Premier League 2009-2010 prediction thread!!

[BIG H]

I have a soft spot for Man City but what they are doing is a bit obscene. They are paying extortionate amount for only half decent players, Real Madrid are doing the same.

At least Madrid are paying extortionate amounts fro the best players!

[ono]

I have a soft spot for Man City but what they are doing is a bit obscene. They are paying extortionate amount for only half decent players, Real Madrid are doing the same.

I don't think the prices are so bad.

Bellamy £10m + £4m based on appearances (won't happen) - Not great

Given £8m - Bargain

Bridge £12m - Not great but is Glen Johnson worth £17m? English players cost more

Tevez - £26.5m - Who knows, but that was always the fixed price regardless of who came in for him.

Barry - £12m - Compare that with the £12m Villa have spent on Downing

De Jong - £16m - Unfair to comment just yet. Good at his job as a defensive midfielder. Price is a bit steep but a good player nonetheless.

Santa Cruz - £12 + £5.5m add ons - Maybe a bit steep but a good player and he gives us a different threat upfront.

Adebayor - £22m - Fair price imo. Only Torres and Ronaldo scored more goals than him in last 2 seasons. Scored more than Drogba and Anelka combined over last 2 seasons.

So yeah we've paid a little over on some players but that's not purely our fault. Other teams know we have money and as such they raise their asking price by a few million. Every club has done it with us and we can't honestly walk away from every deal, otherwise we'd have the same squad that finished 10th.

Also it's not just City spending money on 'average players'

For example Chelsea spent £18m on John Obi Mikel, Villa spent £12m on Milner and Downing. Man Utd have spent £16m on Valencia.

Another thing, the media keep adding a few millions onto deals and a few thousand on proposed wage offers, because it makes more of a story.

For example, Adebayor is nowhere near the 170k p/w he's reported to be on. Barry isn't anywhere near the £130k p/w neither. Robinho is the top earner still and he takes home 92k p/w after tax.

[HattonTheHammer]

I have a soft spot for Man City but what they are doing is a bit obscene. They are paying extortionate amount for only half decent players, Real Madrid are doing the same.

I don't think the prices are so bad.

Bellamy £10m + £4m based on appearances (won't happen) - Not great

Given £8m - Bargain

Bridge £12m - Not great but is Glen Johnson worth £17m? English players cost more

Tevez - £26.5m - Who knows, but that was always the fixed price regardless of who came in for him.

Barry - £12m - Compare that with the £12m Villa have spent on Downing

De Jong - £16m - Unfair to comment just yet. Good at his job as a defensive midfielder. Price is a bit steep but a good player nonetheless.

Santa Cruz - £12 + £5.5m add ons - Maybe a bit steep but a good player and he gives us a different threat upfront.

Adebayor - £22m - Fair price imo. Only Torres and Ronaldo scored more goals than him in last 2 seasons. Scored more than Drogba and Anelka combined over last 2 seasons.

So yeah we've paid a little over on some players but that's not purely our fault. Other teams know we have money and as such they raise their asking price by a few million. Every club has done it with us and we can't honestly walk away from every deal, otherwise we'd have the same squad that finished 10th.

Also it's not just City spending money on 'average players'

For example Chelsea spent £18m on John Obi Mikel, Villa spent £12m on Milner and Downing. Man Utd have spent £16m on Valencia.

Another thing, the media keep adding a few millions onto deals and a few thousand on proposed wage offers, because it makes more of a story.

For example, Adebayor is nowhere near the 170k p/w he's reported to be on. Barry isn't anywhere near the £130k p/w neither. Robinho is the top earner still and he takes home 92k p/w after tax.

they are indeed fair prices but you arent buying players that can win you premierships.

Chelsea brought in the likes of essien,drogba,carvalho,cech,ferreira - all relative unknowns in the uk but all of which were championship winners with their respective clubs abroad.

I dont see a single one there that has experience of winning titles

[ono]

I have a soft spot for Man City but what they are doing is a bit obscene. They are paying extortionate amount for only half decent players, Real Madrid are doing the same.

I don't think the prices are so bad.

Bellamy £10m + £4m based on appearances (won't happen) - Not great

Given £8m - Bargain

Bridge £12m - Not great but is Glen Johnson worth £17m? English players cost more

Tevez - £26.5m - Who knows, but that was always the fixed price regardless of who came in for him.

Barry - £12m - Compare that with the £12m Villa have spent on Downing

De Jong - £16m - Unfair to comment just yet. Good at his job as a defensive midfielder. Price is a bit steep but a good player nonetheless.

Santa Cruz - £12 + £5.5m add ons - Maybe a bit steep but a good player and he gives us a different threat upfront.

Adebayor - £22m - Fair price imo. Only Torres and Ronaldo scored more goals than him in last 2 seasons. Scored more than Drogba and Anelka combined over last 2 seasons.

So yeah we've paid a little over on some players but that's not purely our fault. Other teams know we have money and as such they raise their asking price by a few million. Every club has done it with us and we can't honestly walk away from every deal, otherwise we'd have the same squad that finished 10th.

Also it's not just City spending money on 'average players'

For example Chelsea spent £18m on John Obi Mikel, Villa spent £12m on Milner and Downing. Man Utd have spent £16m on Valencia.

Another thing, the media keep adding a few millions onto deals and a few thousand on proposed wage offers, because it makes more of a story.

For example, Adebayor is nowhere near the 170k p/w he's reported to be on. Barry isn't anywhere near the £130k p/w neither. Robinho is the top earner still and he takes home 92k p/w after tax.

they are indeed fair prices but you arent buying players that can win you premierships.

