Up the Arse! Goons Thread

Cruyff14 · May 9, 2016

Gabriel isn't very good.

PendlePie · May 9, 2016

glenferry23 said:
Around £35m I think City paid for him

£42m*

Cruyff14 · May 9, 2016

That is with add ons. Think it was 28m.

PendlePie · May 9, 2016

Whatever the exact figure, he's the most expensive defender in English football history.

I'd much prefer paying £11 for that ******* shit for brains Gabriel - the same quantity of gash at almost 1/4 the price!

Cruyff14 · May 9, 2016

I think Gab was a bit more than £11, mate.

glenferry23 · May 9, 2016

Gabriel was about £16m I recall? Might be wrong.

Wonder if Chambers is given a run this weekend alongside Koscielny. Last game of the season, why not.

PendlePie · May 9, 2016

Reported figures have ranged from £10m to £15mil - most are about £11m from what I've seen.

bok_party · May 10, 2016

glenferry23 said:
Around £35m I think City paid for him. Huge fee for a centre half. It was ridiculously bad defending, how you can lose your man in such a position right in front of goal. It was a gift that thankfully, this time, Giroud took.

With KDB's goal, it just needed someone to take him down. Even if you cop a yellow card for a professional foul, you gotta stop him charging towards goal like that. Perhaps Gabriel should have or Bellerin.

I think Gabriel did well because he was holding him up. It's the other two who let him drift inside so easily. I can't really fault Bellerin for the intial header either. He won it, but it just bounced off KDB's head.

HODGEYROAD · May 10, 2016

Rumours of Walcott to West Ham for 20-25 million quid, lets pray some truth to it.

windyhill · May 10, 2016

Girouds assist !!! It was that good you almost go did he mean to do it.
Brilliant.

Benno_900 · May 10, 2016

PendlePie said:
Whatever the exact figure, he's the most expensive defender in English football history.

I'd much prefer paying £11 for that ******* shit for brains Gabriel - the same quantity of gash at almost 1/4 the price!

£11?

Bit harsh.

Benno_900 · May 10, 2016

HODGEYROAD said:
Rumours of Walcott to West Ham for 20-25 million quid, lets pray some truth to it.

I'd take £11 tbh.

PendlePie · May 10, 2016

Walcott is approaching Adebayor at Spurs level of shitness. £140k a week = £5.6mil in wages this season alone. Staggeringly inept list management by our club, and not for the first time.

We're better off doing a Poch - freezing him out of the squad and letting him leave for peanuts. Failing to flog Walcott off at the first offer would be an insanely incompetent decision.

Genesis67 · May 10, 2016

PendlePie said:
Whatever the exact figure, he's the most expensive defender in English football history.

I'd much prefer paying £11 for that ******* shit for brains Gabriel - the same quantity of gash at almost 1/4 the price!

Mangala was a terrible piece of business. You can see where Gabriel will improve. Can't see the same thing in Mangala.

glenferry23 · May 10, 2016

PendlePie said:
Walcott is approaching Adebayor at Spurs level of shitness. £140k a week = £5.6mil in wages this season alone. Staggeringly inept list management by our club, and not for the first time.

We're better off doing a Poch - freezing him out of the squad and letting him leave for peanuts. Failing to flog Walcott off at the first offer would be an insanely incompetent decision.

His wages would be a significant barrier to his sale. If we do sell, the club would likely have to subsidise part of his wage.

Would be great if we could offload him somewhere this summer.

Tomnat Tigers · May 10, 2016

His wages won't be too much of a problem. If sold wherever he lands will own his sponsorship rights which would be 40k a week or thereabouts, which with the new TV money mid table clubs can afford to pay their better players 100k a week.

PendlePie · May 10, 2016

Yeah, shouldn't be too much of an issue.

But if we need to cop paying 20-30k a week of his wages, so be it. He and some of his similarly flakey teammates are cancerous to this club. We should adhere to almost any request - whatever it takes to seal his transfer.

PendlePie · May 10, 2016

Welbeck out for 3-5 months, according to an initial report on goal.com

Add the "little bit minor setback" to that and he's looking at spending the rest of 2016 on the sidelines. Devastating.

Edit: Come December, he'll be like a new signing tho

HODGEYROAD · May 10, 2016

Looks like we are trying to bring in World Class defender Rob Holding from the Bolton side that got relegated in the Championship.

Shoei · May 10, 2016

PendlePie said:
Welbeck out for 3-5 months, according to an initial report on goal.com

Add the "little bit minor setback" to that and he's looking at spending the rest of 2016 on the sidelines. Devastating.

Edit: Come December, he'll be like a new signing tho

eh he's a walking injury waiting to happen. I don't think he's ever played a full season without being injured?

Don't know why this is surprising.

HODGEYROAD · May 10, 2016

Shoei said:
eh he's a walking injury waiting to happen. I don't think he's ever played a full season without being injured?

Don't know why this is surprising.

His injury record at United was actually pretty good to be honest, it was when he signed for us this shit started to happen mostly.

Latro · May 10, 2016

HODGEYROAD said:
His injury record at United was actually pretty good to be honest, it was when he signed for us this shit started to happen mostly.

Thats because he did not start games a lot.

HODGEYROAD · May 10, 2016

Latro said:
Thats because he did not start games a lot.

That is also true.

Shoei · May 10, 2016

HODGEYROAD said:
His injury record at United was actually pretty good to be honest, it was when he signed for us this shit started to happen mostly.

Ozil · May 10, 2016

Shoei said:
eh he's a walking injury waiting to happen. I don't think he's ever played a full season without being injured?

Don't know why this is surprising.

Not surprising really, just another kick in the guts. It's the hope/potential that kills you.

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