Gylfi Sigurdsson
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Of course it works both ways, because posters are saying on one hand that we allowed Villa to sting us for Downing, and then we're allowing ourselves to be stung because another interested party has offered him more wages than he's worth. We backed out of signing that lad who ended up at Sunderland last season because we (rightly) wouldn't budge on our valuation, and he's now disappeared up his own arse.
Yeah, but he'll be on more than Ming wanted!
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a season ticket costs 3k ? they corporate or something ?
I hope they do all you can eat prawn sandwiches.
Sunny: Modric leaving Spurs will weaken them regardless of any new arrivals. Pienaar may return to Everton. Gylfi, Huddlestone and Sandro certainly don't inspire any fear.
Rosco: You're comparing apples with oranges. I don't think anyone would have wanted to pay Joe Cole or Aquilani such inflated fees. Coles was offset by the free transfer. Aquilani was the biggest transfer bungle in our history. Now that Flamini and Milan have agreed terms, we're stuck with him unless we cancel his contract.
Nobody thought that 20M for the prolific Downing was a good idea. He hasn't produced anything for us of note and may never. He probably has this season to prove himself before being shown the door.
Should Gylfi choose Spurs, then by all accounts lets move on. Not a trainsmash.
is it a free bar/food in the lounges
For a massive fee I can offer consultation on hospitality solutions to LFC. Krump, Let them know.
LIVERPOOL FC look like being priced out of a move for Gylfi Sigurdsson after they refused to meet the player’s ‘wild’ wage demands.
Tottenham Hotspur have moved into pole position to sign the Icelandic midfielder after they agreed to match his salary requests.
That figure is believed to be nearly 50% more than what the Reds were willing to offer.
Liverpool had held extensive talks with the 22-year-old and put together a generous deal for a player of Sigurdsson’s experience.
Tottenham Hotspur have moved into pole position to sign the Icelandic midfielder after they agreed to match his salary requests.
That figure is believed to be nearly 50% more than what the Reds were willing to offer.
Liverpool had held extensive talks with the 22-year-old and put together a generous deal for a player of Sigurdsson’s experience.
I think that they got that side of things absolutely nailed.
So a top of the range London City centre apartment wont be at least 30% more than the Liverpool equivalent?
I reckon it would be more like 150% more tbh.
Whilst I dont wanna see us shafted this logic is simply impossible to argue with.
It doesn't matter Jon. Look at the bottom line not the % difference. It makes little difference to a 250k a month salary (and I see they are actually talking 70k a week for him now - that's virtually 300k a month).
We looked at buying an apartment in Canary Wharf for our daughter and found it too expensive for a decent property but it gave us a good idea of what you can get for your money in the area. For 5k a month you'd get an awesome apt with spectacular views. Though it would cost £1M for a very decent 2 bed with views, and more like £2-3M for that awesome apt. Purchase prices in London generally return a terrible ROI so renting is the way to go (especially for a footballer), most buyers are looking at long term capital growth not to make a profit on renting (there are exceptions - especially in University/College locations). And what is 5k, or even 10k, a month to someone on those incomes ?
Food, entertainment etc. are totally irrelevant on those salaries. They are like freebies. Hence the reason I find it risible to consider the London Weighting any sort of impediment to a PL club footballer living there. it's simply irrelevant.
What I don't get about this if we rewind a few weeks is that Gylfi was going to sign for Brendan Rodgers' Swansea.
Brendan left and that made a big difference to things as far as Gylfi was concerned so in a big trumpeting of honour he did the right thing and told Laudrup he would not be taking up the offer, presumably we were always going to pay more wages than Swansea, but Spurs went even better.
He must be fucking made up Brendan left Swansea.
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Brendan left and that made a big difference to things as far as Gylfi was concerned so in a big trumpeting of honour he did the right thing and told Laudrup he would not be taking up the offer, presumably we were always going to pay more wages than Swansea, but Spurs went even better.
He must be fucking made up Brendan left Swansea.
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Have always read that Tottenham, like Arsenal, have salary caps of their own. Wonder how 'generous' our 'offer' is. We also tripled Henderson's wages last season. More stringent control?
I would imagine so. I've never understood the need to triple players wages. 50k a week when you've been on 20 or 30k is a big enough rise.
Its laugable to think that Oliver Giroud was Montpellier's top earner at £15k a week while someone like Henderson was on 4 times that amount.
Bale has just signed a new four year contract . Wouls suggest that they know who the nes manager is.
Exactly. Oh well, at least he's served to introduce us to the footie equivalent of speed dating:
DING!
'Who's Gylfi?'
'We need Gylfi!'
'When's Gylfil coming?'
'Gylfi's not coming?'
'I HATE Gylfi!!!'
'Gylfi can go to hell!!'
DING!
Touche!
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