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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: BegbieAV on November 07, 2013, 08:32:42 PM
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Imagine you are Paul Lambert, we have just sold Benteke in January for £30 million and Randolph has told you buy replacements to strengthen the squad with the money. Who would you buy ? UTV
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H&V would like to welcome you to the future "January Transfer Window Transfer Rumours and Suggestions" thread.
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Benteke will not be sold in January so not point in worrying about it .
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H&V would like to welcome you to the future "January Transfer Window Transfer Rumours and Suggestions" thread.
Sorry ! Did I mention rumours ?
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Lamela...
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Shinji Kagawa
Not that he'd be likely to want to come here
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Shinji Kagawa
Not that he'd be likely to want to come here
I think we should exploit the fact that there's a world cup. a few squad players would probably welcome first team football (at minimal cost):
1. Kagaawa
2. DE Bruyne
3. Schurrle
Therefore spend 15m on a star, loan one player and have, 15m left over for the summer.
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Shinji Kagawa
Not that he'd be likely to want to come here
I think we should exploit the fact that there's a world cup. a few squad players would probably welcome first team football (at minimal cost):
1. Kagaawa
2. DE Bruyne
3. Schurrle
Therefore spend 15m on a star, loan one player and have, 15m left over for the summer.
You really think players who have signed for Chelsea a few months ago are going to give all that up to come here for less than 1/2 the wages they are currently on?
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Reo-Coker
Sidwell
Knight
Harewood
Heskey
Shorey
Luke Young
James Collins
Zat Knight.
Cueller.
That lot for around 30 mill. That'll sort our side out.
:)
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H&V would like to welcome you to the future "January Transfer Window Transfer Rumours and Suggestions" thread.
Sorry ! Did I mention rumours ?
No, but "rumours" has you covered.
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As eastie said...so nothing to discuss.
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Seems like shit stirring to me.
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Benteke will not be sold in January so not point in worrying about it .
You're right. It will be in the Summer.
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I shuddered when i worked out that Supertom's list cost the best part of 45 million by memory of reported transfer fees!
No wonder Lerner lost heart!
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The thought of losing Benteke doesn't bother me so much now as it did in the summer. It's fairly inevitable that he will go in the summer, and if the funds are not there for quality players in midfield then provided we spend the money well it could be the breath of new life we need. Would hope for more than 30 though!
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Reo-Coker
Sidwell
Knight
Harewood
Heskey
Shorey
Luke Young
James Collins
Zat Knight.
Cueller.
That lot for around 30 mill. That'll sort our side out.
:)
sad thing is - its probably more than £30 million that lot.
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Gold bullion.
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Reo-Coker
Sidwell
Knight
Harewood
Heskey
Shorey
Luke Young
James Collins
Zat Knight.
Cueller.
That lot for around 30 mill. That'll sort our side out.
:)
sad thing is - its probably more than £30 million that lot.
Reo-Coker
Sidwell
Knight
Harewood
Heskey
Shorey
Luke Young
James Collins
Zat Knight.
Cueller.
That lot for around 30 mill. That'll sort our side out.
:)
sad thing is - its probably more than £30 million that lot.
p.s
Knight was that good we bought him twice ;)
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Crouch
Defoe
Samba
Bentley
Matt Taylor
Kanu
Kranjcar
Triffic! preferably me and the chairman will get some O that done deadline day.
although I don't like to talk about other players. and I'm not a fackin wheela delia ok?!
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30 million National Lottery tickets.
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Shinji Kagawa
Not that he'd be likely to want to come here
I think we should exploit the fact that there's a world cup. a few squad players would probably welcome first team football (at minimal cost):
1. Kagaawa
2. DE Bruyne
3. Schurrle
Therefore spend 15m on a star, loan one player and have, 15m left over for the summer.
You'd think villa would have shown enough of their intent to manage these sorts of expectations by now!!
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30 million National Lottery tickets.
Make that 15 million.
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Shinji Kagawa
Not that he'd be likely to want to come here
I think we should exploit the fact that there's a world cup. a few squad players would probably welcome first team football (at minimal cost):
1. Kagaawa
2. DE Bruyne
3. Schurrle
Therefore spend 15m on a star, loan one player and have, 15m left over for the summer.
You really think players who have signed for Chelsea a few months ago are going to give all that up to come here for less than 1/2 the wages they are currently on?
Apologies, they were the sort of players I would be targeting for a loan move (i.e. players that need to be playing to get on the plane to the WC), I'm not suggesting that they'd sign permanently.
