So? We still shouldn’t be trying to get rid of the better of those three if it’s true.
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It is when people just flagrantly pretend Ed has never negotiated a price down. What is it with football fans and being utterly incapable of thinking about something with any degree of nuance? These same mentalists would have just thrown whatever Palace wants at AWB and then bitched about giving away the 25% sell on fee for Zaha later on. I'm no fan of Woodward but he literally can't win.
That is fine but that is nothing to do with me or what I was discussing with Ban
Fact is there is plenty to complain about regarding this deal for a player we were already sniffing around last summer and the Maguire deal which took the whole summer when we were already speaking to the club in the previous 2 windows
This.
The board should already have got him through the door. Could significantly increase our chances versus Liverpool and the top 4 gap increasing further could be hard to catch up.
Every game counts right now. Get the damn deal done. Negotiate now, not some artificial long game that every club understands is the case.
We have an extra game versus Wolves that we might not have needed if we negotiated in December or earlier. Similarly City might not be such a stretch.
We should have had him in the summer and now we are on the ropes.
Whats new?
If you say that we should simply sign a player who is available and better than what we have but you also say that we shouldn't sign bad players, then I want to know what you would do if a bad player is still better than our players?
For me, the answer is that we should sign strong players for every position. The best possible player that is available. If Bruno, Maddison and Grealish are all possibilities then we need to make sure we know who is the best out of the three and sign that player. All three being better than Lingard isn't at all a criteria in my mind.
Are we still in discussions?
When are we done discussing?
Will there be more discussions after the first discussions to discuss other matters worthy of discussion?
When are we done discussing?
Will there be more discussions after the first discussions to discuss other matters worthy of discussion?
Not arguing that we are good at it, I was just initially arguing it is necessary and should be done for every player if possible.
If we were properly run this deal would have been agreed in December and announced 1st January
yeah, I get it, I’m not actually disagreeing with your point, I was just saying I think we should be in negotiations for every player.
Yes and after that alot of preparing bids and considering bids and then doing low bids and the window closes.
It has to do with a deal ok. https://www.express.co.uk/travel/ar...heap-travel-france-amsterdam-belgium-holidays
Gotta love this place. Let’s not bother negotiating and pay Sporting whatever they want so we can bitch about how overpriced he was later on, like Maguire.
That’s what’s under discussion
Pundits say he is a good attacking midfielder. Ole wanted to give Perera,Lingaard and Mata a chance first.
It’s quite surreal to read the exact same things being said from the summer and now. “It’s very close” “They’re haggling over $10m” “They’re going to wait till he plays Benfica” “He’s said goodbye to his teammates” “He wants spurs”
Literally sounds like they’ve just copy pasted a lot of things
Literally sounds like they’ve just copy pasted a lot of things
A call for Saul perhaps
Who would Ed be speaking to Atletico Madrid about, though?
The dream would perhaps be Partey?!
The dream would perhaps be Partey?!
Biggest danger is that another club just decides to take him at the going price and leaves us looking idiots once again.
£29? Obligatory Woodward paid £59 post.
No, there isn't. Circumstances change. Plans change. Why won't people consider that?
Very doubtful. He’s been hawked around for at least 6 months and no one has been interested at the sort of price sporting have been asking
I thought the deal's done and we're just waiting to see if Sporting want the cash or the cash-plus-player?
Are you itk?
Not harder to be better than Zidane. Biggest Youtube player of all time. We’d be eviscerating him watching him weak in and weak out and barely delivering anything.
Yeah this threads gone off the rails
Woodward out.
Friendly reminder to those who point out that Ed should just pay £60m instead of £50m to get it done.
First off, this isn't monopoly money. 10 million pounds is a STAGGERING amount of money. He'd be negligent if he did not try to get the price lower.
Talks are about several aspects: Price: Cash upfront - Cash in installments. This one is very important to the clubs future budget and EBIDTA. Rumours about sporting wanting a player on loan also need to be resolved. Its a hard asking loaning a player to Sporting because they cant afford to pay our salaries, so we'd have to borrow them a player essentially for free compared to their operating budget and ours.
In short. its not as easy as giving them 60 million.
First off, this isn't monopoly money. 10 million pounds is a STAGGERING amount of money. He'd be negligent if he did not try to get the price lower.
Talks are about several aspects: Price: Cash upfront - Cash in installments. This one is very important to the clubs future budget and EBIDTA. Rumours about sporting wanting a player on loan also need to be resolved. Its a hard asking loaning a player to Sporting because they cant afford to pay our salaries, so we'd have to borrow them a player essentially for free compared to their operating budget and ours.
In short. its not as easy as giving them 60 million.
Apparently Romano says it's done.
Where's the source?
Seriously, don't do this to me again
Flight tracking coming up?
Nothing on his twitter feed
It's right there in the reddit link. Skysport Germany quoting Sky sport Italy.
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