Sometimes you have to blow you budget ....

[Ratters]

For a big piece of the jigsaw. If we where to blow it on a striker in the summer which striker would you get ?? Remember if you get it wrong you waste our whole budget. Who do you think could come here and be a virtually guarenteed success.

[dodgy1]

For a big piece of the jigsaw. If we where to blow it on a striker in the summer which striker would you get ?? Remember if you get it wrong you waste our whole budget. Who do you think could come here and be a virtually guarenteed success.

 

No one is guaranteed success. Owen/Defoe/Johnson i would be happy with one of them, maybe even 2.

[Stevie H]

any examples of clubs that have done that and really seen it pay off?

[Gray - YPC]

any examples of clubs that have done that and really seen it pay off?

Newcastle

 

For the record.... I'd still LOVE Owen more than any other feasible/realistic striker.

[dodgy1]

any examples of clubs that have done that and really seen it pay off?

 

Cant remeber the fee but Shearer/Newcastle. ?

[Stevie H]

aye 'cos newcastle have won just bundles of trophies since haven't they?

[Eskimo]

any examples of clubs that have done that and really seen it pay off?

Barca with Eto'o and Ronaldinho

[owenthomas]

any examples of clubs that have done that and really seen it pay off?

van Nistlerooy cost a fair bit..

[kenny7]

Cant remeber the fee but Shearer/Newcastle. ?

 

 

£15 m

[dodgy1]

aye 'cos newcastle have won just bundles of trophies since haven't they?

 

I was reffering to how a player has done at a club and i think he has been a little bit good. smarta***.

[Falconhoof]

Liverpool

Barnes 900k, Beardsley 1.9 million OK it was 2 players but they paid off from day 1 and at the time that was an astonishing outlay.

[Stevie H]

Barca with Eto'o and Ronaldinho

 

fair comment. didn't they sign deco and others at the same time though?

[Rushian]

Liverpool

Barnes 900k, Beardsley 1.9 million OK it was 2 players but they paid off from day 1 and at the time that was an astonishing outlay.

 

we had just received 3.3m for Rush though .....

[Falconhoof]

we had just received 3.3m for Rush though .....

 

 

Oh I know, there's no way we'd have had the money otherwise.

Fantastic bit of business though that still makes me grin just thinking of the audacity of going out and getting those two. On a par with getting a pair like Eto'o and Ronaldinho.

 

What price would they be now ?

[Eskimo]

fair comment. didn't they sign deco and others at the same time though?

 

yeah I guess so....but does that really matter they still had to fork out for them.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

any examples of clubs that have done that and really seen it pay off?

 

ManU - Veron

[MarkD]

Trophy players or trophies?

[Andythered]

If we spent £25 million on Robbie Savage would you feel better? That really would be blowing the budget.

[Rushian]

Oh I know, there's no way we'd have had the money otherwise.

Fantastic bit of business though that still makes me grin just thinking of the audacity of going out and getting those two. On a par with getting a pair like Eto'o and Ronaldinho.

 

What price would they be now ?

 

Well at the time the Barnes move wasn't universally welcomed by fans - and don't forget we paid nearly as much for Houghton not long after.

[Alonso]

For a big piece of the jigsaw. If we where to blow it on a striker in the summer which striker would you get ?? Remember if you get it wrong you waste our whole budget. Who do you think could come here and be a virtually guarenteed success.

Adriano - pace, strength, skill, good in the air, can hold up the ball and scores a few too! Perfect attributes for the Premiership altho acclimatisation may be the only stumbling block.

 

Unfortunately no chance

[Tones]

We would be daft to blow our whole budget on one player. And none of the examples above are of clubs bloeing all their budget on one player and it being "the final piece of the jigsaw"

[Benzo-13]

Fernando Torres: Potential to harness. Our manager could really make him the player he should be.

 

Cost £30m-ish..

 

Eh?

[Falconhoof]

Well at the time the Barnes move wasn't universally welcomed by fans - and don't forget we paid nearly as much for Houghton not long after.

 

 

What player ever is universally welcomed though ?

 

In the context of blowing your entire budget and taking the team to dizzying heights as a consequence, those 2 take some beating as summer signings.

[Koller49]

Jan Koller.

[Falconhoof]

Paul Ince was supposed to be the final piece of Roy Evan's jigsaw.

 

Veron was meant to take the mancs to another level.