Summer 2015 Transfer Window General Discussion

26-07-2015 12:22AM

zarquon wrote: »

Andy Caroll paid=£35m, sold=£17m. Much more expensive

Ok the most expensive player bought to flop.

Refreshing to see that throwing money at players doesn't always pay dividends.

Not that it will stop English clubs losing the run of themselves

MightyMandarin · 26-07-2015 12:26AM

JohnDaniels wrote: »

£280,000 a week.

Di Maria is top of the flops.

If the 280k/week is indeed true (quite likely as the Guardian are a solid paper) then that probably swings it in terms of him being the biggest flop. Transfer money aside, he was costing United well over a million a month; and about £14.5m for the past year. If United were paying him that much for those performances they seriously f*cked up on this one.

Lucas Hood · 26-07-2015 12:28AM

Zlatan at Barca must be up there for biggest flop.

26-07-2015 12:30AM

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Zlatan at Barca must be up there for biggest flop.

ya this 40 something million plus eto was insane

Guy:Incognito · 26-07-2015 12:33AM

inforfun wrote: »

4 birthdays he has

Newcastle are going to need a full time employee just to keep an eye on that and make sure they dont forget a cake.

Talib Fiasco · 26-07-2015 12:34AM

Gabriela Some Phlegm wrote: »

ya this 40 something million plus eto was insane

It was especially insane considering how bloody good Eto was and how well he did at Inter.

Giggsy11 · 26-07-2015 12:37AM

rarnes1 wrote: »

Ok the most expensive player bought to flop.

Refreshing to see that throwing money at players doesn't always pay dividends.

Not that it will stop English clubs losing the run of themselves

I thought that was already proven long back with Liverpool spending more than ManUtd in PL era and not winning it even once :pac:

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/premier-league-1992-to-date/transfer-league-tables/premier-league-table-1992-to-date

26-07-2015 12:41AM

Giggsy11 wrote: »

I thought that was already proven long back with Liverpool spending more than ManUtd in PL era and not winning it even once :pac:

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/premier-league-1992-to-date/transfer-league-tables/premier-league-table-1992-to-date

Well done on being that guy!

Why bring Liverpool v Man Utd into it

Why stop at 92? The Premier league era, where football began..

26-07-2015 12:42AM

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

It was especially insane considering how bloody good Eto was and how well he did at Inter.

could easily be argued eto was a better player he was scoring some amazing goals at that time there was no sign of a downturn it was just barca wanted to make a front page signing i think that was the worst deal and i dont think its close

Giggsy11 · 26-07-2015 12:46AM

rarnes1 wrote: »

Well done on being that guy!

Why bring Liverpool v Man Utd into it

The PL era, where football began eh. Why stop at 92?

Hipster thing to say "that guy" nonsense.

Just like you, I was proving big money doesn't mean success. There is nothing Liverpool vs ManUtd in it.

Oh why stop at 92? Because I found records till there, why don't do you take it from 92 to wherever you want? Oh wait, specifically at 92 because that's when Premier League was restructured.

Gabriela Some Phlegm wrote: »

could easily be argued eto was a better player he was scoring some amazing goals at that time there was no sign of a downturn it was just barca wanted to make a front page signing i think that was the worst deal and i dont think its close

IIRC Pep wanted to offload Eto'o before their treble season but he couldn't.

26-07-2015 12:47AM

Giggsy11 wrote: »

IIRC Pep wanted to offload Eto'o before their treble season but he couldn't.

do you remember why though?

dreamers75 · 26-07-2015 12:47AM

Eto was " disruptive" i thought it was he was unwilling to do the work.

26-07-2015 12:50AM

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Hipster thing to say "that guy" nonsense.

Just like you, I was proving big money doesn't mean success. There is nothing Liverpool vs ManUtd in it.

Oh why stop at 92? Because I found records till there, why don't do you take it from 92 to wherever you want? .

We were talking about a player from last season and then you throw in figures that didn't even include last season. Bizarre.

No thanks as that would be just silly and make no sense to the thread.

Giggsy11 · 26-07-2015 12:54AM

Gabriela Some Phlegm wrote: »

do you remember why though?

Mass clearout with players like Ronaldinho, Deco sold. something about Dressing room disruptive

"All of the players in the first-team squad last season are of a very high level," he said. "But with the technical secretary [Txiki Begiristain] we are forming a squad and Deco, Ronaldinho and Eto'o are not in our minds."

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/jun/18/laligafootball.barcelona

Giggsy11 · 26-07-2015 12:57AM

rarnes1 wrote: »

We were talking about a player from last season and then you throw in figures that didn't even include last season. Bizarre.

No thanks as that would be just silly and make no sense to the thread.

