Minhosa

££££ - Happy Days eh?

He definitely started talking about the possibility of Cabaye leaving last summer before anyone else was, his motivation for that is debatable I suppose. ££££

You've sold Cabaye You've just gone sold Cabaye We hope you die of aids. Because you sold Cabaye You sold our Cabaye Again we've been betrayed....... FUCK OFF.

Would be very meh, all things considered.

Take it. Stuck £40 on it. Biggest bet I've ever placed, praying I lose. I followed you on it aswell. Good value.

Take it.

I don't think any excuses are needed TBH. A massive bid comes in for a player at a non-CL team, they go. It's fucking depressing for us but it's how it is. Yeah - I mean just look at Baines and Suarez in the summer.

Be a kick in the clems if we don't get him in.

There's reasons to be fed up but we don't really have a track record of flogging our stars for anything other than astronomical sums. Demba Ba, Shay Given, Jose Enrique, Habib Beye, Fraser Forster, N'Zog, Perch - none of them went for astronomical sums. In fact, take Carroll out of the equation and they've probably performed about average - some players leaving for more than they were worth and some less. Which one went for more than they were worth? Contract clause after signing on a free Contract about to expire Contract about to expire Relegated and wanted out Young, third choice keeper, most surprised we actually got the fee we did Pissed off by Kinnear/stroppy bollocks looking for an excuse to leave after Duff took his place Contract running down and deemed not worth keeping. How many of our "stars" have we actually sold on for a big profit? I count one and if you find a single person who now thinks we shouldn't have sold Carrroll for a British record fee then I have severe concerns about them. That wasn't the point he was making though was it? How many of our players have gone for 'Astronomical fees'? Apologies, so your point was we don't really sell our best players No my point was, AC apart, we've got no track record of achieving astronomical fees for players, as had been claimed. Hope your maths tutor can bring an English tutor with him too. That might be because, AC apart, we don't often sell our best players. you made the point originally and now you're saying we don't sell our best players. Cracking point. We don't often sell our best players however when we do we get substantial fees. It's not particularly difficult to understand. You said astronomical. I'm just waiting for a couple of examples of this unbelievable roi.

Think it was the Press Association. SSN seemed to report first but stand corrected if that's the case.

Interesting that sky sports were the original source of this offer/rejection too...........

There's reasons to be fed up but we don't really have a track record of flogging our stars for anything other than astronomical sums. Demba Ba, Shay Given, Jose Enrique, Habib Beye, Fraser Forster, N'Zog, Perch - none of them went for astronomical sums. In fact, take Carroll out of the equation and they've probably performed about average - some players leaving for more than they were worth and some less. Which one went for more than they were worth? Contract clause after signing on a free Contract about to expire Contract about to expire Relegated and wanted out Young, third choice keeper, most surprised we actually got the fee we did Pissed off by Kinnear/stroppy bollocks looking for an excuse to leave after Duff took his place Contract running down and deemed not worth keeping. How many of our "stars" have we actually sold on for a big profit? I count one and if you find a single person who now thinks we shouldn't have sold Carrroll for a British record fee then I have severe concerns about them. That wasn't the point he was making though was it? How many of our players have gone for 'Astronomical fees'? Apologies, so your point was we don't really sell our best players No my point was, AC apart, we've got no track record of achieving astronomical fees for players, as had been claimed. Hope your maths tutor can bring an English tutor with him too. That might be because, AC apart, we don't often sell our best players. you made the point originally and now you're saying we don't sell our best players. Cracking point.

There's reasons to be fed up but we don't really have a track record of flogging our stars for anything other than astronomical sums. Demba Ba, Shay Given, Jose Enrique, Habib Beye, Fraser Forster, N'Zog, Perch - none of them went for astronomical sums. In fact, take Carroll out of the equation and they've probably performed about average - some players leaving for more than they were worth and some less. Which one went for more than they were worth? Contract clause after signing on a free Contract about to expire Contract about to expire Relegated and wanted out Young, third choice keeper, most surprised we actually got the fee we did Pissed off by Kinnear/stroppy bollocks looking for an excuse to leave after Duff took his place Contract running down and deemed not worth keeping. How many of our "stars" have we actually sold on for a big profit? I count one and if you find a single person who now thinks we shouldn't have sold Carrroll for a British record fee then I have severe concerns about them. That wasn't the point he was making though was it? How many of our players have gone for 'Astronomical fees'? Apologies, so your point was we don't really sell our best players No my point was, AC apart, we've got no track record of achieving astronomical fees for players, as had been claimed. Hope your maths tutor can bring an English tutor with him too.

