Dr The Singh Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 58 minutes ago, AKCJ said: I would argue that £5m on someone like the top scorer in the Latvian Premier League is a luxury yet it's the sort of signing that sets FoxesTalk's pulses racing. £5m for guaranteed results in the Premier League sounds like a necessity to me. We know exactly what we'll get from a player like Ayew. Im glad your not financial advisor. But love the optimism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GingerrrFox Posted 22 August Popular Post Share Posted 22 August Jack Clarke off to Ipswich for £15 million to run salt in the wounds. Envious that Ipswich have made some quality signings since promotion. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lambert09 Posted 22 August Popular Post Share Posted 22 August 3 minutes ago, GingerrrFox said: Jack Clarke off to Ipswich for £15 million to run salt in the wounds. Envious that Ipswich have made some quality signings since promotion. tbf i think jack clarke is miles off of mavi and fatawu 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphy Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 56 minutes ago, MGLCFC said: There seems to be many posters a) Writing Ayew off before he's even kicked a ball b) Unaware that the initial fee is £5m, not £8m c) Unaware of his likely role in the team I'm not saying he'll be amazing, but at least make an opinion when you've watched him a dozen or so times in a Leicester shirt. I think it's precisely because we have seen him kick a ball that many of us are so horrified that a big chunk of our budget has been spent on this 32 year old journeyman, in the last year of his contract. Palace must be laughing! We know exactly what Jordan Ayew does and doesn't bring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACF Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 1 hour ago, coolhandfox said: Based on even with our incoming this season our amortisation for transfer fees is no more than what it roughly was at the start of the championship. We have decent enough head room, in that regard. If we’re thinking relegation is a possibility, they could be planning for the reduced amount allowed in the Championship. Hence the deals mentioned always being related to our survival. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 6 hours ago, Finnegan said: We've heard "hopeful" before. Nobody else is signing, it's just the party line Percy has been asked to tag on to placate us. This is it. This is our summer right here. You're talking about Wales, aren't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AjcW Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August Another day on foxestalk means another day of considering a name change so as not to be inadvertently associated with the warped musings of @AKCJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn Claw II Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August He’s played in over 30 games the last 5 PL seasons. That’s for various Palace managers - he’s clearly seen as useful and seems to not get injured. High fee but he’ll do a job 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Finnegan Posted 22 August Popular Post Share Posted 22 August 3 minutes ago, Finn Claw II said: He’s played in over 30 games the last 5 PL seasons. That’s for various Palace managers - he’s clearly seen as useful and seems to not get injured. High fee but he’ll do a job Palace were not far off relegation fodder in most of those seasons, carried by one or two star players that absolutely weren't Ayew. And that's before he was like 56 or whatever he is. Man is shit. This is appalling business. The best he's going to contribute is running around a lot and putting a shift in defensively. If that's the sum total of what we expect from a winger we could have just saved millions of pounds and extended the contract of our own resident octogenarian Sharky by another year. This is absolutely rancid. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartfox Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 23 minutes ago, GingerrrFox said: Jack Clarke off to Ipswich for £15 million to run salt in the wounds. Envious that Ipswich have made some quality signings since promotion. You cannot compare us with a well run forward thinking football club. Until Rudkin goes, nothing will change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Finnegan Posted 22 August Popular Post Share Posted 22 August (edited) This is hands down the single transfer that has enraged me the most in the last decade. I wasnt this angry when we signed Bertrand or Vestergaard because above all else it just shows we've learned abso ****ing lutely nothing. It's a transfer that takes all the hope away that we've turned a corner. Cooper is a worse manager than Dean Smith, Ayew is worse signing than anyone Congerton brought in and this time when we get relegated the EFL are going to be ready and waiting to kick the shit out of us and we won't have a squad of genuine talent to bounce us back up. Our Sunderland years are literally starting. Edited 22 August by Finnegan 13 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KFS Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 7 minutes ago, enmac said: Haha Jon sending his mate out to calm down the baying mob with that final sentence there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soar Fox Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August It’s the “good apperance record” that does me 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchandro Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 7 hours