Cavani to PSG (edit) or Real or Us...!

[jake28]

Does FFP not apply to PSG then - someone needs to say how they can justify the money they are spending !!!!

Is there fan base, sponsorships etc that big to justify their outlays

They don't give a rats arse about it and rightly so. They are sending a big fk u to uefa with their sponsership deals aswel. Wish we did the same.

 

[hertsblue]

World Cup awarded to Qatar and Platini involved in that.
Then Qatar buy PGS, a French team and spend spend spend and have sponserships that dwarf ours but very little is said.
Then you have QSI, who bought the Paris Saint-Germain last summer, has just recruited Laurent Platini, the son of the president of UEFA. Aged 33, he was general counsel at Lagardère Sports, but he also knows very well the PSG where he had served between 2005 and 2008 still in law.


All above board i'm sure...........................

 

[cmdub]

Di marzio denies it so im breathing a sigh of relief as he knows his stuff. I'm still worried about his preferred destination being madrid. they would obviously have to move on one of benzema or higuain which as far as we can all tell isnt done yet.

 

[Blue Haze]

I don't mind if he goes to Madrid. Then Higuain will be out the door and they won't pursue Falcao. PSG would be awful for us.

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

And there in lies the issue - Platini the twat is quick to jump on our backs as soon as the prem started dominating the champs league not too long ago.

They way around this FFP seems to be to get a secondary company (owned by the initial owning body of the football club) and agree a deal that benefits the club to be allowed to spend money how it wishes.

We could be shooting ourselves in the foot here with how much we actually try to comply within the so called rules.

If chelsea go out and spend big again surely they will be within breach ?

It is just a fucking joke really unless you are french

 

[Claytop]

Looks like the PSG story was a false dawn.


Gonna be a long summer.

 

[Ducado]

Sounds like his agent is doing his job right

 

[moomba]

Fail saying us and PSG have agreed terms with him, but not Napoli.

 

[Outlaw]

Good it has turned out to be a false rumor!!

 

[Syth]

Looks like the PSG story was a false dawn.


Gonna be a long summer.

Did you really think it would have been a short one haha?

 

[adrianr]

I don't think Cavani is worth more than £20m so these figures are ridiculous.

People, including me are frustrated with Dzeko yet Cavani isn't dissimilar in some ways to him, so to pay this much for that player makes no sense to me.

I'd rather stick with Aguero + Tevez as lone strikers and sign some creative attacking players to generate width.

Aguero is a £38m player.
Tevez is a £15-20m player due to age (and being slighter lesser in ability than Aguero).

We should really have someone like a Niang as an understudy for the bench, as opposed to a Dzeko who gets stroppy if he doesn't start(even though he is only any good when as a sub (when opposition sitting deeper)).

Most teams don't have that many front line strikers.

Barcelona: Villa, and that's it, supported by a vast no. of attacking players.
Real: Benzema or Higuain and that's it.

Our problem is lack of width and slow midfield (yaya+barry highlighted v spurs). Spending
millions on a new striker won't solve these problems.

Even Utd only have 3 strikers. RVP, Rooney, Hernandez. - Hernandez as a bench warmer and last resort, an ever present in RVP, and Rooney who often plays in midfield rather than up front. Welbeck only ever plays wide and has just 1 goal all season long.

You don't think one of the best strikers in the world is worth more than £20m? Are you sure?

Hilarious.

I'm sure Napoli are asking too much but the idea that Cavani is worth less than we paid for James Milner or Dzeko or...

We overpaid for Milner at £24m. There is an "English tax" due to home grown rules. Milner in truth is worth no more than half that. He is a workhorse with very little technical ability.

Dzeko was also overpriced at £28m or whatever it was around that.

Cavani isn't as good as Aguero or Tevez in my opinion. And he certainly isn't cheaper than retaining either or both of them. Why waste all that money?

I concede that Cavani is better than Dzeko but please don't detract from the main point I was trying to make. That signing another striker for top dollar won't solve our problems.

Glad someone here is posting sense. If we buy Cavani within one season the following will happen,

1) Aguero won't be happy not being the main man
2) Cavani won't be happy not being the main man

It's got Dzeko written all over it. Even playing Tevez with Aguero like we're forced so often to do isn't a good idea, they're both strikers, and one of them really should be a world class ACM.

4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, whatever we end up playing, the man at the centre of it all should be Aguero. If Aguero is off to Madrid in a season then fair doos, bring in Cavani. But if he isn't, signing more top class strikers won't mean we score a load more goals.

Silva and Nasri. That is the extent of our attacking midfield if you (wisely) omit Sinclair. If you can name me a single european elite team with only two ACMs I'll show you a god damned liar.

We've built a criminally one dimensional team. The solution is not in replacing our out of favour dedicated centre forward (who will go to a team playing to his strengths and start banging them in again), with another even more expensive dedicated centre forward.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

60 million is absoloutley ridiculous. FUCK that for that price.

aguero was 38 million ??? how can cavani be nearly double that

 

[Deleted member 52846]

£28-32m player all day.

 

[Daz_Blue]

£28-32m player all day.

Now there is no longer just a City price and an everyone else price due to PSG being wealthy

 

[bugsyblue]

I would rather bale at that price.

 

[MSP]

Who was the chap who let txixi in a restaurant earlier this year?

Was cavani on the list of players we were getting? ;)

"mancini likes him" was txiki's answer that night.

 

[NoahCity]

You don't think one of the best strikers in the world is worth more than £20m? Are you sure?

Hilarious.