Chelsea brought in the likes of essien,drogba,carvalho,cech,ferreira - all relative unknowns in the uk but all of which were championship winners with their respective clubs abroad.

I dont see a single one there that has experience of winning titles

Carlos Tevez and Wayne Bridge have both won the Premier League title. Santa Cruz has two Bundesliga medals, 2 German Cup medals and Champions League medal
Adebayor has the experience of competing for a title and playing in a Champions League final, as has Tevez (x2)

Buying players who have championship medals in other countries isn't a sure-fire way to win the Premier League. It's a different league altogether.
Chamakh, the striker for Bordeaux has a Ligue 1 medal but it doesn't mean he's the better option than Adebayor.

The important thing is you buy players with a winning mentality who do all they can do win. I think we've done that so far with hopefully a few more players to come.

It's not been a year since we were taken over and given that we finished 10th last season, the signings we have made have been very good - especially this summer.

As well as the good signings Chelsea have made they've also made some pretty terrible signings over the last few years.

Tiago, Shevchenko, Ivanovic, Mutu, Veron etc...

aswell as some expensive average signings...

Crespo, Mikel, Ferreira, Malouda etc..

[ono]

City will sign Kolo Toure in the next few days. Agreed terms and had offer accepted by Le Arse so should be announced. Helps get over the disappointment of Terry i suppose. Toure was looking very good again toward the back end of the season.

Probably be announced tomorrow or Tuesday anyway. That's my informed prediction.

[HattonTheHammer]

City will sign Kolo Toure in the next few days. Agreed terms and had offer accepted by Le Arse so should be announced. Helps get over the disappointment of Terry i suppose. Toure was looking very good again toward the back end of the season.

Probably be announced tomorrow or Tuesday anyway. That's my informed prediction.

f*ck me i do wish you lot would turn it in. Dont blame city the football club which is steeped in tradition more the mega billion owners that are slowly corrupting the national game we all love.

It`ll be 1 years before the 1st 100million transfer
It`ll be 2 years before the 1st 500,000 a week footballer
It`ll be 5 years before a side spends 250million in a single window

Somewhere somehow the powers above need to stop milking this ridiculous inflation set by rich clubs and set caps or the sad reality is every football club that isnt in the top 12-15 places will die out within 10 years!!

[yvonne]

You can tell at the bookmakers that loads of people fancy Man City to win it.Man City were 25/1 to win out right,then their dropped to 20/1,now its dropped to 10/1.Well i backed them early,i knew i got a steal at 25/1.I did warn you's

[HattonTheHammer]

You can tell at the bookmakers that loads of people fancy Man City to win it.Man City were 25/1 to win out right,then their dropped to 20/1,now its dropped to 10/1.Well i backed them early,i knew i got a steal at 25/1.I did warn you's

yup you indeed got a steal at 25s

how much you got on it??

[skel1983]

City will sign Kolo Toure in the next few days. Agreed terms and had offer accepted by Le Arse so should be announced. Helps get over the disappointment of Terry i suppose. Toure was looking very good again toward the back end of the season.

Probably be announced tomorrow or Tuesday anyway. That's my informed prediction.

No offence mate but im starting to think this inside informartion your getting is actully the sun or maybe the news of the world?

[yvonne]

You can tell at the bookmakers that loads of people fancy Man City to win it.Man City were 25/1 to win out right,then their dropped to 20/1,now its dropped to 10/1.Well i backed them early,i knew i got a steal at 25/1.I did warn you's

yup you indeed got a steal at 25s

how much you got on it??

Just a fiver(£5)but im planning on putting more on,even 10/1 is still a very good price!

[ono]

City will sign Kolo Toure in the next few days. Agreed terms and had offer accepted by Le Arse so should be announced. Helps get over the disappointment of Terry i suppose. Toure was looking very good again toward the back end of the season.

Probably be announced tomorrow or Tuesday anyway. That's my informed prediction.

No offence mate but im starting to think this inside informartion your getting is actully the sun or maybe the news of the world?

Lol. No. Just no.

[ono]

Kolo Toure signed.

£14m

Lescott next.

[Master]

This is turning into the who will Man City buy next prediction thread.

Loved the poster of Tevez saying "welcome to Manchester"

[HattonTheHammer]

City will sign Kolo Toure in the next few days. Agreed terms and had offer accepted by Le Arse so should be announced. Helps get over the disappointment of Terry i suppose. Toure was looking very good again toward the back end of the season.

Probably be announced tomorrow or Tuesday anyway. That's my informed prediction.

No offence mate but im starting to think this inside informartion your getting is actully the sun or maybe the news of the world?

Lol. No. Just no.

Any chance of your lot letting the odd fringe player go out on loan?

benjani could do a job for us i suspect and we desperately need someone to partner cole up top

[ono]

No offence mate but im starting to think this inside informartion your getting is actully the sun or maybe the news of the world?

Lol. No. Just no.

Any chance of your lot letting the odd fringe player go out on loan?

benjani could do a job for us i suspect and we desperately need someone to partner cole up top

Lol trust me you don't want Benjani. He is awful.

We've let Jo, Bojinov and Caicedo go on loan and we've released Vassell and sold Evans. Hopefully Benjani will be next.

Bit of good news for LeftyLee though.

We're very likely to walk away from the Lescott deal. It was a near certainty to go through once Everton had found a suitable replacement. This hasn't happened. Basically Everton are playing hardball over the fee - which was actually agreed (don't know what it was)and City are ready to call their bluff and walk away. This will probably break in the next few days (in the media), unless Everton do a massive u-turn or Joleon puts in a transfer request. Cue Lefty saying ' i knew we'd never sell him'