Falcao was also a rather expensive flop at Man Utd. His salary plus the loan fee must come close to £15 million or maybe even more.
Man Utd are lucky they didn't sign him with an extortionate transfer figure, having said he'll probably end up winning Premier League player of the season next year banging in 30 goals.
Add it to the £15-20m loss you aren't bothered about by letting De Gea run his contract down and it becomes quite significant.
You can't keep on dismissing millions and millions of pounds just because the club has a lot of cash. Its not a good approach
We do have a lot of cash coming into the club via the new shirt deal, new tv deal, and other assorted sponsorships, so at the moment, whilst long-term I agree it is not a good approach to just throw money away, we can withstand losses that other clubs perhaps might not be able to do in the short-term.
So Stoke have signed Ibrahim Affelay on a 2-year deal. Had brilliant potential only a few years ago, but seems to have faded away since joining Barcelona.
Could prove to be a very astute deal for Stoke. He still has loads of talent.
So Stoke have signed Ibrahim Affelay on a 2-year deal. Had brilliant potential only a few years ago, but seems to have faded away since joining Barcelona.
Could prove to be a very astute deal for Stoke. He still has loads of talent.
We had Afellay on loan last season. He has a totally unprofessional attitude and fell out with both managers during the season. I don't expect loan players to bleed for the club but I do expect them to put in a performance and Afellay just couldn't be arsed to even do that.
He just strolled around the pitch and didn't seem to give a crap on whether we won or lost, as long as he got paid. Best of luck to Stoke.
Shaqiri has great talent. If they get his national team form then he'll be a big success. Might take a while to settle though. Stoke definitely building up a strong squad this year.
Spurs must buy a striker now. They have Kane and Adebayor and I can't think of anyone else. I suspect they'd happily lose Adebayor too (I would) so they probably need two.
A striker with some pace is what they need. Kane looked very isolated at Old Trafford because there was no spark to provide the link between him and the rather static midfield.
A striker with some pace is what they need. Kane looked very isolated at Old Trafford because there was no spark to provide the link between him and the rather static midfield.
I'm not convinced by their options in deeper midfield either. Dembele is a player I preferred in an advanced position at Fulham. I don't rate him as a playmaker. In fact I don't think Spurs have had a good playmaker since Modric played centrally for them. Mason seems pretty average to me. I think Bentaleb got progressed pretty quickly after a few good games under Sherwood and has been poor since. Carroll and Ali I'm not sure about yet. Of the two, Carroll has been there for a while and hasn't been used so hard to see that he'll make the breakthrough. Ali is unknown to me.
Spurs are my favourite English team but I'm a bit worried about them this year. Their squad looks weaker now than it has for a long time. Ideally they'd move on a couple more players and buy a couple of forwards (one very high quality) and a high-quality midfielder but I'm not sure that they'll get that. I would take 6th again right now.
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Man Utd are lucky they didn't sign him with an extortionate transfer figure, having said he'll probably end up winning Premier League player of the season next year banging in 30 goals.
We do have a lot of cash coming into the club via the new shirt deal, new tv deal, and other assorted sponsorships, so at the moment, whilst long-term I agree it is not a good approach to just throw money away, we can withstand losses that other clubs perhaps might not be able to do in the short-term.
https://twitter.com/Tesco/status/625712492870791168
Could prove to be a very astute deal for Stoke. He still has loads of talent.
We had Afellay on loan last season. He has a totally unprofessional attitude and fell out with both managers during the season. I don't expect loan players to bleed for the club but I do expect them to put in a performance and Afellay just couldn't be arsed to even do that.
He just strolled around the pitch and didn't seem to give a crap on whether we won or lost, as long as he got paid. Best of luck to Stoke.
Everything that's wrong with the transfer market, right there.
Wickham for another big fee, Chester for £8m, these are nothing players. Barely Premier League standard.
Sunderland must be delighted to have gotten their money back on him.
Wijnaldum, who's gone to Newcastle for £14.5m, was good for PSV last season too. Him and Depay both offered a good attacking threat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33474195
newcastle have done some good business, i think will be top half this season.
Still lots of worries about our defence but Mbemba will make a difference
Cant see them staying up though Batty. Think them and Leicester are dead certs to go down.
Most frustrating player I have watched.
Decent money for him.
4m^_^
are boro on drugs or something?
Signed today, can't quite believe we've managed to pull it off tbh!
Spurs must buy a striker now. They have Kane and Adebayor and I can't think of anyone else. I suspect they'd happily lose Adebayor too (I would) so they probably need two.
I'm not convinced by their options in deeper midfield either. Dembele is a player I preferred in an advanced position at Fulham. I don't rate him as a playmaker. In fact I don't think Spurs have had a good playmaker since Modric played centrally for them. Mason seems pretty average to me. I think Bentaleb got progressed pretty quickly after a few good games under Sherwood and has been poor since. Carroll and Ali I'm not sure about yet. Of the two, Carroll has been there for a while and hasn't been used so hard to see that he'll make the breakthrough. Ali is unknown to me.
Spurs are my favourite English team but I'm a bit worried about them this year. Their squad looks weaker now than it has for a long time. Ideally they'd move on a couple more players and buy a couple of forwards (one very high quality) and a high-quality midfielder but I'm not sure that they'll get that. I would take 6th again right now.