calscot 0 Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Papac has been ok but would you have been happy if we'd paid much more for him than we did? We could have had him for the CL if we did... My point was that Austria Vienna tried to get as much money as they could out of us, we played hard ball, got them all much cheaper, but even then they were not exactly bargains... We played hard ball on Svensson too, using a clause in his contract. So we wasted most of our transfer budget last season, without stumping up over inflated prices. I think that's why we won't just be handing over the asking price this summer... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Ally 0 Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 both have pace and skill. :admin: Sebo has raw pace and power. Not much in the skill or tecnique department though. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Papac has been ok but would you have been happy if we'd paid much more for him than we did? We could have had him for the CL if we did... My point was that Austria Vienna tried to get as much money as they could out of us, we played hard ball, got them all much cheaper, but even then they were not exactly bargains... We played hard ball on Svensson too, using a clause in his contract. So we wasted most of our transfer budget last season, without stumping up over inflated prices. I think that's why we won't just be handing over the asking price this summer... Sorry for the semantics calscot but I disagree that we were playing hardball over Svensson. Utilising the clauses in a player's contract isn't hardball, it is good business sense. If he had a 600k get-out clause then why should we offer 1 mill ? I don't think that is hardball. We did play hardball with Papac and Sebo though, thankfully - yet they still haven't proven to be value for money - so that was, as you say, just as well we did manage to avoid higher fees on them. Papac COULD come good but the problem for him is that he won't be 1st choice CH and he wont be 1st choice LB so he becomes an expensive back up. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Ok, I'll concede on Svensson but Gothenburg DID want more money - about 2M IIRC. We didn't play the softies though... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 How much did we pay for Papac? Soccerbase says 1M, wikipedia says 450k. I'm inclined to believe the latter. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 At least Sionko was free... and still a waste of money. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 You conceding ? wow, never thought I would see the day I thought Papac was 450k in the end. Sionko, whilst a waste of money, might be punted in a swap deal with Feinduono (depending on if you believe the rumours) - Sionko may actually make us money depending on what his wages are and how much value is attacjed to him in the swap. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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