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Other football summer transfer SWOOPING thread
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:36 am
by Verbal
first up...Liverpool look set to sign Glen Johnson after agreeing a £17million pound fee with Portsmouth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 102625.stm
£17million? Seems a lot. Are Liverpool still owed monies from the Crouch transfer? If so I guess that includes his outstanding fee a la the Keane transfer.
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:43 am
by H. Pedersen
Yes, the article indicates Portsmouth still owe some money for Crouch. Still, that's a shedload for a right back, particularly for a team that has ONE good striker.
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:45 am
by Verbal
H. Pedersen wrote:Yes, the article indicates Portsmouth still owe some money for Crouch. Still, that's a shedload for a right back, particularly for a team that has ONE good striker.
Are you counting Dirk Kuyt as a striker or a wide man?
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:49 am
by TANGODANCER
Verbal wrote:H. Pedersen wrote:Yes, the article indicates Portsmouth still owe some money for Crouch. Still, that's a shedload for a right back, particularly for a team that has ONE good striker.
Are you counting Dirk Kuyt as a striker or a wide man?
Does it matter, or is it even important how many strikers there are as long as there are so many goal scoring options?
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:54 am
by H. Pedersen
Verbal wrote:H. Pedersen wrote:Yes, the article indicates Portsmouth still owe some money for Crouch. Still, that's a shedload for a right back, particularly for a team that has ONE good striker.
Are you counting Dirk Kuyt as a striker or a wide man?
Did you miss the caveat in bold?
Re: Other football summer transfer SWOOPING thread
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:58 am
by BWFC_Insane
Verbal wrote:first up...Liverpool look set to sign Glen Johnson after agreeing a £17million pound fee with Portsmouth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 102625.stm
£17million? Seems a lot. Are Liverpool still owed monies from the Crouch transfer? If so I guess that includes his outstanding fee a la the Keane transfer.
Strange one as I wouldn't have thought a right back was the top priority for Liverpool. 17M? Probably about right, thats the price you've gotta pay for youngish proven England players!
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:20 pm
by Frandsen08
i cant see them having much more transfer kitty left after this, i still think for them to challenge for the title they need a centre half and another striker, the can have elmo for £15
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:14 pm
by Hoboh
Frandsen08 wrote:i cant see them having much more transfer kitty left after this, i still think for them to challenge for the title they need a centre half and another striker, the can have elmo for £15
For £15 Elmo can mow my lawn!!!!
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:23 pm
by James B
ridiculously overpriced. cash could have gone to far better uses imo.
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:25 pm
by Hoboh
James B wrote:ridiculously overpriced. cash could have gone to far better uses imo.
How much to get the lawn mowed then smarty??
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:40 pm
by Frandsen08
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:20 pm
by Tombwfc
No right back in the world is worth that.
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:23 pm
by FD
Isn't £7 million of the Glen Johnsson deal something do with money owed for the Pennant loan?
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:10 pm
by bobo the clown
James B wrote:ridiculously overpriced.
... mmm possibly is ... but he ripped the living daylights out of us a couple of months ago.
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:33 pm
by H. Pedersen
Tombwfc wrote:No right back in the world is worth that.
It's the going rate though, isn't it? £13.2 million for Paulo Ferreira, £16.3 million for Bosingwa, even more than that for Dani Alves.
Re: Other football summer transfer SWOOPING thread
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:34 pm
by Prufrock
BWFC_Insane wrote:Verbal wrote:first up...Liverpool look set to sign Glen Johnson after agreeing a £17million pound fee with Portsmouth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 102625.stm
£17million? Seems a lot. Are Liverpool still owed monies from the Crouch transfer? If so I guess that includes his outstanding fee a la the Keane transfer.
Strange one as I wouldn't have thought a right back was the top priority for Liverpool. 17M? Probably about right, thats the price you've gotta pay for youngish proven England players!
Surely anyone can see full backs are priority one for liverpool? Then depth. He's good, but he's not that good. Agreed with whoever said no right back is worth 17million.
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:59 pm
by Dave Sutton's barnet
I think Dani Alves is easily worth a fifth of a Ronaldo. But each to their own, and that.
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:08 pm
by Prufrock
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:I think Dani Alves is easily worth a fifth of a Ronaldo. But each to their own, and that.
That makes the assumption Ronaldo is 'worth' 80million. Hellova player, but best part of two Zidanes, even with inflation, naaaaaah.
It is amusing that Perez has learnt exactly nil from his last go.
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:42 pm
by hisroyalgingerness
I think it's frightening we're now talking about players in terms of £80m. Real Madrid really are the Tottenham Hotspur of the big boys aren't they
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:28 pm
by Dave Sutton's barnet
hisroyalgingerness wrote:I think it's frightening we're now talking about players in terms of £80m. Real Madrid really are the Tottenham Hotspur of the big boys aren't they
Nah, they've won the league since The Beatles formed