Emmanuel Adebayor

[pauliewalnuts]

There is a big difference between, say, "I hope the world doesn't end tomorrow" and "looks like the world is going to end tomorrow, I hope it doesn't".

What have you heard paulie?

Can't really say much at the moment, but put it like this, don't be going to any 24 hour libraries about now and taking out any really long books. And if you've got a few episodes of something good on the Sky+ box, you might want to stay up and back-to-back them all this evening while you still can.

[Dante Lavelli]

Going back to what Archie was saying on I think another thread and comparisons made to when under big Ron  we signed Staunton, Atkinson, Richardson etc etc and then a few years later under he Who Walks on Water we signed Draper, Savo, and Southgate is that we did sign proven quality.

At the time Milosevic was the definition of unknown (they even managed to flog shed loads of bandanas because no-one knew that he'd rarely worn them), Southgate was signed having played as a central midfielder at Palace and Draper, if I remember right, had one season in the top division with Leicester.  They were far from proven at the time.

[silhillvilla]

Bottom line is we still need key areas sorting. My point was to date we are net £0.
Therefore, having cashed in our best assets and with the new mega tv money flowing, I would like to think sherwood will be given a bare minimum of £20m to address these areas, ideally nearer £30m .

Hypothetically how would you have divvied up the 70m?

What we've done so far + we need a quality CB, DCM, winger , Adebayor loan, arguably a RB. I'm under no illusions how hard this campaign will be.

--------------------Guzan--------------------
New RB-------Richards-----New CB---Amavi

--------Gueye---New DCM----Veretout-----

-------Ayew----Adebeyor----New Winger----

Would you play Guzan or Bunn?  Theoretically you could have replaced the entire first team!
I appreciate we're not that great right now but that would be a helluva lot of wages sat on the bench doing nothing.

Bunn has impressed me. He seems confident , agile and PL ready. Guzan has competition .

[olaftab]

I will be the first to come on here and say I was wrong and talking out of my back passage .

Honestly you don't NEED to say that.

[silhillvilla]

I will be the first to come on here and say I was wrong and talking out of my back passage .

Honestly you don't NEED to say that.

Likewise 

[ciggiesnbeer]

Believe me I hope I'm wrong and by the end of The window Lerner has done us proud and I will be the first to come on here and say I was wrong and talking out of my back passage .

If it happens just say you were wrong out of your mouth mate. The other way sounds disgusting

[cdbearsfan]

The gossip column suggests that they're selling Soldado. Maybe the reason we haven't signed Adebayor is because they've decided that if they can get some cash for Soldado, they may as well keep Adebayor as cover rather than spending money on a replacement?

[ozzjim]

I think he will be unveiled tomorrow.

[mr underhill]

I really hope he doesn't, but in a 'I really hope the world doesn't end tomorrow' kind of way

[Ryu]

Buying players at their peak from smaller Premier League clubs night have made sense in the 90s but now buying someone like Bolasie from Palace would cost 15 or 20 million and we'd more than likely only recoup a fraction of that. So unless the players you sign are guaranteed to take you into the champions league all you'd be doing  is getting the club's finances in a mess again like at the end of MON'S time.

Around Europe the teams managing to compete with the super rich clubs are the ones who develop players and move them on for profit and then try and find another.

[brian green]

Spot on Ryu.

[RussellC]

Buying players at their peak from smaller Premier League clubs night have made sense in the 90s but now buying someone like Bolasie from Palace would cost 15 or 20 million and we'd more than likely only recoup a fraction of that. So unless the players you sign are guaranteed to take you into the champions league all you'd be doing  is getting the club's finances in a mess again like at the end of MON'S time.

Around Europe the teams managing to compete with the super rich clubs are the ones who develop players and move them on for profit and then try and find another.

This is exactly what I hope is currently happening at Liverpool.

[mr underhill]

Ade's going to go Pete Tong  I Think

[Phil from the upper holte]

Ade's going to go Pete Tong  I Think

I think he likes heavy metal

[Holte L2]

Ade's going to go Pete Tong  I Think

He's been at The Belfry all week. If he doesn't sign today, then I think it will go tits up.