Problems - what to do?

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

Yeah, that's a fair point. We don't know for sure and I agree that now's the time to start re-building.

I don't think we'll see it though, do you?

That would mean that the club is being pro-active in the transfer market which, in reality, almost never happens.

We were in the summer, getting Torres, Babel and Lucas signed very early on.

The Heinze thing dragged on a bit, but that wasn't down to us.

I'll admit getting deals done in January is much more difficult than in the summer. But we've got to try.

[AFII]

Sorry, I can't even respond to that.

Have you heard of Bojan Krkic? He will probably in a year or two replace Eto'o.

[The Glove]

Surely he means that instead of Mascher we could get a winger and a striker. Of course there's no way we'd get each for 1.5million

Well that aint how it read to me. If thats the case then yeah it could but £20mil I dont think would get 2 top quality players in them departments.

[Rocket]

Have you heard of Bojan Krkic? He will probably in a year or two replace Eto'o.

sign him up, quick

[lfcruleus]

Have you heard of Bojan Krkic? He will probably in a year or two replace Eto'o.

Heard of him and seen him play but it will be at least 2 years if he advances before he regularly starts for Barca, so maybe then they will sell Eto'o but never now.

[desertscouser]

sign him up, quick

We can't. He has a minimum release clause of 280 million euros. We should go for Ronaldinho instead.

[AFII]

sign him up, quick

We would probably need to smash the world transfer record to do that.

[kurtangle01]

We were in the summer, getting Torres, Babel and Lucas signed very early on.

The Heinze thing dragged on a bit, but that wasn't down to us.

I'll admit getting deals done in January is much more difficult than in the summer. But we've got to try.

The summer's a decent example of how we should do things but it's never really happened in the past. I'm a bit sceptical to be honest about the whole Rafa Vs owners thing because I'm uncertain that they'll back him as much as he needs. So in that sense I'm a bit sceptical that it'll happen again, if you know what I mean.

The Mascher deal is a prime example and just one more transfer saga to add to the long list we have already. We drag our feet, fanny about, try to haggle to much, cool off a bit, make another tentative enquiry and then BANG!!! The players off down the east lancs road to sign for the mancs or whoever else has moved in for him.

It happens all to often and as much as I hate to say it the club just doesn't seem as a gressive in the transfer market as our rivals so we miss out on some quality players.

[AFII]

We can't. He has a minimum release clause of 280 million euros. We should go for Ronaldinho instead.

He is at least available.

[Red Chilli]

We can't. He has a minimum release clause of 280 million euros. We should go for Ronaldinho instead.

We must hope that he tells Barca he wants to leave and Rafa persuade him that he only wants to play for us.

[AFII]

We must hope that he tells Barca he wants to leave and Rafa persuade him that he only wants to play for us.

I would say that it's 0.000000000000000000001% chance that we will sign him, maybe 0.00000000001% if we are lucky.

[desertscouser]

We must hope that he tells Barca he wants to leave and Rafa persuade him that he only wants to play for us.

Problem is they may want to include Insua in the deal and there's no way Rafa would accept that. Deal breaker for sure.

[desertscouser]

I would say that it's 0.000000000000000000001% chance that we will sign him, maybe 0.00000000001% if we are lucky.

That's more like it AF

[Red Chilli]

I would say that it's 0.000000000000000000001% chance that we will sign him, maybe 0.00000000001% if we are lucky.

So you're saying it's a possibility?

[ronanm]

We can't. He has a minimum release clause of 280 million euros. We should go for Ronaldinho instead.

280? It'd be easier to get someone released from Guantanomo. Ridiculous money