ago, coolhandfox said: The melt down is hilarious. NP revered by all on here, know that experience combined with youth was key to success, he brought in plenty of experienced. NP was also bringing in young, quality players as a priority. With Vardy, Vestergaard, Ricardo, Ndidi, Reid, etc. we’re not short on experience. We’re short on quality. So again, we ask, what is the point of this signing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jattdogg Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August For what it's worth, I hope he does us proud as it can only benefit our club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafewayFox Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August Are we sleepwalking into more PSR issues or is that just me thinking that? Also, on a side note - why do some posters on here (the ones who seem to rate this odd transfer) seem to end up resorting to bizarre insults? A genuine observation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OadbyBlue Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 19 minutes ago, enmac said: 2 more is promising. Believe it when I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STUHILL Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 3 minutes ago, SafewayFox said: Also, on a side note - why do some posters on here (the ones who seem to rate this odd transfer) seem to end up resorting to bizarre insults? Ayew is the best you turnip! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSoxUK Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 2 hours ago, AKCJ said: I would argue that £5m on someone like the top scorer in the Latvian Premier League is a luxury yet it's the sort of signing that sets FoxesTalk's pulses racing. £5m for guaranteed results in the Premier League sounds like a necessity to me. We know exactly what we'll get from a player like Ayew. If we spend ****ing £5m on Janis Janis we're totally ****ed. Top scorer for Barwell would be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm1 Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August Breretin Diaz scored 6 in 14 games for a woeful Sheff Utd team last season, 25 yrs old and went for 7m. We get 33yr old Ayew who's scored 4 in 35 games for 8M. Makes no sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchandro Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 5 hours ago, Micky said: Palace fans know nothing.... Ayew is the perfect player to see a game over the line. A right pain in the arse. I will miss his dogged dedication, and so I fear will the team. Ayew is an experienced head and he is one of the most fouled players in the division for a reason, he is a pest. He is like the glue that holds the squad quality up Whoever comes in also has to be an upgrade on Ayew for it to make sense as from a reliability point of view he has rarely been injured and consistently produced solid 7/10 performances. Reasonably big shoes to fill methinks. So he gets fouled. Is he the only player on planet earth we can find who runs around and gets fouled? Sure there’s no young players with those qualities? The argument isn’t whether he’s liked at Palace, or even if he’s better than we think. It’s whether he offers something significant that we don’t already have in the squad. Otherwise, he’s a pointless waste of money, even if he’s an ok player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolhandfox Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August (edited) 28 minutes ago, Kitchandro said: NP was also bringing in young, quality players as a priority. With Vardy, Vestergaard, Ricardo, Ndidi, Reid, etc. we’re not short on experience. We’re short on quality. So again, we ask, what is the point of this signing? It's a cheap experienced squad option, at the moment we have Mavididi, Fatawu, McAteer, BCDR, Buonanotte and Alves to cover 3 attacking midfield positions if we play 4-2-3-1. 6 players to cover 3 positions, 4 of who are 19, 19, 20 and 22 and very inexperienced, so we have a lot of youth already. Out of those 6 players, 2 have PL experience BCDR and Buonanotte 4 have played 3 PL games between them. I suspect we will bring in Ayew and another attacking player who can play central and on the wing who probably another young player. Then we have two senior pros who to support a group of player with limited PL experience, which give us 8 players to cover for injuries, suspension, rotation, loss of form. Last year we ran Mavididi and Fatawu into the ground and suffered for it. It's really not rocket science. Edited 22 August by coolhandfox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post orangecity23 Posted 22 August Popular Post Share Posted 22 August You can feel it coming, can't you? 33 million on Skipp and Ayew committed, "hopeful of getting 2" more attacking players. Next week it becomes "hopeful of 2 more, might need some departures". Deadline day "Hoping for a loan, as soon as a couple go out on loan". Then run out of time, whoops, never mind, at least we've got Ayew in. that'll sort us out until January, surely we'll sell Soumare then, the last 4 times we tried didn't work but we've got a good feeling this time. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrispinLA in Texas Posted 22 August Share Posted 22 August 1 hour ago, murphy said: Palace must be laughing! They are just looked online and their forums, they reckon he'd go on a free as his best days our behind him and can't believe they are actually getting 8m for him...a player they signed for 2.5m several years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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