GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
This is something I have been thinking about for a while.
David Moyes knows who he wants to sign, and has a target list in mind, well before he needs to sign them.
Would we have got £22m+ for Lescott at any other club other than City?
I would say probably not. He's simply not worth that amount of money and we have taken advantage of the situation and have been quite sneaky about it. Driving up the price etc....
Now the players we have signed since have cost us £9m, £5.5m and £6m. So that's what £20.5m for 3 players, and we sold a player for £22m less whatever Wolves get, so we have basically broken even on 3 players over 1.
That in itself is very good business. Now I understand people are pissed that we didn't spend more, well maybe Moyes tried to, maybe he looked at other options in midfield but for some reason it never happened - as is often the case on deadline day for all teams involved in deals.
Banega was blocked maybe because Valencia decided that now Everton had money they wanted to sell rather than loan, and I have no doubt they pushed the price up to a level that far exceeded the value of that player.
Moyes knows that Arteta is due back and probably doesn't see the point in spending the rest of his warchest on a player he only wanted on loan while Arteta recovered from his injury.
VDV is a player who would cost us a lot of money, regardless of whether or not he was available, or wanted to sign for us. He would cost us money.
So else could have been drafted in? Ledley? Barton? Bentely?
I doubt any of them would appeal to Moyes, not enough to splash out money, which he may need to utilise in the Jan window if he suffers an injury.
So basically the board have been unable to back Moyes, that is clear, and has been clear for a long time, nothing much can be done until Kirkby has been sorted.
The £13m loan was secured for transfers for Moyes, but that was until he sold Lescott, so perhaps using tunnel vision and the possibility of injuries occurring in unknown positions, Moyes has decided to hold back that money until Jan, and perhaps he tried to get Banega on loan, but Valencia wanted cash.
Just something worth thinking about. It's not all a conspiracy to line the pockets of the velvet wearing brandy drinking thesps.
David Moyes knows who he wants to sign, and has a target list in mind, well before he needs to sign them.
Would we have got £22m+ for Lescott at any other club other than City?
I would say probably not. He's simply not worth that amount of money and we have taken advantage of the situation and have been quite sneaky about it. Driving up the price etc....
Now the players we have signed since have cost us £9m, £5.5m and £6m. So that's what £20.5m for 3 players, and we sold a player for £22m less whatever Wolves get, so we have basically broken even on 3 players over 1.
That in itself is very good business. Now I understand people are pissed that we didn't spend more, well maybe Moyes tried to, maybe he looked at other options in midfield but for some reason it never happened - as is often the case on deadline day for all teams involved in deals.
Banega was blocked maybe because Valencia decided that now Everton had money they wanted to sell rather than loan, and I have no doubt they pushed the price up to a level that far exceeded the value of that player.
Moyes knows that Arteta is due back and probably doesn't see the point in spending the rest of his warchest on a player he only wanted on loan while Arteta recovered from his injury.
VDV is a player who would cost us a lot of money, regardless of whether or not he was available, or wanted to sign for us. He would cost us money.
So else could have been drafted in? Ledley? Barton? Bentely?
I doubt any of them would appeal to Moyes, not enough to splash out money, which he may need to utilise in the Jan window if he suffers an injury.
So basically the board have been unable to back Moyes, that is clear, and has been clear for a long time, nothing much can be done until Kirkby has been sorted.
The £13m loan was secured for transfers for Moyes, but that was until he sold Lescott, so perhaps using tunnel vision and the possibility of injuries occurring in unknown positions, Moyes has decided to hold back that money until Jan, and perhaps he tried to get Banega on loan, but Valencia wanted cash.
Just something worth thinking about. It's not all a conspiracy to line the pockets of the velvet wearing brandy drinking thesps.
