Ray78 said:Mr Ed (The Stables) said:Ray78 said:Going off Negredo's second half of last season's form he would of useless especially with his mind being elsewhere. Guidetti is looking to kick start his career and wouldn't of been happy being 4th choice. That 4th spot should be for an up an coming EDS striker but yet none of them are quite ready to take up that slot.
But surely everyone knows he dislocated his shoulder at west ham in the cup, in a game we were already winning 6-0 on aggregate.
No wonder his performances dropped off it takes 6 months to get over an injury like he had.
It takes 12-16 weeks to heel. We had to rush him back with Aguero and Jovetic also being injured and Dzeko being our only fit striker.
NoahCity said:when is Aguero back anyway? Remember reading that he may return for Everton away. Really need him and Kompany to come back and make up for the loss of Yaya for the Everton/Arsenal/Chelsea trio.
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:EalingBlue2 said:Mr Ed (The Stables) said:Surely we knew he wanted to leave earlier in the Summer. I'm pissed off that we let him go on the last day, not the fact we let him go. I'll be amazed if we sign a striker in January as all the good ones are playing for their teams.
If we want a striker we will get one simple as.... Will be interesting to see if we do, all jan means is an extra 10% on the price but we will have more than covered that in 3 months wages and a couple of mill loan fee for negredo.
We knew he wanted out earlier but no one had offered good money for him and had it not been for a big Valencia bid (they weren't in a position to make the offer earlier) then he would've stayed. The late big bid for him and the loss of one slot in the UCL made it a no brainier to accept.
It hasn't cost is anything and if it does hurt us it will be because we decide not to sign anyone in jan not because we did so in August
You make a fair point and I can accept that.
But then as a club having then made the decision about Negredo why not just send Guidetti out on a three month loan deal somewhere (so he can be recalled)
Also we let Davente Cole leave on a loan as well. It just seems a bit baffling to me.
But if we do blag it through then fair do's to those that made the decision especially as we do have one hand tied behind our back with FFP.
And with one goal in eight games, his value hardly matches the level that we placed on him.bobmcfc said:We haven't made any money on negredo till we actually sell him. Just waiting for them to wriggle out of the deal in summer anyway..