i cant believe they want so much for him, id have said £3.5m was about right.
Tweedle wrote:
£3.5m - I'd snap their hand off. If West Ham want to sell these players they have to accept these bids - there's a real danger that the bids won't be upped and they'll be lumbered with a load of players they don't really want for next season
And Magnusson and Curbs giving a statement last week that weren't going to be held 'hostage' over transfers.kas wrote:Tweedle wrote:
£3.5m - I'd snap their hand off. If West Ham want to sell these players they have to accept these bids - there's a real danger that the bids won't be upped and they'll be lumbered with a load of players they don't really want for next season
Yeah why are they trying to do a Bent to everyone just because he rejected them. It's stupidly inflating the transfer market, asking these huge prices for strikers.
its called a joke. you couldn't buy a sense of humour could you?Calidad wrote:What does being black have to do with it? Henry, Ronnie, Ronaldo, Essien, Cole, Eto'o, Drogba, etc will/have commanded huge fees...
Uncanny
ih8gerrard wrote:'He is a poor man's heskey'. Perhaps the finest accolade that can be bestowed upon Harewood. I wouldn't even swap titus Bramble for him!
Lucas Deano Neill wrote:ih8gerrard wrote:'He is a poor man's heskey'. Perhaps the finest accolade that can be bestowed upon Harewood. I wouldn't even swap titus Bramble for him!
You clearly don't watch football...
OwenThomas4 wrote:This is almost as bad as 18m for Darren fucking Bent.
Lucas Deano Neill wrote:OwenThomas4 wrote:This is almost as bad as 18m for Darren fucking Bent.
Birmingham charged us £7m for a player who has played 40 minutes...
Guarenteed he'll be sold at £3.5m to any other club
Curbishley rules out mass changes
By Julian Shea, Saturday 9 June
West Ham manager Alan Curbishley says he will not be held to ransom by other clubs in the summer transfer market.
Chairman Eggert Magnusson says West Ham's perceived wealth means clubs are inflating prices but Curbishley said he will not spend for the sake of it.
"People are looking at us as new kids on the block but we're not," he said.
"If something happens which we think can improve us we'll have a go but I'm not going to sign 11 players and get everybody out."
Curbishley replaced Alan Pardew as West Ham manager in December 2006, a month after Magnusson took over at Upton Park.
He was active in the January transfer window but the only two new signings who played a significant role in their successful fight against relegation were Lucas Neill and Luis Boa Morte.
Curbishley says this shows that he already has great resources at his disposal without having to bring in more players.
"If you look at the team who won at Old Trafford on the last day of the season, most of them were already here, so that shows the talent we have," he said.
"It's a strong squad when the players are all fit.
"Danny Gabbidon was player of the year the season before but I didn't really see him because of injury, I've not seen Dean Ashton and I've hardly seen Matthew Upson. Those two are £13m-worth of players who've not kicked a ball in a long time.
"We've got a strong squad but if I can add to it, I will.
"But if nothing else happens between now and the kick-off, I've got a squad and a lot to work with."
Scott Parker, who grew up playing under Curbishley at Charlton, is the only new arrival of the summer so far.
Curbishley said he admired Parker's work ethic and hoped to instil this in the rest of the squad to ensure a strong start to the new campaign and avoid a repetition of last season's flirtation with relegation.
"When he was at Charlton, he was the life and soul of everything we did but he probably got swallowed up a bit at Chelsea and Newcastle.
"I'd like him to be the life and soul here too, to set the benchmark for the rest of the players.
"If he brings his potential with him, the fans here will respond to that. I'm hoping that on the first day of pre-season, everyone realises what it's all about."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/6733691.stm
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