steken1
Player Valuation: £70m
People have been saying that about Giggs for years. Good players can adapt thier game. Distin is a good player. His replacement is already in our squad, Duffy. Distin's biggest asset isn't his pace, it's his size and aerial ability. It's not that often he has to put the burners on these days as we mostly dominate possession.
Also despite a good start we aren't in europe and it's far from certain we will be.
Also prices seem to be fairly stagnant for the majority of the league. Moyes still looks like he can pick bargains up when they're needed.
Who pays agent's fee's and the like appears to be based on individual circumstances. If a player was desperate to leave or his club desperate to sell we may avoid paying anything hefty. I can't imagine the fee's to be mega high on a £4m transfer?
I worded that wrongly to be honest, that said, a lot of players who have looked after themselves have played on into mid/late thirties. Also Distin's from a very different culture to a lot of our players and has avoided serious injuries. A few who have played on to that age. The first ten are all defenders.
Irwin, Gough, Pearce, Winterburn, Cooper, Alexander, Hierro, Le saux, Dixon, campbell, Tugay, Giggs, Sheringham, Scholes, Phillips, Zola, Speed, Bowyer, Bergkamp, Drogba, Viera, Murphy, Cole, Yorke, Barmby.
I'm sure there's plenty more if I really tried.
I don't really think Moyles does punts, especially not at CB. Only Per Kroldrup didn't really look up to much. The type of money we're talking about bought Yobo, Lescott and Jagielka. All at thier best I'd say only Yobo is a worse player than Heitinga.
For me you have to question the sanity of allowing a player who has talked repeatedly about other clubs to get into the final 12 months of a deal with nothing concrete lined up, especially when you are widely recognized as the paupers of your division and consistently skint through the richest period in the history of the game.
I'd have him over all our CB's at this point. But I'd fume if we lost him for nothing because he strung us along for the last 12 months of his deal. We can't allow players to leave for free and we shouldn't really allow players to lose all value either because if we do we can't afford to replace them.
You may not like selling proven players and buying potential but it's been our MO for the whole of Moyes reign and will continue to be until the day Bill gets carried out of his office.
