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

Jeff Jones · September 2, 2013

butters said:
Imagine we were such a big club we could bring in McCarthy from relegated Wigan Athletic without having to sell our best midfielder to fund the move?

We were, once.

By god I'm blue · September 2, 2013

I am sure we could do better than this for 14m, which is the fee old peg leg is saying he wants for him.

Jesus, don't tell me in a "global market" there isn't better out there for that kind of money.

Foot Long Hot Dog · September 2, 2013

By god I'm blue said:
I am sure we could do better than this for 14m, which is the fee old peg leg is saying he wants for him.

Jesus, don't tell me in a "global market" there isn't better out there for that kind of money.

There simply has to be mate.

There's better value available in the PL - Cabaye would cost us less.

Toffeelover · September 2, 2013

Remember the last "Mc" we had!!!!!!

blueblue · September 2, 2013

As I understand it the escape clause is in Fellainis contract in every transfer window.
This means that no matter what his value will never go above that value....or substantially so at least.
It appears that we have a slight opportunity to make a little more than expected because of the famous "dithering" of David Moyes.It looks as if he thought he could buy him cheaper and now with his back to the wall he needs to make a signing so we may be able to squeeze a little more out of him.
It really was very poor decision making on his behalf.

Brennan · September 2, 2013

Foot Long Hot Dog said:
There simply has to be mate.

There's better value available in the PL - Cabaye would cost us less.

Newcastle would never have sold Cabaye for £14m.

steken1 · September 2, 2013

Players like De Bruyne, strootman and the likes haven't been going for much more than that money. I'm gutted TBH. I thought our days of sideways passers went with Arteta and Rodwell.

Foot Long Hot Dog · September 2, 2013

Brennan said:
Newcastle would never have sold Cabaye for £14m.

How do you know?

Arsenal valued him @ £10m, he's refused to play, so odds are he'll move today - we'll see what he goes for, but I doubt it'll be for more than £14m.

kenada_blue · September 2, 2013

Brennan said:
Newcastle would never have sold Cabaye for £14m.

But he cost less when he moved to Newcastle. So there are cheaper better options out there

Pabbers · September 2, 2013

blueblue said:
As I understand it the escape clause is in Fellainis contract in every transfer window.
This means that no matter what his value will never go above that value....or substantially so at least.
It appears that we have a slight opportunity to make a little more than expected because of the famous "dithering" of David Moyes.It looks as if he thought he could buy him cheaper and now with his back to the wall he needs to make a signing so we may be able to squeeze a little more out of him.
It really was very poor decision making on his behalf.

Unless he signs a new contract with us.

bainesontoast · September 2, 2013

blueblue said:
As I understand it the escape clause is in Fellainis contract in every transfer window.
This means that no matter what his value will never go above that value....or substantially so at least.
It appears that we have a slight opportunity to make a little more than expected because of the famous "dithering" of David Moyes.It looks as if he thought he could buy him cheaper and now with his back to the wall he needs to make a signing so we may be able to squeeze a little more out of him.
It really was very poor decision making on his behalf.

Or maybe Dave loves us after all and waited for the clause to expire due to said love!

somuchfun · September 2, 2013

Toffeelover said:
Remember the last "Mc" we had!!!!!!

McKoné

Tree13 · September 2, 2013

By god I'm blue said:
I am sure we could do better than this for 14m, which is the fee old peg leg is saying he wants for him.

Jesus, don't tell me in a "global market" there isn't better out there for that kind of money.

I don't know about better for the SAME price. Maybe Defour from Porto? Not sure he'd be interested in the move though.

But I don't see how McCarthy is any better than Diame, and we could get him for £5.5m. Does anyone really rate McCarthy SO much better than Diame that the £7m (or more) difference in price is justifiable?

Part of the problem is the proposition of letting Felli go for too low a fee. £25m may or may not be all he's worth, but if we want to bolster the squad using the proceeds of his sale, we need to actually generate a decent sum! I wouldn't accept less than £35m for him, for that reason.

witchdoc187 · September 2, 2013

Tree13 said:
I don't know about better for the SAME price. But I don't see how McCarthy is any better than Diame, and we could get him for £5.5m. Does anyone really rate McCarthy SO much better than Diame that the £7m (or more) difference in price is justifiable?

Part of the problem is the proposition of letting Felli go for too low a fee. £25m may or may not be all he's worth, but if we want to bolster the squad using the proceeds of his sale, we need to actually generate a decent sum! I wouldn't accept less than £35m for him, for that reason.

its hard to accept £35m for a player when nobody will pay that for them