Can't We All Just Get Along? (The Transfer Thread)

Spain is macro-Scotland.

 

Sunderland is a shit team, but not a small club. If the Toon is a big club, so are they (especially since their last trophy was in the 1970s and before the Toon last won something).

 

Oh I'm sorry, you forgot the part where your team were ok with one bid and then the next moment decided it was too low.

 

Thats currently not possible under the ownership rules.

Yes and Yes

 

My point was that they're a mid-table type of club and they still have money to spend. If you look at the numbers on transfermarket you can see that the Prem teams have a much higher cumulative value than the Spanish teams.

http://www.transfermarkt.com/en/premier-league/startseite/wettbewerb_GB1.html

http://www.transfermarkt.com/en/primera-division/startseite/wettbewerb_ES1.html

It shows RM and Barca as being worth 565M+, but the next best club is Atletico Madrid at 218M. That figure would only be good for 7th in England. So while the top 2 in Spain are stronger, there's a pretty huge dropoff after that.

You would not often see a player like Berbatov, Altidore, or Wanyama bought by a Spanish club in the bottom half of the table. They don't have the finances to make those signings. That's a result of the bad league structure and the lack of profit sharing.

 

Not even close. Bayern dwarfs Dortmund, Schalke and Hamburg in resources.

 

Worst transfer window....ever.

 

Yes he should be worth less than Negredo and Soldado. They are probably not as good as Higuain but they don't have question marks over their fitness like Higuain does.

 

100 pages and no signings. Time for a new thread?

 

New title.

 

Germany's No. 2 and 3 most wealthy teams - Schalke and Dortmund - don't makes as much COMBINED as do Bayern.

 

Saw these tweets, if someone already posted please delete Mods:

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3. Samuel ‏@samuelj29060 5h
   Podcast link will be out tomorrow. She was speaking on the BBC's Monday Night Club. Will post tomorrow & listen myself.
   
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4. Samuel ‏@samuelj29060 5h
   Guardian's Amy Lawrence also said she expects Arsenal & Liverpool to meet halfway on the Suarez deal; Fee would be around £45m. #afc
   
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5. Samuel ‏@samuelj29060 5h
   So Guardian's Amy Lawrence says on BBC radio: Gazidis/Board want to spend big, but Wenger doesn't. Will link interview when available. #afc
   
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7. tim payton ‏@timpayton 5h
   The very well informed @amylawrence71 on @bbc5live tonight talks of tension at Arsenal between Ivan/Board who want to spend big and Arsene
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Yeah, it's about that time. Thread closed.