Teasy

They've obviously been saving that up for the moment we make a big signing.. classic propaganda from the Nazi.. er I mean London press

For a start they haven't signed Arshavin and most likely won't, second I seriously doubt there current wage structure is anything like the tight budget shown in the 2006-2007 financials.

Wasn't there an English language Depor forum somewhere on the net? I thought I remember looking at one during the Luque transfer..

It'd be a lot more than 63 pages if the thread was about how s*** SUPERTOON is tbh. oww that really hurt I thought I told you to shut up. You did indeed but then you also said we were ITK and were signing Kapo and Crouch

Sounds perfect - why don't we just go sign him instead?? Because he's not as good, he's just the best they can get on a tight budget to try to replace Coloccini.

Your head wouldn't be turned by a potential haul of Dos Santos, Arshavin, Pav., Bentley, and Modric compared to our Guthrie, Gutierrez and Bassong? Worse off than last year? With the potential addition of Villa to replace Berbatov? Bollocks. Harp on about their defence if you like, it's no worse than anyone else's outside the top four or five, especially no worse than ours. Daft daft daft. You're comparing the Spuds potential signings with our actual signings so far! Why do some people have to be deliberately negative about our own side yet exaggerate how good things are at other clubs, its f***ing crazy!

Why would they? Well they're f***ed financially. The player wants to go and is threatening to leave for close to nowt when he next gets the chance. Also they can't afford to risk losing the player much later in the transfer window (if they get the right offer they can't really afford to refuse it no matter when its offered) and be left without the time to buy a replacement. Suppose it all comes down to just how crazy their president really is.

Think you're getting confused with the fee, don't know where you're getting £7 million from. We've offered 11 million Euro's (£8.7 million) plus 1 million Euro's on apearances (£9.5 million total). That's the fee they asked for and now they want more. Its not about the price, its about how they're upping the fee after initially agreeing to it.

Amazing isn't it

Two in the next two weeks! There's a month left in the transfer window..

Put your toys back in the pram..

Deadline?

Have we sold Faye then?..

"Like West Ham did with us over Dyer, let us the board have a bit rant but cave-in." I put "us" in by a mistake, but apart from that, not sure what's unclear tbh. Well the "us" bit obviously

Report on sky sports news this morning says they have spent £43m with £39m coming back in. They have done some very good deals selling players. Which players were they including, those figures don't look quite right.

If that was his point then he used pretty odd wording.. BTW as far as I remember we cancelled the transfer initially because we were unhappy with something West Ham had done.

That's always how he wins. Thing is though, they're the one's holding all the Aces. Like West Ham did with us over Dyer, let us the board have a bit rant but cave-in. Can't see us attracting anybody better for £10m, so just do it. We didn't cave in to anything with Dyer, they caved and came back with more money..

So we knew Owen would twist his knee at the world cup? We knew Duff would break his foot or that he wasnt going to settle? They were not signings of players 'over the hill' or past their best when we signed them. Emre never took to the premiership and Duff's form has been woeful but in neither case can that be attributed to age. Owen's injury at the world cup has nothing what so ever to do with it, neither does Duff's injury, age doesn't either. Actually that's the very reason why he missed the point so badley. See nobody mentioned age as the reason why any of these players were past there best. Owen had already has bad injuries before signing for us and had lost a decent amount of pace well before we signed him. Duff had hit terrible form at Chelsea and was basically shit for a full season before we signed him.

Afar I was responding to you're claim that Ashley is refusing to spend money. I have no interest in discussing what our transfer policy should be, only making the point that money is clearly available and that not signing a player does not mean money wasn't made available. That was the whole point of my initial post about transfers often being very long and difficult processes. Well actually yes there is, despite some people continually ignoring the facts for some strange reason. We've had confirmed bids for numerous players so far, totaling somewhere around £40 million (not to mention the many rumoured bids). Money has been made available, amazing as this may sound to you we didn't say to the likes of Modric "sign for the Spuds, we can't afford your fee, we've only made the bid to fool the Newcastle public you know..".

How many times does it have to be said that transfers don't just happen because you want them too. Its usually a long slow process of negotiation (the transfers of Jonas and Guthrie being the exception) and they can often fall through. Look at Modric, Woodgate and Aimar, we made firm offers totalling £32 million for the three of them and got none of them. Meanwhile we've offered £9.5 million (exactly the fee asked for apparently) for Coloccino and the c*** at Depor now wants even more, so that may also end without a signing. Some people seem to have this idea that every day we don't sign a player is a day that Mike Ashley has wisheld money, its nonesense! You can't just stick £50 million in the hands of Keegan/Wise/Vetere ect and say "Right I want £50 million worth of players tomorrow".. fine point that teasy - the alleged stories about the luque deal (if true) highlight what happens when you don't set your stall out BUT there must come a point where our valuation of a player vs the selling clubs valuation has to give...if the coloccini stuff is true then the whole things on hold for less than 1m GBP right? do we pay that extra or face the prospect of not bringing in a new quality CB we obviously appear to rate? Well one thing I definitely don't think we should have done is agree to the extra money straight away. I mean we made an initial offer, they told us to increase that offer a certain amount and we did that only for them to ask for even more. That's taking the piss and immediately adding the extra just makes us into mugs. Having said that if the difference between us really is £1 million and there president really is being honest this time then I think it'll be resolved.

I don't need to look at the Robbie Keane deal, I can look at Jonas or Guthrie for a quick deal, as I said they happen but the idea that every deal will happen like that is idiotic. I can't be bothered to argue wether our club should have to accept paying silly money for players or not. I don't think they should at all but if you believe we should be that desperate then that's up to you. None of that changes the fact that money is available, there's no evidence what so ever that Mike Ashley is refusing to spend is there?.. which was the point of my post, a point you just completely ignored.

Missing the point entirely there.

Your wrong!! FFS its Blackburn you idiot, its Blackburn!!

Anyone but Blackburn... er, I mean its Blackburn.