AaronTheBlue
Player Valuation: £60m
... what.
Baines is the best left back in the world, bar none. That makes him world class. Just because he's had an iffy few months doesn't make that fact irrelevant
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... what.
Baines is the best left back in the world, bar none. That makes him world class. Just because he's had an iffy few months doesn't make that fact irrelevant
Give it a rest Mikey. We have signed two of their players, and for good money. They money they wanted.
Robles was from Atleti and Alcaraz was a free agent.
Regardless of whether they were leaving or not, the fact we bought 4 (and soon possibly 5) of them and also robbed their manager is going past the point of taking the piss, in my opinion
If Moyes had signed Fellaini, Baines, Osman and Coleman and was now rounding in on Jagielka, we'd all be going spare
Duncan Disordely
Player Valuation: £35m
We're paying the fee asked, and not courting the players through the media. Vast difference
dholliday
deconstructed rep
Is he? Has he had top-level experience which ranks him better than the left-backs from Real, Bayern, Barca and the italian clubs? What's he done for England that warrants this ranking of best in the world? What's he done for us?
Baines is the best left-back in the Premier League. He's one of the finest players we've had in the Premier-era.
But he's not the best in the world, for he hasn't had a chance to prove it against the best attacks of the world. We need to qualify for Champs League and he needs to be first-choice for England at the World Cup for him to show the objective world that much.
WUT??
I don't thin k anyone would deny we paid what they are worth. Also we did it the right way. We weren't spouting off all over the media trying to tap them up. We got a deal done quietly then they chose to come. If Moyes had come and bid 50m for the pair and we didn't hear a word out of him until it was done either way I wouldn't resent him for it.
pfim
Player Valuation: £40m
Well if we sold all those players at market rate and brought in proper replacements, I wouldn't care one bit. There is also a bit of a dynamic here that you're ignoring, in that ManU is a rival of ours this year, Wigan and Everton aren't rivals.
We would be
5 players all in one season
We'd be spitting feathers
And I'm sure all the Man United fans would be making comments about how "They're getting a fair price" or "Well, they're only mid table, sucks for their fans but who cares etc"
That's probably arguable, positives and negatives about probably any player out there, and he's had a bad year, despite scoring a few free kicks. Plus Pienaar in play makes him a thousand times better than he is if he's not playing, so I see nothing wrong with what dholliday is saying.
We should just do what they did to Gareth Barry and move him to central/defensive midfield and play Oviedo at left back really, at least it would mean we drop Osman...
*Obviously not.
toffeestillidie
Player Valuation: £35m
I rarely say this about other people's opinions, because they are inherently subjective, but that is simply incorrect. I could count the amount of teams in the world where Baines wouldn't be an improvement on their starting 11, on one hand.
I agree, but it was the way you threw Osman in with Baines, Jagielka, Fellaini and Coleman that stunned me
pfim
Player Valuation: £40m
Or "why can't Moyes look beyond Everton for players."
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