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T-b0n3

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Manchester City are asking for £6m for Aleksandar Kolarov with Galatasaray in pole position. [Manchester Evening News] #MCFC

I know a lot of people want a new LB brought in. What's peoples opinion on Kolarov? Would he be an upgrade on what we already have?

If we do get someone we would need to let one of Rose or Benny go.

Deise Vu

I was mainly referring to Defoe and Ade's magnificent combined total of one since Soldado hasn't been signed (yet!). With Bale supplying crosses I'd say i'd be good for a half dozen headed goals myself.

Sugarlumps

Always thought he was solid, can't remember what he's like for pace.

2nd Row Donkey

davycc wrote: »

Napolia signed Higuain & Jackson Martinez for €40m EACH..
there goes 2 more of our options if the saldaldo deal (probably) falls through :-(

The cnuts. would love to have seen us make a move for Martinez. 40M is pretty steep though.

Antisocialiser

He's probably better going forward than defending but is he better than BAE... i would say yes, always liked him myself. He may stunt the progression of Rose though.

DubPerryman

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

The cnuts. would love to have seen us make a move for Martinez. 40M is pretty steep though.

I think both teams did very well out of Napoli. Higuain is a good striker, but not worth more than €25m. I know less about Martinez, but one good season in the Portugese league and getting €40m for him?! Just shows how inflated prices become after you sell a player for a lot of money...

DubPerryman

T-b0n3 wrote: »

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I know a lot of people want a new LB brought in. What's peoples opinion on Kolarov? Would he be an upgrade on what we already have?

If we do get someone we would need to let one of Rose or Benny go.

Rose did very well for Sunderland last year and I still think BAE has a lot to offer. I think we're OK in the LB position, particularly with having Vertonghen as further cover.

I'd like to see Rose push BAE for a first team spot and see if we can get even more out of both of them.

SuprSi

I rate Kolarov very highly, very dependable LB and I'm surprised City are letting him go.

Lightbulb Sun

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

The cnuts. would love to have seen us make a move for Martinez. 40M is pretty steep though.

They got Albiol too for 11m euro, tidy bit of business there.

mickman

DubPerryman wrote: »

I think both teams did very well out of Napoli. Higuain is a good striker, but not worth more than €25m. I know less about Martinez, but one good season in the Portugese league and getting €40m for him?! Just shows how inflated prices become after you sell a player for a lot of money...

yep, which is why we could be waiting to announce bales sale until after we buy soldado :-)

White Heart Loon

Reportings on Twitter that we have made a £19m bid for Edin Dzeko from Man City

2nd Row Donkey

White Heart Loon wrote: »

Reportings on Twitter that we have made a £19m bid for Edin Dzeko from Man City

What's that - about £5-6 less than Solando.
Would he get 20 a season? With 30 games, yeah he prob would.

SuprSi

I think I'd be happy with that. He's another finisher who I don't feel has had a proper chance to shine for City

slegs

Me too. He is quality. Could never understand why he wasn't a more regular starter at City. Every time I saw him play he was dangerous. Scored a lot of goals for them from the bench

White Heart Loon

What kind of wages is he on at City?

slegs

White Heart Loon wrote: »

What kind of wages is he on at City?

120k a week was mentioned

Leinstersqspur

Well he must want a move because Aguero, Negredo and Jovetic will be ahead of him. He should have signed for us two years ago when he had the chance!

He's on £120k a week.

ziedth

I reckon he'd be a cracking signing. His stats at Hamburg are very impressive. I certainly wouldn't be offering him huge wages. £120k would honestly be the Max I'd want to see us paying him.

slegs

City pay crazy wages to everyone - arent many clubs who can match that. I imagine we would be paying him at the top end of our pay scale but not more than 80-90k a week

Leinstersqspur

He was rumoured to be taking a pay cut to move to Dortmund a while back. We all know his quality after he banged in four against us. He'd be a great signing!

Leinstersqspur

Spurs Community: We are in pole position to get Soldado and hope to be able to announce, at very least, as soon as Saturday, that an agreement is in place. If Soldado trains on Saturday the things change and we may forfeit the first refusal agreement we have in place with Valencia

@crackersTHFC: Had 3 seperate people tell me there has been positive progress with the Soldado talks. This does NOT mean its done, but good news hopefully.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Fcuk Dzeko, he clearly has buckets of talents but he's a lazy bollocks. He also gives off the impression that he thinks the world revolves around him. Not convinced about him by any means. Think all the clubs energy should focused intently on Soldado. He's the man.

mike65

Times running with LFC Soldado story (behind paywall) and the mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-transfer-news-liverpool-eye-2090242

make of it what you will.

White Heart Loon

mike65 wrote: »

Times running with LFC Soldado story (behind paywall) and the mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-transfer-news-liverpool-eye-2090242

make of it what you will.

It also says they haven't made a bid, so what have they done, thought about it? Don't take much to make a story these days

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

mike65 wrote: »

Times running with LFC Soldado story (behind paywall) and the mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-transfer-news-liverpool-eye-2090242

make of it what you will.

Which is absolutely nothing because it's a nothing newspaper. The Times isn't exactly reliable either. And, with all due respect, if Liverpool are our only contenders for Soldado then we can afford to dither. Liverpool is no longer an attractive proposition for foreign players, for British and Irish players it may be, but not for players from the continent, especially with AVB at the helm.

irishmover

THFC wrote: »

Fcuk Dzeko, he clearly has buckets of talents but he's a lazy bollocks. He also gives off the impression that he thinks the world revolves around him. Not convinced about him by any means. Think all the clubs energy should focused intently on Soldado. He's the man.

Sounds like a certain striker we already have in our ranks..

Sugarlumps

This year has been the worst on record for inaccurate reporting on players, it's gone into hyperdrive. There's gossip and then there's gowl, twitter is as reliable as a used tampon.

mickman

AVB on sky now saying spurs are in talks with bale on a new contract

Reports now though say that spurs have valued bale at 120 million and madrid havent baulked at that price. If they offer that then we have to sell ???

ziedth

I think you'd have to sell him if an offer came in for £100m+ we couldn't replace him but we could replace a couple of "good" players like JD with title winning players.

A part of me is thinking is the Dzeko talk there to make our hand stronger trying to sign Soldado

Devo from Dublin

ziedth wrote: »

I think you'd have to sell him if an offer came in for £100m+ we couldn't replace him but we could replace a couple of "good" players like JD with title winning players.

A part of me is thinking is the Dzeko talk there to make our hand stronger trying to sign Soldado

ABSO - FOOKING - LUTELY.