At the moment, he is a £30m player at most. He has been woeful for well over a year now, and if the club are not downplaying glandular fever or serious injuries then I'm not convinced he's worth keeping if an offer comes in. It's a shame, when Ferguson was at his best you felt he could be a...
Indeed, although I can't see how the club gets £90m for that pair without them both excelling on loan for the rest of the season, in which case we'd probably want them back. I'd be amazed if anyone pays more than £30m for Ferguson currently, and Enciso maybe £35m.
It won't actually be a crap attendance - it'll be in the 27-30k range. It's funny to think people now consider anything less than 27,000 people at a Brighton & Hove Albion football match to be a crap attendance.
Are we seriously squabbling over the use and definition of the word "carnage"? It was clearly originally used to define queues of thousands (including young kids) waiting for an inadequate number of trains that could very easily lead to a two hour wait from 11pm onwards. Sorry if you've...
I can't say I've been in a train queue after a game that has meant waiting excessively long, BUT this was referring to a cup game that kicks off at 8pm. It's a very specific problem and deserved better than a glib whinge about the use of the word "carnage". Obviously.
This is what you said:
As for the summer, I suspect we will get him to sign some sort of extension before letting him go in the summer - it would not be very good business on TBs part, to let a really good defender go on a Bosman.
As has been said before, we won't "get him to sign" anything if...
I'm sure ChaileyJem was in that Liverpool queue and definitely not tucked up warm in a sponsors lounge with a taxi called once his free beer had run out, because he seems like a proper fan's man of the people.
Yes but you said "it would not be very good business on TBs part, to let a really good defender go on a Bosman"
You didn't suggest it was anything to do with Lamptey wanting to stay.
Edit: Bozza has typed out what I can't be arsed to type myself. :thumbsup:
You clearly have no idea how football transfers work. Why on earth would Lamptey sign a new contract with a few months before it expires, when he's a free agent in the summer?
Yes, because nobody wants to go to a home cup game that is on telly whereas people DO want to spend the day travelling to the big cities. Just because the costs involved with an away day are higher than a crappy home fixture, doesn't mean the demand is lower.
The club have 27,000 home...
So where's the problem in extending that to an unattractive* home cup fixture?
* it's not actually unattractive, but is on TV with a terrible kick off time