Other football summer transfer SWOOPING thread

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:36 am

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.

H. Pedersen · Post by **H. Pedersen** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:43 am

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.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:45 am

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?

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:49 am

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?

H. Pedersen · Post by **H. Pedersen** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:54 am

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?

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:58 am

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!

Frandsen08 · Post by **Frandsen08** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:20 pm

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

Hoboh · Post by **Hoboh** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:14 pm

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!!!!

James B · Post by **James B** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:23 pm

ridiculously overpriced. cash could have gone to far better uses imo.

Hoboh · Post by **Hoboh** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:25 pm

James B wrote:ridiculously overpriced. cash could have gone to far better uses imo.

How much to get the lawn mowed then smarty??

Frandsen08 · Post by **Frandsen08** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:40 pm

potential for a cheeky swoop

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... Blues.html

very interesting

Tombwfc · Post by **Tombwfc** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:20 pm

No right back in the world is worth that.

FD · Post by FD » Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:23 pm

Isn't £7 million of the Glen Johnsson deal something do with money owed for the Pennant loan?

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:10 pm

James B wrote:ridiculously overpriced.

... mmm possibly is ... but he ripped the living daylights out of us a couple of months ago.

H. Pedersen · Post by **H. Pedersen** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:33 pm

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.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:34 pm

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.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:59 pm

I think Dani Alves is easily worth a fifth of a Ronaldo. But each to their own, and that.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:08 pm

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.

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:42 pm

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

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:28 pm

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