I'm sure Napoli are asking too much but the idea that Cavani is worth less than we paid for James Milner or Dzeko or...

We overpaid for Milner at £24m. There is an "English tax" due to home grown rules. Milner in truth is worth no more than half that. He is a workhorse with very little technical ability.

Dzeko was also overpriced at £28m or whatever it was around that.

Cavani isn't as good as Aguero or Tevez in my opinion. And he certainly isn't cheaper than retaining either or both of them. Why waste all that money?

I concede that Cavani is better than Dzeko but please don't detract from the main point I was trying to make. That signing another striker for top dollar won't solve our problems.

Glad someone here is posting sense. If we buy Cavani within one season the following will happen,

1) Aguero won't be happy not being the main man
2) Cavani won't be happy not being the main man

It's got Dzeko written all over it. Even playing Tevez with Aguero like we're forced so often to do isn't a good idea, they're both strikers, and one of them really should be a world class ACM.

4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, whatever we end up playing, the man at the centre of it all should be Aguero. If Aguero is off to Madrid in a season then fair doos, bring in Cavani. But if he isn't, signing more top class strikers won't mean we score a load more goals.

Silva and Nasri. That is the extent of our attacking midfield if you (wisely) omit Sinclair. If you can name me a single european elite team with only two ACMs I'll show you a god damned liar.

We've built a criminally one dimensional team. The solution is not in replacing our out of favour dedicated centre forward (who will go to a team playing to his strengths and start banging them in again), with another even more expensive dedicated centre forward.

so Attacking and central midfield is where the strengthening should be? Lamela, Jovetic, Isco, Fernandingo, Benat. For cheap striker, we could go for Jackson Martinez of Porto.

 

[coulsonblue]

You don't think one of the best strikers in the world is worth more than £20m? Are you sure?

Hilarious.

I'm sure Napoli are asking too much but the idea that Cavani is worth less than we paid for James Milner or Dzeko or...

We overpaid for Milner at £24m. There is an "English tax" due to home grown rules. Milner in truth is worth no more than half that. He is a workhorse with very little technical ability.

Dzeko was also overpriced at £28m or whatever it was around that.

Cavani isn't as good as Aguero or Tevez in my opinion. And he certainly isn't cheaper than retaining either or both of them. Why waste all that money?

I concede that Cavani is better than Dzeko but please don't detract from the main point I was trying to make. That signing another striker for top dollar won't solve our problems.

Glad someone here is posting sense. If we buy Cavani within one season the following will happen,

1) Aguero won't be happy not being the main man
2) Cavani won't be happy not being the main man

It's got Dzeko written all over it. Even playing Tevez with Aguero like we're forced so often to do isn't a good idea, they're both strikers, and one of them really should be a world class ACM.

4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, whatever we end up playing, the man at the centre of it all should be Aguero. If Aguero is off to Madrid in a season then fair doos, bring in Cavani. But if he isn't, signing more top class strikers won't mean we score a load more goals.

Silva and Nasri. That is the extent of our attacking midfield if you (wisely) omit Sinclair. If you can name me a single european elite team with only two ACMs I'll show you a god damned liar.

We've built a criminally one dimensional team. The solution is not in replacing our out of favour dedicated centre forward (who will go to a team playing to his strengths and start banging them in again), with another even more expensive dedicated centre forward.

This. This. This.

Also, Cavani £52m, Falcao £45m WTF

Aguero > Falcao > Cavani

 

[jauganaut]

We overpaid for Milner at £24m. There is an "English tax" due to home grown rules. Milner in truth is worth no more than half that. He is a workhorse with very little technical ability.

Dzeko was also overpriced at £28m or whatever it was around that.

Cavani isn't as good as Aguero or Tevez in my opinion. And he certainly isn't cheaper than retaining either or both of them. Why waste all that money?

I concede that Cavani is better than Dzeko but please don't detract from the main point I was trying to make. That signing another striker for top dollar won't solve our problems.

Glad someone here is posting sense. If we buy Cavani within one season the following will happen,

1) Aguero won't be happy not being the main man
2) Cavani won't be happy not being the main man

It's got Dzeko written all over it. Even playing Tevez with Aguero like we're forced so often to do isn't a good idea, they're both strikers, and one of them really should be a world class ACM.

4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, whatever we end up playing, the man at the centre of it all should be Aguero. If Aguero is off to Madrid in a season then fair doos, bring in Cavani. But if he isn't, signing more top class strikers won't mean we score a load more goals.

Silva and Nasri. That is the extent of our attacking midfield if you (wisely) omit Sinclair. If you can name me a single european elite team with only two ACMs I'll show you a god damned liar.

We've built a criminally one dimensional team. The solution is not in replacing our out of favour dedicated centre forward (who will go to a team playing to his strengths and start banging them in again), with another even more expensive dedicated centre forward.

This. This. This.

Also, Cavani £52m, Falcao £45m WTF

Aguero > Falcao > Cavani

Uhhh noooo.
Aguero is more well rounded.
But Cavani and Falcao are massively better at finishing chances and being in good positions
Goals like Aguero's at the swamp this season are fairly routine for these strikers
They can score a goal out of nothing consistently

 

[spinzer]

so Attacking and central midfield is where the strengthening should be? Lamela, Jovetic, Isco, Fernandingo, Benat. For cheap striker, we could go for Jackson Martinez of Porto.

You think jackson martinez would be cheap? he wont, thats for sure, he wont go for under 25m mark my words :)
But yeah, we can consider that cheap to that massive overprice of 60m for cavani :o