Transfers Inbound

[FatTony]

Do we really have no money, or is Raffa and the board playing games?

4 transfers in so far this season, 1 was free the others were all undisclosed.

Diego Cavalieri [Palmeiras - Liverpool] Undisclosed
Vincent Lucas Weijl [AZ Alkmaar - Liverpool] Undisclosed
Andrea Dossena [Udinese - Liverpool] Undisclosed

Are we hiding things purposely?

[SB]

I don't think the amounts were a bid secret were they?

Goaly = 3.5 mil
Dossena = 8mil

That's if my memory is still working OK

[rage]

cavalieri is widedly reported as 3million and dossena 7 million, no idea who weiji is. if we're hiding things we're not doing a good job of it.

[Pablo]

It's the norm not to disclose the transfer fee nowadays. I still believe we are genuinely short of money and that Rafa has been told he has to work almost entirely from player sales. I think Alonso is the key in this. I dont think Rafa would have considered selling him if we werent short of cash. At a maximum I think Rafa has been given a transfer budget of £10-15m.

[FatTony]

I don't think the amounts were a bid secret were they?

Goaly = 3.5 mil
Dossena = 8mil

That's if my memory is still working OK

I'm just going by the figures on the bbc. Haven't checked the offy site yet.

[Lynchyred]

So, a quick comp check on what the financials are so far.

Our 4 signings have cost approximately how much, are we saying about £11m?
Our sales for Riise, Crouch, Guthrie, Carson are looking to bring in possibly £21m?

If this is right, we are £10m up already on nett sales at the moment. You'd think even a modest transfer budget to start with would be in the region of £20m (even £10m if we agree we're skint). So that's at least £20m if we are skint and up to £30m+ if not, to play with right now, even without the sale of Xabi.

So, we have plenty of money then!!

[Scratch]

It's the norm not to disclose the transfer fee nowadays. I still believe we are genuinely short of money and that Rafa has been told he has to work almost entirely from player sales. I think Alonso is the key in this. I dont think Rafa would have considered selling him if we werent short of cash. At a maximum I think Rafa has been given a transfer budget of £10-15m.

Why sell Alonso to replace him with another midfield player? If we were short of cash, we'd sell Alonso to fund the purchasing of a striker/attacking midfielder, not for a like-for-like swap.

It could be that Rafa realises that buying Barry and keeping Alonso is not worth it, as it would leave us with too many players vying for the same spot.

Selling Alonos is not an indication of we're short of cash, it's an indication that Rafa either doesn't rate the player highly, or he has indeed got an unworkable relationship with him.

[FatTony]

So, a quick comp check on what the financials are so far.

Our 4 signings have cost approximately how much, are we saying about £11m?
Our sales for Riise, Crouch, Guthrie, Carson are looking to bring in possibly £21m?

If this is right, we are £10m up already on nett sales at the moment. You'd think even a modest transfer budget to start with would be in the region of £20m (even £10m if we agree we're skint). So that's at least £20m if we are skint and up to £30m+ if not, to play with right now, even without the sale of Xabi.

So, we have plenty of money then!!

we've got a new stadium to pay for too

[El Jefecito]

So, a quick comp check on what the financials are so far.

Our 4 signings have cost approximately how much, are we saying about £11m?
Our sales for Riise, Crouch, Guthrie, Carson are looking to bring in possibly £21m?

If this is right, we are £10m up already on nett sales at the moment. You'd think even a modest transfer budget to start with would be in the region of £20m (even £10m if we agree we're skint). So that's at least £20m if we are skint and up to £30m+ if not, to play with right now, even without the sale of Xabi.

So, we have plenty of money then!!

Based on the business we have done (i.e. not including Carson et al), we are 8.9m up.

[Kiwi]

According to the Telegraph today even managed to get 1.1m for ALT.

[El Jefecito]

Do we really have no money, or is Raffa and the board playing games?

4 transfers in so far this season, 1 was free the others were all undisclosed.

Diego Cavalieri [Palmeiras - Liverpool] Undisclosed
Vincent Lucas Weijl [AZ Alkmaar - Liverpool] Undisclosed
Andrea Dossena [Udinese - Liverpool] Undisclosed

Are we hiding things purposely?

There have been more transfers than that:

Nikola Saric
Philip Degen
Andreas Dossena
Vincent Lucas Weijl
Christopher Buchtmann
Zsolt Poloskei
Diego Cavalieri

[friedk]

According to the Telegraph today even managed to get 1.1m for ALT.

that was according to me yesterday and I was shot down in flames

[Mike]

There have been more transfers than that:

Nikola Saric
Philip Degen
Andreas Dossena
Vincent Lucas Weijl
Christopher Buchtmann
Zsolt Poloskei
Diego Cavalieri

Only loan deals for these lads. Meant to have impressed Ablett after trials.

[RedSince1964]

There have been more transfers than that:

Nikola Saric
Philip Degen
Andreas Dossena
Vincent Lucas Weijl
Christopher Buchtmann Zsolt Poloskei
Diego Cavalieri

Never heard him mentioned, who is he, and what position does he play

Thanks

[Matt]

I'm going to be optimistic and say that we've got a bit more money than is being reported.

If we were so short of cash I couldn't see £3m of it being spent on a backup keeper.