tevezskeen said:apparently we might be in for a triple swoop
mata/silva banega maduro
£40m
(from a mate whos probably chattin shit)
TWD-Tony said:It sounds to me like more like what someone else said earlier in this thread...
We want Madrid to do a deal on a player / players so we have allowed the Silva story to leak... (or someone has let it leak)
Madrid don't want to get into a bidding war so have agreed the deal on the players and we have put the trip "on hold" until things are sorted out...
It probably goes on a lot more than people realise.
This is probably the only way we can flex our financial muscle at the moment - the top players aren't attracted to us yet, but we can broker deals by waving the city cheque book around and getting other clubs to give in / back down.
sam221985 said:TWD-Tony said:It sounds to me like more like what someone else said earlier in this thread...
We want Madrid to do a deal on a player / players so we have allowed the Silva story to leak... (or someone has let it leak)
Madrid don't want to get into a bidding war so have agreed the deal on the players and we have put the trip "on hold" until things are sorted out...
It probably goes on a lot more than people realise.
This is probably the only way we can flex our financial muscle at the moment - the top players aren't attracted to us yet, but we can broker deals by waving the city cheque book around and getting other clubs to give in / back down.
This makes a lot of sense to me, let's hope so. And also it means we're probably not just talking Gago - I don't think they'd go to all that trouble just for him, because I don't think Madrid would be that reluctant to let him go...
TWD-Tony said:It sounds to me like more like what someone else said earlier in this thread...
We want Madrid to do a deal on a player / players so we have allowed the Silva story to leak... (or someone has let it leak)
Madrid don't want to get into a bidding war so have agreed the deal on the players and we have put the trip "on hold" until things are sorted out...
It probably goes on a lot more than people realise.
This is probably the only way we can flex our financial muscle at the moment - the top players aren't attracted to us yet, but we can broker deals by waving the city cheque book around and getting other clubs to give in / back down.
Ticket For Schalke said:2Daroot said:Silva would be a great signing and send a message out to the world, another option I would seriously be weighing up would be Joe Cole to be our midfield playmaker, he was a central player at West Ham he just hasn't been given that chance at Chelsea but I believe its his best position, would cost nothing other than big wages but he is onlt about 28...... worth a dabble to me
has played more than 300 games for them lol.