Real and Silva

[Ted Hughes]

A budget of £55m might well include agents fees and wages, not necessarily the fee we would be offered. Even at £55m surely it would still be NO!

The £55 mil has been made up by some geezer who may or may not work for the Daily Fail, but doesn't have the balls to put his name to the story.

It'll be a junior reporter mate, some rumour he/she has picked up surfing the web or calling dodging contacts in Spain. Just pointing out that a £55m budget wouldn't mean a £55m transfer fee.

I should imagine £55mil is the imaginary fee, they probably haven't got into imagining the wages yet.

They'd say it was the fee if it was te (imagined) fee. "A budget of" implies the cost in total.

Must be a short imaginary contract or a lower imaginary wage then, or his imaginary transfer fee would be rather low.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

Good point Ted.
Quick calculation of £200,000 pw on a four year deal is around £40m. Hmmm

[PALUS]

No , no , no and no .

[Slim]

There are a few players in this side that aren't replaceable. Silva definitely tops that list.

Yaya tops the list. There is no one in the world that can do what he does.

Silva is replaceable (messi or iniesta would do) but I wouldn't want to replace him.

Yes they would. Do you think we could get either player if we sold Silva?

I meant replaceable in the realm of reality.

[sheikh it all about]

With our wealth and ambition it would be lunacy to sell Dave at any price.

[Dameerto]

He's one of the best players in the world right now and we would be stupid to sell him, just look after him in the second half of the coming season this time please.