"Preparing a bid"
"Joining the race"
fecking pathetic they get away with the same old nonsensical cliches year after year and all the saps who still lap it up as if these are meaningful phrases.
You're in the wrong thread then.I'm preparing a wank.
I've never seen soooooo much pussy footing around in a transfer summer like this before. From a lot of clubs.
Problem with that would be in a years time when that fat twat Raiola would engineer a move away for Insigne.
I think it’s a good idea. Hope the market does moved towards more swaps. MLB doesn’t do player purchases from another team it’s only trades. Free agents are the ones that go for big moneyI swear Inter are actually playing Master League on PES with regards to their transfers. They’re utterly deluding themselves by all these ludicrous player swaps.
I imagine Ed cross legged on the floor of our boardroom, surrounded by a mountain of loose stationary, elaborately decorating the sacred piece of A4 with all manner of glitter, gel pens, stickers etc, to really wow the selling club on receipt of our completed offer.
@BanAthleti hanging Barca and Griezmann out to dry, good to see. Imagine asking to pay a release clause in installments, many on here would ridicule Woodward if it came out he tried the same thing and rightly so.
I'd love to know how this all works behind the scenes. Why didn't we do this on Monday?
Thats a new one. It's not even Athletico but Athleti.
So good that at €40m only Leicester were interested.
If we pay over 20m for this guy then I'm seriously done. Hopefully this ridiculous suggestion is bullshit but with us anyyhing is possible. Hopefully we just go after someone else.
I wonder the last time Juventus and Barcelona signed young uncapped British talent.I wonder whether we have entered a bidding war with Liverpool, City, Barcelona and Juventus for Longstaff.
I wonder the last time Juventus and Barcelona signed young uncapped British talent.
If we pay over 20m for this guy then I'm seriously done. Hopefully this ridiculous suggestion is bullshit but with us anyyhing is possible. Hopefully we just go after someone else.
Both free and not for first team yeah?Two years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_McGuane
Barca are in for Louie Barry this summer too. He's just left West Brom.
I wonder what was your reaction when we paid £19m for Dalot and he only had 8 first team appearances for Porto
I wonder what was your reaction when we paid £19m for Dalot and he only had 8 first team appearances for Porto
Both free and not for first team yeah?
Ta.
If Ole is basing his judgement of Longstaff on 9 games then we are truly hopeless when it comes to scouting players.
It should be £15m plus appearance related bonus of £5-8m. Whilst it's obvious that most 5 year olds are better at negotiating than Woodward, if he allows to be taken for a ride by Newcastle for anything more we might as well give up!
What's all this got to do with Longstaff then? Which is what we were talking about.If you find that to be false equivalency then I find your point to be spurious by the same token. The economics just don't work for foreign clubs to compete for British players in the fee paying transfer market. Juve just signed Ramsey on a free and the two players highlight that when the economics are right, those clubs would be in for British players.
This is argument is so funny to me its BS and is used nearly every day. It's literally the opposite where people will clamour for ANY British player who strings 2 decent games together.Foreign name though. Our 'fans' are okay with those deals. That's where we are now with modern day football fans.
What's all this got to do with Longstaff then? Which is what we were talking about.
They sign young talent for free. Like every other club.