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 Ouzo Dan  Behind you 17 Jun 15 6.52pm |
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What on earth is wrong with her eyebrows?
The mountains are calling & I must go.
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Seth  On a pale blue dot 18 Jun 15 12.32am |
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Quote Ouzo Dan at 17 Jun 2015 6.52pm
What on earth is wrong with her eyebrows?
She grows gerbils with them.
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oghash  18 Jun 15 3.26am |
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Quote Seth at 18 Jun 2015 12.32am
Quote Ouzo Dan at 17 Jun 2015 6.52pm
What on earth is wrong with her eyebrows?
She grows gerbils with them.
I was just thinking I've not seen, or remembered at least, a Seth comment in ages and up you pop with another golden moment.
Why would anyone chose to be a Seagull? The Eagle is a far superior creature.
The Seagull lives under it's damp pier meekly looking out, blinded by the sheer quality of the Eagle's palace.
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| Ouzo Dan Behind you 18 Jun 15 5.10pm |
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Quote Seth at 18 Jun 2015 12.32am
Quote Ouzo Dan at 17 Jun 2015 6.52pm
What on earth is wrong with her eyebrows?
She grows gerbils with them.
They could actually be made with real gerbils  looks like she has cut up some old carpet & glued them to her forehead.
The mountains are calling & I must go.
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DANGERCLOSE  London 18 Jun 15 11.50pm |
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15 million and 80k a week would rather have cisse or ba thanks
Edited by DANGERCLOSE (18 Jun 2015 11.50pm)
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| geezerspalace Maidstone 19 Jun 15 1.57am |
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Quote DANGERCLOSE at 18 Jun 2015 11.50pm
15 million and 80k a week would rather have cisse or ba thanks
Edited by DANGERCLOSE (18 Jun 2015 11.50pm)
That's fair enough but when Bournemouth knocked back £6m for Ritchie from us we then quoted them £10m for Gayle...it's all horse trading and top managers do all they can to earn their corn and Pardew is great at that too...luckily for us. If Gayle's worth £10m...he's not..then Remy's worth the aforementioned plus sacks of cash. I think the fact everyone knows that the not so big clubs like ourselves and those that have come up too are desperate to stay up this season due to the season after's bonkers TV deal means that everyone is testing the water at the mo and the top end clubs like Chelski want to get as much cash as possible in due to fair play rules. It's going to be a merry go round and for some a disaster. We should just get the first big signing through the door, show our mettle and then offload certain players to pay the incomings wages. I think we'll be sorted by early July, ready for the week up at St Georges, Burton. With the early doors games we've got we need to have the squad sorted and ready to hit the ground running. We can all enjoy the nonsense in the meantime though...well...it's better than Wimbledon...that ensures 2 weeks of rain every summer...and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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ParchmoreEagle  Belair 19 Jun 15 2.23am |
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Quote ParchmoreEagle at 25 Mar 2015 1.11am
Quote palace99 at 23 Mar 2015 10.24am
even if we could persuade him to come to Palace his wages of approx. 80k per week are more than twice our best paid player.
All every well affording the transfer fee but it's the whole package you have to consider.
Palace have been quite prudent re transfers and wages over the last 2 seasons so Remy might be a step too far too soon.
Granted, but THAT'S the money for quality and a lot less I'd say than Costa Fortune. There's only so much you can get 'on the cheap' and if we aren't going to do it properly and cough-up for players like Remy, then, instead of getting lesser grade players, we ought to stick with what we have, and I'd be happy with that. I really don't believe in the 'bargain basement' mentality evidenced by some of the candidates touted about (see Strikers for next year thread). If we want a top striker for next year Chelsea trained Loic Remy fits the bill. The PL is far too lucrative now to be trying to do it on the cheap.
My thoughts exactly. Too many on here saying "we can't afford this...we can't afford that...his wages is more than we pay" etc. You cannot do this on the cheap. either we aim for mid-table and then I say keep what we have, or go for it, and pay the money. It is arrogant and foolish to imply that bigger clubs spend more than they have to on players and so:'clever' us, we can buy the same at much less. Going up a level means higher wages for higher class players. I've said this before: 'You can drag the kid from the gutter - but you can't always drag the gutter from the kid". What that means is that our supporters have to challenge themselves to change their mindsets from that of the last several decades. This is a new era - if we take it. Having said that - we don't want 2010 again, and I am quite happy to aim to stay mid-table for a while yet.
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black eagle.  south croydon. 19 Jun 15 6.22am |
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Talksport said this morning that us and spammers can afford Remy's wages the stumbling block is Chelsea's £15 million asking price.
question is do we wait for Chelsea to lower the asking price or go for other targets?
Personally i think we should offer £9 to £10 up front plus add on's.
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| Fazil Bawlty 19 Jun 15 7.02am |
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Quote black eagle. at 19 Jun 2015 6.22am
Talksport said this morning that us and spammers can afford Remy's wages the stumbling block is Chelsea's £15 million asking price.
question is do we wait for Chelsea to lower the asking price or go for other targets?
Personally i think we should offer £9 to £10 up front plus add on's.
Pay £15m, get it done. We reportedly paid £6m (?) for Gayle and £7m for MacArthur. MacArthur's been quality and is worth every penny, but he wasn't a 'big' player, he wasn't proven quality. Remy is proven - and he's a goalscorer. He's scored at all of his clubs and for his country, he's definitely worth the £15m price tag. It's what we'll have to pay from now on as we want to move to the next level. And, if we can get £10m for Gayle, we can fund this move. We're progressing.
