Disco Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Micah Richards - £11m Curtis Davies - £6m Anton Ferdinand - £8m Leighton Baines - £6.5m Wright-Phillips - £9m Owen Hargreaves - £10m Joey Barton - £6m Dean Ashton - £11m Darren Bent - £8m PS: I had to do it, thoughts like this keep me going (and am currently having a sesh on FM07) You missed off bolding the rest of them. Roberto Mancini in disguise, quick buy some overrated English players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Apart from one of the top 5 left backs in the league like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Although Richards for £11m did amuse me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Apart from one of the top 5 left backs in the league like. Prefer what we bought although 'old man' Baines is alreet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Think they're about equal personally. Naturally each of us will prefer what we got, but either way, both in the top 5 left backs in the league imo. Cole, then Evra obviously clearly out in front. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Think they're about equal personally. Naturally each of us will prefer what we got, but either way, both in the top 5 left backs in the league imo. Cole, then Evra obviously clearly out in front. Aye agreed. Cole, gap, Evra, massive gap, Clichy, Gibbs, Enrique, Baines and Warnock, gap, who cares Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Curtis Davies - £6m Anton Ferdinand - £8m £14m on a defensive partnership not that much (if at all) better than what we have?! Your opinion, shared by you and a peanut. Just stick to the FM editor, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Messi. £100m Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olliemort Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Messi. £100m His buyout clause is actually 250 mil I heard! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 €250m indeed. Cronaldo is something ridiculous like €1000m (would probably get thrown out by court if push came to shove) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 if we had £100m Id like us to buy to Joleon Lescott, James Milner, Wayne Bridge, Roque Santa Cruz and Jo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Why do all players playing in Spain have to have minimum fee release clauses in their contracts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Swift Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Think they're about equal personally. Naturally each of us will prefer what we got, but either way, both in the top 5 left backs in the league imo. Cole, then Evra obviously clearly out in front. Aye agreed. Cole, gap, Evra, massive gap, Clichy, Gibbs, Enrique, Baines and Warnock, gap, who cares Clichy is very poor defensively, no way is he close to Jose. IMO, it goes: Cole - massive gap - Evra - small gap - Enrique, Baines - gap - Clichy - gap - Warnock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Why do all players playing in Spain have to have minimum fee release clauses in their contracts? Due to our labour laws, a player would be free to walk out of a contract at any given time. The "release fees" are actually penalties that the player agrees to pay if he does so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 But you say CRonaldo's could easily be challenged in court, I'm assuming you meant for the ridiculously high amount, does that mean others could too if they deem their clause an unfair amount? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 But you say CRonaldo's could easily be challenged in court, I'm assuming you meant for the ridiculously high amount, does that mean others could too if they deem their clause an unfair amount? Yes. The clause is supposed to be "reasonable" according to the law, and even though it's not defined what "reasonable" is, some players have successfully challenged and succeeded in reducing the amounts. Proportionality with the salary is usually the criteria most followed by courts (remember this is supposed to be a penalty paid by the player from their own pocket). There hasn't been any high-profile case yet, but there are quite a few cases of youth players that had small salaries but huge release clauses that have seen them reduced. Cronaldo's clause is some 70 times the amount of his yearly salary. That just wouldn't fly in a court if he chose to go down that path. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 If Dean Ashton hadn't retired through injury, I'd still be banging on about trying to get him. I was a bit gutted when he had to retire, I loved his style. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beezeri Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Thank f*** we didnt spunk £11 million on Ashton! Hmmm...We did spent 17million on Owen though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Thank f*** we didnt spunk £11 million on Ashton! Hmmm...We did spent 17million on Owen though Hard to decide which would be worse value for money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beezeri Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Thank f*** we didnt spunk £11 million on Ashton! Hmmm...We did spent 17million on Owen though Hard to decide which would be worse value for money. Not that hard actually...thinking about their wages and Ashton did play some good football when he was fit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Thank f*** we didnt spunk £11 million on Ashton! Hmmm...We did spent 17million on Owen though Hard to decide which would be worse value for money. Not that hard actually...thinking about their wages and Ashton did play some good football when he was fit Owen as well when he was fit (which was the problem). He only was really shit in the last 6 months here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 But you say CRonaldo's could easily be challenged in court, I'm assuming you meant for the ridiculously high amount, does that mean others could too if they deem their clause an unfair amount? Yes. The clause is supposed to be "reasonable" according to the law, and even though it's not defined what "reasonable" is, some players have successfully challenged and succeeded in reducing the amounts. Proportionality with the salary is usually the criteria most followed by courts (remember this is supposed to be a penalty paid by the player from their own pocket). There hasn't been any high-profile case yet, but there are quite a few cases of youth players that had small salaries but huge release clauses that have seen them reduced. Cronaldo's clause is some 70 times the amount of his yearly salary. That just wouldn't fly in a court if he chose to go down that path. Surely the players agree to these clauses though? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Yes, of course. It's on the contract they sign. But a lot of times, particularly young players, they don't have enough leverage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JS Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Some pretty mental valuations in this thread. Cole for 8m? Puyol for 10? Come back in another 4 years, £10m might buy both. It just might Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Swift Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Holy schmoly TT's targets on the first page. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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