(summer) silly season 2011 transfer thread

Originally Posted by Zorg

city's fans are such ginormous #@&%!s, gleefully embracing what they've always hated and talking like their machine-gun spending is actually some sort of orchestrated 'project' entirely down to canny management and clever manoeuvring. Er, someoene just came and gave you lots of money and now you're spending it. That's all there is to it. £#%&!ing blue £#%&!ers. ggaaaahh

The £#%&!ing limit is how they claim they're due a change in fortune for all their loyalty throughout those many, many years. Yeah, all 3,007 of you are, you lying @#%&!s.

I don't think it's inevitable that City will win the league soon. Moratti spent years at Inter breaking world transfer records, buying players far better than City are doing, yet they couldn't win Serie A. It took the match-fixing scandal and their main competetitors being wiped out for them to finally win it.

Yeah, well citeh's main competitors are being wiped out by the Glazer £#%&!ers

if city shift tevez and bring in aguero they'll be no better than last year and probably a little worse. i'd say they're now about the level that chelsea were at when abramovic started his spending, and even with that it took mourinho to bring chelsea up to united's level (and despise the @#%&! as i do, there's no denying that maureen knows how to win).

Originally Posted by tatty

Fans fall in to the trap of thinking that players view the world the way they do.

If a rival company offered double your wage would you stay where you are now? Would you £#%&! regardless of how 'nice' the boss was or how famous the company.

You'd be off like a shot.

If I was earning 40 grand a year I would. If I was already a multi millionaire I would pick and choose more carefully.

The comparison doesn't really stand up to scrutiny.

Originally Posted by dodger

If I was earning 40 grand a year I would. If I was already a multi millionaire I would pick and choose more carefully.

The comparison doesn't really stand up to scrutiny.

Yeah, at that level it's not a case of needing the money. But I think top modern players need the biggest money possible as justification of their ability and standing in world football. It's more an ego thing than a bank balance thing. So it's still fairly easy to turn even a millionaire's head with double money.

Originally Posted by borsuk

if city shift tevez and bring in aguero they'll be no better than last year and probably a little worse. i'd say they're now about the level that chelsea were at when abramovic started his spending, and even with that it took mourinho to bring chelsea up to united's level (and despise the @#%&! as i do, there's no denying that maureen knows how to win).

wasnt hard when up against

howard
neville
fortune
keane
silvestre
o'shea
miller
djemba
scholes
smith
giggs

Originally Posted by Sloane

wasnt hard when up against

howard
neville
fortune
keane
silvestre
o'shea
miller
djemba
scholes
smith
giggs

Wish that midfield was available now tbh

Originally Posted by Sloane

wasnt hard when up against

howard
neville
fortune
keane
silvestre
o'shea
miller
djemba
scholes
smith
giggs

Originally Posted by dunk

Wish that midfield was available now tbh

Originally Posted by Grimson

Yeah, at that level it's not a case of needing the money. But I think top modern players need the biggest money possible as justification of their ability and standing in world football. It's more an ego thing than a bank balance thing. So it's still fairly easy to turn even a millionaire's head with double money.

this.

With earning the most comes the presumption that you must be the best/one of the best.

ronaldo doesn't need the extra 40k a week, he just needs to know he's earning more than kaka, for example.

don't know why i thought of ronny when you mentioned ego

Originally Posted by Sloane

wasnt hard when up against

howard
neville
fortune
keane
silvestre
o'shea
miller
djemba
scholes
smith
giggs

Just out of interest, how many games did *that* line-up actually play??

Originally Posted by dunk

Wish that midfield was available now tbh

PSG have apparently offered 40m euros for Ganso.

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

PSG have apparently offered 40m euros for Ganso.

Oh goody, more nouveau riche

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

PSG have apparently offered 40m euros for Ganso.

'Kin 'ell!

Originally Posted by dunk

Oh goody, more nouveau riche

And players birds will want to live in Paris, could be an elite club inside a couple of years.

Originally Posted by dunk

Oh goody, more nouveau riche

Their last bid was €30m. Rejected, so next bid - €40m

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Their last bid was €30m. Rejected, so next bid - €40m

subtle

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Their last bid was €30m. Rejected, so next bid - €40m

That's the type of negotiation tactic many on here expect from United