runronnirun

indeed. wp Stevie Bruce on the Pennant deal imo

Willow85

Hit and miss so far for us, overstretched too often with Yorke ahead of him though - for the money I actually quite like him.

retired_jennifer89889

Keane: hard player, complete mug of a manager.

retired_civilian888

God I hate Etuhu

Willow85

Whilst I undestand the sentiment - thats a bit like comparing Darren Bent, to Thierry Henry - Henry was never going to go to Spurs, just as those players would probably never have gone to Sunderland right now.

That's not to say I want or are even trying to make a case for signing Jones, but transfers fees aren't such a big issue, as whom you can actually attract and pay wages for.

retired_jennifer89889

indeed. wp Stevie Bruce on the Pennant deal imo </BLOCKQUOTE>

Pennant looks like a fair deal in comparison. Crouch a complete and utter steal tbh.

retired_roxy

I fully agree with Nick on this one :thup:

Crouch cheap as chips though.

retired_jennifer89889

Naa, Pennant is coming along... A bit.

retired_rockstar

tbf, I reckon he only got sold so it didn't look like he's taking the pÂ*iÂ*ss out of the Ray Jones tribute on Saturday...

Willow85

His dealings have looked excellent prior to this season.

Now though we're in a sitation were we're being forced to pay ridiculous amounts for the only players we can seemingly attract.

However compare us to Villa and we're doing no worse - we pay £7m for a keeper rated the best young one in Britain (the other two million is after appearances 50 and 100) and Villa apparently pay £2.5m for Carson on loan for one season.

We pay £5m for Chopra, Villa pay £4.5m for Harewood. Harewood has had one decent Premiership season, the rest of the time his record at lower levels has been dwarfed by that of Choopra - and anyone who has seen Chopra so far this season can see Chopra is a much better player.

£1.5m for McShane, £2.5m for Higginbotham aren't bad deals, not when Villa pay £3.5m for Knight and when clubs like Derby have paid £3m or so for Claud Davis.

Of course we've also signed Halford who so far looks dreadful, Richardson has been hit and miss and Etuhu has as well - I can't see you calling Billy Davis a mug though and they bid over £5m for Kenwyne Jones too.