rodders0223 Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 8 hours ago, legov said: You'd think 40k/week would be enough for his retirement plan. He's 30. The cruel fact is he is not going to improve and he isn't going to achieve any major success going forward. I would find it very hard to turn down that kind of money regardless of what I was earning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 9 hours ago, StanBalaban said: On the face of it it certainly is an odd move, but looking at Pelle's career this will be a salary like nothing he's seen before. One would imagine he'll be on around £40k per week at Southampton, perhaps his room to negotiate a better contract isn't great if they're planning to go with Austin, Rodriguez and Long next season? Having just turned 30, his manager has just left and it's questionable whether he'd get another 3 or 4 years of top flight English football you can see why a player could be tempted by such a move financially. So having succeeded in England and represented his country, he gets to more than double his pay, play at an easier level for the next 3 or 4 years and nets himself £15/20m in the process. Plus the endorsements for being a big fish in a hugely populated pond must be huge. It makes sense for the retirement plan. Just not from the sporting challenge side. Well explained 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 On July 7, 2016 at 19:33, Kingman said: I Reckon we could well see the £1b barrier broken this transfer window! Well you could be right... http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36737778 Premier League clubs have spent an estimated £300m during the first week of the summer transfer window. By comparison, £870m was spent during the nine weeks of last summer's window. Business analyst Deloitte expects gross outlay to rise above £1bn before the window closes on 31 August. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 18 hours ago, StanBalaban said: His sale also follows the departures this summer of Victor Wanyama and Sadio Mane but the club have bought Nathan Redmond from Norwich City and had recruited Charlie Austin in January as a future Pelle replacement. The plan, then, is not to seek a replacement for Pelle, with new manager Claude Puel believing he has enough striker options already at the club in Austin, Shane Long and Jay Rodriguez. Southampton, however, are actively searching for a replacement in central midfield for Wanyama. The club were under the impression that Pelle wanted to leave in January, hence the decision to do the deal for Austin, and there would now appear to be little appetite on either side for Pelle to extend his deal. Pelle has scored twice for Italy during Euro 2016 and also scored 30 goals over his two years under Ronald Koeman at Southampton. As well as the £13 million fee, Sandong Luneng are ready to offer Pelle wages in excess of £100,000-a-week. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/07/08/graziano-pelle-to-leave-southampton-for-china-in-13-million-deal/ Expect Liverpool to make a counter offer over the next few days! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 12 hours ago, Zatman said: also he was hardly playing at end of last season as Long was ahead of him so doubt he would have got a similar contract elsewhere. Dont know who Italy manager will be but I also doubt Pelle will be used again for national team It's Ventura, the Torino guy. So you might be right as chances are he might prefer players he's worked with, like Immobile, or even Belotti over him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Cisse leaving Newcastle for China Apart from the blistering start he had, he always flattered to deceive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 yeah Cisse going to China has probably made Newcastle an even better team to go with Taylor and Coloccini both leaving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Riviere's still there.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 2 hours ago, Xela said: Cisse leaving Newcastle for China Apart from the blistering start he had, he always flattered to deceive. no surprises who he started that blistering run against. pretty sure Gary Gardner had just missed a sitter for us when this prick turned up to send the best fans in the world wild*, a number 9 scoring at the gallow gate end, and we all know they love there strikers up there* *tm sky sports. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Quote Bradford City meet Blackpool 'keeper Colin Doyle's £1 release clause Bradford City have activated a £1 release clause in Blackpool goalkeeper Colin Doyle’s contract, according to Sky sources. The 6ft 5in 'keeper, capped once by the Republic of Ireland, will follow goalkeeping coach Steve Banks to Valley Parade. Despite Blackpool's relegation to League Two last season, Doyle enjoyed an impressive campaign and the Bantams are keen to bring him back to League One next season. The 31-year-old spent 12 years with Birmingham City but made just 64 appearances, spending most of the period on various loan stints. A 2015 switch to Bloomfield Road, however, reignited his career and he made 35 appearances for Blackpool across the 2015-16 League One campaign. Bradford narrowly missed out on promotion to the Championship last season when they lost 4-2 on aggregate to Millwall in the League One play-off semi-finals. Manager Stuart McCall is keen to strengthen his squad to ensure they can go one step further this season and has already signed defender Nathaniel Knight-Percival on a free transfer from Shrewsbury and midfielder Nicky Law on a free transfer following his release by Rangers. http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11728/10497224/bradford-city-meet-blackpool-keeper-colin-doyles-1631-release-clause Having a release clause of just one pound? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 11 hours ago, Villaphan04 said: http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11728/10497224/bradford-city-meet-blackpool-keeper-colin-doyles-1631-release-clause Having a release clause of just one pound? Karl Oyston. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 (edited) Apparently Toure has been offered a £500,000-a-week deal to leave City and play in the Chinese Super League Worlds gone **** mad i tell thee I Predict 2019/2020 season to see the first £1m a week player! Edited July 10, 2016 by Kingman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TrentVilla Posted July 10, 2016 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted July 10, 2016 Just imagine having a domestic league heavily dependent on ageing overseas stars past their best, who only come for huge wages, to be the star attractions. Pretty desperate isn't it. Anyway looking forward to watching 34 year old Imbrahimovic for United this season, I think he will be worth every penny of his £200k a week salary.... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 3 minutes ago, TrentVilla said: Just imagine having a domestic league heavily dependent on ageing overseas stars past their best, who only come for huge wages, to be the star attractions. Pretty desperate isn't it. Anyway looking forward to watching 34 year old Imbrahimovic for United this season, I think he will be worth every penny of his £200k a week salary.... Yeah, He will probably be doing that in shirt sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 (edited) Yes 38 league goals in 31 games Ibrahimovic scored last season. He's going to score a stack of goals in the Premier League. Edited July 10, 2016 by PaulC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted July 10, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted July 10, 2016 Apparently Pogba's agent is in line for 25% of any transfer fee. Seeing as it's the same agent as Mourinho that has to be a conflict of interest. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/agents-amazing-cut-of-110m-pogba-transfer-2rg3wbfdx Manchester United are being asked to pay a record transfer fee of about £110m to sign Paul Pogba. If United accept the terms it is understood that almost a quarter of the fee will end up in the hands of the agent who persuaded the young Frenchman to leave Old Trafford under the terms of freedom of contract in the summer of 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 10, 2016 Moderator Share Posted July 10, 2016 15 minutes ago, Kingman said: Yeah, He will probably be doing that in shirt sales. Well it's a lot of letters...... That wasn't really my point though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 1 hour ago, Kingman said: Apparently Toure has been offered a £500,000-a-week deal to leave City and play in the Chinese Super League Plus a birthday cake? He'd be mad not to take it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 1 hour ago, Rds1983 said: Apparently Pogba's agent is in line for 25% of any transfer fee. Seeing as it's the same agent as Mourinho that has to be a conflict of interest. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/agents-amazing-cut-of-110m-pogba-transfer-2rg3wbfdx Manchester United are being asked to pay a record transfer fee of about £110m to sign Paul Pogba. If United accept the terms it is understood that almost a quarter of the fee will end up in the hands of the agent who persuaded the young Frenchman to leave Old Trafford under the terms of freedom of contract in the summer of 2012. Way over the odds for a player who is good but not great. He has not been exceptional in the euros. Standout French players have been Griezmann and Payet, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 4 hours ago, PaulC said: Yes 38 league goals in 31 games Ibrahimovic scored last season. He's going to score a stack of goals in the Premier League. Won't get anywhere near that in this league. He'll be doing well to score half of that tally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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