Well it is all happening all of a sudden! Savio has a virus? As hell as like, the only sickness the lad had was homesickness. Remember the buzz when we signed him? I'm afraid the deal was one big balls up, denting Nani's reputation somewhat. Tell me, how many rabbits and how many stools has Nani now pulled from the hat? On the plus side we have Behrami and Ilunga and on the negative side of the balance sheet? Tristan, Lastpickeva, Lopez, Di Michele and Savio. The jury is still out on the others.
Brilliant record? Hardly. 'Arry picks up wheat amongst the chaff and, at the moment, our illustrious Technical Director's record is no better if we are honest. How much are we paying him? And how much did he pocket from Breschia for selling on a pup to West Ham?
How good is Da Costa and how much have we actually paid for him? I have no idea on both counts but I hope to God we paid nowhere near the reported £9m for Savio because I'm bloody sure a 23 year old defender I have never heard of can't be worth anywhere near that amount of dosh! Your friend and not mine, Scotty Duxbury, has of course put a positive spin on it all but then he would, wouldn't he?
Villa preparing a bid for Collins? well, Duxbury has the excuse that we are overloaded with defenders now hasn't he?
Still angry that Duxbury got the job ahead of you eh?
ReplyDeleteI think you lost out because you would only sign players you could make a funny name out of.
dickhead, they paid us a fee, plus gave us a player AND savio has a 50% sell on clause.
ReplyDeleteGet your facts right.
And Nana found Pirlo and Toni.. Di Michele is a class player, just not made for the premiership, and Tristan everyone knows was one of the best strikers in Europe. Yes they are both past it but were cheap short term options.
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The Savio thing never worked out, well shit happens. The gamble on buying a foreign player for any club will always be, will he settle? Eight or nine times out of ten, he does settle, but on this occasion Savio didn't and instead of being lumbered with him, we off-loaded him, so what's the problem? Now although it was reported that we payed £9mil for him, it turned out we actually payed £5mil which could have gone up to £9mil. We need to sell one player in order to raise the funds to buy a much needed striker and the favourite to go is Collins which would have left us short of one centre half, but in selling Savio in cash plus player deal and we get 50% of the funds should Fiorentina sell him in the future, we get Da Costa who is a center half to replace Collins and put the cash from Savio and Collins together and we get our much needed striker and voila! It could all turn out to be a canny bit of business done at the end of the day. So what's your problem?
ReplyDeleteThat thing that you haven't heard doesn't make him bad player, just ignorrant. He is very talented CB and let's all hope he will be good for us. Official site reported we got him plus cash for Savio and 50% at his next transfer, so I think this one was quite good deal.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about Nani, he hasn't show that he has good touch for players, but of course his record could be biased by our current financial situation. Jury waits...
kevin manchester writes ..
ReplyDeleteI think in among the wild and tentative optimism one often reads on some westham websites, your own , sometimes erractic offerings, are generally welcome.. every organisation can do with a loyal opposition. Having said that the Savio-Da Costa deal does look like a cute bit of business. As I understand it .. we put £3 mill down for Savio with the rest of the £9m dependent on appearances etc. We have recieved £3 mill from Fiorentina plus half of any sell on fee if the lad comes good. Da Costa is thrown in for free. The Sky player rating for Da Costa is 5 out of ten.. which is not as good as it sounds when you read how they rate 5/10 players.. it remains to be seen to what extent he justifies that tag..on another common theme here.. Duxbury is undoubtedly like a kid in a sweet shop in his current role at west ham and pleased with himself but I think there can be no doubt he is a west ham fan through and through.. I do not think he is quite the bad egg you often make him out to be; also Di Michele and Tristan scored four winning goals last season ..simplistic perhaps, but you could say their contribution was the difference between mid table safety and a relegation scrap.. neither cost a lot or anything up front, so all in all not earth shattering contributions but they did do a job of some description and we need to give nani a bit more rope before we hang him .. Illunga and Behrami really are magnificent players by our standards.
Savio didn't cost anywhere near £9m.
ReplyDeleteThat was spin fromthe club to appease the fans after flogging Bellamy.
The fee for Savio was around £3m.
So we have flogged him for the same price, gotten a utility defender for cover and 50% of any sell on fee.
Quite a shrewd bit of business considering Savio was outshone by the products of the academy and was judged to have been thrust on Zola as opposed to requested by him.
"how many stools has Nani now pulled from the hat?"
ReplyDeleteNasty!
That's taking shitting in your hat quite literally.
Some dispute here as to what Savio cost. No surprise there as many choose to believe what they want to believe.
ReplyDelete0048, the wife wants to know what you look like!
If Duxbury has put a positive 'spin' on this, then it only serves to act as a counterweight to your constant negative sniping on here.
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