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Post by tazi on Dec 16, 2008 13:22:08 GMT
According to sky sports news as they were quoting what was printed in the mail.
Going need at least £15M.
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Post by Macc_Stokie on Dec 16, 2008 13:25:07 GMT
Mmm. Don't know if I'd believe that - seems pretty low. But lets not forget he'll probably off-load quite a few "squad" players which will boost the coffers a little..
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Post by abboscfc on Dec 16, 2008 13:25:59 GMT
as you said it were printed by the mail it's prob crap they wrote cause they had nowt eles to write and also wernt it the mail and the rest of the rags that kept saying in the summer that we were only gona spen 12,,,14,,,15,,,,16,,,million and we spent 22 mill,
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Post by A-teen_six_T3 on Dec 16, 2008 13:26:06 GMT
I'm very confident that we have more than £3 million
If you remember, we were only going spend 7million in the summer
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Post by Danstoke82 on Dec 16, 2008 13:26:22 GMT
I heard that too, had me quite worried. £3million will get us fuck all in the current market.
Im hoping that SSN have got their wires crossed there.
Weren't we going to offer £6.5mill for Ledley?
I doubt that £3mill would get us Zigic, Ledley, Surman and Lallana.
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Post by Pugsley on Dec 16, 2008 13:26:53 GMT
So add that to the £22million he's already spent thats £25million.
Enough to keep us up...?
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Post by abboscfc on Dec 16, 2008 13:29:03 GMT
i dont see us offering that kind of money for ledley again i would rather we use 6 mill to get pennant in 3-5--4 mill on transfer fees and the rest on wages for him
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Post by FullerMagic on Dec 16, 2008 13:29:08 GMT
www.whydelilah.co.uk/news/15_Dec_2008/Sidibe+setback.html
The City manager says there is no specific transfer budget, but explained: “What Peter has done is say if there’s players out there then bring them to the table. If we can do it we will try, if not then we won’t.I'd guess we'd spend somewhere between 7-10m?
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Post by salopstick on Dec 16, 2008 13:29:22 GMT
if we state how much is in the coffers prices go up
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Dec 16, 2008 13:30:11 GMT
I'm sure it will be closer to £10 million than £3 million plus, hopefully, a couple of loans as well.
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Post by Danstoke82 on Dec 16, 2008 13:31:36 GMT
i dont see us offering that kind of money for ledley again i would rather we use 6 mill to get pennant in 3-5--4 mill on transfer fees and the rest on wages for him But Pennant doesnt want to come to us?.....he's a greedy fuck.
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Post by knowles on Dec 16, 2008 13:32:43 GMT
I'm sure he's got a kitty of around £10 million. Whether he uses that will depend on the available players and their price tags but I'm sure if the right players were there, he can go and get them.
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Post by smapples on Dec 16, 2008 13:36:10 GMT
So add that to the £22million he's already spent thats £25million. Enough to keep us up...? How about add anopther 5m to that and get Robinho or perhaps times 25m by 10 and buy Buffon. All it needs is a bit of logic guys.
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Post by PONTAFCE on Dec 16, 2008 13:36:34 GMT
Id go for a 10million pound kitty and offload some of the shite i.e pericard e.t.c
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Post by GeordieDave on Dec 16, 2008 13:38:27 GMT
The Mail. Spit. Probably the same journo that reported confidently that Fulop had signed for £6M during the summer. And perhaps the same journo who claimed that neither Stoke or Hull would have a point by Xmas and that WBA were the only side coming up with any chance of survival. The daft bastard hadnt realised they played each other before Xmas. It wasnt typical journo sarcasm either. It was said with great seriousness.
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Post by abboscfc on Dec 16, 2008 13:38:34 GMT
i dont see us offering that kind of money for ledley again i would rather we use 6 mill to get pennant in 3-5--4 mill on transfer fees and the rest on wages for him But Pennant doesnt want to come to us?.....he's a greedy fuck. but if we are in a good position come the start/end of jan and we offer him enough money which would be around 40-45 grand a week i recon he would change his mind. the 6-6.5 mill touted for ledley would cover transfer fee and wages for the first year and if we stayed up 40 grand a week is nowt we would just put a get out clause in his contract where if someone offers say 3.5 mill for him he could go if we went down
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Dec 16, 2008 13:38:35 GMT
I think he is also limited to 30 feet in combined height. So that is 7 ft for Zigic plus another 23ft for the other players!
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Post by carverdoone on Dec 16, 2008 13:42:30 GMT
So add that to the £22million he's already spent thats £25million. Enough to keep us up...? What a bitter little post. What will you do if it doesn't all go tits up for Stoke?
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Post by Macc_Stokie on Dec 16, 2008 13:55:31 GMT
They'll defo have more to spend - ultimately in the final hours on the summer transfer window we were bidding for 3 or 4 players (including Ledley at £6m) and we didn't get them.
Given our season so far, I have no doubt that Stoke will make the best possible effort to strengthen the squad - whether though purchases or cleverly playing the loan market.
