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Honduras wasn't your preferred winner? </3
Almost every club bids lower than what the selling club is looking for. Then they start negotiating a more realistic price.
And then there is always the possibility that the selling club might just accept the original bid. Its worth a punt.
Haha well Team GB were really! But just for you I'm an adopted Honduran. Name me famous ones and I'll go stalk them.
The_Hitcher89
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Fabio seems less of a dickhead than Rafael from the little I've seen
Should we just bend over and bid £25M from the get-go? He's not worth it, even if he wasn't on the last year of his contract, which he is. Bilbao is already antagonized. By Llorente himself. We're just following his lead. Assuming any of this is actually true, of course.
I was seriously just about to look up who was older of the two.
No, but there's a huge gulf between the two evaluations. £12.5 million for Llorente is a joke, not a serious bid, no matter what his contract situation. Start at £15 million and slowly work up to £20 million, which is what will eventually happen. The longer you piss about with ridiculous low ball bids the worse it is for you because the later you'll have to wait to bring him into the squad.
And he's worth whatever money you settle on, he's class.
Vivalaraza
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I think that's a pretty fair opening bid for Llorente given his contract situation. He's not going to be worth more than £20m with only a year left to run on his deal.
The_Hitcher89
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Vivalaraza
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Hell no. Nononononono
Some sources are saying we offered £14M. Seem like a reasonable starting bid to me. You guys all seem to rate Llorente. I'll admit I've only seen him play a couple of times in EL and wasn't overly impressed. Hope you're right.
RKC uit, should be easy for them.
Yeah, just like last year right
The_Hitcher89
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Luisao acted like a JT when we played them a couple of years ago. Think Babel got sent off for squaring up to him after he hacked Torres down
And Bent would be our top scorer by a distance if he signed for us
Another brazilian defender with temperamental issues. smh.
They fucked up? I can't really remember, last thing I remember was celebrating the title.
I do remember Feyenoord choking against RKC at home. Lolzer Guidetti getting his second yellow for celebrating without a shirt :lol
We have one like that in the Dutch Eredivisie, Douglas. Though he's officialy Dutch right now I believe
Anyways, he punched a ref too.
We have one like that in the Dutch Eredivisie, Douglas. Though he's officialy Dutch right now I believe
Anyways, he punched a ref too.
Technically it wasn't a punch
Oh, a push right?
Yeah I would call it a hard push =P
£14 million is getting there for an opening bid, better to start closer to what everyone knows he'll go for. Otherwise it's RVP round two and we're already well into August.
Vlaar and Clark as the two centre backs I am really looking forward to seeing.
Full backs are still in transition. I think Lichaj and Lowton wil be competing for the Right Back spot and Warnock will be replaced by whichever LB we're going to bring in (and judging by Warnock being dropped for this friendly I bet he's out soon).
The worry is Given. Ever since the Euros he's been rather shaky. We need him to get some confidence back.
The defence will be very young but it's going to be a good building block for the Lambert era.
That was fast
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YESH 1-1
Our great defence yeshh =P
Gotta love Bouma.
Lol no what will happen is Atletico will say "You can pay us more since you can afford it" so the price will go up a bit, but not a lot. It's smart business.
Call me crazy but if Gerrard stays fit I think there's a chance he could be our top scorer. It was just Gomel, and only one goal, but he was up and around the box for the full 90 mins and put in a real classic Stevie performance. Would be great to see 07/08 or 08/09 Stevie G. netting 12+ goals/assists.
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Well Juventus is going to be severely disappointed when they get a big fat fucking "?" in response to submitting bids to Atletico for Llorente.
You make it sound like he'll be sold for under £15 million, which he just won't.
People need to learn from the RVP saga.
Llorente and RVP aren't the same thing. Arsenal don't want to sell to their rival (yet they've already accepted Juve's offer) while Juve and Bilbao are not even playing in the same league. There is no reason why Juve would go balls deep with a big fat cheque. IMO at least.
Vivalaraza
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Agree with Kyoufu. I don't know what Bilbao will sell for but I don't think its a problem bidding low early on and I don't think the RVP example is the norm.
I don't see why clubs will get annoyed at low starting bids and then turn around and say "aahh now we're mad, give us more". It's just business, all clubs do it.
It's true it will mean they don't get him soon, but I guess they're okay with that.
I don't see why clubs will get annoyed at low starting bids and then turn around and say "aahh now we're mad, give us more". It's just business, all clubs do it.
It's true it will mean they don't get him soon, but I guess they're okay with that.
My point was that Bilbao isn't Atletico. Atlético is in Madrid
It's Athletic Bilbao.
Haha I missed that. Running on 5 hours of sleep so I feel a little ugh today.
Vivalaraza
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Holy shit I didn't even know Suarez pulled Rafaels hair there.
Just another example of little Luis being a dickhead I guess.
What a petty thing to do, seriously, pulling someones hair? Would have more respect if he just bit him.
Just another example of little Luis being a dickhead I guess.
What a petty thing to do, seriously, pulling someones hair? Would have more respect if he just bit him.
The_Hitcher89
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Still amuses me. I too would like a handful of that curly little angry wig.
Suarez is such a JT
I remember reading that he wanted to come to Juve before going to City.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Still amuses me. I too would like a handful of that curly little angry wig.
:lol
It's a sign of affection in Uruguay.
Well we got Aduriz from Valencia and one of our young ones recovered in Isma Lopez, but yeah Llorente is not an easy replaceable player.
As far as I know from the Bilbao press, we are not negotiating yet, so if they come with the 36m I guess he's gone, but I don't see it going far lower than that, or hope not, either way Llorente is not really handling it well.. I find it hard to believe than 1yr of negotiations there still no way to reach some common ground.. but whatever, he should just come out and say in press conference he wants to leave, and then the club will negotiate I am sure.
We are offering 4.5m a yr after taxes guess he wants at least 5.5 from what is been said.
I'll tell you who I'd loooooove to have playing for my team. Someone you should go balls deep in for:
Higuain.
Such an incredibly petulant thing to do. I don't understand how he can behave like that when he's married and has a kid. Does he think his wife just doesn't watch him on TV? She comes to the games often enough... It's embarrassing.
Rodgers will have a real job on his hands in getting Suarez to grow the F up.
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