err, whats the OS?
What you're advocating is adding 33% on to the value of a player just to get him in early. You are then similarly saying we should accept less than players are worth when selling them.
No doing that on Diarra won't bankrupt us. Yes doing it on all players would. It's the same with regards to wages. Yes we can make our wage structure more flexible, no that doesn't mean we can offer players over 100k a week. Yes we can accept less for some players but no we shouldn't be doing it for all of them.
I accept the point that we messed up the transfer window in January. I don't think many people dispute that. But that's no reason to go gung-ho this window and throw financial caution to the wind.
Remember that Levy's 'frugality' with his wallet (ridiculous when you think how much we've actually spent) is what got us into the Champions League. Forgetting that is a severe case of short term memory loss.
See above.
You realise how much £3,000,000 is don't you?
Our profit figure (very loose look at the Financial Statements) was £22.4m for the y/e 30 June 2010.
Your economies of scale are all over the place. Which is why you don't run a football club.
A fair few posters on here will compare us to Liverpool this summer and go 'Well.. Liverpool have managed to get deals in quick with no hassle? Why can't we do that?' What most forget is that the calibre of players they have signed this summer (Downing, Adam, Henderson, Enrique) are hardly going to be pushing near the top end of the Liverpool earners at the club. Maybe not even near the top earners at Spurs.
Whereas its pretty obvious that we have tried to go out and get players that are going to be an upgrade on what we already have, meaning wages are going to be higher which will result in longer periods of negotiating to meet everyones needs.
Another point on Liverpool also, I dont actually think Liverpool have improved on the 11 players that they had at the end of last season that much at all this summer. All they have really done is just give themselves more options on the bench.
Kenco is a country mile better than Nescafe :-|
I don't think there is any need to panic yet.
Not always easy being patient.
It's all good in the hood
...Bloody hell!!!! .... have just read through 15 pages of what can possibly be described as, in the main, the biggest load of whining bullshit i have ever seen.
Maybe if we had spent an extra 3m last year getting in a striker we could have made an extra 40m in the champions league.
Mystery.............where have you gone?
are you going to elaborate on your little snippet??
There was no "cryptic" or anything, I'm just saying it's all good, plenty of time left yet [/quote
I thought we were signing Cuba Gooding Jnr!
Oh well............
You had me at "maybe".
Let's not turn this thread into a game of ifs, whats, maybes and your mothers.
For the record: talkshowhost86's mother is a fine, respectful and gentle woman.
...........i think you would find the above not that high on DL's priority list, anyone running a business (inc football club) looks beyond the short term, employee's and it would seem, football fans, don't...........
Why is it everytime someone mentions paying the going rate for a player they get shot down as the reincarnation of Peter Ridsdale?
If a key signing takes an extra 2 or 3m and the club can afford it, isnt it best to just get them in?
Hyperbole much? You do realise you can spend a bit of money and not go broke don't you? I'm fairly certain if we paid 9m for Diarra or 12m for Diarra it wouldn't make us suddenly implode like Leeds. But it might mean that Diarra had already signed and signed in time for him to get a bit of pre-season under his belt and play against Man U.
I don't think most people on here are demanding that we go out and blow hundreds of millions on players we can't afford but if Mr. Levy was a bit less 'frugal' with the cheque book then I think we would have completed some signings earlier and cleared out some of the deadwood.
You realise how much £3,000,000 is don't you?
Our profit figure (very loose look at the Financial Statements) was £22.4m for the y/e 30 June 2010.
Your economies of scale are all over the place. Which is why you don't run a football club.