Quote Originally Posted by Croesy Blue View Post
Signing a midfielder wanted by top clubs being a desperation signing is one of the best posts on here for a while, he's class and they've had a bargain even at that price. The whole "spending no money" being the popular thing on here these days is weird really. Players retain their value if you sign right, even last time we got rid of medel and caulker for a similar price ffs.
There you go, playing the man not the topic again. The point was that Fulham still only have a squad of 20 players, 21 if the Nice player signs as well. You cant survive in the Premier League with that. The transfer window has already been open for 7 weeks, there is only another 4 weeks to go and this is their first signing. They will need at least another 4 or 5 players just to get up to the full squad allowed. How much will they spend on that lot - £80m, £100m ?. Thats the route to bankruptcy, especially if they get relegated. When you talk about Caulker and Medel, you totally forget that we paid them large signing on fees and massive wages as well, so even if we did recoup most of their fees, we lost shed loads of money on them. We also lost £4.5m on Cornelius just on his transfer fee. If you think that we 'signed right' last time we went up, you are living in cloud cuckoo land.