Football Transfers Thread

[thedon5]

Richards is crap. Awful defensively. Was never going to progress at City.

Sagna on so much money with Man City in FFP trouble makes no sense to me. He'll be on the bench and nothing more, odd signing when you think a young natural successor to Zabaleta may have been the better choice.

 

[ParkedTheBus]

Apparently BVB's reps met with Juve's reps, and Juve were fine with the sale

 

[Epic]

Richards is crap. Awful defensively. Was never going to progress at City.

Sagna on so much money with Man City in FFP trouble makes no sense to me. He'll be on the bench and nothing more, odd signing when you think a young natural successor to Zabaleta may have been the better choice.

It's definitely going to be a short-term contract, probably 2 years, and while Zaba doesn't look it, he's still only 29 (), and like I said in an earlier post, we're going to have about 384k (Barry, Lescott, Richards, Sinclair and Rodwell) off our wage bill from 12-13 which is what we've been frozen based on, so there's definitely some leeway.

 

[ParkedTheBus]

@Epic, I want to know who will buy the likes of Sinclair and Rodwell? The former has a pathetic attitude while the latter is injury prone. And their wages are an issue as well. The wages are too high for mid and lower table clubs while the attitude and injury problems will put the bigger teams off.

 

[Epic]

Mid-table teams, they want playing time and clearly know they aren't in our plans, so they'll take the wage cut.

 

[Haarithan]

It's not like he wouldn't get more than he'll get at City in France. I believe Arsenal offered him a decent amount too.

You guys offered only 80k p/w (10k rise) apparently

Seriously though, that's about it he deserves. 120-150k p/w is just utter madness for a starting RB, let alone second choice.

 

[thedon5]

You guys offered only 80k p/w (10k rise) apparently

Seriously though, that's about it he deserves. 120-150k p/w is just utter madness for a starting RB, let alone second choice.

It's unfortunate really. He was ready for a contract extension and pay rise, which would've been offered to him. Then he broke his leg. Twice. He was in no position to earn a new contract, that's unfortunately what has made his position untenable. The leg breaks also coincided with his dip in form, he was the top RB in 10/11 comfortably and before that too for several years he was up there. Now he is no better than second or third.

It just strikes me as an awful signing for City and an awful move for Sagna. Bad for both parties because of Zabaleta and bad for City since he isn't worth so much (also consider the signing-on fee!).

Would respect him a lot more if he tweaked off to PSG or Monaco, he'd get paid more too. He's just another Clichy in my eyes now (though Clichy was never any good unlike Sagna).

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It's definitely going to be a short-term contract, probably 2 years, and while Zaba doesn't look it, he's still only 29 (), and like I said in an earlier post, we're going to have about 384k (Barry, Lescott, Richards, Sinclair and Rodwell) off our wage bill from 12-13 which is what we've been frozen based on, so there's definitely some leeway.

Yep, but keep in mind Sagna at 29 was coming off a great season just like the one Zabaleta's had, but with age of course the injuries crept in and his form dipped. Zabaleta isn't going to be top quality for more than a few more seasons and Sagna the same at RB. Mind you Sagna's delivery has improved a lot in the last couple of seasons, it's the shame Giroud can't get on the end of crosses.

For me Clyne would've been the better signing from a PL club, so young and playing better than Sagna in my eyes. Then you also have the big young foreign talents like Jung, Aurier and Montoya. All brilliant players, and in the case of Jung at least certainly good enough to be one of the top RBs in the league from the get-go. Shame he only ended up in Wolfsburg.

 

[Epic]

You guys offered only 80k p/w (10k rise) apparently

Seriously though, that's about it he deserves. 120-150k p/w is just utter madness for a starting RB, let alone second choice.

I'd go as far up to 100k with it being a free transfer, but the numbers I'm seeing, ridiculous, I'm positive the thinking here is - well, we're getting him on a free, so let's shove all the money we would've had to spend into a wage package... and here I thought we were done putting undeserving players on shocking amounts of money.

Yep, but keep in mind Sagna at 29 was coming off a great season just like the one Zabaleta's had, but with age of course the injuries crept in and his form dipped. Zabaleta isn't going to be top quality for more than a few more seasons and Sagna the same at RB. Mind you Sagna's delivery has improved a lot in the last couple of seasons, it's the shame Giroud can't get on the end of crosses.

For me Clyne would've been the better signing from a PL club, so young and playing better than Sagna in my eyes. Then you also have the big young foreign talents like Jung, Aurier and Montoya. All brilliant players, and in the case of Jung at least certainly good enough to be one of the top RBs in the league from the get-go. Shame he only ended up in Wolfsburg.

Yeah, we're not exactly in the market for foresight, our transfer policy is all about the now and not an ounce about the future, which is sad because it's not like we're promoting players from our youth system either, but I guess we're going to have to (unless the club knows something we don't know and that the CL squad cut reduces the amount of homegrown players as well) with all the homegrown players being shoved out.

I hate that we keep doing this to Arsenal though, sooner or later we're going to end up rivals...

 

[ParkedTheBus]

Inter have signed Behrami, apparently.

 

[thedon5]

I'd go as far up to 100k with it being a free transfer, but the numbers I'm seeing, ridiculous, I'm positive the thinking here is - well, we're getting him on a free, so let's shove all the money we would've had to spend into a wage package... and here I thought we were done putting undeserving players on shocking amounts of money.



Yeah, we're not exactly in the market for foresight, our transfer policy is all about the now and not an ounce about the future, which is sad because it's not like we're promoting players from our youth system either, but I guess we're going to have to (unless the club knows something we don't know and that the CL squad cut reduces the amount of homegrown players as well) with all the homegrown players being shoved out.

I hate that we keep doing this to Arsenal though, sooner or later we're going to end up rivals...

Yeah. IMO the future is especially important at full-back, what with the sudden lack of top quality full-backs these days. Having a young one that turns out world class is a big advantage as you can focus on other areas since that position is all but locked down for ten odd years. See Chelsea for example, Cole was a big advantage to them.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

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thought this would be a good move from january last year. also it does demonstrate what a few people doubt, that even a wounded, down on their luck man u will still be an attractive destination to many if he's leaning towards going to them over liverpool.

 

[ste_mc_efc]

Yeah. IMO the future is especially important at full-back, what with the sudden lack of top quality full-backs these days. Having a young one that turns out world class is a big advantage as you can focus on other areas since that position is all but locked down for ten odd years. See Chelsea for example, Cole was a big advantage to them.

I don't think this is true. it's more that the game has changed to demand more from fullbacks.

 

[ankurcshah]

Lampard released!

 

[ParkedTheBus]

He can still sign a new contact. They've just made a list of those who haven't been offered new contracts atm. I feel we will retain Mark , Lamps and maybe Hutchinson. The latter because he has a special connection with the club which has been reciprocated and apparently he has come leaps and bounds this year.

 

[Ohm]

Oaa!!! :O

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