The Belgian already seeking an appartment in London with his entourage. #CFC offered longest contract and biggest wages.
So, I wonder what swung it in Chavski’s favour?
Are you being obtuse on purpose?
That would have been irrelevant had we not gone for the ill-informed Caicedo long shot.
You swear a lot and you express your opinion like it’s a fact and people think you’re cool but schooled?
Who do you think Caicedo would have chosen if we’d offered £325,000 a week?
What about Lavia? Apparently, it’s nothing to do with the Chavs offering the longest contract and a far bigger wage, nope, we’ve been schooled.
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And you know this how?
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How many times have you used this line? How do you know otherwise?
How do I know? It’s literally been mentioned tens of times by journos who have all previously been in the spot.
“Personal terms agreed with Lavia”
“Lavia keen on Liverpool switch”
Etc etc ad nauseum.
And you’re proposing YOU know better?
You literally sound like the black knight in Monty Python who has his limbs chopped off and goes “Tia but a scratch”
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Ultimately it’s a results business on and off the pitch.
You can play the perfect match and still lose 1-0. End of the day the result matters.
This hasn’t been the first time we tried to sign a player that another richer opponent also wanted. And we’ve succeeded in the past.
Yes, a lot of times it’s about the money but not all the time. We close the deal sharpish then Chelsea doesn’t get the chance to flash the cash. Or if we don’t muck around with Caicedo then Chelsea don’t approach him with any priority.
Again I stress the point that it’s not about Lavia specifically. Just the way we’ve identified targets and the way we’ve tried to conduct the business.
Yes, we don’t know the ins and outs of our dealings. But at one point that becomes irrelevant. What is relevant is we don’t have the player.
Just like that 1-0 loss.
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I reached my conclusion Because of this:
. #CFC offered longest contract and biggest wages.
I didn’t make that up. That’s one of those journalist people who said it.
I don’t know anything about this situation with any real certainty. But, then again, neither do you.
As regards panicking about us going after Caicedo, we tried our luck, it didn’t work. It did however when we tried our luck with Díaz.
Do I agree with all the decisions the club has made? No. I thought PER has talked out his backside with his recent comments on this situation except for this:
So wind yer neck in and calm down.
Not the same. At all.
Firstly Spurs can’t pay as much as we can. Secondly their approach was neither as concrete nor as well established as Chelsea had with Caicedo.
Secondly Diaz was a bonus to a team that was already doing quite well. We weren’t planning on bringing him in. But in the case of Lavia/Caicedo we have a big need in the defensive midfield department. It’s a must-have, not a nice-to-have which is what Diaz was at the time.
We got played, used as a pawn to get Caicedo better figures and ultimately Brighton a bigger profit.
Agreed.
Didn’t we buy him for less than Spurs offered?
Irrelevant. I get the urgency/importance of a midfield player at this moment but the point I’m making is we tried our luck and got him.
You’re right, we did sign him on terms less costly than what Spurs offered. So that shows that it is possible. Also what I meant was that we can “out-pay” Spurs, not that we need to…as opposed to Chelsea who are lunatics with fistful of cash.
And you’re correct that we took a chance. But the consequence of failing to get Diaz wouldn’t be nearly as severe as the consequence of not getting a DM now. Therefore it was a risk worth taking. As it turned out he was quite useful in the run-in to the CL final.
But in this case we were nearly there with Lavia and left that to chance Caicedo. Never mind that Chelsea can pay more, just that act alone could sour the player’s opinion of us.
I’d also like to say nothing personal at all mate. It’s just the situation.
Agreed. But, I think Diáz was in anticipation of Mané leaving. As such, good succession planning.
Mac and Sobs are a good solid start to our midfield revamp. We defo need another quality midfielder before the window shuts and if poss a defender. If we manage that (depending who we buy) I’d say that would be a 9/10 transfer window. At the moment it’s a 7/10.
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Right on mate, can’t for the life of me see a 19 year old with one decent season being an instant starter particularly at DM,at this point we really need some one ready to roll.
Then of course, we didn’t value him at 50m last week now we are supposed to want to pay 60m.You begin to think that we didn’t make contact, the agent sent for us.
Yes mate
And as I said earlier…getting overly worked up is t going to solve the problem.
One thing FSG has almost always done is learn from their mistakes. They rarely make the same mistake twice. Counting on that.
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It’s gonna be squeaky bum time till the end of the transfer window.
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Look at least it’s not gonna be like last season when Jürgen insisted that we were healthy enough personnel wise in midfield and later he admitted that this turned out not to be the case.
And our hands were tied by No of players we had on the books.
Neither of those are the case this time. So let’s see what happens and hope for the best
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It’s all a bit
I think since it’s 300+ posts since last night, we should maybe get to a stage where we do a one post synopsis. Really get us straight into the good stuff.
I remember posting this on RAWK before some page was locked and got suspended for a week or something. 
Yep! Let’s just get that done.
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The boy is still in rehab after a long layoff…
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