Pilchard Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 42 minutes ago, rodders0223 said: Why wouldn't we though. Maybe £2m a year maximum the cost of keeping him on...or we could go out and spend 10m to replace him in today's market. Because we are cutting costs and scaling back anywhere. The days of us replacing players, let along spending £10million on them is well and truly over for the foreseeable future. Nathan Baker is back in the summer after a year in the Championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 8 minutes ago, Pilchard said: Because we are cutting costs and scaling back anywhere. The days of us replacing players, let along spending £10million on them is well and truly over for the foreseeable future. Nathan Baker is back in the summer after a year in the Championship. That's unfair. We've spent around 8m as an average for more than 5-6 players just this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 (edited) Par for the course, I don't really see why people are upset, what do you expect when we are run as badly as we are and are almost certainly going to go down. I fully expect to see the same behaviour (and worse) from other players in the summer, including the likes of Ayew. This is a job at the end of the day. If I worked for a company who were doing extremely poorly, had fallen from grace, and then by contract I'd potentially have to take a wage cut, then I'd sure as shit get the **** out of there ASAFP. Edited February 14, 2016 by Dr_Pangloss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilchard Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 33 minutes ago, abdulaziz1 said: That's unfair. We've spent around 8m as an average for more than 5-6 players just this summer. Which is in the past. Where as I've mentioned the future, have I not? We won't be spending that sort of money as a Championship side, especially as the owner has completely abandoned us now. Not that spending that sort of money is a guarantee of being any good - we only have to look at how replacing half the team with these players has made things even worse. It was just the suggestion that it's either renew Okore's contract or we'll spend £10m on a replacement I was surprised at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 1 hour ago, Pilchard said: Because we are cutting costs and scaling back anywhere. The days of us replacing players, let along spending £10million on them is well and truly over for the foreseeable future. Nathan Baker is back in the summer after a year in the Championship. No doubt, but it is the same penny pinching, wait until the last moment, don't increase wages unless we have to that cost us £12m minimum on the Delph deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 2 hours ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: Always, or once? The closest we got to losing our best player for "peanuts" previous to this due to shortness of contract was Ashley Young who had a year left at the time. I'm not sure if we offered Mellberg a new contract or not, but I'm fairly certain he wanted to go regardless. Can't think of another example. Albrighton and Delph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 5 hours ago, thunderball said: I know a very high percentage of footballers are idiots and mercenaries , and Okore seems no different. I beleive he owes the club for taking a £4m risk on a youngster from a minnow league and bringing him to the biggest stage in the world, then paying his wages while he is injured for more than half his time here. He has improved and is now decent, but I can think of plenty of instances this season where he was found wanting. I would think however his current deal is quite low due to his circumstances. Prick. why would an ambitious footballer want to stay at a football club which the leadership conceded relegation 5 months early by not backing the manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 2 hours ago, AntrimBlack said: Not so. We have actually done very well selling players on. That is not the problem - re-investing the money has been the problem. I really don't think we have. The reality is we got good prices for Young and Downing - what's that, five years ago? We made a decent financial deal for Milner, and spoiled it by including Ireland. Since then, we sold Delph for peanuts, Benteke for his release clause, and nobody else for any significant sum of money whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerbs Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 He's so shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 On this display, he's less Champions League and more Chumpions League, which ironically is the level he'll be playing at next season if he stays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honest_bertie Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 He's not going to get champs league team coming in for him if he keeps ducking when crosses come in like he did on that Liverpool goal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Tbf I thought he was fouled at least twice in that build up to the goal ... But I've always said he isn't good enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 (edited) How can you come out with a statement like he did mentioning top 4 teams and champions league football then deliver a piss poor pub side performance like that What a complete and utter clown, gone well down in my estimations Edited February 14, 2016 by AshVilla 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 He's a top four player alright, if you mean top four in Denmark. On today's display he's a top four word removed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 what happens when a player loses focus. idiot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntrimBlack Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 1 hour ago, honest_bertie said: He's not going to get champs league team coming in for him if he keeps ducking when crosses come in like he did on that Liverpool goal He pissed about to give them the corner for their second. Very poor today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Probably needs to talk to the media again. This time to apologise. Quite clearly wasn't focused today at all which is a disgrace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderball Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 (edited) 6 hours ago, rodders0223 said: Charming. He owes the club nothing? He thinks he should be playing in the top half of the league and in champions league games? He showed he was world class today didn't he? As Carragher said today, there won't be a PL manager looking at any player in this squad. He is delusional if the quotes attributed to him are correct. Can't say I blame him for trying to bail out but he clearly has no class or respect. Another one in our squad demonstrating why we are in this mess. The club is rotten from top to bottom. Sorry, but happy to uphold my view. Edited February 14, 2016 by thunderball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 If you make quotes like he did then playing like this 24 hours later makes you look like a word removed. My opinion on him has changed dramatically since yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 (edited) The guy lives in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks a top team would be interested in him. Ideas way above his current level of ability. Edited February 14, 2016 by markavfc40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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