DontLookBackInAnger
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But, while Benjani wasn't perhaps our best signing, at least he isn't a total cancer like Bellamy, thus I can live with him even though I think we over paid for him
moomba said:Personally think he's been a waste of money.
moomba said:I'm not sure the owners will support endless spending just for the sake of spending. We all talk about them being astute businessmen, and while I'm sure they'll be happy to spend big on the right player I don't think they'll be happy spending the sort of money being talked about on mediocre players just for the sake of padding the squad.
Baby steps approach is not for me I'm afraid. We can do so much better (and I'm not talking about superstars only).
mackenzie said:But this is the January window Moomba and a lot depends on availability surely?
moomba said:mackenzie said:But this is the January window Moomba and a lot depends on availability surely?
Every player in the world is available.
True-Blue said:I beleive MH has done extremley well with signings bar TBH and maybe Jo.
Although they were all in the summer. I honestly beleive money talks enough nowdays that we can get a LB, Ball winning CM and a Lethal Finishing CF.
Whether they can be get in Jan.... In MH we trust.
The thing that will throw that theory out the window is that right now(in general)it is a buyers market, MANY clubs are seeing that most rich owners at not so rich anymore and like with Honda and F1 politically it is better to scale back(or cut)altogether their sports interests than close whole sectors of your mainstream business. If Hughes and Cook run into this, they should politely leave their phone number with the club and move on to their next target, I'm sure before too long the phone will start ringing again.C_T_I_D said:Looks like he has Redknapps respect anyway. He said:
"Everyone thinks Man City are going to come in and pay way over the odds for everybody because of the money they've got, but I don't think they will," he said.
"Mark Hughes is a very clever manager, he might want the players but I don't think he'll sit back and let the owners pay vastly inflated fees for players he does not feel are worth that kind of money.
"I think that is the key, if a chairman hears Man City might be interested in one of their players they could say, 'Let's hang on and we could double our money'. I don't think that will happen, Mark is too shrewd for that."