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...
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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...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 He's the Championship top scorer and anyone wanting him would have to pay around that fee to get him. Rhodes, whom Blackburn bought for 8m from League 1 would probably cost more than that. Zaha was sold for 15m. If you want the division's top players you will have to pay the asking price. To fans of a club like us, we should even care less about paying an extra couple millions if we actually get a player we need. Who else are you going to get for 10m that will guarantee you goals and a return to the massive tv deal? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDT Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 It's been discussed before but Zaha had a number of things going in his favour that would inflate his transfer fee, I have no issue paying an extra million or two to secure a target but the McCormack fee is mental. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Or we just get someone better, younger and cheaper from abroad. Sure you could try getting someone 'better' and cheaper but you would be taking a risk whether he performs. Getting a proven striker in that division that guarantees you goals comes at a premium though. Edit: nice delete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 McCormack for £11m is totally mental. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Scary thing about McCormack is the fact that last year was the first he's really scored at that rate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Now Rhodes I'd pay that for, actually rate him and think he'd do well at our level. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Now Rhodes I'd pay that for, actually rate him and think he'd do well at our level. Would love him here but no chance of that ever happening imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Yeah, Rhodes and Zaha are young guys who are on an upward trajectory. McCormack is 27, and has only scored at that clip in one season i.e. the one just past. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Or we just get someone better, younger and cheaper from abroad. Sure you could try getting someone 'better' and cheaper but you would be taking a risk whether he performs. Getting a proven striker in that division that guarantees you goals comes at a premium though. Edit: nice delete. I'd decided I couldn't be arsed. Cheers for quoting it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 McCormack for £11m is totally mental. Absolutely ridiculous price. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Or we just get someone better, younger and cheaper from abroad. Sure you could try getting someone 'better' and cheaper but you would be taking a risk whether he performs. Getting a proven striker in that division that guarantees you goals comes at a premium though. Edit: nice delete. I'd decided I couldn't be arsed. Cheers for quoting it I'm out too. Decided that I should enjoy whatever is left of what has been generally a great WC so far. The long season ahead can wait. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 McCormack's a good striker, man. £11m is obscene but he's pretty much guaranteed to perform for them, he's not just a goalscorer either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Can only assume Fulham's new American owner is mental. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Althought the fee seems excessive, you have to consider what is at stake for Fulham regarding promotion or the very real possibility of lingering in the lower leagues for years to come. Having just been relegated I assume not many good strikers are available to them at this point in time, and they've gone out and got he very best they could get (proven in the division and likely to bust a gut to get them promoted) and probably overpaid significantly for a bigger chance of coming straight back up. It's a calculated risk, and I think they deserve credit for taking it. I've said this before, but as Newcastle fans under Ashley we are conditioned to frown at any transfer fee over 8 million. LRD is absolutely correct in saying that 10 million for a striker isn't all that much nowadays all things considered. Yet I would be gobsmacked if we spend that much on a single player this summer when we are absolutely desperate to recruit the very best striker we can get in our position considering how light we are in that area and how very palpable the prospect of relegation seems. People may laugh at that fee for a player of McCormack's ability, and rightly so to an extent, but to me it just points out how much we are in trouble with Fat Mike unwilling to invest any serious amount of (our) cash. We may not even get a striker of his ability in, let alone one we require to have this club back challenging where it belongs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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