GYBS wrote:maypaxvobiscum wrote:GYBS wrote:Ok then let me rephrase it for you - how many of those players would want to come to us ? and how do you know they would of improved us . Mc geady shines in the scottish league - well done - how many players have come down and done well lately ? deco would only of ever gone to chelsea , nasri arsenal , dos santos is doing nothing at the moment and would barce really let him go if he was going to be a special talent ? doubtful . modric was around 16 mil to play in the centre of the park ? who do we replace gerrard or masher or xabi ? its also a matter of being able to afford them and them fitting into the team . bently was 20 mil was it ? arshavin 20 mil plus and you want to spend that based on uefa cup and two decent games in the euros ? yeah sorin is old with no pace and you expect him to be able to cope in the prem when he couldnt cope in serie A when he was at lazio . Martins would cost us 15 mil and blows hot and cold . Owen - well lets not go there . Saviola has done nothing for years and there is a reason he was rotting away in madrids reserves - ie not good enough . Chelsea would never of sold SWP to us in a million years unless we paid 15 mil for him as well.
mate, they werent looking in our direction simply because we didnt show any interest in them. if we did perhaps if could be different. its all about possibilities![]()
besides, whatever happened to our interest in players like simao, aimar, etc? there are good and better players out there for the taking compared to what we have. i just find rafa stubborn. he should shave. its bad luck that goatee.
maybe no interest in them was shown cause the manager either thought 1. they arent good enough 2. they were too expensive 3. no chance of signing them 4. too old an dnot suited to the prem
With simao Benfica put the price up and last summer he went to madrid for 19 mil euros so he would now prob cost us around 20 mil quid and aimar is old and rafa doesnt seem to rate him as never played him for valencia .
he wanted players like silva (couldnt afford him ) villa (same again ) barry ( same again ) alves(same again ) - do you get the trend . he wants better players as his number one targets just cant afford them .
sure. keane was cheap. dosenna is good enough. and pellegrino wasnt old.
and if im not mistaken, liverpool didnt wanna meet villa's asking price. if it was too ex we wouldnt have been able to buy keane for more.