Does anyone actually KNOW what we paid for Bridge

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bluemoondays

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I've seen various prices batted around ranging from £8m to £12m with most seeming to think we paid £10-£12m.

I've been wondering as we will have paid an "undisclosed" fee and us and Chelski won't have to publish detailed accounts (I think, not 100% sure on that). Maybe we paid £7m for him after all?

Reason being is that we seem to be getting knocked back all over the place on bids at the moment, is it possible that we are actually offering "sensible" bids and not wildly inflated prices dreamed up by the media? For example, maybe we only bid £9m for RSC, then upped it to £12m, still a lot but much more realistic than £15m. Another example, £15m for Parker and Bellamy, if you said £8.5m for a midfielder on the fringes of the England squad and £6.5m for a 29/30 year old striker. It doesn't look quite so bad looking at what teams pay for English players over the last season or so, Bentley £15m, Milner £12m? etc

Just maybe we aren't allowing ourselves to get ripped off (or potentially ripped off) as badly as the media seems to think we are?

Just a thought.....
 
I hate undisclosed fees.

The FA should bring in a rule that all details of transfers between clubs are made public.
 
At a guess, we paid £9.4 million for Bridge.

People talk on here about the difference between millions as if it were change.


If the club ends up paying £12 million for RSC (and sadly I think we might pay even more than that) the rest of football will have no doubt of what fat Sam already suspects:

That with Hughes as manager we have more money than sense
 
dannybcity said:
Surely that would be detrimental to us. The less people know about our spending the better.
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I think people usually have a fair idea anyway, but I'm not too concerned about the clubs rights in this. I think the supporters have a right to know just how good a job their manager and exec staff are doing.

Would probably end Bent 'Arry's alleged love of the brown paper bag as well.
 
mammutly said:
At a guess, we paid £9.4 million for Bridge.

People talk on here about the difference between millions as if it were change.


If the club ends up paying £12 million for RSC (and sadly I think we might pay even more than that) the rest of football will have no doubt of what fat Sam already suspects:

That with Hughes as manager we have more money than sense
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Of one thing i am sure, Hughes has more sense than money, even if we are supposedly the richest club in the world. I stand to be corrected!
 
There is a rule that sles over £10M need to be reported differently. However I a not sure what happenend in this case but it would not be hard to find out which side of the mark it was.
 
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