Hypothetically, would you?

[The Masked Raccoon 0]

Would you take Charlie Austin with a swap for RvW + a few million pound on top of?

[Tetteys Jig 830]

Is the Pope Catholic?

[Lessingham Canary 99]

How many millions would be expected to take on top ? 5? 8? more ???

[Feedthewolf 4,844]

[quote user="Lessingham Canary"]How many millions would be expected to take on top ? 5? 8? more ???[/quote]Seeing as QPR were holding out for £15m, I think we''d have to offer £10m plus Wolf to have any hope.

[iron_stan 0]

qpr want 13 millioni say we just buy him and swap wolfswinkle + 8 million for van dijktruth is the club needs to spend 20 to 30 million if we want to stay in this league

[Peanuts 150]

The problem with offloading the Wolf is going to be getting someone to match his wages. I''m sure he''s a professional who tries his best in training but by turning down a move to Sporting Lisbon, a club he''s familiar with and been successful at, he''s made it pretty clear that he''d rather sit on his backside and trouser his wage than take a pay cut to play regular football.

[westcoastcanary 173]

[quote user="Russell Martin Peanut Smuggler"]The problem with offloading the Wolf is going to be getting someone to match his wages. I''m sure he''s a professional who tries his best in training but by turning down a move to Sporting Lisbon, a club he''s familiar with and been successful at, he''s made it pretty clear that he''d rather sit on his backside and trouser his wage than take a pay cut to play regular football.[/quote]

All it shows is that he wasn''t willing to go back to Sporting. You just assume that "he''d rather sit on his backside and trouser his wage"; more likely he''d rather see if he could resurrect his career either with us or somewhere other than Sporting.

[Katie Borkins 1]

£15m cash

or

£16m plus RvW

[Peanuts 150]

[quote user="westcoastcanary"] All it shows is that he wasn''t willing to go back to Sporting. You just assume that "he''d rather sit on his backside and trouser his wage"; more likely he''d rather see if he could resurrect his career either with us or somewhere other than Sporting.[/quote]

Nonsense. If wages were of no concern why would he choose to resurrect his career at a club where he''s comprehensively failed to make an impact and now finds himself fourth choice striker, as opposed to one where he enjoyed the most successful spell of his career and would be a regular starter? I can''t see how that''s a "more likely" explanation than the fact he didn''t want to take a pay cut, not forgetting that the public reason given for the move breaking down was his personal terms.

Whether it''s Sporting or somewhere else I expect he''ll be gone if and when a deal can be done that satisfies his wage demands, even if we end up subsidising them, as it''s obvious he''s surplus to requirements here.

[pliff 4]

We will not Pay his wages end of story'' if we did it would open a can of worms

[norfolkngood 1,086]

I understand but the board have to raise the wages to get better players sometime

premiership players want premier money

[The Masked Raccoon 0]

[quote user="pliff"]We will not Pay his wages end of story'' if we did it would open a can of worms[/quote]

Which part of ''Hypothetical'' don''t you understand? Do you read posts, honestly, some people with their ''End of story''.

 

 

[Crispy 4]

They would probably rather 10 mill + Hooper + RVW and even then they might reject that.

van dikj (or however it''s spelt) and Austin would be amazing and we could all shut up for a few years about the board not spending enough on premiership quality.

[The Masked Raccoon 0]

Only replying to get rid of that C in the subject which Pliff happened to put in. Really a dumb character to manage that for some reason - he clearly read the ''Hypo'' bit but still a dumb ass to slip a character in there

[PurpleCanary 5,553]

[quote user="westcoastcanary"][quote user="Russell Martin Peanut Smuggler"]The problem with offloading the Wolf is going to be getting someone to match his wages. I''m sure he''s a professional who tries his best in training but by turning down a move to Sporting Lisbon, a club he''s familiar with and been successful at, he''s made it pretty clear that he''d rather sit on his backside and trouser his wage than take a pay cut to play regular football.[/quote]

All it shows is that he wasn''t willing to go back to Sporting. You just assume that "he''d rather sit on his backside and trouser his wage"; more likely he''d rather see if he could resurrect his career either with us or somewhere other than Sporting.[/quote]We shall see over the next three weeks, but as it stands the problem is that Sporting looked very much like van Wolfswinkel''s best chance of trying to resurrect his career (if that is actually what he cares about) at a serious European top-flight league, albeit not at one of the big five - he is not at that level.If it wasn''t clear before that he is not wanted at Carrow Road then being given the No.29 shirt would have made it so. And his failure at St-Etienne has probably ruled out that league. A team down at the bottom might just fancy him, but could hardly afford the level of wages - based on the failure to agree terms at Sporting - he seems to expect.

[ZLF 271]

I think it was reported that he offered to take a 25% wage cut to go to Lisbon, but the difference was still too large.

Based on sat he is no worse than what we have anyway but any swap away would be good