Erling Haaland

[Chippy_boy]

Pretty much how I see it unless a deal has already been quietly done, but his agent is too much of a gob-shite/wideboy for that to be the case :-(

Just as long as he doesn't go to the fucking rags. Which is what I am bracing myself for tbh. Anyone but them.

 

[Charlesfarsbar]

we can’t claim the silver lake investment as income for ffp. But can we claim the interest held in the company as an income?

Yes in theory but I doubt we have just stuck the money in a savings account to earn interest

 

[Chippy_boy]

Pretty much how I see it unless a deal has already been quietly done, but his agent is too much of a gob-shite/wideboy for that to be the case :-(

Off the top of my head, how many huge signings have been "nailed on" for according to some on this forum, only to miss out? Pogba, Sanchez, Hazard, Isco, Kaka, Mbappe. Some of these we dodged a bullet obviously!

 

[Holcombe bloo]

Yes in theory but I doubt we have just stuck the money in a savings account to earn interest

Where else would it be? It’s not under khaldoons bed!

 

[waspish]

Roman offered Pep a Blank cheque and he would be given anything he wished! Pep was already ours. Hopefully Haaland wants us if he is wavering it’s going to cost us a fortune to get him plus stupid wagers.

 

[Chi-town blues]

hope we didn’t piss dortmund for inserting special rags clause on sancho‘s deal.

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

I tend to agree, sadly. I read earlier today that Abramovic had made it his personal mission to sign Haaland. Whether that is true who knows, but we can be sure there will be lots of bidders - some far less sensible than us - and given the uber-hype surrounding this player, I cannot see him going for anything less than silly money. And we are anything but silly.

I'm not aware that "silly money" is a technical term but is generally used when one wishes to say that the cost bears no relation to the value of the goods in question. City have shown numerous times that they will pay what they consider a fair price ie one which reflects value. Several posts have already stressed that the club is aware of the interest from elsewhere and the likely cost but still make Haaland our number one target for the summer window. So, although your post isn't complete nonsense much of it doesn't make sense, especially when you stray into the realms of "silly" and silliness.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Off the top of my head, how many huge signings have been "nailed on" for according to some on this forum, only to miss out? Pogba, Sanchez, Hazard, Isco, Kaka, Mbappe. Some of these we dodged a bullet obviously!

I sometimes think our own fans get brainwashed by the constant media spin on our spending. We certainly had to spend fortunes to get from where we were in 2008 to now, but as far as individual players go I think ffs is still our biggest spend at @£60m? I could see us going to 80-90 plus add ons for haaland, but over that I think we'll leave it to the great historical clubs who never distort the market to spend double that plus a bung for riola.

 

[Chippy_boy]

I'm not aware that "silly money" is a technical term but is generally used when one wishes to say that the cost bears no relation to the value of the goods in question. City have shown numerous times that they will pay what they consider a fair price ie one which reflects value. Several posts have already stressed that the club is aware of the interest from elsewhere and the likely cost but still make Haaland our number one target for the summer window. So, although your post isn't complete nonsense much of it doesn't make sense, especially when you stray into the realms of "silly" and silliness.

What a silly reply. In fact it's so silly you effectively argued against yourself. Giving the uber-hype and numbers of clubs sniffing around, it's highly like he will go for silly money, i.e. - to use your definition - a cost out of line with the value. Which would make us signing him seem both (a) unlikely and (b) silly.

 

[Holcombe bloo]

hope we didn’t piss dortmund for inserting special rags clause on sancho‘s deal.

That would be sweet!