excellent business.......

[riley347]

De Jong?

lol. if we waited we could have saved 16 million haha

or someone else could have bought him!!!!!...........NO LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Danamy]

RSC was only 25mil in Jan because sparky showed his hand and Blackburn knew he had publically said he was in for him. The price was massively overinflated because

a) it was January
b) it was Hughes and City and he had millions burning a hole in his pocket

I still think that £17m is too much for a player that missed last season through injury - he had one good season in the Prem thats all. Look at Benjani's goalscoring record before he joined us !

I think the days of us buying players for less then 10 Mill have gone tbh (unless youth) as when we move forward the targets will be better and that means £££££.
We all know that if we didn't have the funds RSC would of only cost about 12 mill on the footy market.
Same thing happened at Chelsea to start with 5 mill added before you start?

 

[riley347]

I agree I was shocked by what we have been reported as having paid for Barry, a great bit of business, but 17m for RSC is a shocker....(500,000 for every goal he scored while he was at Blackburn in profit).

Let,s not be silly now.....what about other attributes to his game....holding ball up/bringing other players into the game/aerial threat........to equate his ability on goals alone is a schoolboy mentality......and a bit silly................

 

[DontLookBackInAnger]

I agree I was shocked by what we have been reported as having paid for Barry, a great bit of business, but 17m for RSC is a shocker....(500,000 for every goal he scored while he was at Blackburn in profit).

Let,s not be silly now.....what about other attributes to his game....holding ball up/bringing other players into the game/aerial threat........to equate his ability on goals alone is a schoolboy mentality......and a bit silly................

Actually, his goal scoring rate was quite good at Blackburn, it's the 14.5m profit that they are making that precludes it being classed as "excellent business" at this point.

 

[citoeast]

gareth barry- jan value 18m- we buy @ 12m........

RSC- jan value 25m- we buy@ 17m...................

can,t argue with that......even you hughes haters.....................

Not a Hughes hater but RSC was never £25 and is not worth £15 rising to £18m or whatever, but who cares he is a decent signing if not spectacular.

Barry is a good buy at £25m never mind £12m. Finally price depends on how much is left on their contract as well.

 

[Anonymous]

It's OK business, but it's nothing to do with Hughes, Cooke, the owners, etc. It's just the way finances work in the world of football (as others have pointed out in this thread).

hughes hater..................

*Rolls eyes*

Please tell me if it is not a fact that players tend to cost more in the January transfer window than in the Summer one.

 

[Brucie Bonus]

What is wrong Riley? Tell uncle Brucie.

 

[riley347]

I agree I was shocked by what we have been reported as having paid for Barry, a great bit of business, but 17m for RSC is a shocker....(500,000 for every goal he scored while he was at Blackburn in profit).

Let,s not be silly now.....what about other attributes to his game....holding ball up/bringing other players into the game/aerial threat........to equate his ability on goals alone is a schoolboy mentality......and a bit silly................

Actually, his goal scoring rate was quite good at Blackburn, it's the 14.5m profit that they are making that precludes it being classed as "excellent business" at this point.

find any decent striker for less than 15m nowadays.........go on, i dare ya...........

 

[Danamy]

gareth barry- jan value 18m- we buy @ 12m........

RSC- jan value 25m- we buy@ 17m...................

can,t argue with that......even you hughes haters.....................

Not a Hughes hater but RSC was never £25 and is not worth £15 rising to £18m or whatever, but who cares he is a decent signing if not spectacular.

Barry is a good buy at £25m never mind £12m. Finally price depends on how much is left on their contract as well.

You also have to think of wages aswell i.e:

Cruz cost 17 mill but wages are 70,000 pw (4 year contract)
Barry cost 12 mill but wages are 110,000 pw (5 year contract)

The signing on fee doesn't represent the whole package, on par they cost the same.........if that makes sense?

 

[allblues09]

moreover, de jong would have signed his new contract and would not have been avaliable for the low price the press bounded around when we got him.

Well we don't know that. I really like the player but even his selling club said we offered more than double anyone else. There was no need. Just playing devil's advocate.

You are right, that we do not know that. But the story about being able to sign him for 2.3 mil in the summer also came from the Sun, who are like a broken clock in terms of it's accuracy. I guess we may never know.