rodders0223

Didn't look title challenging standard. Would be the best LB we have had since Bouma.

The first two windows under O'Leary, my God, they were truly depressing summers. Didn't turned out too bad though...

Sadly it does look rather that way. I wonder if THIS had anything to do with it. Yep, also see : AndI Weimann.

I think he has clearly tried but anything above £30k a week seems beyond his budget. It makes it tough. I think if he was backed to get half the players he's tried to sign we'd be a decent team. Just really disappointing, the sooner new owners come in the better (pointing out the bleeding obvious I know). Pity our manager has elected to offer a sizable chunk of that to Joe Cole to keep our physio company for the year! Have you seen Joe Cole's contract then?

Pretty much my opinion last night , got beaten a couple of times and had to be saved by Hutton I cosign that opinion too. Looked like he was asleep at Gronningens 4th goal. But yes whatever, pre season, but I too am not seeing Okore as our defensive saviour. Would like to be proven wrong though, but the hype here is a bit insane, imho. I don't think many people are expecting him to be our saviour, he will be a massive improvement on Clark and Baker. Massive.

I cannot believe the shit I have read on this thread the last couple of days. Nothing else to moan at again.

I will never forget that goal or the 6-1.

Who said he wanted £50,000? Calm down,. Czechlad said we should give him anything up to £50,000.. my mistake! Either way, he's average, but we do need a CAM at the moment, so I guess that's why people are annoyed. Maybe he is average, I think he is slightly above that, but he would have been a step up on what we have, so am quite dissapointed.

Who said he wanted £50,000? Calm down,.

Javi Garcia earns close to £80,000. We are handing out contracts worth £20k right now. 1. He would never come here. 2. City, along with every other club are a business, they need to recoup as much of that as they can and I guarantee the teams interested will be offering a lot more than what we can right now.

You don't get anyway. In a market where Borini is worth £14m and Rodwell is going for £10m, nobody is going to be giving players away for **** all. I saw earlier that Derby have got a Real Madrid player on loan. Now, I don't have a clue whether he's the next big flop to come from Spain, or whether he is a promising player that could have maybe made an impression at a Lower Prem team, but Derby wouldn't have got that loan if they didn't ask. A Madrid youth player, not established internationals on £60k-£80k a week like mentioned before. Just because he plays for RM doesn't mean he is anything special either, so I see no big deal in Derby signing him. The players mentioned here were Milner, Moses etc... ,they will not be coming here, we will not pay those wages and City and Chelsea are not going to loan them to us for nothing, no matter how cheeky the bid is. People need to get into the real **** world.

Would be very surprised if he makes if back to the PL, but good luck to him.

Madness. What has Rodwell done in his career? Picked up a shit ton of money, like most average British 'youngsters'

Yeah, regret.

You don't get anyway. In a market where Borini is worth £14m and Rodwell is going for £10m, nobody is going to be giving players away for **** all.

Will keep the baliffs from the door for a few more weeks.

If we are going for cheeky loan bids, I think we should whack a cheeky one for Diego Costa personally. I Yeah, I will stop.

I am not going to judge a player coming back from a cruciate,who hasn't played a competitive game in nearly a year, has played less than 500 minutes of English football and is only 21 on a pre-season game against some cloggers on a sunday league pitch.

Eh?

Spend 7m on Moses and then loan him? Haha I meant buy Sinclair & loan moses Both those players are on £50k+plus bonuses, and will want hefty signing on fees, agents fees and all that. Not going to happen.

Yeah, that is what we need to do with a young player, coming off the back of a terrible injury, in a new league with little experience behind him. Play him out of position. Jeez. Okore hopefully can get 30+ games under his belt playing next to Vlaar at CB, I am excited. He is young enough to adapt! Not as if he has been playing centre half for 20 years, this is what coaching is about, seeing somebody with the raw materials, and developing them, something that we really dont do particuarly well at all. The last think Okore needs is to be **** about playing a position he isn't suited to.

I would be shocked if it was much more than £30k, he came from Celtic to a very tightly run ship in Swansea. He cannot have been earning that much.

**** off Lerner,

...or it is complete BS?

Anywhere out wide, he has terrible awareness and touch to play in the middle.