summer transfers.....wot would u do?

OUT
Gravesen - waste of money
Killen - never going to threaten Skip and JVoH
Sno-Loan deal
Balde - not my choice. i just don't see him being here next season
Riordan - due to recent comments, WGS wants him away more than he wants away
Pressley - getting on and doesn't push the defenders at the club
Donati - i think he wants to return to Italy and can be easily replaced
Virgo - seems everyones forgotten about him, or they just want to keep him lol

POSSIBLE OUTS
M.Brown - he has an easy life on the bench, he will never threaten our first choice, yet he never complains. lucky to play 5 games a season max.
Boruc - lots of big clubs looking for a new first choice, and lets face it, they don't come better than Boruc

i could say who i would like to see at the club next season, but more than likely you wouldn't of heard of them. i don't see alot, if any, EPL players at the club
1) Transfer Price - heavily overpriced in England. Jones of Sunderland has had a price tag of £25m put on his head to put off efforts in the summer. and Blackburns McCarthey won't go for anything less than £12.5m
2) Wages - most EPL players demand anything from £30k to £120k a week!
3) Overated - Aaron Lennon is supposed to be one of their 'top' youth players. shut up is he. he's a sprinter not a footballer.

 

my *!

he's 31 i think, no one would pay that money for him especially as they signed him for £2.5 million. he signed a new contract this week anyway

 

well considering last season, when he was 30 and had 2 years left on his contract, Hughes said he is worth £25m!!!!!!!!
and you don't base your valuation on a player on how much his past transfer fees were.
but your right, no point discussing him, since he signed a new contract.

 

Just fling money at Richard Dunne

 

Found something on another forum.
(List from 01.03.2008.)

Jorquera
Sylvinho
Edmilson
Santiago Ezquerro
Jose Izquiredo
Bernardo Romeo
Pasqual Cygan
Robert Pires
Wes Brown(signed contract)
Ledley King
Sami Hyypia(signed contract)
Harry Kewell
Hilario
Zoltan Gera
Patrick Muller
Bernard Mendy
Mario Yepes
Sylvain Armand
Johan Micoud
Abdelaziz Kamara
Jonathan Perina
Ludovic Magnin
Daniel Bierofka
Zlatan Bajramovic
Gustavo Varela
Pierre Wome
Jurcia Vranjes
Ivan Klasnic
Athrison
Carsten Ramelow
Dmitri Bulykin
Veljko Paynovic
Maxi Rodriguez
Ewerthon
Loukas Vyntra
Turaci
Soti Kyrgiakos
Alexander Meier
Javier Zanetti
Olivier Dacourt
Hernan Crespo
Luis Jimenez
Santiago Solari
Antonio Cassano
Pavel Nedved
Nuno Frechaut
Ivica Krizanac
Anthony Seric
Ezequiel Gonzalez
Tomas Sivok
Angelo Bassinas
Thiago Motta
Juan Valera
Nuno Valente
Danny Murphy
Mathieu Flamini
Phillipe Christinval
Nobby Solano
Wilfred Bouma
Roman Bednar
Lee Wallace
Kanu
Geovanni
Dietmar Hamann
Kasper Schmeichel
Fabio Laverani
Tomas Ujfalusi
Eugeni Aldonin
Marcos Assuncao
Kanga Akale
Vadim Karlaschuk
Antonio Nunez
Jorge Larena
Vlad Munteanu
Mama Bagayoko
Alan Rochat
Jerko Luko
Olivier Veigneau
Sebastian Kehl
Philip Degen
Thomas Chatielle
Guillame Gillet
Sherif Ekramy
Edgar Davids
Sammy Kuffour
Puis Ikedia
Leo
Andrea Luiz
Marat Izmailov
Moura Pinherio
Derlei
Mark Fitzpatrick
Ross McCormack
Guillaume Beuzelin


To be honest I Wikipeadia'd a few of them & it seems out of date (or pure pish), so what's the point of posting it then? We've been linked with a few like mendy & degen before.
I might be interested in Ledley King if he can get a pre season under his belt & maybe the defender from Fiorentina Ujfalusi would be worth a look. Where are the Celtic scouts going this year, now that we've got most of Hibs players?

 

Pendrey???Who will hold the clipboard ye mad bassa

 

mark hughes doesn't dictate the market. managers always say bollocks like that. do you think he would turn down £8 million for a 31 year old? the board would accept that offer in a second

 

no, i honestly think they wouldn't sell for anything less than £12m.
i no mark hughes doesn't dictate the market, and he only said his valuation so he puts off interested clubs. but the english transfer market contains silly valuations of players.

 

trust me mate if someone offered £12 million for mc carthy they would take it and buy someone 10 years younger. if wenger was prepared to sell henry for £16 million hughes would take 12 for mc carthy

 

henry was injured all season, the arsenal fans i knew didn't want him (i live north london), he was disrupting the team ( thats why fabregas said he was glad henry departed), henry wanted away, he had one year left on his contract and Wenger wanted to bring his young team through and felt henry was holding them back.

totally different situation to McCarthy

 

fabregas did not say he disrupted the team he said that when henry played the team relied on him too much.

the point i'm making is that no club in the world would turn down £12 million for a 31 year old benny mc carthy. as you said earlier managers put ridiculous prices on players heads to ward off any club interested but if the club were made a sizeable offer for him the issue would be out of hughes' hands as the chairman would accept it and invest it in younger players who are gonna be around longer than mc carthy, at best he's got another 3 years in the EPL

 

didn't i say he would accept £12m?

the chairman of Blackburn rates McCarthy as one of the best strikers in the EPL.

btw way Fabregas said after Henrys move to Barca that he demanded the ball too much and pressured the players to give him the ball. and he was moody on and off the pitch.
BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Arsenal | Arsenal 'freed up' by Henry exit

 

you did indeed mate but i think they would accept less than that, its the same old * from managers, we wouldn't sell him for x,y,z...... but at the end of the day the chairman will weigh up a bid of say £8 million and decide that its best for the clubs long term interests to accept that money and invest it in their future on a player who could be at the club for 10 years rather than 2 or 3

 

i agree with most of the comments on players goin out the door so i wont get into them lol

but players i would like to see come in are:


zoltan gera (west brom)
ebanks-blake(wolves)
dunne(man city)
larsson ( if birmingham go down)
valencia(wigan)

and also for a striker from spain :

not sure what club he plays for but david guiza

 

mallorca

 

* me, you won the * lottery pal - the English teams all want top dollar. Same with Spain, there are plenty of good players even in the BBVA league - but the 1st team players all cost a lot. Ok if we can get 2nd string frustrated players like Hinkle it could work, but this is also quite a big gamble. Cuellar was about 3million, I suppose that was alright.

 

Players in England generally get sold for huge prices if they are young and English.McCarthy is neither.The chap can't even get in the team ahead of Jason Roberts.McCarthy would be sold for 5m.

 

Is michael dunne still available on a free ???

 

richard dunne u mean??

 

Jimmy Bullard, Brian McBride and Dietmar Hamann! Three excellent players who surely realise theyre at a mediocre club and would jump at the chance of CL football! Bullard & McBride two stalwarts at Fulham and Hamann is getting older admittedly, but still a midfield colossus! Im a 'pool supporter aswell as a Celtic fanatic and i'll admit they wouldnt have won th 05 CL final had it not been for Hamann's midfield presence allowin gerrard to play further forward... Didi could and would do the same job in the Hoops!!!!!!!