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going back to this, france has a 75% tax rate, our highest is 45%, pigeon maths time (apologies for those with a good understanding of tax) if these young french kids are earning 10k euros a week then they take home 2.5k euros, we offer them £10k a week, take home is £6.5k, when you apply that to the current exchange rate then it comes to 9k euros a week the tax rates and the currency conversation rate means we are tripling / quadrupling these kids wages without actually giving them that much money its almost like the club know what they are doing.... Where did you get the 75% rate? Is there some new luxury tax, I though earnings above €151,000/pa only hit 45% the only difference is that threshold for 45% in the UK is £151,000. Much lower. Just confused about this 75% rate. Plus you have to remember there are tax free allowances at play also, nothing is as basic as the rates.

le Villa non?

This post is depressing. One person, as far as I'm aware, has called him a dud. Now it's in 'most peoples' eyes. Internet overreaction at its most blatant. Steady on there fella, I felt a good few of posts were suggesting he wasn’t up to much, plus the previous from the speculation.

PSV kits are mega, especially the away

£2m is a disgusting offer

Eh? Most of the posts I've read are saying that they haven't seen him play and are willing to wait and see, only a couple seem to have written him off. Ya? I dunno since I last saw the thread there’s been a fierce amount of crying!

This thread is depressing, he’s already a dud in most people’s eyes and there’s toys being thrown around over the sum paid. I’d sorta like to blow some money on a luxury player thank you very much. We’ve stopped scrapping the barrel of Lambert’s “he could do a job” type players. Maybe he’s a massive success, maybe he’s shite, maybe, we’re acting like a PL club being extorted for players at any price. I’m just glad to see the club behaving in the manner those around us do.

There's surely a Ayew song to the tune of Hey Jude in there?

No tangible links or named in a week or so. Seems there's still a healthy trade in speculation on speculation though ...

Is there any scope we would have accepted something like £29m to squeeze in a selling on fee? Might have something to do with the delay

We literally cannot give him away, it's actually depressing.

It's a shame no big clubs have come in for him.

Oh I'll grant you that of course. I do find the currently linked/mooted players to be very Football Manager-esque, I wonder when the Ibrahima Bakayoko and Kennedy Bakircioglü links will crop up! I'l be furious if we don't sign To Maderia. In desperate need of Tonton Zola Moukouo as well. Possibly Cherno Samba to partner To Madeira up front? Tommy Svindal Larsson and Kim Kallstrom could do a job

Oh I'll grant you that of course. I do find the currently linked/mooted players to be very Football Manager-esque, I wonder when the Ibrahima Bakayoko and Kennedy Bakircioglü links will crop up!

Just read through 27 pages of discussion, hoping, willing there would be some news. So to sum up - we have no idea how much £ we have, the favorable exchange rate has convinced the Metro and Daily Mail we'll but most of southern France, Charlie Austin has been ghost writing Dean Ashton's Memoir of a Dogged Injury and Cambiasso/Adebayor continue to be divisive signings at any price. VT you rarely fail me.

Don’t Man City already pay the greater sum of his wages? Perhaps that’s why they’d hold out for a few quid.

This. Havent been so optomistic in almost a decade! We all sort of reckoned Benteke would be prized away at some point and when the first Delph saga begun I was resigned to losing him. We have a better team now with the loss of those two than we did at the end of last season. Granted we desparately need a striker but taking the current transfer dealings into account we can safely assume some one will be brought in. Even if it a shitboxer to do a job for a wee bit, this team is miles away from the Lambert or McLeish eras. Onwards dear friends, onwards and upwards (shouldnt be tough, we are coming from a dire base!)

gnome saying

(if all is true) In a straight fight - who has **** their ex club more this transfer window - Sterling or Delph?

Providing the strike is over ...

If we left NZogbia go for free wouldn't it sweeten the deal for suitors? It would still net us £3m+ over the course of the season.

Anything sub £12m seems like a bargain these days.

This plus all the other signings, arguably starting with Tim - I haven't been as optimistic during summer/pre season in many years. Everything is moving in the right direction. Even if the takeover is off for now it surely makes us a more attract proposition 6 months to a year onwards. Lerner may put putting more value in for the same price.

Nigel Farrage will be sickened, coming here taking our jobs!