sorted by the 31st. If we haven't a proper striker who can link the play, occupy defenders, and above all stick the ball in the net, then we will struggle to improve on last year. If our first few games weren't so flipping tough it would be less of a concern but we really could do with a couple of good early results.
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Let see how Sandro's goes first before we all it an all out failure
 
ToffeeTim said:
I'm happy with our signings but the striker situation needs to be sorted by the 31st. If we haven't a proper striker who can link the play, occupy defenders, and above all stick the ball in the net, then we will struggle to improve on last year. If our first few games weren't so flipping tough it would be less of a concern but we really could do with a couple of good early results.
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Not having a striker is not an option. Without that we will be lucky to be mid table. Thankfully I don't think that's the case. i could deffo see us going for Wellbeck on loan PLUS another striker purchase. Also I don't think the Demarai grey story is dead yet is it?
Vermaelen would make sense but isnt he just another stop gap? Does Ronko rate Funes Mori?
Sorry I have to talk about something other than the Icelandic Saga which is moving at glacial pace!
 

Jacko93 said:
**Bought a sought after young Centre Half, a well respected young goalkeeper, an ex Barcelona Centre Forward, a player who has increased our marketability 5 fold, a number of players with exciting futures. Sold Lukaku.
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Oh dear, the old marketability line, we can re visit that in 3 months when he is sat on the pine on 100k per week.
Unproven striker in, 25 goal a season striker out, for what will have been buttons when he smashes 30+ goals for united next season
 
BlueToff said:
But those players wanted to leave? They were offered big deals to stay and turned them down, so we got big money for them.

That was my point.

I'm not saying he is a sugar daddy, but I'm saying it's hard to judge as we've sold two players for huge fees respectively. But we only sold them because they didn't want to be here...
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And the whole point of what I'm trying to say is that they wouldn't have wanted to leave if Moshiri was a sugar daddy! I'm not complaining that he's not, simply saying what seems abundantly clear to me.

When City were taken over, they immediately went out and made big signings. Forget the 'marquee' aspect, I'm not interested in that, I'm talking about them taking Lescott off us and Barry off Villa even though we're both traditionally bigger clubs and were both regularly finishing above them in the league. We just haven't made that sort of splash, even the big money signings we've made are the type of player we would have expected to be able to attract (if not afford) anyway. The players we already had aren't buying into it because they can see that it's not that type of takeover, they don't see us suddenly signing players that the teams above us were desperate to keep, and they don't see us signing Robinho, Tevez and Toure. If they had, and/or we were offering them more than the going rate (like City did) then I think they would have stayed.

This has gone way off topic but the only reason this was mentioned was to point out that the player trading model is an important one to clubs like us. It isn't to the uber-rich because they'll be bankrolled anyway and have no need to worry about resale values, but the model we appear to be using will require us to think about resale when recruiting. I cannot see Moshiri spending £100m+ every season which is what you need to do when you're not generating money from sales, it's as simple as that. That isn't a criticism of him, simply an innocuous observation which seems blindingly obvious based on the past 12 months.
 

davek said:
Begovic would have been a third of the price paid for Pickford and just as good if not better

No problem with Keane quality wise, but that was a £10M payment over the odds.

Klaassen was a poor signing at £24M. My choice would have been from a far superior league: Kagawa of Dortmund or Osako at Cologne, and each would have cost less.
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But then you would moan as they have no resale values. Kagawa meh can't cut it at Man United. Begovic's form was going downhill whilst staying at Chelsea.

Who the hack is Osako lol?
 

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