Pienaar For A New Striker?

[Neiler]

Kevin Philips. Nailed. On.

Jason Roberts!

 

[faddy the blue]

Jason Roberts!

Has Henrik Larsson retired yet???

 

[Neiler]

Dimtri Bulykn!

 

[chicoazul]

Dickov, get the Dickov now Moylez.

 

[BlueLlama]

Has the board already accepted a bid? Wouldn't put it past them. We are skint. That money we lost on Gosling is really grating now......

 

[chrissyjack]

Robbie Fowler is stil playing

 

[DionDublin]

will we really get more than £2 million for pienaar?

 

[kenada_blue]

will we really get more than £2 million for pienaar?

At a push.

We cant really negotiate the price IMO. Moyes has clearly come out and said "we need the money" like a bad prozie so what ever coin a club gives us and Pienaar wants to go to them, we'll sell.

Hell, even if Wolves came in and offered us £4mill and would pay his wages we'd boot him that way.

 

[Andy M.]

The emphasis I got from Moyes's statement was not on the ‘We need a striker but, realistically the sort of money we will raise through [selling players in Jan], what type of player is it going to buy us?’, not on the ‘It may well come to it in the January transfer window that we have to consider selling Pienaar to raise money’ part. I hope he was using an extreme example to show the futility of selling to buy, rather than contradicting himself a month after saying he "would be happy for the contract to run down if [Pienaar] didn't want to sign".

If he was serious, that's the second worst transfer shout of this silly season after that Alan Smith one rearing its ugly head again. (Keeping with the spirit of the thread: GET ALAN SMITH ON). No (sane) manager would consider paying more than a million for a player with 5 months left on his contract and, crucially, with substantial signing fee demands. A swap deal, on the other hand, does make some sense because of the way amortization is being calculated. If, for instance, Spurs were willing to swap Krancjar for Pienaar that would be booked as ~4.5 mil. profit on the ballance sheet. That would just about cover Pienaar's signing-on fee demands.

However, this is entirely out of Moyes' hand right now. Pienaar can not be sold against his wishes. We may agree on any deal with whoever we want, it will not go through unless Pienaar is satisfied (and the way he has played it out, it's not likely that any deal we hammer out will satisfy him). Ultimately, I'm highly skeptical of the reports linking Pienaar with Spurs, or any other English club for that matter, for a very simple reason (very rough figures):

Estimated cost for the club over the length of a 4 year contract (with 70k net weekly wage, 2.5 mil. signing-on fee and bonuses):
Spurs - 28 million
Rubin Kazan (for instance - but taxes aren't that much higher in Spain) - 18 million

Which of the clubs do you think will offer better terms?

 

[Matt Damon]

Don't say amortisation on here.

it's too big a word for Chico and co.

 

[little curly alan ball]

Dickov, get the Dickov now Moylez.

Its NOT gonna be Pienaar FOR ANYONE .

He's GOT 6 MONTHS LEFT ,.. WHO THE FUK - Spurs , 500K , poss , aside ; WILL GIVE US CASH MONEY FOR HIM ???

Heitinga is where the Striker will come from . Him and Yobo - POINTS AT KENWRONG AN' SAYS : GOSLING ; £3M , YOU TAWT !!!

 

[Andy M.]

Don't say amortisation on here.

it's too big a word for Chico and co.

Yah, duly noted.

Tbh, I wanted to say that Moyes saying he would sell Pienaar to raise funds for a striker was an example of reductio ad absurdum, but somehow thought better of it.

 

[windymiller]

We won't even get that.

 

[Robert Jarvis]

2 mill at best and how far will that go.

 

[toffeebhoy]

hope its not the case of selling pienaar to get a player on loan ??????

i know we need goals badly but we dont need bad amateur business practices as well