Jonathan Viera for half the money, who Swansea will now sign to replace Sigurdsson.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amigo
Jonathan Viera for half the money, who Swansea will now sign to replace Sigurdsson.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amigo
Actually Google suggests Gylfi Sigurdsson weights 77 kilos, and the price per kilo for gold is 31.700 quid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
So he's worth ca 2.500.000 in gold, as it were.
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mazuuurk
Half the money for half the player.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
In my completely unbiased opinion, of course.
Lol seething.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amigo
I was seething earlier when I saw some retard on Twitter comparing it to Zidane's transfer in 2001.
I read we'd made an £8.5m bid for him earlier in the season. Was probably bollocks.
Zidane or Sigurdsson?Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
Puskas.
City have had an £18million bid for Jonny Evans rejected.
Don't even know what to lol at there.
Presumably it's quota driven.
Jonny Evans was John Stones in 2009, so it makes sense to have him around until the new one fulfils his MASSIVE potential.
One of my Facebook friends - and someone generally quite knowledgeable about football - thinks Evans is one of the best centre backs in the league. It's hard to tell with West Brom centre backs, but he thought something similar about Aaron Hughes, so it might just be that he's Northern Irish.
You've got to wonder at what point this just starts becoming some sort of norm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Max Power
Two years ago, or even one, Liverpool wouldn't have hesitated for one second selling Coutinho for even 80 million. But the money just doesn't have any value, because any like-for-like replacement will be 85 million. So what's the point?
Does he fulfill the quota of home grown? Does it not have to be your actual country?
The country you are home grown in counts, not the country in which you were born. I think Fabregas counts as home grown in England, which, with hindsight, is probably why we bought him.
Indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazuuurk
Hopefully it'll lead to an era of more youth being given a chance.
Logically it should, and Chelsea should have seen that coming. At the moment I think we'll finish outside the top 8.
Evans might have matured into a lovely centre back now but he was garbage at United. I'm sure Pep would be able to regress his defensive ability.
The issue isn't even the transfer fees - it's clubs locking themselves into long term contracts with mediocre players for huge wages - and they're not going to be able to pay them when the bubble bursts. They're all fucked.
An eighteen million pound bid for Jonny Evans being rejected while at the same time, on the continent, Blaise Matuidi is going for exactly that much is a nifty indicator of how much money is sloshing around the Premier League.
Blaise Matuidi is a fucking steal at that price, really.
Its a fucking bargain. He must have a year left on his contract for that price.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazuuurk
Edit: He signed a four year deal in 2014, so it appears he did have a year left.
The well-run club that is PSG have told Julian Draxler he can leave, nine months after signing him, and it has last minute Arsenal signing written all over it.
Is there such thing as a panic sale?
Liverpool will end up buying him to replace Coutinho.
Elsewhere, United signing long-term Arsenal target Thomas Lemar would be lol for about a day, but then Anthony Martial might as well be dead so I don't know.
Suarez is injured for 6 months now. Draxler to barca.
Neymar back to Barcelona.
Neymar Sr last seen in a gold tank.
I haven't seen Draxler at PSG, but he always seemed to play well when I watched him at Wolfsburg. Has he gone to shit?
4-5 weeks, says auntie.Quote:
Originally Posted by SincereTheRebel
Where does Draxler play? Is he a winger?
We should just sign Kuyt again.
Is Draxler the bloke that had one good season at Schalke and has been living off it ever since? He's a winger, if so.
He plays wide left although i think he can play through the middle. From what i remember, he is direct with his running and likes to beat plays. Usually drops a right step-over and goes past players to his left.
He's injured half the time so he'll end up at Arsenal. If he could maintain some level of fitness he'd be a brilliant Coutinho replacement though. He's terrific on the ball.
I really rate Draxler. Does he really have trouble with injuries?
59 games during the past 5 seasons isn't great. Albeit, last season I think he wasn't selected at PSG for more than injury reasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pen
Where did you get that figure? Wikipedia seems to disagree.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Arne
Things are different in Asia.
Presumably he's just (badly) added up the last five sections on the career history given on Wikipedia. Do that and you get 69, but it only covers the last three seasons because each time he moved he played a few games at the beginning of the season beforehand.
Still not great over three seasons, but nowhere near as bad as averaging fifteen a season would be.
Wikipedia appearances always strike me as a little weird. Usually undercooked, mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adramelch
all competition stats
Phil
36 games
2531 minutes played
14 goals
9 assists
181 minutes per goal
281 minutes per assist
Draxler
39 games
2721 minutes played
10 goals
5 assists
272 minutes per goal
544 minutes per assist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40979106
£114m or so bid rejected for Phil.
For those type of prices, you should be getting a goal or assist a game at a minimum.
£114m. What.
Tottenham spending up to forty million quid on that Ajax centre-back (the one United targeted as being useless on the ball in the UEFA Cup final) seems odd when they probably have the best partnership in the league. I know they need DEPTH, but surely not at those prices.
Ajax could buy PSV for that.
Gabriel of Arsenal has signed for Valencia this afternoon. They played a back five with one centre back, two left backs, a right back and a midfielder last week, so not sure how smart it is to get rid of a centre back. New one incoming? They've been rumoured to be wanting rid of Chambers, Gibbs, Jenkinson and Debuchy as well.
I know nothing of this lad Spurs have signed.