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But say Liverpool wanted to buy him and we said that'll be £25-35m please, Madrid would just buy back and sell to them immediately for a £10-20m profit. Would be worth their while

Good player but if there is a buy back its kind of a pointless signing - he's either shît and not bought back or we get £1.8m profit after a year or two rather than £20+m profit if he does any good

Go to think that Wanfujing United or such like will bang him £100k a week just for the press

Liverpool. They decided he wasn't worth the £11m he was offered to them at...

Tied Luca Toni's record of 36 goals in a season (35 games) last season with less quality around him than he now has. If better than 1 in 1 is a 'tidy' finisher what does a great finisher look like?

To some extent you've got to wonder if Messi un-retiring for one last World Cup could be too good to turn down. Argentina will be waiting a long time before they can challenge again once Messi is retired - if he could win them the World Cup he'll be a national hero

For Sunderland I'd guess? No one better to carry on from Allardyce than the other fat English manager in the league...

Long ineffective on the wing though - if we played those 4 then Tadic--------------------Redmond -------Long-------Austin Would be a better formation to use everyone to their best

In France, it's a Royale though - source:

Bit old and went to Mexico for the money so not sure on his attitude

With the money being banded about for bang average players I'd be hacked off if we let him go for less than £25m - he's better than Wijnaldum overall IMO

5th August for me

Heard a similar story about Pompey, also the classic one of when Jimmy Bullard signed for Hull on what was agreed to be £40k a week but there was a typo in the contract so he signed it at £50k!

According to Tancredi Palmeri it's €100m for Juve, €25m for his agent (Mino Raiola I think) and €20m for him. Absolutely bloody mental....

Tax revenues though...

1. Pay them more than anyone else is willing to offer 2. Buy them a Birthday cake

On the other hand, should you get relegated (don't think you will by any means FWIW) you won't implode like Boro would paying silly wages for 30 year old Spanish flops...

However you could say that by the same token we wouldn't want Lallana, Lovren or Lambert from Liverpool as they've all been shît there despite being good for us. Clyne (almost though not yet proven) exception that proves the rule...

Not really sure it matters to him where he's living. Personally, if someone offered me a new job on £210k a week extra in Mogadishu I'd bite their hand off

He was on loan at Schalke, not bought by them. Still a Bayern player

Maybe people could for once wait until August to ***** and moan about lack of ambition and relegation and oh I wish we were West Ham or Crystal Palace spunking £100m up the wall on "names" for the sake of it who are ancient and don't fit our system

Oskar Cvetjicanen or something like that

No, he can't even get in the starting 11 of a team that finished below us - automatically not good enough...

Not quite as bad as I thought it would be, but really not great though....