Arsenal busy submitting comical bids for Pogba, Cabaye, Kondogbia, Micah Richards, Michu, Ashley Williams.
Looks like a coherent transfer strategy anyway.
Cabaye to PSG and Kondogbia to Monaco is the latest.
Next…
Signing Matthieu Flamini is beginning to look a decent fucking option despite his recent injury worries.
[quote=“chewy louie, post: 820163, member: 1137”]Rumours doing the rounds on twitter that Spurs are to accept an offer of £93 million plus Contrao for Bale.
They also look to be in pole position to sign Willian for €30 million. If both of these come off it will have been a brilliant transfer window for them[/quote]
That would indeed be very good business for them. At this stage the worst case scenario for them would be to end up not selling Bale.
If spurs do the business that everyone’s talking about- that 120m odd spend on 7 new players and 113m worth of players sold- and the team looks a lot stronger. Is this as big a game changer as the dallas cowboys famous trade?
No.
Your logic is outstanding
Net spend ignores the increase in their wage bill. Substantial hike
7 x 5m = 35m x 4 years = 140m
Bale was probably on 20m over 4 years so region of 120m increase in wages
[quote=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 820291, member: 2272”]Net spend ignores the increase in their wage bill. Substantial hike
7 x 5m = 35m x 4 years = 140m
Bale was probably on 20m over 4 years so region of 120m increase in wages[/quote]
Yes but the potential increase in prize money, advertising revenue and selling other players may offset that.
A nice punt from Levy.
True about the wages, but 4th spot would cover that. Clubs only make the jump based on someone else’s money- spurs might do it off their own bat.
It’s good business to buy replacements before Bale deal announced as keeps price inflation under control to an extent. Levy seems to do well and keep control of these situations whereas Liverpool lost control of Torres transfer and ended up backs to wall and signed Carroll.
Interesting what happens if they don’t make Champions League though.
Liverpool keeping Suarez means 20 goals. Not too bothered by Willian but Lamela looks like he could be special and Soldado will give them goals.
Man City to me will win League at a canter. Chelsea should be good enough to finish second. United under Moyes will slide but have enough quality that they won’t implode over night.
[quote=“chewy louie, post: 820163, member: 1137”]Rumours doing the rounds on twitter that Spurs are to accept an offer of £93 million plus Contrao for Bale.
They also look to be in pole position to sign Willian for €30 million. If both of these come off it will have been a brilliant transfer window for them[/quote]
Are they not a bit light around centre mid? Dembele about the only decent one I can think of.
Paulinho and Sandro aswell
I forgot about Sandro.
I thought Paulinho was more of an attacker, but it appears he’s not.
And Holtby
And Sigurdsson and Capoue.
Looks like Lazio are set to sign Burak Yilmaz from Galatasaray, he would be an excellent signing for them. I’ve been very impressed with Lazio in the transfer market the past two seasons, they have managed to keep all their big players and have made a number of shrewd signings to beef up their squad. They could probably do with another good wide option to supplement Candreva and Lulic though.
The Bale deal appears to be all but done. 93M and Contraeo is the latest.
Please include the currency.
some amount of money for him
Amazing what they have managed to do over the years - may be coming to an end though
feels like we are coming to a tipping point in football - the money is so vast now that short of an oligarch or oil sheik coming in clubs will find it impossible to close the gap - have to admire Levy and Spurs for their moneyball approach and building a new team on Bale transfer but even at that it is hard to see them challenging for the title and if they don’t make CL then you would have to worry about their finances
I suspect next part of evolution will be English teams like United, Liverpool, City with global fan base pushing for right to sell own games - mobile devices - and we may then see a break up and a new European super league