James McCarthy - Signed on deadline day for reported £13m

Tree13 · September 2, 2013

Brennan said:
Erm, yes. What a strange question.

Hold on - do you believe Gareth Bale is the best footballer on the planet?

And bravo for avoiding the crux of the post.

Tree13 · September 2, 2013

Foot Long Hot Dog said:
It's not been paid yet, it's for the forthcoming season.

Metaphorically speaking mate. Loads of other clubs have been spending on the back of that money. The question was, why haven't we done the same.

Brennan · September 2, 2013

Tree13 said:
Hold on - do you believe Gareth Bale is the best footballer on the planet?

No.

Again, a strange question.

Foot Long Hot Dog · September 2, 2013

Tree13 said:
Metaphorically speaking mate. Loads of other clubs have been spending on the back of that money. The question was, why haven't we done the same.

You said that you hoped he'd "kept it to one side", so in other words you were obviously hoping we still had it.

Given that we've not been paid it & we've not spent money like a drunken sailor during the window, then the answer was surely obvious?

Tree13 · September 2, 2013

Brennan said:
No.

Again, a strange question.

Bale's gone for the world record fee - you keep insisting players can only be sold for what they're worth, therefore I asked you if Bale is worth the most expensive price tag ever. It's a pertinent question.

The impression you're giving me is that you think Bale was accurately priced at £85m, and that Felli is accurately priced at £25m; I suggest that you're wrong on both counts.

You raised Ozil at £42m as an example of Felli not being worth £35m, I suggested Suarez for £60m (I know it hasn't happened, but would Liverpool turn that down, if Real had offered it?) would disprove Bale being worth £85m.

Spurs raped Real on the Bale deal, we should be doing our best to emulate with United. That's all I'm trying to say.

rayfox · September 2, 2013

Tree13 said:
Bale just got sold for £85.3m, and people think fees always accurately reflect a player's talent.

Carry on.

They will soon find out he's nowhere near as good as they obviously think he is, he''ll be offloaded in 1-2yrs with a giant loss.

Tree13 · September 2, 2013

Foot Long Hot Dog said:
You said that you hoped he'd "kept it to one side", so in other words you were obviously hoping we still had it.

Given that we've not been paid it & we've not spent money like a drunken sailor during the window, then the answer was surely obvious?

I was obviously hoping that we still have the option of borrowing against it, as a lot of other clubs have done. Poor English on my part, I concede.

Brennan · September 2, 2013

Tree13 said:
Bale's gone for the world record fee - you keep insisting players can only be sold for what they're worth, therefore I asked you if Bale is worth the most expensive price tag ever. It's a pertinent question.

The impression you're giving me is that you think Bale was accurately priced at £85m, and that Felli is accurately priced at £25m; I suggest that you're wrong on both counts.

You raised Ozil at £42m as an example of Felli not being worth £35m, I suggested Suarez for £60m (I know it hasn't happened, but would Liverpool turn that down, if Real had offered it?) would disprove Bale being worth £85m.

Spurs raped Real on the Bale deal, we should be doing our best to emulate with United. That's all I'm trying to say.

Completely different situation, not even worth comparing them.

Del · September 2, 2013

Brennan said:
Completely different situation, not even worth comparing them.

BUT DAT CAROL WENT FOR 35M FELLINI IS WELL WORTH 100M

Tree13 · September 2, 2013

Brennan said:
Completely different situation, not even worth comparing them.

On what grounds? They play different positions and Bale scores more? Does that REALLY justify a £60m gulf in fees between the two?

Spurs held out for an outrageous fee, more than double Bale's worth IMHO. Why shouldn't we hold out for a bit more for Felli? Your only argument so far appears to be the fact that there's only one team in for Fellaini; however, there was only one team in for Bale so how does that work?

Foot Long Hot Dog · September 2, 2013

Tree13 said:
On what grounds? They play different positions and Bale scores more? Does that REALLY justify a £60m gulf in fees between the two?

Spurs held out for an outrageous fee, more than double Bale's worth IMHO. Why shouldn't we hold out for a bit more for Felli? Your only argument so far appears to be the fact that there's only one team in for Fellaini; however, there was only one team in for Bale so how does that work?

You're completely right mate, Levy extracted the urine out of Madrid over Bale.

What you're suggesting is that Kenwright should be aiming to do the same with United over Fellaini & of course you're right, he's just being his usually contrary self.

Tree13 · September 2, 2013

Del said:
BUT DAT CAROL WENT FOR 35M FELLINI IS WELL WORTH 100M

How droll.

If Carroll can somehow raise £35m in a transfer fee, I don't think asking the same for Felli is unreasonable. Let's face it, Felli is a considerably better centre forward.

orly · September 2, 2013

Tree13 said:
On what grounds? They play different positions and Bale scores more? Does that REALLY justify a £60m gulf in fees between the two?

Spurs held out for an outrageous fee, more than double Bale's worth IMHO. Why shouldn't we hold out for a bit more for Felli? Your only argument so far appears to be the fact that there's only one team in for Fellaini; however, there was only one team in for Bale so how does that work?

Completely agree - I noticed Brennan went with the ''opt-out'' style post as he'd made a mess of his argument (again).