Village Idiot Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 That front three would give you 20 goals a season between them all. They don't fit each other well, imho. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Are you planning on signing Llorente by the way? Great player, but not a goal machine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 wtf village...i trust your knowlege of the game more then most. Ok realistically, what front 3 would you feel can work for us? Take into account the players we currently have and realistic transfer targets. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Are you planning on signing Llorente by the way? Great player, but not a goal machine. We've been linked for ages and have made bids before. I'm pretty sure we'll bid again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 You just need a Carroll. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiemag Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Hazard Bale Sow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxfree Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Llorente won't go to Spurs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Don't see why Llorente would want to leave Athletic to go to Spurs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Llorente works great with wingers that love the box, like his partnership with Muniain at Bilbao. Bojan's not great on the right, since he's right-footed, and Bale looks to me like he is more comfortable from deep. I don't really know what's a "realistic" transfer target for you lot. Rossi should be getable money-wise, but I presume he'd rather play in the CL with Villarreal and hold out for a bigger team. Great finisher, extremely smart player, should develop a good rap with your midfield. Actually Rossi - Llorente - Bale doesn't look bad at all if you have a good RB (Rossi's excellent playing in the channels), but that would cost you €55m. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Don't see why Llorente would want to leave Athletic to go to Spurs. We're better than Athletico? higher wage? raise your profile better/faster? I think he'd be willing to come providing there wasnt competition from a superior team. I know he's a Basque boy and supports them but loyalty means fuck all in football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxfree Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Don't see why Llorente would want to leave Athletic to go to Spurs. We're better than Athletico? higher wage? raise your profile better/faster? I think he'd be willing to come providing there wasnt competition from a superior team. I know he's a Basque boy and supports them but loyalty means f*** all in football. I actually don't think, with your wage cap, that you could give him higher wages. Athletic pay top dollar to keep their players. He'll stay in Spain anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 IIRC Llorente's wages are €2m net. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Do they? i wasnt aware of that tbh. Ok fair enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Yes, they have a very small pond to fish in, so they have to pay over the odds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Sociedad the same? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 They don't have a Basque-only policy, so no. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 oh yeah they had the deadley Nihat-Kovacevic partnership back in the day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Yeah they're in Europe next season, putting together a decent side and pay top dollar. Don't think there'd be much motivation for him to move to Spurs. It'll be a very big club coming in that makes him move. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmk Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 I'd much rather play for Bilbao than Spurs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 thanks colinmk from newcastle-online.org Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxfree Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/transfer-news/Arsenal-target-Wolves-striker-Kevin-Doyle-for-a-12million-move-to-the-Emirates-article755880.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter What the link says. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gash Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 No thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDiablo Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Blatant spite behind that from Arsene if it goes through. Like doing the washing up badly so you don't have to do it again. "Well, you wanted me to spend money and to bring in more experienced players; you got it!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/8611865/Fair-Play-rules-leave-clubs-with-unwanted-players-in-a-dormant-market.html Fair Play rules leave clubs with unwanted players in a dormant market If proof were needed that Uefa’s Financial Fair Play regulations really are being taken seriously by English football’s leading clubs, the logjam of cast-offs, misfits and outcasts preparing to return to pre-season training this week says everything about the new reality dawning over the Premier League. The start of the 2011-12 season signals the beginning of the three-year monitoring period of FFP, which enables clubs to post losses totalling no more than £45 million during that time. And the new financial strictures are beginning to bite, with clubs no longer prepared to cut quick deals to offload unwanted players and prospective buyers more reluctant than ever to make early raids on the transfer market in order to have their new additions in place in time for the start of pre-season. The fallout of FFP is the prime reason for the delayed start to the transfer madness this summer. Aside from Manchester United, whose £49.8 million spending spree has largely been funded by the £80 million sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid two years ago, and some astute business undertaken by Newcastle and Sunderland, the Premier League transfer market has been dormant. Clubs are now more interested in cutting waste than adding to it. One senior figure at a top-six club claimed privately last week that his team is weighed down by so many players who need to be moved on that there is not enough room for them on the plane due to carry the squad to their overseas pre-season tour. Even Manchester City, roundly criticised for lavishing millions on fees and wages during the first two years of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan’s ownership, are on a fast-track towards financial prudence in order to comply with FFP, which is why Roberto Mancini’s summer recruitment drive has yet to slip into second gear. When he left Eastlands for Italy at the end of last season, having guided City into the Champions League, Mancini expected a raft of fringe players to have been replaced by at least three top quality arrivals by the time he returned for pre-season. Yet Gaël Clichy is the only new face so far and he will take to the training field on Tuesday with the likes of Craig Bellamy, Emmanuel Adebayor and Wayne Bridge — three players loaned out last season and with no future under Mancini. Adebayor’s £165,000-a-week wages are frightening potential buyers away, while interested parties such as Zenit St Petersburg and Paris St Germain have been rebuffed by the Togolese forward, who cost £25 million on arrival from Arsenal two years ago. Similarly, there are few takers for Bellamy and Bridge, beneficiaries of the inflated salaries signed off during Mark Hughes’s reign as manager, while Roque Santa Cruz, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Shay Given are also finding their transfer valuations or wages to be too high for prospective buyers. City, in turn, are loathe to cancel contracts and write players off. Doing so would merely add to the losses on the balance sheet. So until Mancini can shift his shadow squad, his prospects of injecting new blood will remain compromised. It is a similar story at Liverpool and Tottenham, where Kenny Dalglish and Harry Redknapp are under pressure to shift dead wood before recruiting new players. Redknapp is struggling to find clubs willing to meet Tottenham’s valuation of Robbie Keane and David Bentley, while Dalglish is left with the challenge of undoing the mess caused by the panic buying during the final months of the Hicks-Gillett regime at Anfield. Unsurprisingly, Liverpool have yet to find clubs willing to take on the six-figure weekly salaries of Joe Cole or Milan Jovanovic. Karl Oyston, the Blackpool chairman who continues to play hardball with Liverpool over Charlie Adam, insisted last month that his club will wait until mid-August before making a concerted effort to trade in the market. That is when panic is likely to set in, but who will blink first? The players on bloated contracts or the clubs foolish enough to pay them? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 No mention of Henderson? Regardless, considering everyone keeps saying there's ages left I don't really see why there's a news story there just yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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