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thread titleNo idea about Woodward but half the Caf do know their stuff when it comes to transfers and bidding.
No I think he's at his best as an offense minded central midfielder. He's great at dictating a game and he has great attacking abilities so ideally we'd play him in central midfield (he fits into a two or three) and let him drive forward whenever the opportunity presents itself. But yes, he is too good going forward to just sit on the half way line like an alonso would (not that I'm saying he's necessarily better). You'd be best off partnering him with someone who can keep it simple and shield the defence. Him and Carrick would probably make a brilliant parternship. He'd also be very good as the most offensive minded of a midfield there.
Shit, I live there. I'll try and get some ITK insight.
There was something or is some piece of truth in that jake.
He did in his feck. We wouldn't have the Basque bastard.
'Twas some football above in Meath he played. He came on a student-swap to Kells one summer. Rode all around him and fecked off home again.
Stop wasting time & effort on Fibreglass, who in my opinion is nowhere as good as he used to be. He's too distracted with his almost 40 yr old MILF & new daughter to want to leave Spain.
Totally off topic, but I've always wanted to see the Book of Kells. Is it still on display at Trinity in Dublin?
They won't get that much, not from us anyway. In my view, Utd must be getting some encouragement from somewhere. They would not be pursuing this if they felt there was not a realistic chance of getting him. Forget what clubs say publicly, it means feck all really. when does any fecker ever tell the truth to the press?
They say the right things until something is agreed. If they came out and said Cesc is for sale, you would end up with a Suarez like scenario where Barca have to state what figure will be acceptable. Rooney is no different, he is only not for sale because it is a lowish bid from a domestic rival. Should PSG come in and offer £40m, i have little doubt we would take it.
Nobody refuses £40m for players publicly acknowledged as back up. Cesc and Rooney are back up at their respective clubs because they are simply not deemed as vital to the team as those keeping them out. I cannot recall any club refusing such enormous bids for back up players, so to see that happen now would be far more radical and unprecedented than actually selling the players.
Was when I went in 2009.
Did he cost Barcelona GBP35mn? And secondly, why is everyone looking at 2.5mn? Barca will get 37.5mn even if your 2.5mn is accurate.
We seem to be bidding in £5 million increments and there would be barely any difference between us bidding £35 or £40 mil because Barca would only receive 2.5 million more if we bid 40. So if this next bid gets rejected do you honestly think we will go £45 million+ considering we started at 25?
Well I think he can do both no doubt. I just think against the best teams we might get more out of him in a 3 with someone else playing deeper with Carrick. In your standard game I think he'd be great next to Carrick, just in the toughest games we might still need someone else in there as well, he'd definitely be an improvement on what we have now, but ideally I'd say him as part of a 3 with kagawa and a winger either side of RVP would be great, assuming Rooney is leaving.
Shirley Temple Bar's maintaining the bid's in the region of £40m.
Great. Time to book that trip to Ireland then.
Don't care what anyone says, I'd ride the hole off that.
Saw on the barca forums that he bought a house in london either today or sometime recently...
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...now-loses-home-to-new-couple-too-8739301.html
Still think there's no chance, but a 40million pound bid is definitely a much better price then the ridiculous 25 we started with.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...now-loses-home-to-new-couple-too-8739301.html
Still think there's no chance, but a 40million pound bid is definitely a much better price then the ridiculous 25 we started with.
Barca paid 29m Euros, with a further 5m in add-ons for him.
I think they will be looking to make some profit at least if they are going to be partial to selling.
If we bid closer to 40m GBP I think we'd get our man
I think they will be looking to make some profit at least if they are going to be partial to selling.
If we bid closer to 40m GBP I think we'd get our man
There is no way that clause exists. 50% of any fee on a signing for that kind of price? No chance. 50% sell on fees are for players bought at lower prices. It'll be 50% of any fee over what they paid for him.
We must be being encouraged by an agent.. lets hope we arent wasting our time.. You are right though, its not in Barca's interests to state he is for sale.
Yeah, 50% of the profit, so above £35m every million is half a million to Barca.
What’s up with these idiots marrying women twice their age? Pique and now Cesc? Did they miss their mamas at the Masia?
Aye Pique marrying that state Shakira. Guys a whackjob.
I'd love to know what "preparing a bid" actually entails, and why it takes us so long to actually do it.
At the rate United work it probably means they're counting pennies into those little money bags.
I'd imagine it's more than just writing a number on a piece of paper and faxing it over. You would assume there's heavy paperwork involved to cover both parties arses when making an official bid, but you would also imagine that a lot of the paperwork would be standard and would only involve filling in a few blanks. Perhaps the biggest delay is getting the nod from those who control the cash?
£35m is 40m Euros. Perhaps this is the next instalment.
Or waiting for the nod from Fabregas' camp.
As said, whilst I suspect 'preparing a bid' is more a case of semantics regarding the whole consideration and act of making a formal offer, there is undoubtedly an absolute tonne of paperwork and 'sign off' that will need to be done.
People talk like upping an offer by £5 million is just a quick extra phone call. £5 million in ANY company is a lot of money and the organisation needs to be 100% happy with the decision to commit those funds before agreeing to it.
People talk like upping an offer by £5 million is just a quick extra phone call. £5 million in ANY company is a lot of money and the organisation needs to be 100% happy with the decision to commit those funds before agreeing to it.
Each time we bid do we empty the bags and start over?
Bollocks. All we need to do is just ring Barca up and say the words 'forty million, bitch'.
Lol.
Us: "forty million, bitch"
Barca: "euros or pounds?"
Us: "uh... I'll get back to you..."
Us: "forty million pounds, bitch"
Barca: "all in cash or plus add-ons?"
Us: "um.... hang on"
Us: "forty million pounds cash, bitch"
Barca: "great! one payment or instalments?"
Us: "I'll call you back"
You see where this is going.
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