There's reasons to be fed up but we don't really have a track record of flogging our stars for anything other than astronomical sums. Demba Ba, Shay Given, Jose Enrique, Habib Beye, Fraser Forster, N'Zog, Perch - none of them went for astronomical sums. In fact, take Carroll out of the equation and they've probably performed about average - some players leaving for more than they were worth and some less. Which one went for more than they were worth? Contract clause after signing on a free Contract about to expire Contract about to expire Relegated and wanted out Young, third choice keeper, most surprised we actually got the fee we did Pissed off by Kinnear/stroppy bollocks looking for an excuse to leave after Duff took his place Contract running down and deemed not worth keeping. How many of our "stars" have we actually sold on for a big profit? I count one and if you find a single person who now thinks we shouldn't have sold Carrroll for a British record fee then I have severe concerns about them. That wasn't the point he was making though was it? How many of our players have gone for 'Astronomical fees'? How many of our star players have we genuinely sold in the past few years? At the time of sale Enrique was our best left back. The best one we've had in my 20+ years of supporting the club. Ba was also our best fwd. There's an argument to say Given was the best keeper on our books at the time of sale too.

There's reasons to be fed up but we don't really have a track record of flogging our stars for anything other than astronomical sums. Demba Ba, Shay Given, Jose Enrique, Habib Beye, Fraser Forster, N'Zog, Perch - none of them went for astronomical sums. In fact, take Carroll out of the equation and they've probably performed about average - some players leaving for more than they were worth and some less. Which one went for more than they were worth? Contract clause after signing on a free Contract about to expire Contract about to expire Relegated and wanted out Young, third choice keeper, most surprised we actually got the fee we did Pissed off by Kinnear/stroppy bollocks looking for an excuse to leave after Duff took his place Contract running down and deemed not worth keeping. How many of our "stars" have we actually sold on for a big profit? I count one and if you find a single person who now thinks we shouldn't have sold Carrroll for a British record fee then I have severe concerns about them. That wasn't the point he was making though was it? How many of our players have gone for 'Astronomical fees'? Perhaps because none of them have been worth astronomical money. Which renders the point useless.

There's reasons to be fed up but we don't really have a track record of flogging our stars for anything other than astronomical sums. Demba Ba, Shay Given, Jose Enrique, Habib Beye, Fraser Forster, N'Zog, Perch - none of them went for astronomical sums. In fact, take Carroll out of the equation and they've probably performed about average - some players leaving for more than they were worth and some less. Which one went for more than they were worth? Contract clause after signing on a free Contract about to expire Contract about to expire Relegated and wanted out Young, third choice keeper, most surprised we actually got the fee we did Pissed off by Kinnear/stroppy bollocks looking for an excuse to leave after Duff took his place Contract running down and deemed not worth keeping. How many of our "stars" have we actually sold on for a big profit? I count one and if you find a single person who now thinks we shouldn't have sold Carrroll for a British record fee then I have severe concerns about them. That wasn't the point he was making though was it? How many of our players have gone for 'Astronomical fees'?

I don't know a single person who rates him, not a single person at work or anybody I go to games with. Unfortunately I have quite the opposite. I'd say 90% of the fans I know like him, say "it's obvious he cares", doing a good job, generally don't like HBA - honestly, it confuses the life out of me I fear for them. All of them.

There's reasons to be fed up but we don't really have a track record of flogging our stars for anything other than astronomical sums. Demba Ba, Shay Given, Jose Enrique, Habib Beye, Fraser Forster, N'Zog, Perch - none of them went for astronomical sums. In fact, take Carroll out of the equation and they've probably performed about average - some players leaving for more than they were worth and some less. Which one went for more than they were worth?

Pretty standard practise isn't it? Notify other interested parties that one club has made roads to actually sign the player; try to start a bidding war. If the bid was at all close to what the club know to value him at then I could see the logic. It's no where near what the club want though. I can't imagine it's got Arsenal, Man United etc. scrambling around looking for their cheque books worried that they're going to be beaten to his signature. It's £4m more than they were gonna get in the summer. Nobody knows what their valuation is. What this information will do imho will have Arsenal/Man Utd etc wondering if they 'just' bid £16m, would it be enough. Then they'll be told someone else has already bid more.............they'll still think £18m is a bargain because all they've heard, read and been told all month is that he's worth £25m. "What this information will do imho will have Arsenal/Man Utd etc wondering if they 'just' bid £16m, would it be enough." I doubt it because... "all they've heard, read and been told all month is that he's worth £25m." I don't know what we would stand to gain from leaking the info. I can see what PSG get and why Cabaye and his agent would make it public but I don't think saying "hey, we've received a derisory offer for an unsettle player" does anything for NUFC. YOU think it's derisory. Maybe they don't. What's to say that they wouldn't take £15m and they are therefore making this 'bid' public in order to achieve that? Why, if you'd take £15m for a player, would you reject a bid of £14m completely out of hand? I'm not a businessman but that makes no sense to me. It doesn't really send the right signals. This is all speculative bullshit with absolutely no grounding in reality. All we know is a club made a bid for a player that they've been interested in for quite some time and we rejected it because it didn't come anywhere close to matching the public valuation we've placed on his head. It doesn't seem particularly difficult to understand nor does it seem particularly far-fetched. There's still potentially 2 other cash rich runners in the race and the deadline is looming. Big factors I should think.

