Not that I wish it upon them,and Benjamin is a pure gentleman,but Sunderland,Newcastle and Middlesboro would have to be interseting.And a first of sorts..

sounds fair to me.Tom's worth more though IMO,still young (20/21?) with a huge future.I'd rather keep him.

WBA MUST be going down.

:lol: :oops: oh yeah..kinda forgot about them,all the way down there..

haha. I think Stoke will survive - barely

Tottenham and Liverpool will either have Lennon or Downing buy the end of june.

There's still time for them to claw their way back 8-[
No topflight team from the north east would certainly be interesting.

It should would. I wouldnt know who in the championship to put my money on.

I'd expect Newcastle to be back pretty quick, first or second season. Boro would win it. I'm not sure about sunderland.

If Boro go down I'd take Downing I suppose on the cheap, but Southgate won't let him go on the cheap and he's not worth anywhere near 15 million.

And you're not getting Lennon.

We might pay you AU$35m for Lennon, then you'll buy Downing for $20m on a get out clause, then in the January transfer market we'll swap you Lennon+$10m for Downing. Cause that's how you run a business. :cool:

A) Referring to football as a 'business' makes you instantaneously as despicable as Mike Ashley or Perry

B) What?

mk actually has a point, and we not the ones who set the trend, tottenham did their business like that and its only just natural for him to do that assumption.plus, its a win situation for you guys, you end up with more money.

A) We already knew that.

B) From what I can gather, he's saying you guys should effectively pay 30mil for downing while we walk away with him for 25mil. Never going to happen.

Why would we not just buy Downing for 20mil and be done with it rather than paying 25mil for him?

No. It was a joke. I was saying we are shit at dealing. Instead of going for downing now who weve wanted for ages we'll probably sign red hot lennon for 35, spurs will spend 20 of that on downing and then we'll get shitty with lennon, just like we did keane, and end up losing money while tottenham make millions of our backs in a straight swap for the two.


"Cause thats how you run a business" - sarcastic

Edited by mk0825: 23/3/2009 05:32:33 PM

Indeed. Although Southgate may not be in the best negotiation position..

Can't we just keep Lennon and Boro can have Downing and Liverpool go and buy some winger from Spain?

we already did that. We need homegrown players. Ideally we'd take Lennon and Downing, but we'll probably have to pick one or the other and I'd rather have Lennon.

ok, well since we all doing our own transfers, i think well be happy to take alonso since liverpool wanted to get rid of him and you now getting downing.

We already have a decent left winger in Riera. We need a right winger. Lennon. I dont like the idea of Lennon's inconsistency but the thought of him rampaging alongside the rest of our players is pretty cool.

Wait, so where in between Lennon signing a contract extension until 2014 and being worshiped by White Hart Lane do you two think you're going to sign him?

money talks.

You honestly think he would've signed a contract til 2014 if he wanted to move? With Redknapp here and in charge of transfers the time of us selling our best players is over- it'll be Bentley leaving this July, not Lennon.

how many players leave clubs even though they have long contracts. yeah hell sign a contract now because hes doing well, hes been loved by the club and fans, and no one is really knocking on the door, but if someone comes along with a good offer, whats to say he wont consider it.

When he signed a contract until 2014 he probably wasn't aware clubs were going to come calling for him now. And even then, in signing a new contract he has done the club a service in increasing his value by a couple of million.
I wouldn't say 'no' to some Bentley action at anfield either. He'd be better than Kuyt or Benayoun on the right most of the time.

I'm fairly certain he was aware, what with all the headlines proclaiming his contract quashed talk of a move to Anfield. And it seems to have done just that, apart from you and mk's wishful thinking. He's not going anywhere, you're welcome to Bentley.

Whatever makes you sleep easier Peligro...

I dont care if we get HIM or not TBH. Just as long as we get someone.

Contracts dont mean shit. Do players often swap teams through free agency? Offer a good enough transfer fee, Lennon and Harry will tear up his contract like theyre breaking bread.

Exactly, TALK. There was no actual move made for him. As far as he was concerned he wasn't actually going to have an approach made for him, it was just talk. We were more interested in Keane and Barry. Now a bid might actually be confirmed.

Guus Hiddink has urged Chelsea to bid for Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko. (Various)

Tottenham midfielder Tom Huddlestone has alerted Aston Villa, Newcastle and Everton by admitting he has concerns about his future at White Hart Lane. (Daily Mail)

Tottenham left-back Gareth Bale has revealed he is having extra coaching in how to become a better defender. (Various)


Thoughts?

Pava has been good and I like him, can't see him going there though.



Don't go thud :(



Good- if he actually learns how to defend competently he'll be brilliant.