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Offline jwarry

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Take a flask
« on: October 16, 2014, 07:22:28 PM »
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-everton-midfielder-gareth-7946797?

Not sure what to make of this. On the one hand it's encouraging we were looking around for the best talent, on the other the bloke was worrying about his travel costs the whole time! Either way you've got to love Doug haven't you?

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2014, 08:45:53 PM »
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-everton-midfielder-gareth-7946797?

Not sure what to make of this. On the one hand it's encouraging we were looking around for the best talent, on the other the bloke was worrying about his travel costs the whole time! Either way you've got to love Doug haven't you?

No.

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2014, 10:34:05 PM »
I only skim read it, but how is 1.25m 50 times £50,000?

Offline supertom

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2014, 11:04:41 PM »
I only skim read it, but how is 1.25m 50 times £50,000?
Is that Douganomics?

Offline Vegas

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2014, 11:05:23 PM »
50% tax rate

Offline Duncan Shaw

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2014, 11:20:06 PM »
It's all to do with amortisation.

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2014, 11:28:45 PM »
Interesting that we did try and bring him back. A pity really, he would do Delph and Westwood the world of good playing alongside them.

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2014, 11:30:38 PM »
Interesting that we did try and bring him back. A pity really, he would do Delph and Westwood the world of good playing alongside them.

His contract would have cost £12 million.

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2014, 12:18:15 AM »
Yeah, a lot of money - the same as what we sold him for. A pity all the same.

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2014, 09:22:44 AM »
So Everton have put him on something like £80k a week? If so that's very surprising, probably unlikely, but if so would finally put paid to the constant talk of them having no money.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2014, 09:57:28 AM »
I would assume that will include a hefty signing on fee as he was on a free and to make up for the drop in wages he was on at Citeh.

Offline IamLegend

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2014, 03:38:11 PM »
3 year contract. Nobody was going to match that and rightly so.
Fair play to Gareth, he got a blinding deal there.

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2014, 04:03:21 PM »
3 year contract. Nobody was going to match that and rightly so.
Fair play to Gareth, he got a blinding deal there.


Its exactly the type of player we should be signing, if we had a single iota of ambition that is.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2014, 04:40:38 PM »
3 year contract. Nobody was going to match that and rightly so.
Fair play to Gareth, he got a blinding deal there.


Its exactly the type of player we should be signing, if we had a single iota of ambition that is.

A 33 year old on massive (for us) wages? Isn't that the kind of thing that got us in the shit in the first place?

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Re: Take a flask
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2014, 06:37:45 AM »
if he plays for three years at the standard he played last year, he will have been worth it.  I'm not sure I would have taken the gamble.

 


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