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Post by mikeyb99 on Dec 16, 2008 13:58:27 GMT
So add that to the £22million he's already spent thats £25million. Enough to keep us up...? I must admit, I'm not overly convinced by the 'Sunderland model' of Premiership survival that we seem to be using, but I think it'll have to wait until the end-of-season assessment. Let's stay in the division first, then decide whether its money well spent. I expect Pulis will have submitted a list to Coates, and Coates will try his best to sign the players off the list. If we're honest, I expect our spending will be directly relational to whether the likes of Ledley and Zigic sign - I doubt we'll have any other surprise signings.
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Post by Danstoke82 on Dec 16, 2008 13:58:54 GMT
Im not sure whether the loan market is the answer Macc_Stokie. Sure TP can work wonders in it in the next division down, but its a whole different ball game now and I'd rather we bought players in permanently.
I could be wrong though, perhaps a loan deal for Zigic wouldnt go down a miss.
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Post by Pugsley on Dec 16, 2008 14:09:19 GMT
So add that to the £22million he's already spent thats £25million. Enough to keep us up...? What a bitter little post. What will you do if it doesn't all go tits up for Stoke? Honestly it's not a bitter post. It's a genuine question. Do you think £25 million is enough to keep us up? Personally I think it is, but I suppose it depends from where you are starting from.
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Post by evans1863 on Dec 16, 2008 14:14:29 GMT
The Mail. Spit. Probably the same journo that reported confidently that Fulop had signed for £6M during the summer. And perhaps the same journo who claimed that neither Stoke or Hull would have a point by Xmas and that WBA were the only side coming up with any chance of survival. The daft bastard hadnt realised they played each other before Xmas. It wasnt typical journo sarcasm either. It was said with great seriousness. Maybe. But maybe it was the same Journo who was spot on for the Abdoulaye Faye transfer, spot on for our interest in Carson ect ect ...
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Post by carverdoone on Dec 16, 2008 14:15:09 GMT
What a bitter little post. What will you do if it doesn't all go tits up for Stoke? Honestly it's not a bitter post. It's a genuine question. Do you think £25 million is enough to keep us up? Personally I think it is, but I suppose it depends from where you are starting from. Please accept my apologies, I totally got the wrong end of the stick there. In answer, I really don't know. We are above Sunderland who have spent £80 million and Man City who have spent £32 on one player. It is so hard to build a squad that is instantly competitive in this league.
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Post by mongolikecandy on Dec 16, 2008 14:20:55 GMT
Perhaps we had 6 million to spend on Ledley, but ended up paying about 4 million for Soares and Tongue instead, leaving us with about 3 million now....??
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Post by swanlandtiger on Dec 16, 2008 14:23:19 GMT
Honestly it's not a bitter post. It's a genuine question. Do you think £25 million is enough to keep us up? Personally I think it is, but I suppose it depends from where you are starting from. Please accept my apologies, I totally got the wrong end of the stick there. In answer, I really don't know. We are above Sunderland who have spent £80 million and Man City who have spent £32 on one player. It is so hard to build a squad that is instantly competitive in this league. NO IT ISN'T!
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Post by Pugsley on Dec 16, 2008 14:24:13 GMT
Honestly it's not a bitter post. It's a genuine question. Do you think £25 million is enough to keep us up? Personally I think it is, but I suppose it depends from where you are starting from. Please accept my apologies, I totally got the wrong end of the stick there. In answer, I really don't know. We are above Sunderland who have spent £80 million and Man City who have spent £32 on one player. It is so hard to build a squad that is instantly competitive in this league. No worries mate, with my history of PHWery I can see why some people would think that way ;D I am pretty sure that Sunderland and City were spending that money not to just avoid relegation - they thought they would be pushing for Europe. In Sunderland's case it's delusions of grandeur. If a manager spends the best part of £30million on players and doesn't stay up, some questions need to be asked and answered, whether you are pro the Manager or not.
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Post by carverdoone on Dec 16, 2008 14:30:02 GMT
Please accept my apologies, I totally got the wrong end of the stick there. In answer, I really don't know. We are above Sunderland who have spent £80 million and Man City who have spent £32 on one player. It is so hard to build a squad that is instantly competitive in this league. NO IT ISN'T! You are currently the exception that proves the rule. But show me a team that gets promoted to the PL, is successful, and survives and thrives long term without a LOT of money.
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Post by slangking on Dec 16, 2008 14:33:51 GMT
I guess paying massive wages to the likes of Geovanni and Boateng doesn't count Please accept my apologies, I totally got the wrong end of the stick there. In answer, I really don't know. We are above Sunderland who have spent £80 million and Man City who have spent £32 on one player. It is so hard to build a squad that is instantly competitive in this league. NO IT ISN'T!
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Post by shiny nosehair on Dec 16, 2008 14:37:02 GMT
Perhaps we had 6 million to spend on Ledley, but ended up paying about 4 million for Soares and Tongue instead, leaving us with about 3 million now....?? 4+3=6 ??? ;D ??? ;D ??? ;D
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