Not true, we did have some ITK (albeit the bearer of it admitted it was a bit dubious) concerning a certain German manager.
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I remember the interview. The anti-Harryists have used it as a springboard ever since to spout unfounded theories about how Harry has little involvement in transfers and lacks the ability to spot a player.
He also said in that same interview that we enquired a few days prior and were quoted £17-18m and also that they thought he was off to Bayern. To me that suggests he was very much a target but Danny was contacted as part of a massive climb down by Madrid as it was so close to the deadline
And our handsome-factor will drop a few points with Niko leaving. He's a sexy, sexy man (I've allowed my missus to sleep with him in exchange for Scarlett Johanson).
Clearly I meant deaf but am only half paying f**king attention
Shit me, why are people still discussing HR on this thread? The only ITK has been from Pottle about Vertonghen.
Assuming the bit about Leandro is true (and I'm not sure as it is), as I explained on another thread, when this issue came up, we are one fo the best run clubs, financially in the EPL, and we benefit greatly from that. Now, if Mr Levy just jumped to it, and paid these extra £2 millions here and there, and sold players for the £2 million less, just to get deals done where he lets them drag on or fall though, where do you think we would be?
Say, for example, we have 4 players in and 4 players out, and we sell for £2 M less than we could have got for each one, and we buy 4 players for £2 M more than we could have got them for if levy bargained hard and long. That makes £16 million. Now, say, he had done this in the last five years - that makes a total of £81 million. Would we still be profitable? No, we would be in debt.
We have a very good squad right now, and are challenging for the CL places (basically attained in two of the last three seasons - yeah, thanks Chavski ). How much would we have benefitted from getting a few of these deals done quicker, and getting some of the players we have missed out on? Can you absolutely guarantee that we would have finished higher than we have? Because we have done really well but, really (in absolute terms, not just their poor showing this season), the gap between us and Chelsea, and Citeh/United in terms of spending power is enormous. And this has a general correlation to success. So the chances are we would have still been competing around about the 4th spot - only we would be quite heavily in debt. And when you are heavily in debt you have to sell your best players - not because they want higher wages, or because the team isn't progressing as quickly as they wuold like, but because the bank manager tells you to.
I am glad that Mr Levy can see this clearly, and doesn't gamble our long term future on the very dubious possibility that we might do better if we got some players in a bit faster, and we got some players in that we miss out on. And not just a bit better but substantially better.
Which people are not actually discussing here.
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i hear what youre saying but i dont mean he should do it on all examples, leandro was just a particularly fitting one.
also, on the flip side, had he paid the extra 2 million last summer, we would have had an alternative to adebayor up front and im willing to bet that had we signed the extra striker, they would have earnt us at least one point extra.
that would have given us 3rd and a windfall of 35m CL money + the 4 million extra prize money from the league...
there are certain players - ones that look to have all the right attributes and are being offered at a good price (14m was a very fair asking price in my view) that levy should just be happy to do the deal rather than trying to be the master haggler and trying to mug them off.
Deep Breaths, RMY, deep breaths.
I think it is an interesting one.
I was never sold on the idea.
Then I watched the USA demolish Scotland, and thought it was somewhat more interesting. They had some really good movement and showed some real vision and confidence.
Then they got slapped by Brazil, but even then, they showed real spirit, got themselves back in the game and were quick unlucky not to finish closer...but Brazil were their rapid counter-attacking, clinicla in front of goal best.
As one of the few posters above who did mention it said, you can't get any closer to a Klinsmann-esque signing than signing Klinsmann
TBH, the way I feel right now, I'd give it a go.
No chance of Klinsmann. We played fantastic against Scotland, only to relapse against Brazil and Canada. The side is clearly a work in progress and he doesn't seem like the type to jump ship in he middle of his own project. With World Cup qualification starting in two days, Jurgen's job is only just now really starting. In my opinion, we have more of a chance of signing Messi than Klinsmann at this point in time. He doesn't want to leave, and US Soccer and Gulati don't want him to leave.
I have a theory. My theory is that Real Madyidd is ironically rating all the off topic, uninformative posts as "informative". A quick scroll back will highlight all you Bastards who have gone off on a tangent - which is a lot.
So unless I am confusing this with the Off Topic Bastard thread........?
why are we talking about Vasquez and Jurgen
why are we talking about Vasquez and Jurgen