LooneyToonArmy Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 In unsurprising news it seems like Man City are signing Willy Caballero. Looks like Hart will be seeing more of the bench this season. Caballero is class and should have been in the Argentina team (or squad at least) ahead of Romero. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Fulham agree £11m fee for McCormack. Ridiculous. Does this make him the most expensive Scottish player in history by the way? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Steven Fletcher was £12m. Unless you are specifically talking about Scottish-born players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Forgot about James McCarthy (£13m). Scottish-born, that is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Fulham agree £11m fee for McCormack. Ridiculous. Leeds would probably reject a £17m offer mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0cafella Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Fulham agree £11m fee for McCormack. Ridiculous. Does this make him the most expensive Scottish player in history by the way? Same price as debuchy pretty much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 In unsurprising news it seems like Man City are signing Willy Caballero. Class. Would love nothing more than to see that cunt Hart rot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeloEmre Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Fulham agree £11m fee for McCormack. Ridiculous. £23m for Mitroglou and McCormack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Not a lot for 2 strikers by today's inflated fees tbh. Especially if an average of 11.5m gets you two strikers that can score goals in that division and significantly improve your chances of gaining promotion to the cash cow league at the first attempt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 £11m for McCormack who is only proven in the Championship Remy is available for £8m this summer. We've just signed the captain of Ajax for just over half of that £11m fee. That is really disturbing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Why is that disturbing? Remy is available for that fee because of his clause. De Jong went for that as he wanted to leave with a year left and had an injury-prone year, and whether he performs up to expectations is still anyone's guess. Just because we shop in the bargain bins doesn't mean that other clubs paying an average fee for a striker by today's standards should be laughed at. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Would you have been happy if we had bought McCormack for £11m? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 £11m for McCormack who is only proven in the Championship Remy is available for £8m this summer. We've just signed the captain of Ajax for just over half of that £11m fee. That is really disturbing. Remy doesn't want to join us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Does it matter? We shop in different windows and Fulham willing to pay the on-going rate while we keep to 1994 fees doesn't mean they are crazy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDT Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Does it matter? We shop in different windows and Fulham willing to pay the on-going rate while we keep to 1994 fees doesn't mean they are crazy. Would you really be happy with paying £11m for Ross McCormack? I would love to see us spend that sort of fee on a player but I'd be a bit pissed off if it was for McCormack. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Does it matter? We shop in different windows and Fulham willing to pay the on-going rate while we keep to 1994 fees doesn't mean they are crazy. I don't see the correlation between how we shop and the fee for McCormack. £11m for a championship striker is nuts. Remy's original fee was £8m was it not, and hence why he wanted to be able to leave for the same amount if QPR got relegated. I'm guessing you would have been horrified if we spent £11m on McCormack, and rightly so. When we were linked people were talking about £5m at the most, or they'd be pissed! Liverpool have just spent £10 million on a 19 year old with a ton of potential, who was already scoring goals at the top level in France. The Lassoga guy who was already scoring goals in the top level in Germany, at 22, has gone for £8m. Something is wrong somewhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I was pissed off when it looked like we might pay 6m for him. 11m is just stupid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Does it matter? We shop in different windows and Fulham willing to pay the on-going rate while we keep to 1994 fees doesn't mean they are crazy. Would you really be happy with paying £11m for Ross McCormack? I would love to see us spend that sort of fee on a player but I'd be a bit p*ssed off if it was for McCormack. Like I said, Fulham identified one of their targets and are willing to pay a couple million more to secure him. We penny-pinch and are not willing to even pay an extra 1m to get our targets across the line. 10m is the average going rate for a striker nowadays and they have got a proven striker in that division. And that's like, 5-6m in 1994 rates? Yeah, I'm bloody envious they are committed to getting their players over the line unlike us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 LRD you are a good politician, I'll give you that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Does it matter? We shop in different windows and Fulham willing to pay the on-going rate while we keep to 1994 fees doesn't mean they are crazy. I don't see the correlation between how we shop and the fee for McCormack. £11m for a championship striker is nuts. Remy's original fee was £8m was it not, and hence why he wanted to be able to leave for the same amount if QPR got relegated. I'm guessing you would have been horrified if we spent £11m on McCormack, and rightly so. When we were linked people were talking about £5m at the most, or they'd be p*ssed! Liverpool have just spent £10 million on a 19 year old with a ton of potential, who was already scoring goals at the top level in France. The Lassoga guy who was already scoring goals in the top level in Germany, at 22, has gone for £8m. Something is wrong somewhere. Remy's valuation is definitely well over 10m now. It's his clause that makes him cheap man. We are already mentally-adjusted to laugh at other clubs once they pay whatever the ongoing rates for a player. Anything above 10m and we look at their transfers with NUFC-bargain bin eyes and say it's stupid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 LRD you are a good politician, I'll give you that. If that's the best you can come up with, you should stick to your OTT criticism of players marra. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ste Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 It's about experience, he'll score them goals and give them a good chance of promotion if the rest of the team is right too. Not so sure he'll be much cop in the Premiership and they have next to no hope of recouping anywhere near that fee even if he does well. But I guess they're showing a bit of ambition, even if it's with the wrong kind of target in my eyes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Okay, we'll call it quits. I get what you're saying, but my argument is that £11m is never the going rate for McCormack. Fulham are panicking IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDT Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Look at the views of supporters from other clubs when you see Fulham pay £11m for McCormack, it's got nothing to do with us being used to paying under the supposed value of players the transfer fee just makes absolutely no sense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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