No. You said throwing money doesn't guarantee success, I agreed with it and made the point even stronger with better example and much bigger sample.

It doesn't include last season? I don't know, it says till date.

26-07-2015 01:02AM

Giggsy11 wrote: »

No. You said throwing money doesn't guarantee success, I agreed with it and made the point even stronger with better example and much bigger sample.

It doesn't include last season? I don't know, it says till date.

Throwing big money at marquee signings doesn't mean success. The debate was over the expensive signing Di Maria.

It's refreshing to see. Not nice when it's a club we support obviously.

CSF · 26-07-2015 01:38AM

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Hipster thing to say "that guy" nonsense.

Just like you, I was proving big money doesn't mean success. There is nothing Liverpool vs ManUtd in it.

Oh why stop at 92? Because I found records till there, why don't do you take it from 92 to wherever you want? Oh wait, specifically at 92 because that's when Premier League was restructured.

IIRC Pep wanted to offload Eto'o before their treble season but he couldn't.

But you absolutely ARE being THAT guy. 'There is nothing Liverpool vs ManUtd in it'. Yet those are the 2 teams you randomly decided to compare.

Guy:Incognito · 26-07-2015 01:54AM

Giggsy11 wrote: »

It doesn't include last season? I don't know, it says till date.

Depends on what date you're reading it on.

Says 13/14 on the table itself.

Professional Griefer · 26-07-2015 02:35AM

rarnes1 wrote: »

Well done on being that guy!

Why bring Liverpool v Man Utd into it

Why stop at 92? The Premier league era, where football began..

Glorious.

Giggsy11 · 26-07-2015 04:54AM

CSF wrote: »

But you absolutely ARE being THAT guy. 'There is nothing Liverpool vs ManUtd in it'. Yet those are the 2 teams you randomly decided to compare.

It's not random. Just that you are incapable of seeing beyond "Liverpool vs Manutd" thing.

Rayne Wooney · 26-07-2015 05:58AM

It's refreshing hearing the "money can't buy you success" line thrown from a fan of a team who've spent almost 300 million over the last 4(?) years and won nothing, about another club...

Gavlor · 26-07-2015 09:14AM

4 pages of absolute tripe.

Good work lads

kevthegaff · 26-07-2015 10:27AM

I think ill just make up a transfer to get away from the drivel, arsenal in 70 million bid for bale:-)

Buford T. Justice XIX · 26-07-2015 10:37AM

kevthegaff wrote: »

I think ill just make up a transfer to get away from the drivel, arsenal in 70 million bid for bale:-)

CSF · 26-07-2015 10:42AM

Giggsy11 wrote: »

It's not random. Just that you are incapable of seeing beyond "Liverpool vs Manutd" thing.

No. You are the one incapable. This has nothing to do with Liverpool. Only you and Wayne Rooney are making it so. The same culprits every time.

'United's groundsman has the flu, poor guy'
'Eh well yours has black rot'

Panthro · 26-07-2015 11:04AM

kevthegaff wrote: »

I think ill just make up a transfer to get away from the drivel, arsenal in 70 million bid for bale:-)

Hmmm.....I hear Chelsea's Jose Mourinho has hinted at making a move for Jonas Olsson.. "Olsson is savage cabbage" said Jose at a recent press interview.

26-07-2015 12:57PM

Gavlor wrote: »

4 pages of absolute tripe.

Good work lads

Seems like some may have been on the sauce last night

It's getting pretty annoying when every time the 2 most supported clubs and that more people would have more knowledge of in the forum get compared in a non team specific thread someone will invariably try to derail the discussion by making a comment such as the "ugh, United and Liverpool again, rolleyes", thing.

Gavlor · 26-07-2015 01:03PM

Liam O wrote: »

Seems like some may have been on the sauce last night

It's getting pretty annoying when every time the 2 most supported clubs and that more people would have more knowledge of in the forum get compared in a non team specific thread someone will invariably try to derail the discussion by making a comment such as the "ugh, United and Liverpool again, rolleyes", thing.

One or two comments are fine, even a knowledgeable conversation would be understandable, but it gets a bit boring after a while when it becomes a dick measuring contest.

For what it's worth, they all won, massive dicks the lot of em!!

Giggsy11 · 26-07-2015 01:08PM

Liam O wrote: »

Seems like some may have been on the sauce last night

It's getting pretty annoying when every time the 2 most supported clubs and that more people would have more knowledge of in the forum get compared in a non team specific thread someone will invariably try to derail the discussion by making a comment such as the "ugh, United and Liverpool again, rolleyes", thing.

It's always the same people.

sword1 · 26-07-2015 01:10PM

Its bad enough with the liv v man u **** but the pages of posts about it is worse and yes i realise i have just added to that now so i am guilty also

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