Summer 2010 Transfer Thread: B*llsh*t, Rumours & Wishes

[Holy Trinity]

huntelaar for 8 million??? wtf when robbie keane was being touted at 8/10 mil. i think 10 minimum up front rising to 14-16 would be what they were after, but i doubt they would take a staggered payment anyway, 16 mil was the price several british teams were offered him for tho.

[PaulTheVillan]

West Ham are going to make a £2.5m bid for Luke Young. Hopefully he'll stay

[LeeB]

O please let Heskey be on his way. Just having him out of the equation would be as good as signing a new striker.

I don't necessarily agree, but I laughed nonetheless.

[Matt C]

West Ham are going to make a £2.5m bid for Luke Young. Hopefully he'll stay

Avram Grant has never signed an English player (yet).

[The Man With A Stick]

Hasn't Luke Young's problem now been eliminated?  Surely he'll be happy to stay now?

[olaftab]

Just read in The Sun

Leicester city want Heskey ...    *prays*

Fantastic news..as  you suggested JP I am off to the Mosque....

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Heskey has three years left? Surely not, he'd be pushing 36 at the end of his contract...

Signed age 31 on a 3.5 year contract.

How much use we thought we'd be getting out of a 33 or 34 year old Emile is beyond me.

That's almost £11m in wages. Good business.

[PaulTheVillan]

Heskey has three years left? Surely not, he'd be pushing 36 at the end of his contract...

Signed age 31 on a 3.5 year contract.

How much use we thought we'd be getting out of a 33 or 34 year old Emile is beyond me.

That's almost £11m in wages. Good business.

£1m a goal by the end of it? If we're lucky?

[jembob]

Heskey has three years left? Surely not, he'd be pushing 36 at the end of his contract...

Signed age 31 on a 3.5 year contract.

How much use we thought we'd be getting out of a 33 or 34 year old Emile is beyond me.

That's almost £11m in wages. Good business.

You can see the rationale of Doug-enomics when you see that the total contact cost of Heskey would be about £15M although his original transfer fee was only £3M. In many ways, Doug was correct about football financing, as the transfer fee can just be the start of a huge expense.

 If the old guy had still been in charge and was demanding that MON reduce the wage bill, this site would have been in uproar.

[spangley1812]

All you hear is reduce the wage bill, reduce the wage bill but the club when MON was there and in the 2 weeks since has done nothing to reduce it.......If they wanted to reduce the wage bill then they should transfer list some of the players they think are surplus

[Clampy]

All you hear is reduce the wage bill, reduce the wage bill but the club when MON was there and in the 2 weeks since has done nothing to reduce it.......If they wanted to reduce the wage bill then they should transfer list some of the players they think are surplus

I think the board meant reduce the wage bill before adding to it.

[spangley1812]

All you hear is reduce the wage bill, reduce the wage bill but the club when MON was there and in the 2 weeks since has done nothing to reduce it.......If they wanted to reduce the wage bill then they should transfer list some of the players they think are surplus

I think the board meant reduce the wage bill before adding to it.

Good point but they have done nothing about it as a "club", send players on loan and get the "loaning" clubs to chip in with the wages 

[BannedUserIAT]

Heskey has three years left? Surely not, he'd be pushing 36 at the end of his contract...

Signed age 31 on a 3.5 year contract.

How much use we thought we'd be getting out of a 33 or 34 year old Emile is beyond me.

That's almost £11m in wages. Good business.

You can see the rationale of Doug-enomics when you see that the total contact cost of Heskey would be about £15M although his original transfer fee was only £3M. In many ways, Doug was correct about football financing, as the transfer fee can just be the start of a huge expense.

 If the old guy had still been in charge and was demanding that MON reduce the wage bill, this site would have been in uproar.

What was it Doug use to say? An apple well bought is an apple half sold?
I'm sure he'd be able to come up with some fruit-related comment in regard to Heskey.

[BannedUserIAT]

Hasn't Luke Young's problem now been eliminated?  Surely he'll be happy to stay now?

...was about my 3rd reaction when hearing MON had gone.

[KevinGage]

West Ham are going to make a £2.5m bid for Luke Young. Hopefully he'll stay

Hard to say.

You'd like to think so, but by all accounts he was set to move back down to the Smoke this summer. Bought a house et.c

If he's mentally already back 'home' having made the decision on the back of his limited game time under MON, he might already be too far down that road to go back on his word to his family and so forth.

From a footballing point of view he's better off here.

And at £2.5 million West Ham can get facked.