There's reasons to be fed up but we don't really have a track record of flogging our stars for anything other than astronomical sums. Demba Ba, Shay Given, Jose Enrique, Habib Beye, Fraser Forster, N'Zog, Perch - none of them went for astronomical sums. In fact, take Carroll out of the equation and they've probably performed about average - some players leaving for more than they were worth and some less.

Pretty standard practise isn't it? Notify other interested parties that one club has made roads to actually sign the player; try to start a bidding war. If the bid was at all close to what the club know to value him at then I could see the logic. It's no where near what the club want though. I can't imagine it's got Arsenal, Man United etc. scrambling around looking for their cheque books worried that they're going to be beaten to his signature. It's £4m more than they were gonna get in the summer. Nobody knows what their valuation is. What this information will do imho will have Arsenal/Man Utd etc wondering if they 'just' bid £16m, would it be enough. Then they'll be told someone else has already bid more.............they'll still think £18m is a bargain because all they've heard, read and been told all month is that he's worth £25m. "What this information will do imho will have Arsenal/Man Utd etc wondering if they 'just' bid £16m, would it be enough." I doubt it because... "all they've heard, read and been told all month is that he's worth £25m." I don't know what we would stand to gain from leaking the info. I can see what PSG get and why Cabaye and his agent would make it public but I don't think saying "hey, we've received a derisory offer for an unsettle player" does anything for NUFC. We'll deliberately bench him against Norwich to make it look like he is on strike, then we will force him to make an apology. This type of post explains why you're struggling with children's algebra .

Pretty standard practise isn't it? Notify other interested parties that one club has made roads to actually sign the player; try to start a bidding war. If the bid was at all close to what the club know to value him at then I could see the logic. It's no where near what the club want though. I can't imagine it's got Arsenal, Man United etc. scrambling around looking for their cheque books worried that they're going to be beaten to his signature. It's £4m more than they were gonna get in the summer. Nobody knows what their valuation is. What this information will do imho will have Arsenal/Man Utd etc wondering if they 'just' bid £16m, would it be enough. Then they'll be told someone else has already bid more.............they'll still think £18m is a bargain because all they've heard, read and been told all month is that he's worth £25m. "What this information will do imho will have Arsenal/Man Utd etc wondering if they 'just' bid £16m, would it be enough." I doubt it because... "all they've heard, read and been told all month is that he's worth £25m." I don't know what we would stand to gain from leaking the info. I can see what PSG get and why Cabaye and his agent would make it public but I don't think saying "hey, we've received a derisory offer for an unsettle player" does anything for NUFC. YOU think it's derisory. Maybe they don't. What's to say that they wouldn't take £15m and they are therefore making this 'bid' public in order to achieve that?

Blanc has constantly admitted an interest hasn't he? and PSG aren't the tightest club around. I know it is hard to believe but I don't think we are always the ones leaking this info to get interest. Why didn't they bid £11m in the summer then? It's not hard to believe, it's naive not to tbqh. Why didn't they bid £11m in the summer? Because they knew it would be rejected as it is only £1m more than the £10m Arsenal bid? PSG have made their interest perfectly clear, why would we pretend they have made a bid to get them to bid? Isn't it obvious that there would be other clubs interested? Fucking hell, this isn't rocket science.

Pretty standard practise isn't it? Notify other interested parties that one club has made roads to actually sign the player; try to start a bidding war. If the bid was at all close to what the club know to value him at then I could see the logic. It's no where near what the club want though. I can't imagine it's got Arsenal, Man United etc. scrambling around looking for their cheque books worried that they're going to be beaten to his signature. It's £4m more than they were gonna get in the summer. Nobody knows what their valuation is. What this information will do imho will have Arsenal/Man Utd etc wondering if they 'just' bid £16m, would it be enough. Then they'll be told someone else has already bid more.............they'll still think £18m is a bargain because all they've heard, read and been told all month is that he's worth £25m.

Blanc has constantly admitted an interest hasn't he? and PSG aren't the tightest club around. I know it is hard to believe but I don't think we are always the ones leaking this info to get interest. Why didn't they bid £11m in the summer then? It's not hard to believe, it's naive not to tbqh.