AVFCforever1991 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I think Lambert will still sign 1 more marquee player IMO.. If its for the right price that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 1 more Marquee player ? Who was the other one ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Adam Johnson is on £100k a week Forget about players of this magnitude because it simply isn't happening We are signing players who will play for 15-20k a week and someone like Lowton maybe on less than 10k a week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wans13 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Probably waiting for Andy Carroll to get it straight in his addled brain - between hangovers - that he's not going to Newcastle and isnt going to get a game with a team where he will be required to play football? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I think it's time for a few to face reality. We are crippled with debt, the owner is unwilling to throw money at the project and we can look forward to "sustainable" investment going forward ie. Lowton Holman etc etc. Today could be a real eye opener for some of the happy clappy optimists That's right we are in big debt. The trouble is, the more cutbacks Lerner makes the closer we come to relegation, and then we certainly would be in the shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonslayer1981 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Problem is I can't see us going from signing cheap foreign players and lower league players like Lowton to really investing any cash or wages in proven PL players like Johnson for example. Without adding more PL proven quality this will leave us short this season. im hoping its because the clubs they were from and agents for the players were easier to deal with and that's why it seems we're only signing cheap foreign talent and lower league players, which i seem to remember a few ppl complaining that we didn't do enough of under previous managers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 We're about 5 players away from being a good team. It'll take a long time to sort that (at this rate) don't think Bent will wait that long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papillon Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Adam Johnson is on £100k a week Forget about players of this magnitude because it simply isn't happening We are signing players who will play for 15-20k a week and someone like Lowton maybe on less than 10k a week You do not know exactly what Adam Johnson is paid every week. Also, eveyone knows that the salary you get at Man City is not going to be equalled anywhere else - especially not if you go somewhere to get more playing time. He is still very young and already very rich, but he is not a tool like Mario Balotelli, and strikes me as a person that would take a cut to enjoy his football. Also, you do not know what kind of players we are getting and how much we could potentially pay them. If we found a good player, I seriously doubt Lerner would not sanction the deal because he wanted 40k. Do you think Ron Vlaar, who left CL football and a much nicer stadiums than ours, to get 20k a week? Stop talking ostentatiously about things you can hardly call anything other than your pessimistic opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Adam Johnson strikes you as a person who would take a pay cut ? How on earth did you work that one out lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wans13 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I think we would be a much stronger force with Karl Henry, Andrew Johnson and maybe if we could resign Steven Davis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I think Lambert will still sign 1 more marquee player IMO.. If its for the right price that is. Who are the marquee players we have signed already this window? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Adam Johnson strikes you as a person who would take a pay cut ? If he wants to get back into the england team, he will have to be playing first team football.. and he wont get that at city, therefore he will have to move to a different club and take a wage cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I think Lambert will still sign 1 more marquee player IMO.. If its for the right price that is. Who are the marquee players we have signed already this window? Sorry I wrote that wrong, I meant We will sign 1 marquee this window.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I hope so, plus it will give everyone at the club a huge lift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I hope so, plus it will give everyone at the club a huge lift. Yeah deff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukes Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 The poster who said the budget was £8m + 50% of any sales is looking bang on the money That had actually crossed my mind too CI but none of us know what our transfer budget is? We will know by the end of this window whether Lambert is working with both arms behind his back or we'll have Carroll (loan), Adam Johnson and Clint the Eastwood Dempsey in a Villa shirt with possibility Gabby going to Sunderland instead of Fletcher. Not looking much am I ? Actually, we won't know that. We'll never know how much Lambert has been given to spend, or under what conditions. At the end of the transfer window we'll only know how much has been spent, and there are many reasons why that might not be the actual budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukes Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I think Lambert will still sign 1 more marquee player IMO.. If its for the right price that is. Who are the marquee players we have signed already this window? Sorry I wrote that wrong, I meant We will sign 1 marquee this window.. Like this ? Personally I prefer the comfort of the Doug Ellis stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limvillian Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 The poster who said the budget was £8m + 50% of any sales is looking bang on the money That had actually crossed my mind too CI but none of us know what our transfer budget is? We will know by the end of this window whether Lambert is working with both arms behind his back or we'll have Carroll (loan), Adam Johnson and Clint the Eastwood Dempsey in a Villa shirt with possibility Gabby going to Sunderland instead of Fletcher. Not looking much am I ? Actually, we won't know that. We'll never know how much Lambert has been given to spend, or under what conditions. At the end of the transfer window we'll only know how much has been spent, and there are many reasons why that might not be the actual budget. It may not be the actual budget but it would be a very good indication, it is highly unlikely that Lambert would be handed £50m to spend and he only spends £8-10m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukes Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 It may not be the actual budget but a very good indication, it is highly unlikely that Lambert would be handed £50m to spend and he only spends £8-10m. Is anyone really expecting £50M ? Personally i think our budget is more likely to be around £20M, but i still don't know if Lambert would spend all of that, he wouldn't have had anything like the budget he's got here at Norwich, so i suppose he'll have been scouting players in the lower leagues and cheaper foreign players ....which as it happens seems to be what he's signing. For years we've been moaning about getting ripped of for players with Premier League experience, and then getting stung on their wages, now we seem to have a manager who is prepared to look further afield, people are still moaning because we have't spent enough. Newcastle proved last year that there are bargains to be had, and yo don't need to spend £50M to become competitive, maybe Lambert has already or will unearth some gems. The transfer budget is insignificant (Torres £40M, or Carrol £35M anyone ?), the significant thing is the capability of the manager and his staff to bring in the right players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limvillian Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 It may not be the actual budget but a very good indication, it is highly unlikely that Lambert would be handed £50m to spend and he only spends £8-10m. Is anyone really expecting £50M ? Personally i think our budget is more likely to be around £20M, but i still don't know if Lambert would spend all of that, he wouldn't have had anything like the budget he's got here at Norwich, so i suppose he'll have been scouting players in the lower leagues and cheaper foreign players ....which as it happens seems to be what he's signing. For years we've been moaning about getting ripped of for players with Premier League experience, and then getting stung on their wages, now we seem to have a manager who is prepared to look further afield, people are still moaning because we have't spent enough. Newcastle proved last year that there are bargains to be had, and yo don't need to spend £50M to become competitive, maybe Lambert has already or will unearth some gems. The transfer budget is insignificant (Torres £40M, or Carrol £35M anyone ?), the significant thing is the capability of the manager and his staff to bring in the right players. I'm not suggesting for one second we have £50m to spend, we all know we don't but what I'm saying is if a manager is given a budget by the boards that they have told him is perfectly ok to spend, why would he not spend it? When it is very obvious to everyone that we do need additions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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