Can we afford a player for 8 million quid ?

Just seen this and wondered bout the price , could we really afford that amount for any player ?

http://ilbianconeronews.blogspot.com/2011/08/il-celtic-offre-8-mln-per-iaquinta.html

Meanwhile, Iaquinta said no to many requests: particularly strong Celtic (ready to shell out 8 million), but Espanyol, Sunderland, Lille and St.Etienne. Ziegler, in turn, seems determined to reject the three-year, two million per season that has offered Trabzonspor now likely to remain on the sidelines of the project count for an entire season.

thoughts,

 

Nope. I'd say £5m maximum and even that's pushing it. When was the last time we spent over £4m on a player, just out of interest?

 

I have seen some crap written but that article takes the biscuit.

 

I'd say we could afford it but i doubt we would spend it on 1 player

 

Probably could afford it but that doesn't mean our board would even consider it for a second!(Not that they should risk 8 million on a single player in our situation)

 

Nope.

Our wage limit is what ? 30-35k a week, and even then that's probably pushing it a wee bit. An 8 million pound player will be wanting a * of a lot more than that, and probably would want even that wee bit more seeing as we play in a footballing backwater. We simply cannot afford that.

 

We could afford it

but wouldt do it


In terms of revenue ov course its possible, but in this league in these curerent financial times??? we wouldnt be daft enough logical thing to do would be get a couple of players in for that kind of dough


Unless messi or ronaldo were in the last week of there contract and were desperate to come to us a would be all for paying the 8 mill

 

Don't think we would spend over 5 million these days to be honest.

 

We could but we wouldn't.

 

the very most we'd spend is £5m + £35k a week imo

 

Could we afford a TEAM for £8m. quid with our board ?

 

I don't think we would. I think we should consider it though. I'm sure Kaka was around £8m when AC signed him. If you know you're getting something special and they're young, why not?.....I would certainly like to see a special youngster once in a generation and the money isn't coming directly from my pocket, so i don't care how much is spent.:icon_mrgreen:

 

Couldn't afford the wages an 8mil player would command.

We'd be daft to spend that much on a single player, if he didn't live up to his pricetag it'd leave our finances in tatters.

 

We could afford it but we would never actually pay it. Besides, any £8million player will have better options than the SPL. Castlemilk West - Thursday night 5-a-side league for example.

 

A nice thought but a non practical one IMO.

 

It seems crazy to think in the 90s we spent 4 million on Alan Stubbs, that's probably the equivalent of 15 mill today or buying Gary Cahill. We also spunked 3 million on Tommy Johnson!

 

5 mill would be tops for us i think

 

Would be madness for a 31-year old player.