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Reo-Coker
Sidwell
Knight
Harewood
Heskey
Shorey
Luke Young
James Collins
Zat Knight.
Cueller.
That lot for around 30 mill. That'll sort our side out.
:)
sad thing is - its probably more than £30 million that lot.
I object to Luke Young being included in that list. He was a very good full back for us ...in both positions. Far better than we have now.
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H&V would like to welcome you to the future "January Transfer Window Transfer Rumours and Suggestions" thread.
Sorry ! Did I mention rumours ?
No, but "rumours" has you covered.
Don't Stop the thread, you can Go Your Own Way if you don't like it
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H&V would like to welcome you to the future "January Transfer Window Transfer Rumours and Suggestions" thread.
Sorry ! Did I mention rumours ?
No, but "rumours" has you covered.
Don't Stop the thread, you can Go Your Own Way if you don't like it
Then again mr sox we all have our 'dreams';)
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Oh, well.
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Reo-Coker
Sidwell
Knight
Harewood
Heskey
Shorey
Luke Young
James Collins
Zat Knight.
Cueller.
That lot for around 30 mill. That'll sort our side out.
:)
sad thing is - its probably more than £30 million that lot.
I object to Luke Young being included in that list. He was a very good full back for us ...in both positions. Far better than we have now.
I imagine he is on the list as he we could have signed him for £2.5m, but we decided to wait a season and spent £6m on him instead.
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Reo-Coker
Sidwell
Knight
Harewood
Heskey
Shorey
Luke Young
James Collins
Zat Knight.
Cueller.
That lot for around 30 mill. That'll sort our side out.
:)
sad thing is - its probably more than £30 million that lot.
I object to Luke Young being included in that list. He was a very good full back for us ...in both positions. Far better than we have now.
He was average at best, and got a nose bleed going forward.
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I like Luke Young. He was solid and reliable, if wholly unspectacular. But honestly he still epitomised O Neill's worst tendancies. 5 million for an aging player on a long, big, contract. And as had been suggested, Luke Young had been made available to us a year previously for about half the fee we ended up playing, but O Neill didn't go for it.
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I like Luke Young. He was solid and reliable, if wholly unspectacular. But honestly he still epitomised O Neill's worst tendancies. 5 million for an aging player on a long, big, contract.
Who he could have got for half the price the year earlier if I remember correctly.
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Reo-Coker
Sidwell
Knight
Harewood
Heskey
Shorey
Luke Young
James Collins
Zat Knight.
Cueller.
That lot for around 30 mill. That'll sort our side out.
:)
sad thing is - its probably more than £30 million that lot.
I object to Luke Young being included in that list. He was a very good full back for us ...in both positions. Far better than we have now.
nothing wrong with LY but we could have had him for half the price If I remember right .
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quoting without reading rest of thread ;)
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Younes Kaboul
Diego
Tomas Rincon
Antonie Griezmann
No idea if we could get any of them even with the 30m + we'll get when Benteke leaves but those are the sort that I doubt would cost the earth in transfer fees and would improve our first 11 significantly.
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If we sell Benteke for 30m, we'll need to spend about the same on a direct like for like replacement
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Shinji Kagawa
Not that he'd be likely to want to come here
Thought the same myself to be honest. He's wasted there. Obviously unlikely but agree we should exploit the fact there's a World Cup at the end of the season.
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If we sell Benteke for 30m, we'll need to spend about the same on a direct like for like replacement
Am I missing the part where Benteke cost us £30m?
Am I missing the bit where Tottenham are a worse team because they didn't spend £80m on a direct replacement for Bale?
If Benteke leaves for £30m we need to spend the money improving the squad, how much we spend on each player involved is irrelevant.
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If we sell Benteke for 30m, we'll need to spend about the same on a direct like for like replacement
No we won't. Spurs didn't spend £85m on a like for like replacement on Bale.
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Probably more worthwhile to consider the wages any of these boyos are going to want before thinking about the transfer fee.
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The thought of losing Benteke doesn't bother me so much now as it did in the summer. It's fairly inevitable that he will go in the summer, and if the funds are not there for quality players in midfield then provided we spend the money well it could be the breath of new life we need. Would hope for more than 30 though!
The frustrating thing for me there is it's no good finally signing an excellent midfield playmaker if the world class striker has just left the club.
I just want us to sign one in January even if he's only linking up with Benteke for 6 months, a bit like the Darren Bent situation.
The problem with signing one in the summer will be him just providing countless chances for Gabby, Weimann and Kozak to scuff into Row H of the Holte end.
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What will we spend the 100 million on we get for winning the league this season?