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| ParchmoreEagle Belair 19 Jun 15 7.16am |
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Quote Fazil Bawlty at 19 Jun 2015 7.02am
Quote black eagle. at 19 Jun 2015 6.22am
Talksport said this morning that us and spammers can afford Remy's wages the stumbling block is Chelsea's £15 million asking price.
question is do we wait for Chelsea to lower the asking price or go for other targets?
Personally i think we should offer £9 to £10 up front plus add on's.
Pay £15m, get it done. We reportedly paid £6m (?) for Gayle and £7m for MacArthur. MacArthur's been quality and is worth every penny, but he wasn't a 'big' player, he wasn't proven quality. Remy is proven - and he's a goalscorer. He's scored at all of his clubs and for his country, he's definitely worth the £15m price tag. It's what we'll have to pay from now on as we want to move to the next level. And, if we can get £10m for Gayle, we can fund this move. We're progressing.
This. 15m is cheap for Remy. Move quick!
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| big stu milton keynes 19 Jun 15 7.52am |
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Quote ParchmoreEagle at 19 Jun 2015 7.16am
Quote Fazil Bawlty at 19 Jun 2015 7.02am
Quote black eagle. at 19 Jun 2015 6.22am
Talksport said this morning that us and spammers can afford Remy's wages the stumbling block is Chelsea's £15 million asking price.
question is do we wait for Chelsea to lower the asking price or go for other targets?
Personally i think we should offer £9 to £10 up front plus add on's.
Pay £15m, get it done. We reportedly paid £6m (?) for Gayle and £7m for MacArthur. MacArthur's been quality and is worth every penny, but he wasn't a 'big' player, he wasn't proven quality. Remy is proven - and he's a goalscorer. He's scored at all of his clubs and for his country, he's definitely worth the £15m price tag. It's what we'll have to pay from now on as we want to move to the next level. And, if we can get £10m for Gayle, we can fund this move. We're progressing.
This. 15m is cheap for Remy. Move quick!
I totally agree, how comes teams like Bournemouth and watford can splash the cash but we always see to put to much thought into it and then miss out...if you want to be successful we need to invest to make us a better football team...£15 mill now is a no brainer... rip there hands off and get the deals we need, then move onto cabaye
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| gaz1959 Bamford Lancashire 19 Jun 15 8.15am |
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I think Remy would be a good signing, in today's market 15 mill is about right, its all about being in the prem next season, if we can get and extra 10 -15 goals from a new striker and Murray stays fit we can be mid table and keep building.
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BelfastEagle  19 Jun 15 8.16am |
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We cannot afford anything near 15 m......time to move on to other realistic targets hopefully.
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| gaz1959 Bamford Lancashire 19 Jun 15 8.24am |
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Quote BelfastEagle at 19 Jun 2015 8.16am
We cannot afford anything near 15 m......time to move on to other realistic targets hopefully.
We sell Gayle to help fund the move, if we are going to stay up we need to improve the squad, next season we will be in a much better place, we cant afford to stand still, this club has the best opportunity to build and they need to take a chance and gamble a little, last season we struggled to score didn't we.
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| Johnny Byrne Pinner 19 Jun 15 8.28am |
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Sell Gayle Buy Remy. Simples.
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james03  Bangkok 19 Jun 15 8.49am |
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Quote BelfastEagle at 19 Jun 2015 8.16am
We cannot afford anything near 15 m......time to move on to other realistic targets hopefully.
Complete nonsense unless by magic you are in charge of the Palace purse strings. We can spend circa 30 million with no sales of anyone and ensure we stay up to cash in on the bonanza next season
Then with the likes of Gayle, Campbell, Hunt, Mariappa, Bannan and Guerdoira possibly going that is going to be somewhere in excess of 20 million coming back in.
We have moved a long, long way in the last few years but most of our supporters are stuck in the last decade.
Edited by james03 (19 Jun 2015 8.50am)
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho Marx
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| Qwijibo Bournemouth 19 Jun 15 9.04am |
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Damn FFP. Chelsea would never have asked for £15m a few years ago
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| jimmyc 19 Jun 15 9.12am |
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Quote james03 at 19 Jun 2015 8.49am
Quote BelfastEagle at 19 Jun 2015 8.16am
We cannot afford anything near 15 m......time to move on to other realistic targets hopefully.
Complete nonsense unless by magic you are in charge of the Palace purse strings. We can spend circa 30 million with no sales of anyone and ensure we stay up to cash in on the bonanza next season
Then with the likes of Gayle, Campbell, Hunt, Mariappa, Bannan and Guerdoira possibly going that is going to be somewhere in excess of 20 million coming back in.
We have moved a long, long way in the last few years but most of our supporters are stuck in the last decade.
Edited by james03 (19 Jun 2015 8.50am)
This ^^
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| Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 19 Jun 15 9.44am |
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QPR paid £8 Mill for him a couple of years ago and since then his ratio of games/goals has been good (Just over 2, I think).Certainly an excellent one-touch finisher who gets his shot off early and takes free kicks over a wall.
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| We are goin up! Coulsdon 19 Jun 15 9.48am |
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£15m is a lot for a 28 year old who has had injury problems. Very good player but you couldn't exactly call it a bargain. Depends how big we decide to go in the transfer market.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
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