Fagan

he meant euro. he said 40 million buy out. garcia is as you say worth about 15M euro then throw in another 20/25M and we have ourselves a new striker! (terms and conditions apply)

yeah he said his buy out was 40M which makes sense if hes talking in euro. i believe ballague, hes solid enough with the transfer rumours and we know hes close to rafa

finally some interesting transfer gossip. ballague just on sky sports saying that torres will force his way out of madrid this season. he was asked what would ti take to buy him. he said with a very wry grin: "about 25 million + garcia" he didnt say if it was 25 million euro or sterling. euro id imagine. id be happy with that

apparently reyes is signing for athletico 365 quoting marca a replacement for torres no doubt.

id love to see any pics of it please

ive nothing against him coming to us, but as long as he's not our main signing in that position. his experience would be invaluable i think and his professionalism. but hes not prolific. and we need prolific

Offal

i dont know if i agree with that. it would totally undermine the echo's journalistic integrity if they couldnt have a critical article. and in fact, hasnt bascombe written many critical articles of the club and its management over the years. whether they need LFC to survive, is debatable. but either way, them writing a negative article, is not going to impact on LFC's survival! and have a negative knock on effect on the echo.

i know, but they interview about 'phase 2' was put up on the offal only yesterday. the offal wouldnt/doesnt put up press releases from the owner about bringing players in unless something is looming on the horizon. my point was, up until now, all we've had is tabloid speculation and nothing from the club. then as soon as the spanish league ended, the club put up its hicks article. not a coincidence.

going back on topic for a second. all the stories and quotes from hicks about us moving into 'phase 2' and starting to bring players in, is timed almost perfectly with the end of the spanish league. obviously you dont need to be a brainiac to assume rafa would dip into the spanish transfer market, but i reckon we'll see some comings and going int he next week or so. im sure rafa took a break and is more than likely back now, the spanish league has finished and the transfer stories are hotting up with official quotes being released by the club itself. so, it seems that torres and/or milito might well still be on the cards, or at least seeming more likely.

based on my opinion

its seems very likely that eto and henry will swap clubs

i would rather bent to torres to be honest. a lot of hype about torres, fact is hes not that prolific, bent is a proven goalscorer in the premiership, with a far inferior team to us but i would take villa ahead of either of them and eto ahead of any other striker in the world at the moment, i think hed be perfect for us

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like thats gonna stop the endless moaning and groaning we should petition to have the transfer window close earlier in order to shorten the torture!

funny, i was actually saying to a mate last season how id like if we signed yossi. i think hes very effective, a very good playmaker who has an intelligent pass. more effective than garcia. wonder will this mean luis will be let go to make extra cash available

is ushers word normally spot on?

same as the journos then

?? they are effectivley. i dont care about the clubs outside the top 4 to be honest. out of us, chelsea, untied and arsenal; united are the only ones who have been active really. behind them is us probably with the brazilian lucas and a few youngsters.

i dont believe for one second that there isnt much money avalaible or it'll be the same as previous seasons. the whole reason moores sold the club to these guys was for more investment, and in particular being able to compete in the transfer market for the big signings. rafa even said a few weeks ago that he was very happy with the meeting he had with the owners regarding players he might want in. any suggestions that rafa wont have money would fly in the face of all of this. so the logical and rational assumption would be that they will back rafa as they said they would. we are only about 12 days into the bloody transfer window, the spanish league hasnt even finished yet. the ONLY club to make a signing are united. i dont see what all the doom and gloom is about, people read something in the media and choose to believe it. its nonsense. the media rarely if ever get it right. how many players have they linked us with and it hasnt come true? dozens

do i have to trawl through the previous pages to know what that means?

if the henry breaking news thing is bo**ox, then someone do something bad to the 'funny jokers'

why cant we just believe real quotes, like the ones from rafa saying he had a good chat with the owners, hicks saying they will back rafa

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