The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 17 August 2011

[HailKingLevy]

What Phil said

 

[StartingPrice]

They have the fFFP rule to consider as well, paying £170k aweek for a player training with the youth team when your desperatly trying to balance the books doesn't mkae sense.

Plus he won't be able to play against them if it is a loan as we have been led to believe so they have no worries there. Also I imagine they don't see us as genuine title challengers ergo not their direct rivals and probally hoping that if we have Adebayor we may take a few points off who they see as their title rivals?

They may be mega rich...but there are limits to what they can get away with.
Also the reason, I suspect, that Chelsea are farting about with bids that wont even begin to tempt Levy to relent.

 

[Only 1 Spurs]

Pretty sure Afflay is out for six weeks. Will be interesting to see if we do get Adebayor abd the Journo sticks to his KJH is going to be a Spurs player by August 31st? There has been plenty of interest in Crouch but I did read on the Stoke forum that the impression was Crouch wasn't keen on moving there, we haven't had ITK on him in awhile.

I personally hopping Ackies Sigs come off

Rossi/Llorente - Adebayor - 2 from RM - Samba

Now that would be an impressive window!

Shame iwas getting my hopes up for Affelay Still i forgot their was talk of 2 from Madrid?? watching tonights game De maria would be just glorious hes is excellent...wishful thinking though...still who could it be? it hasnt been spoken of for some time?. I dont see Rossi happening full stop although his team mate Nilmar is it? he looked v.good tonight Llorente? god knows did we show him around the training ground as some have said? again its gone quiet on him! so again i dont think itl happen aslong as Ade comes in Diarra comes in and a CB then il be v.happy anything extra will be gratefully recieved

 

[venablesphil]

They may be mega rich...but there are limits to what they can get away with.
Also the reason, I suspect, that Chelsea are farting about with bids that wont even begin to tempt Levy to relent.

Exactly the reason I think we will get Adebayor in the end, they have to shift him, they simply cannot afford not too thanks to FFP.

So thank you UEFA becuase otherwise I think Ade would just be left to rot but instead I think we wil reap the benfits!

 

[JJetset]

Think about City wanting to win the league for a second. They will need the teams around them to drop points. We are capable of beating anyone on our day so that plays into their hands. Also when we play them Ade isn't eligible so we are back to Pav, JD or Crouchie so that helps them too!
If they can shift half of his salary plus weaken their direct opposition its a win plus they obviously believe that they have more chance of winning the league than us if we went head to head.When did we last challenge? Quite frankly with the money they have spent if they didn't back themselves they would be mad.

 

[venablesphil]

Shame iwas getting my hopes up for Affelay Still i forgot their was talk of 2 from Madrid?? watching tonights game De maria would be just glorious hes is excellent...wishful thinking though...still who could it be? it hasnt been spoken of for some time?. I dont see Rossi happening full stop although his team mate Nilmar is it? he looked v.good tonight Llorente? god knows did we show him around the training ground as some have said? again its gone quiet on him! so again i dont think itl happen aslong as Ade comes in Diarra comes in and a CB then il be v.happy anything extra will be gratefully recieved

We keep getting ITK on Rossi though, I would be very surprised if we get him as well but even yesterday Ryan was saying were trying for him so you never know. I wouldn't be surprised if any possible transfer relied on Villeral CL hopes, if they get knocked out surely they will need extra transfer income to balance their books as I don't think they are exactly flush! Maybe Lllorent is number two on that list and we are waiting to see what happens with Rossi

As from the 2 from RM obviously one would be Diara and as for the second it could be between numerous options, only time will tell if Ackie is right. I think he got that info from someone high up at RM and we keep hearing about our good relationahip whi RM as well.

Or everything could be bloocks and we will end up with Carlton Cole, Joe Cole, Parker and Obemwhingie! Eek

 

[keepthefaith]

Think about City wanting to win the league for a second. They will need the teams around them to drop points. We are capable of beating anyone on our day so that plays into their hands. Also when we play them Ade isn't eligible so we are back to Pav, JD or Crouchie so that helps them too!
If they can shift half of his salary plus weaken their direct opposition its a win plus they obviously believe that they have more chance of winning the league than us if we went head to head.When did we last challenge? Quite frankly with the money they have spent if they didn't back themselves they would be mad.

I think this is exactly their reason for allowing it. It would only backfire if we end up above them which I imagine would mean we are in the top 2!

 

[Mr Pink]

Think about City wanting to win the league for a second. They will need the teams around them to drop points. We are capable of beating anyone on our day so that plays into their hands. Also when we play them Ade isn't eligible so we are back to Pav, JD or Crouchie so that helps them too!
If they can shift half of his salary plus weaken their direct opposition its a win plus they obviously believe that they have more chance of winning the league than us if we went head to head.When did we last challenge? Quite frankly with the money they have spent if they didn't back themselves they would be mad.

This...sums it up lovely.

 

[bubble07]

Anyone else slightly worried that it's all one quiet on the ITK front?

 

[keepthefaith]

I dont see the link between Villareal potentially being knocked out and Rossi leaving. I cant see them being knocked out of the CL and losing their best player in the same week, the fans would revolt! Anyway thought they showed more than enough tonight to indicate they will turn it round.

 

[Grapo2001]

Anyone else slightly worried that it's all one quiet on the ITK front?

Its past 11pm, everyone is probably done for the day

 

[SpurSince57]

Got to agree with you there Matty. I wonder if we've sounded him out and instead of saying yes or no he's said 'not at the moment'. I think he would like to prove himself in the Prem and we are probably only one of 6 teams that could tempt him. If we improve enough this window then who knows. I certainly can't see any of the other English teams going for him this window.

I can remember Rebrab saying at the start of the window that if we have to pay say £30M for a player that we can later sell for £40M then we will do it.
If we sign Rossi I'm sure his price will go up.

Just to reiterate, it was widely reported that Villareal's el presidente has said Rossi can go, as long as it's for his €/£44m buy-out clause.

 

[ohh Teddy Teddy]

Re: Samba

Im not convinced hes any better than what we have already to be honest. In fact, I dont even think we need another CB, but thats just me personally. Say we was to buy Samba or Cahill it would be atleast £10m and its a waste of money imo. We have Dawson, Bassong, Kaboul, King, Gallas. Corluka, Walker, Livermore and Huddlestone can all play CB too. Waste of money signing a CB unless we did a p/e.

 

[Mr Pink]

Just to reiterate, it was widely reported that Villareal's el presidente has said Rossi can go, as long as it's for his €/£44m buy-out clause.

expect an opening bid of 14 million from us then :grin:

 

[Rout-Ledge]

expect an opening bid of 14 million from us then :grin:

:lol: funny because it's true

 

[JJetset]

expect an opening bid of 14 million from us then :grin:

Or 10 mill plus Robbie keane .......

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Or 10 mill plus Robbie keane .......

You do know he doesn't play for us right? :wink:

 

[Lilbaz]

You do know he doesn't play for us right? :wink:

We probably put a buy back clause in his contract :wink:

 

[Brazilyid]

Ok how about this for a long shot regarding apples and pairs.

William Tell shot apple off sons head = Willian, Pairs= JadSON..

Both play for Shakhter and both have been in London recently.

 

[JJetset]

Just taking you back to this time last year and Daniels deal for them !!!
Before you ask yes I know it for a fact!