alias75

hearing we've bid £10 million for Adam by the way, have no idea how accurate that is and its probably a little more than id have paid but hey ho.

doesn't matter no one will beat Barcelona and there are at least another 3-4 teams that are better.

wont it be more difficult to do that with the new financial rules??

gonna be sweet watching them get knocked out of the cl this season...

cant see how either would fit into their wage structure

Kuyt used to be a decent forward...

you'd think so wouldn't you, unless they've concluded having an unhappy player is not worth the hassle. Otherwise their doing exactly what Torres wants, and exactly what Chelsea wants and the worst thing for the rest of our season.

probably just making sure they get more money for him when they do sell him, Increasing his release clause etc...

spurs are gambling big style because as it stands they won't get CL football next season and that's a big problem when you've assembled a good squad like they have. Will Modric, Bale stick around with no CL football if really big teams come for them?? also because of their wage structure these players will be offered huge wage increases should they move.

wouldnt surprise me if this does happen its part of the deal that he wont play against us.

At least Alonso went to Spain what makes it so much worse is we're gonna have to watch him play for another team in this league. The thought of him celebrating a goal with Terry and Cole and Drogba makes me sick.

If that's true it still leaves them with a massive wage bill and under the new financial fair play rules that has to be carefully managed.

Think this is what we'd all like to ask him. If he's fed up and wants to go somewhere where he thinks he has a better chance of winning something fair enough, but why did he leave it until 3 days before the end of the window to put in the transfer request?? to make it even worse if part of his problem was he didn't think we were signing enough quality players he waits until the day where we break our transfer record and sign someone!! the timing seems to have been left to maximise the impact it will have on our season (in a negative way) and that's unforgivable.

Think we need to be looking for the next Torres not someone in their late 20's whose motivation is questionable. Get players with the potential to become world class who have the motivation and desire to play for us. Someone like Andy Carroll i think would be a decent signing, hes young but its pretty obvious hes going to score goals wherever he plays, the only question mark over him is the off the field stuff, but in terms of what he'd offer a football team i think it'd be a pretty low risk signing although he'd probably cost £30million maybe more given they rejected £25million from Spurs. But there are other players that fit this criteria, Suarez was one of them.

don't know, but i was told today we'd bid for him again so maybe. Probably more likely next season given what Ged said last week, but in the summer he enters the final year of his contract so unless they want to lose him on a bosman im guessing they'll be looking to sell him in the summer.

Ive heard it from so many people from here and from Villa also from other teams that enquired but were told hes coming here. That might have changed with Kenny as manager but i doubt it.

Young's contract is running down, Torres' isn't. Id rather wait and get him on the cheap, Villa will have to sell him in the summer anyway cos they can't afford to let him go on a bosman.

£30 million??? no chance. His contract is running down and ive heard so many rumours from here and from Villa that the player wants to come here, if we got him in January we'd probably pay a few million more than he'd cost just to get it done sooner but no way will it be near £30 million.

probably but its a lot of money for a club that's trying to run itself properly and if the wages he's gonna earn are correct we're talking about over £20 million over the course of a 4 year contract. Whose to say £50 million is our selling price?? maybe we want more. Just because the rumours are its £50 million doesn't make it so.

can't wait to watch Chelsea get knocked out of the CL!! no way they're gonna win it this season whether they sign Torres or not.

still dependent on chelsea (or anyone else) offering us an amount thats acceptable.

gonna be interesting to hear his side of things and also what Kenny has to say, its still really confusing why its Chelsea he wants to sign for. Although i guess the new big fat contract might explain things.

id heard comolli was in spain today...

ok but hes waited until now to hand in the transfer request. im sure we did know this was a strong possibility and hopefully that means we had contingencies in case it happened.

there's absolutely no reason for us to make this easy for Torres or Chelsea, we don't owe him anything after the way hes dropped us in it with 3 days of the window left!!