Torres to leave.

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

taken from a blog and posted by a kopshite, i too was crying, unbridalled tears of joy and anticipation.


From the Times [I'm crying as I cut-and-paste this]:

"The Times has learnt that THE REDSHOITE borrowed the money to sign Torres, the Spain forward who has scored 30 goals this season and has already become a firm favourite on the Kop, from Atlético Madrid last summer. The club then refinanced that debt on January 25, at the same time as they secured a £350 million refinancing package. the redshoite entered into an 18-month loan agreement with interest of 9 per cent — £2.8 million a year — with a letter of credit to pay back the £31.5 million at the end of the period.
Should the redshoite be unable to pay back or refinance the loan, banks could force the sale of Torres and Babel, who was also included in the smaller refinancing package.
It is unusual for Barclays Premier League clubs to buy players in this way. Deals are normally funded using television income. the redshite have to pay £30 million a year in interest payments on the £350 million loan, the terms of which end in July 2009. There was no official comment from the club last night."


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[Vim Fuego]

They'll end up selling Crouch, Voronin,Riise,Penant and Kewell for a combined £25M and therefore finance the deals, they're like that, after all, they're the devils spawn.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

They'll end up selling Crouch, Voronin,Riise,Penant and Kewell for a combined £25M and therefore finance the deals, they're like that, after all, they're the devils spawn.

so you reckon crouch would fetch 24.5 million vim ?

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

Good one Reidy.

 

[Rook]

They'd sell Gerrard before they sold Torres.

 

[joey harper]

taken from a blog and posted by a kopshite, i too was crying, unbridalled tears of joy and anticipation.


From the Times [I'm crying as I cut-and-paste this]:

"The Times has learnt that THE REDSHOITE borrowed the money to sign Torres, the Spain forward who has scored 30 goals this season and has already become a firm favourite on the Kop, from Atlético Madrid last summer. The club then refinanced that debt on January 25, at the same time as they secured a £350 million refinancing package. the redshoite entered into an 18-month loan agreement with interest of 9 per cent — £2.8 million a year — with a letter of credit to pay back the £31.5 million at the end of the period.
Should the redshoite be unable to pay back or refinance the loan, banks could force the sale of Torres and Babel, who was also included in the smaller refinancing package.
It is unusual for Barclays Premier League clubs to buy players in this way. Deals are normally funded using television income. the redshite have to pay £30 million a year in interest payments on the £350 million loan, the terms of which end in July 2009. There was no official comment from the club last night."


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:blink:

 

[Vim Fuego]

so you reckon crouch would fetch 24.5 million vim ?

Obviously not, but some fuckwit of a club will pay at least £11M for him, the others listed would make up the balance needed, they're [Poor language removed] like that.

 

[CanadaToffee]

They'd sell Gerrard before they sold Torres.

If Benitez doesn't leave in the summer, Gerrard will go anyway. Don't be surpised to see him at AC Milan next year instead of Ronaldinho.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

torres is not yours
torres is not yours
the tsb own him
torres is not yours

roll on recession and extortunate interest rates when the banks call in the debt. santander upping the interest rate to get him to a club they have a massive stake in.

 

[joey harper]

:blink:

 

[ToffeeDan]

They'll end up selling Crouch, Voronin,Riise,Penant and Kewell for a combined £25M and therefore finance the deals, they're like that, after all, they're the devils spawn.

I don't recall The White [Poor language removed] getting much for their players when the [Poor language removed] hit the fan


Leeds v Valencia CL Semi:

Martyn 2.25 ----
Mills 4.0 ----
Harte ---- ----
Ferdinand 18.0 30.0
Matteo 4.75 ----
Bowyer 2.8 0.1
Dacourt 7.2 3.5
Batty 4.4 ----
Kewell Free 5.0
Viduka 6.0 4.5
Smith -- 7.0
Subs
Robinson --- 1.5
Kelly --- not sold
Woodgate --- Free
McPhail --- ----
Wilcox 3.0 ----
Bakke 1.75 ----
Burns .25 ---
Total Spend
£54.4M
Total Sales
£51.6M
Gain on Youth players
£8.5M
Loss on players bought
£11.1M
Loss without Ferdinand
£23.1M


also - Seth Johnson -£7M, Huckerby -£1M, Bridges -£1.5M, Duberry -£3.7M, Barmby -£2.75M

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

the original artical as i said was posted by a rs on a forum, and as he said he was crying as he was cutting and pasting it from the telegraph.
the reality of it all is that they won't be given the choice should the banks call the debt in, and i for one reckon he'll be off to real madrid/barca at the first sign of either sniffing around, athletico fans didn't take it too lightly when they sold him, if he'd been sold to real then they'd have probably torched their own stadium.
no matter how big the p.l. is, to play for either of the biggest clubs in your own country in front of close to 100,000 every other week has got to have a magnetic effect, maybe it'll be barca due to his allegances to athletico, i'd prefer that as i view real as the club that was built by a dictator at the expense of a nation.
if i'd been brought up in tooting i'd have deffo been in wolfies gang The Tooting Popular Front.

 

[toffeestillidie]

the original artical as i said was posted by a rs on a forum, and as he said he was crying as he was cutting and pasting it from the telegraph.
the reality of it all is that they won't be given the choice should the banks call the debt in, and i for one reckon he'll be off to real madrid/barca at the first sign of either sniffing around, athletico fans didn't take it too lightly when they sold him, if he'd been sold to real then they'd have probably torched their own stadium.
no matter how big the p.l. is, to play for either of the biggest clubs in your own country in front of close to 100,000 every other week has got to have a magnetic effect, maybe it'll be barca due to his allegances to athletico, i'd prefer that as i view real as the club that was built by a dictator at the expense of a nation.
if i'd been brought up in tooting i'd have deffo been in wolfies gang The Tooting Popular Front.

any chance we could buy him, just for salt in the wound?

and no way he'd go to real in my opinion, boyhood atletico fan right? if he didn't have more respect for atletico than that, he'd have left years before the [Poor language removed] bought him

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

call in the repo man !!

it's 3 p.m. do you know where your star is ?