Daniel Agger

[Mostar]

I dont think its the selling him thats the real issue, its the fact we will end up with a **** sub-par replacement. We are trying to improve so selling your best players is not the way to do that...

If we get £25m and bring in a top top centre half then thats fine. But if we get that money and buy a swansea centre half.... thats going backwards. There is a reason City and Barca want him.... hes ****ing brilliant.

We could but lets talk about this as a scenario

Sell Agger for £22-30 million

Use those funds to buy Joe Allen for £15 million and use the balance (whatever that might be) to purchase a centrehalf

Would you be happy with that?

Terrible way to go about and do your business.

Sell to buy is what brought us into this position in the first place.

Allen and ****ing Ashley Williams for Agger is a joke.

Is there any other Swansea player left for us to sign..

[baitman]

Allen and ****ing Ashley Williams for Agger is a joke.

Is there any other Swansea player left for us to sign..

so much for our scouting network, eh.

[Vermilion]

the end fact is this - who are any of us to say what rodgers plans are? who are we to say whether agger fits into his plans or not? i keep reading that this is a "massive gamble" with rumours of agger being sold but is it really? keep as we are and another year of mid table obscurity is likely to be upon us and as dww pointed out what then? by that time agger's value could have halved. it could be argued keeping as is is the bigger gamble in the hope we suddenly click. we need change and if agger is to part of that change then so be it.

in an ideal world agger will stay and we will build from there but at present we are all speculating on nothing but media drivel. rodgers has my complete backing and however he wants to go about his business is fine by me.....................apart from his allen chase

But trying to ensure we don't become mid table and obscure is surely easier with better players, and Agger is one of our better players.

[Mostar]

so much for our scouting network, eh.

Do we have one?

[Vermilion]

Do we have one?

At first i laughed, then i remembered we'd agreed to sign two top scouts from City, and that's fallen through, so i wonder what our scouting team looks like now, and were the two supposed to be coming from City to be extra on top of what we have ?

[BootRoom]

so much for our scouting network, eh.

It's a new team, give them time.

[Buzzo]

He's over-rated.

Genuinely he is. Very good player, but no less prone to defensive mistakes than Skrtel. He ain't worth £30m of anyone's money

You are over rated

[elrichio86]

at present we are all speculating on nothing but media drivel

The only part of the last few pages that is relevant.

Chill out people.

[Kenneth]

Do we need scouts? Most people here seem to think we shouldn't sell anybody that anyone might want to buy and that we should buy only players who might possibly be available from real or barca to swell our squad to enormous proportions. I don't think that requires professional scouts really.

[Buzzo]

Do we need scouts? Most people here seem to think we shouldn't sell anybody that anyone might want to buy and that we should buy only players who might possibly be available from real or barca to swell our squad to enormous proportions. I don't think that requires professional scouts really.

You are fast becoming the Mark Lawrenson of this forum.

Surely keeping our best players and only signing players that will improve the team is a good idea? Also there is more to scouting than just popping on the latest champ manager and checking out the stats. People are posting specifically about Agger in this thread, not about transfer policy and there are certainly other first teamers I would sell ahead of him.

[Pablo]

Agger training at Melwood today and looking happy enough:

[Lee]

Good to see.

[Vermilion]

Agger training at Melwood today and looking happy enough:

Looks like he's grimacing holding his knee to me.

[Rich]

I think there are a few things that have and are hinderring us this window

Firstly the pay offs to Kenny, Comolli & staff and the pay offs required to get Rodgers & staff. I dont think anyone should underestimate the enormous sums of money involved in doing this

Secondly we have also had to pay off Aquilani which is again another sizeable amount and we probably also had to do the same with Maxi

So we are scratching around and hes looking at ways of raising money to get in some players he requires

Its pretty clear he wanted the money from Carroll but I genuinely think that has been so badly mismanaged that if we do sell the amount coming in still wont be enough to even land someone like Joe Allen

So we are scratching around and looking at selling Agger to raise the cash to purchase the players he wants

Its a massive gamble and its one we shouldnt be taking

I think people are forgetting the amount of money we've spent in changing managers over the past 3 seasons.

Rafa: £6m pay off
Hodgson: £5m pay off
Dalglish: £5m pay off

Hodgson Fulham comp: £2m
Rodgers Swansea comp: £7m

There's about £25m right there and that's not including the other staff members involved.

[Nick77]

Apparently Agger's been offered a new contract so if he does go it will be his choice & not the club's...