Brendan Rodgers

[dom9]

Chessington.

In traffic on my way there. :-(

Are your kids very young? I fear another day of frustration and disappointment for you.

[Sarb]

I think the thing is that teams in a different situation to us may be willing to pay more as the risk/reward ratio is different for them. Also the idea that we could 'nip in' and that agents wouldn't alert other teams to get more money out of the deal seems to me to be a pretty unlikely scenario (I accept it is possible). In this case it appears we were first on the scene but all the interested parties just wanted more money or something else that others could offer.

Surely, everyone thinks we have to have some sort of limits on what we will play for each player?

I had a discussion about this very thing on Twitter with someone, who just refused to see the other point of view.

When City got linked with Papadopoulos last week, he was ranting saying we should have signed him, "The fact that City want him shows we fcuked up now". But City have so much money that they can speculate with £15m on an injured player. When our budget is probably £25m then we really can't can we?

Spurs are probably spending their Bale money. They can afford to add on £5m here or there to get a deal done. I'm not sure we can. Circumstances are different. Unfortunately, the years of mis-management are going to take a lot longer for us to get over

[Reece]

Chessington.

In traffic on my way there. :-(

Legoland, Chessington - you certainly seem to be enjoying the summer holidays

What date do you go back to school?

[Neil Young]

Tee has children?

[Fredo]

Tee is as old as you.

[EwarWoo]

And what about those instances where we don't "miss out"? There have been a few of those too - Coutinho, Sturridge, Mignolet, Aspas etc etc.

It was only because no-one else wanted them, we bought trash because its all the owners would sanction and got very lucky. Wake up, smell the bacon!

Or something along those lines.

[dom9]

Legoland, Chessington - you certainly seem to be enjoying the summer holidays

What date do you go back to school?

[EwarWoo]

Tee is as old as you.

Surely no-ones that old?

[dom9]

It was only because no-one else wanted them, we bought trash because its all the owners would sanction and got very lucky. Wake up, smell the bacon!

Or something along those lines.

[Sarb]

It was only because no-one else wanted them, we bought trash because its all the owners would sanction and got very lucky. Wake up, smell the bacon!

Or something along those lines.

Spurs went in for Sturridge in the December.

[fah-q]

I got pissed up at Chessington once in Beano land.

It was ace, I got told off on the dodgems though for excessive bumping.

[Norbs]

Not been there for years. Last time we went we got to the gates 30 mins before opening and paid the £40 or whatever extra for a fast pass on to the best 5 rides. We then ran to the far end of the park and stayed on Rameses Revenge for about 10 goes as it wasn't on the fast pass thing. After that we went on the lame-o rides without queues and finally spent the afternoon using the fast pass to bypass 45min queues. Totalled 45 rides each.

It was a proper Army style assault on the park but **** me we got our money's worth

[el matador]

willian isnt worth 37+5m euros.

[Muddled]

willian isnt worth 37+5m euros.

Especially when FSG are still reeling from spending 27+3+5 pounds on Carroll and 12+6+2 pounds on Downing.

[ronanm]

Especially when FSG are still reeling from spending 27+3+5 pounds on Carroll and 12+6+2 pounds on Downing.

True.

At the same time, Suarez has worked out on the field and his value has appreciated by £20m or so. Sometimes you have to spend money to make it..