Duncan Castles thinks that City can't afford Sneijder's 200k a week wages? Really? The same club that pays the likes of Yaya and Tevez above 200k?
Wesley Sneijder
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It's the FFP isnt it?
Yup. This transfer never made any sense either on a sporting or financial level.
But I'm sure they'll pay Nasri roughly the same amount and plus they'll also get rid off Tevez. City being unable to afford Sneijder's wages seems odd to me.
Castles is an arsehole.
Tevez signed before January 2010 when the FFP started. Any wages previous to that can be discounted from the FFP.
If they get rid of Tevez, it actually doesn't free up any wages for new signings as far as the FFP is concerned.
Branca
To be honest I'm actually growing tired and bored of this transfer saga which has never happened before. Although it's probably largley to do with me thinking he's not what we could do with anyway.
'the team from Manchester' 
So desperate.
So desperate.
Gees you talk some shit. On a footballing level, he offers a replacement/improvement for an aging Giggs and a vast improvement on our current midfielders. He's not a player that depends on physical attributes so will have a much longer career then most other midfielders unlike Gerrard, Essien etc.
On a financial point of view, you were crapping on about not breaking the 50% wage to turn over bullshit, and now that we've sold or had nearly 500k a week of player salaries wiped from the books. It means that we're not even close to matching last years salary to turn over ratio even with the wages of our 3 signings.
Aren't salaries of players signed before a certain date exempt or something?
They've decided to ignore that. So it will have no effect on their wages.
You Sir don't know what you talk about.
We have lost five players, six if we including Obertan. According to Andersred have we reduced our salary per week with approx 200k, but on the other hand have we handed Smalling and Hernandez a new better contract and we have Cleverley and Wellbeck back. Depending on Gibson stays or not we maybe have reduced our salary a little bit, but not the 200k you talk about.
Regarding Sneijder you also are out on deep water. Listen to Gill or Sir Alex. Financialy he's to expensive and maybe not fit our bill regarding age. And it's debatble if he's the type of player we need. World class indeed but we allready have Rooney in a similar position.
Righto so giving 20 k a week rises to Smalling and Hernandez equals 500k?
Neville 75k, Scholes 100k, VDS 100k, O'Shea 80k, Brown 75k and possibly Gibson 40k.
470k.
Smalling Hernandez pay rises. 430k
Young - 80k - De Gea - 40k - Jones 40k
Cleverly and Welbeck are probably on 20k a week each.
So that leaves us with around 220k a week to even match last years numbers. Yes he is expensive and yes he will cost money, but he is also one of the best players in the world in his position. He's far from too expensive. Hell they went and spent 30 million on Berbatov 3 years ago and nobody blinked an eye.
If he was a striker or winger you could say it doesn't make sense, but he's not. He plays in a position that we desperately need to strengthen. Or are you happy with having another season of the likes of Villa, Bolton etc walking all over us away from home?
We don't need another ball winning midfielder. We have 4 of them. We need a midfielder who can rip a team to shreds with one pass, which is exactly what Scholes had.
Neville 75k, Scholes 100k, VDS 100k, O'Shea 80k, Brown 75k and possibly Gibson 40k.
470k.
Smalling Hernandez pay rises. 430k
Young - 80k - De Gea - 40k - Jones 40k
Cleverly and Welbeck are probably on 20k a week each.
So that leaves us with around 220k a week to even match last years numbers. Yes he is expensive and yes he will cost money, but he is also one of the best players in the world in his position. He's far from too expensive. Hell they went and spent 30 million on Berbatov 3 years ago and nobody blinked an eye.
If he was a striker or winger you could say it doesn't make sense, but he's not. He plays in a position that we desperately need to strengthen. Or are you happy with having another season of the likes of Villa, Bolton etc walking all over us away from home?
We don't need another ball winning midfielder. We have 4 of them. We need a midfielder who can rip a team to shreds with one pass, which is exactly what Scholes had.
Where have you got these wages from? Seems you have inflated whats left and deflated the new ones to help your own argument. Obviously you can only take whats reported with a grain of salt, but never have I seen anywhere say Scholes was on 100k at any point in his career yet alone his final year and almost everywhere reports Young on at least 100k.
Its not a case of whether United can afford this player they can, and even pay his wages. Its just United have a wage structure in place which they are not going to break.
Sneijder might just appear at Wembley today to watch the game and his potential future team-mates, watch out for him
Wayne Rooney begs to differ.
For all we know - Rooney might be within the wage structure - whereas Sneijder isn't
For all we know - Sneijder might be asking for something within the wage structure. There is no concrete evidence to suggest that it's his wages that are the issue here.
Do we? Wow. Name them please.
I assume he sees Anderson as more of a ball winner than a creative midfielder. Which isn't a ridiculous idea, Anderson's best attributes are his pace, energy, shielding the ball and running with the ball. Creativity, however, is pretty far down the list in his case.
You've pulled all these numbers from your arse to try and support your "theory". For example, O'Shea wasn't on 80K a week. That was a BS story by some journo.
In general, its amazing how many people will complain about the "scummy media" and then take a lot of their stories as gospel truth.
And who are the other three "ball winners"?
Yeah, I'm struggling with the fourth one, too, with Carrick and Fletcher being the two primary ball-winning midfielders in the squad.
May have already been done, I can never tell whats been reported with all the tweets going around. Anyway I fuly expect a I'm staying statement by the end of the week.
Park? Well, yeah, he certainly offers tenacity and tackling even on the wing or as an AM. But I wouldn't play him at the base of midfield. Ever. Not a good idea, as he demonstrated against Arsenal with one of the most ridiculous positioning errors of all time.
I noticed that I didn't put 'at a guess' at the start of my post after I edited it but couldn't be fecked to go in again. I also remembers Hargo so there's another 60k plus
They would roughly be the numbers of those players. Given O'Shea's performances since 08, I'd say that wouldn't be far off. He certainly deserved atleast that much. Neville and brown might have been on less but around the 450k - 500k for the numbers all up.
He is a high lying ball winner. This was the plan against Chelsea and what Fergie tried to implement against Barca. Have us pin Barca back and use Park to hurry around winning the ball off their midfield and defenders. You wouldn't play him at the base at all, but he is still a ball winning midfielder.
Where's wr8 when we need him?!
Suddenly, Inter are talking about Sneijder leaving; this time they haven't actually said there were no offers on the table for him, something they've maintained up to this point. Strange that it coincides with the City rumours...
I'd say he's off to Eastlands. Shame, they'll be uncomfortably strong if it goes through.
I'd say he's off to Eastlands. Shame, they'll be uncomfortably strong if it goes through.
Was just trying to post what Mad posted but my "token had expired" and I couldn't post 
Keep getting that error when I try to post.
Keep getting that error when I try to post.
Are we linked to Eto’o too? What a signing that would be
We've recently installed a muppet block.
That's akin to locking the thread isn't it?
Gasperini has confirmed the future of Wesley Sneijder should be decided next week.
Inter director Branca on Sneijder rumours: "There were exploratory talks, but have not yet gone so far that money has been talked about. Inter do not want anyone to stay or leave if he does not willingly want to."
And the already posted :
Sneijder talks imminent | Manchester City News, Fixtures, Results, Transfers | Sky Sports
And the already posted :
Sneijder talks imminent | Manchester City News, Fixtures, Results, Transfers | Sky Sports
Inter do seem to be warming to the idea of selling Sneijder more and more by the day.
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