Mantis Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 It would hurt to see him going to a tin-pot club like Palace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 With Batshuayi hoping to make an impact at Chelsea it really does feel like he is getting left behind. I don't think this is a good move for him, but if it is the best he has got then so be it. Just feels like this will be his level from now on I suspect. Has a touch of the Fowler and Owen moves to Leeds and Newcastle to me. Not often you drop down and come back up, even at a youngish age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 4 hours ago, sne said: Palace offering £31.5m for Benteke! Please tell me we have a sell on clause? Don't be daft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 1 minute ago, mikeyp102 said: Don't be daft Yeah I know, of course we don't. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 5 minutes ago, sne said: Yeah I know, of course we don't. we probably put in a stupid clause that we owe Liverpool 10 million if they dont make a profit on him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 Just now, Zatman said: we probably put in a stupid clause that we owe Liverpool 10 million if they dont make a profit on him Have they actually paid us in full yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikantcpell Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 I was in Subway the other day and asked for the most expensive sub they had...I got Christian Benteke. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Every year we say the same, but where will the stupid fees & wages end? It has to burst at some point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 1 hour ago, Genie said: Every year we say the same, but where will the stupid fees & wages end? It has to burst at some point. And every year we say the bubble has to burst, but I'm not sure it ever will. People will always pay to watch football on TV so the TV companies will always pay huge amounts of money for the privilege. It does feel like a strange new era though, the big clubs have always spent heavily of course, but Crystal fecking Palace making bids of £30m just feels wrong (unless you're a Palace fan of course). As this deal puts every PL club in a postion that allows them to compete financially with all but a handful of European clubs, its probably going to become even more surreal when players are turning down moves to the likes of Inter Milan and A Madrid, in favour of Watford or Middlesbrough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 7 hours ago, Genie said: Every year we say the same, but where will the stupid fees & wages end? It has to burst at some point. Doesn't look like it is going to be anywhere in the near future unfortunately. Nowadays £10m is piss all, which is astonishing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 10 hours ago, av1 said: It does feel like a strange new era though, the big clubs have always spent heavily of course, but Crystal fecking Palace making bids of £30m just feels wrong (unless you're a Palace fan of course). As this deal puts every PL club in a postion that allows them to compete financially with all but a handful of European clubs, its probably going to become even more surreal when players are turning down moves to the likes of Inter Milan and A Madrid, in favour of Watford or Middlesbrough. Said this earlier, The premier league is going to be a very different place if we are out of it for more than one season. This week alone Palace have bid 31.5mil for batshuayi, they missed out so bid 30 mil + for Benteke, In the meantime while they were waiting round for answers they have paid 13 mil for Andros Townsend & 10 Mil for James Tomkins, Oh & they have also bought Steve Mandanda the marseille ligue 1 goalkeeper of the year & french international just for good measure. They are also supposedly in for Roberto Pererya from Juve.. This is Crystal Palace, They won 11 games last year & finished on 42 points, 3 places above relegation. So bad that even we managed to beat them. 100 mil+ for simply staying in the league makes spending 50-70 mil on players and another 20 or so on their wages seem like nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 The money may be going up but the quality of player isn't improving. Actually being outside the Premier League for a couple of seasons and building a squad might not be such a bad thing. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 On 7/4/2016 at 16:37, sne said: Palace offering £31.5m for Benteke! Please tell me we have a sell on clause? If we do it would probably be a percentage of any profit. If the Benteke transfer goes through then it really hits home about just how much we have missed the gravy train by. If £30m fees and £120k a week are now what even lower table Premier League clubs can afford then we need to get back in the big time ASAP because in three or four years then the cost of building a competitive squad will be beyond anybody getting promoted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 6, 2016 Moderator Share Posted July 6, 2016 Its worse than that Rev, the new money will mean those coming down from the PL will in most instances go back up because they will be on a completely different financial level. Give it a year or two and the PL will be a closed shop to all but around 23 sides and the rest of the Championship will be treading water. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Platt Posted July 6, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted July 6, 2016 Or you could make astute signings get a team spirit and not spend a fortune and do a Leicester!? Money helps don't get me wrong but it's not the be all and end all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 18 minutes ago, TrentVilla said: Its worse than that Rev, the new money will mean those coming down from the PL will in most instances go back up because they will be on a completely different financial level. Give it a year or two and the PL will be a closed shop to all but around 23 sides and the rest of the Championship will be treading water. I don t think that will be the case, fees have inflated even more now so your new money goes on the same players on inflated fees. championship is not about how much you spend its about management, squad size and passion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 People have been saying this whole 'it'll just be the same teams going up and down' bit for years. It was actually more true ten or fifteen years ago, when West Brom and SHA were doing that, than it is now. This despite the financial gap between the PL and Championship widening every year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 9 hours ago, S-Platt said: Or you could make astute signings get a team spirit and not spend a fortune and do a Leicester!? Lets keep that to ourselves eh, we don't want the other 91 teams getting wind of this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 If we stayed up and Randy stayed do we think we would have been able to make some substantial signings? Or would we still somehow be broke as ****? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Incredibly disappointing him signing for palace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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