Re: ***The Official Football Manager Thread***
So I'm roughly a week into the January 2010 transfer window.
There has been a lot of excitement so far. I agreed a deal to sell Robbie Keane to Barca (of all clubs) for £12.75M! Except Keano came back to me asking that Spurs pay £47K/week of his salary through 2013, in order to make up for the lower salary Barca offered. I told him to go screw off..... Now I'm stuck with a pissed off Keane on my bench.
He truly became expendable when I secured Artem Milevski, for around £12M (he scored 5' in on his debut in the cup tie replay with Huddersfield, and got his brace in the 65', instant impact). I think this will be a really good move for my club. Pavy is scoring goals by the boatload, & he & Artem will give me a nice duo up front.
My best move may have been beating out Villareal to sign Rafael Vander vaart, for a cut rate fee of £6.5M! Real Madrid just basically let him walk away. I couldn't refuse him for that price, even if he doesn't play a major role I could sell him on & make a tidy profit. But I do expect him to feature in my squad quite a bit, pushing Modric to the left MF role, leaving me with Krancjar on the bench (I plan on rotating all three between the LMF & Center AMF roles).
I also snapped up Derby's Miles Addison for £4.5M. I probably overpaid for him, but he's young & can develop into either a CB of DMF. He's labeled as the next Lampard to boot! I really wanted Jack Rodwell, but Everton rejected a £8M deal.
Possibly on the way out to fund all these incoming players are the following:
Beniot Assou-Ekotto- Real Madrid has a £12.5M offer on the table, City is offering £13.5, I may try to get £15M.
Keane- I want him gone.
Giovani Dos Santos- He is transfer listed & loan listed. I keep getting £500k loan offers from Turkish clubs.
Crouch- He is unhappy about lack of playing time so I transfer listed him. He is not needed, and I'd probably take £10M for him without hesitating.
Lennon- Offers are out there for him, but I don't want to sell him. I would consider it if the price were right (£20M+ range?).
I have depth at CB, and Otamendi is playing great, and Addison can provide cover at CB in less important matches. That means I can afford to offload either Woodgate (would like to keep him, he's bagging goals off corners like it's his destiny, 3 so far in his last 10 matches), Dawson or Ledley.
I'm possibly looking at bringing in Srna, which means Hutton or Corluka could be on the way out. Srna will probably cost too much though, so this is unlikely.
Jenas- He has been playing well all year, albeit in limited action. I would consider letting him go for the right price.
And lastly, I would like a younger keeper for the future, and the way Huddersfield's Alex Smithies played against me in our first cup tie (MoM, 15 saves, stopped 5 clear cut chances), he is my number one target right now.
I would like some suggestions for other good, younger keepers for the future.
So I'm roughly a week into the January 2010 transfer window.
There has been a lot of excitement so far. I agreed a deal to sell Robbie Keane to Barca (of all clubs) for £12.75M! Except Keano came back to me asking that Spurs pay £47K/week of his salary through 2013, in order to make up for the lower salary Barca offered. I told him to go screw off..... Now I'm stuck with a pissed off Keane on my bench.
He truly became expendable when I secured Artem Milevski, for around £12M (he scored 5' in on his debut in the cup tie replay with Huddersfield, and got his brace in the 65', instant impact). I think this will be a really good move for my club. Pavy is scoring goals by the boatload, & he & Artem will give me a nice duo up front.
My best move may have been beating out Villareal to sign Rafael Vander vaart, for a cut rate fee of £6.5M! Real Madrid just basically let him walk away. I couldn't refuse him for that price, even if he doesn't play a major role I could sell him on & make a tidy profit. But I do expect him to feature in my squad quite a bit, pushing Modric to the left MF role, leaving me with Krancjar on the bench (I plan on rotating all three between the LMF & Center AMF roles).
I also snapped up Derby's Miles Addison for £4.5M. I probably overpaid for him, but he's young & can develop into either a CB of DMF. He's labeled as the next Lampard to boot! I really wanted Jack Rodwell, but Everton rejected a £8M deal.
Possibly on the way out to fund all these incoming players are the following:
Beniot Assou-Ekotto- Real Madrid has a £12.5M offer on the table, City is offering £13.5, I may try to get £15M.
Keane- I want him gone.
Giovani Dos Santos- He is transfer listed & loan listed. I keep getting £500k loan offers from Turkish clubs.
Crouch- He is unhappy about lack of playing time so I transfer listed him. He is not needed, and I'd probably take £10M for him without hesitating.
Lennon- Offers are out there for him, but I don't want to sell him. I would consider it if the price were right (£20M+ range?).
I have depth at CB, and Otamendi is playing great, and Addison can provide cover at CB in less important matches. That means I can afford to offload either Woodgate (would like to keep him, he's bagging goals off corners like it's his destiny, 3 so far in his last 10 matches), Dawson or Ledley.
I'm possibly looking at bringing in Srna, which means Hutton or Corluka could be on the way out. Srna will probably cost too much though, so this is unlikely.
Jenas- He has been playing well all year, albeit in limited action. I would consider letting him go for the right price.
And lastly, I would like a younger keeper for the future, and the way Huddersfield's Alex Smithies played against me in our first cup tie (MoM, 15 saves, stopped 5 clear cut chances), he is my number one target right now.
I would like some suggestions for other good, younger keepers for the future.
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