Claim that Ramsey will sign for City 'next week'...

[WJ99mobile]

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What we haven’t had for ages is a midfielder with vision and the ability to read the game. Ramsey has this in spades. Always has. Sometimes so much so that he catches his own teammates out because they’re not where they should be to receive a pass.

Aaron Ramsey would be the best player on our books by some margin.

I love Ramsey to bits but the penultimate sentence is quite funny.

No his passing was just sh*t at times

Agree with your final statement though

[Spooky Tree]

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Everyone’s capable of a shit pass. But there are many times I’ve watched Ramsey play a ball to someone who was supposed to be making a run and they just weren’t on the same wavelength.

There’s a difference between just playing a shit pass and a teammate not being switched on to the flow of the move.

[2b2bdoo]

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You say.. "It's not as if his legs have gone", then why would he only perhaps play half the games?

Ok maybe people take from “his legs have gone” in different ways. To me it means he can’t run anymore or cover the ground like he used to rather than being injury prone. Who knows how many games he will play.

[goats]

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Would be a great signing and just what we need 👏

I agree, maybe get a tune out of colwill and Davies, Robinson actually do something constructive and I reckon we will do ok…..Ramsey influence on the young local players combing through will be huge many of whom will aspire to have a career like his.

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

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If it doesn't work I suspect it will be because we'd have a great player (still) having to work with some very average colleagues. It would be well worth the risk though.

[BLUETIT]

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He was talking to some people outside the Robin Hood, pub on Saturday evening and in answering the question about his future, he replied “watch this space”

He’d been for a meal with his wife in some posh eatery around there

[Carl Dale's Mole]

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He was talking to some people outside the Robin Hood, pub on Saturday evening and in answering the question about his future, he replied “watch this space”

He’d been for a meal with his wife in some posh eatery around there

Please Rambo don't blue ball us!

[Keyser Soze]

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Well this time is a little different. As he said, he has missed his Mrs and rug rats. Bellamy said that just before he came here, whereas Bale did not.

I would say agreeing personal terms would be the only blocker but he is so wealthy he can scratch the last two years with us for 5-10k a week I think he’s ours.

[Rjk]

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Well this time is a little different. As he said, he has missed his Mrs and rug rats. Bellamy said that just before he came here, whereas Bale did not.

I would say agreeing personal terms would be the only blocker but he is so wealthy he can scratch the last two years with us for 5-10k a week I think he’s ours.

surely we would be offering a lot more than 5k per week

[Keyser Soze]

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His market value for wages would be higher for sure. But if he sees himself as wealthy enough, was doing a homecoming, he could cut a deal.

I think if it were me as Ramsey, and my motivation was being near kids and playing for my club, I would say “Make me your top earner, and give me £1-2m bonus if we are promoted, and leave it at that.”

Deals can be done and there are ways of cutting them. That is how I would cut mine if I were him. No risk to the club (heart), but an upside to represent my worth if my impact is that much of a gamechanger.

[Fatty Thornton]

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His market value for wages would be higher for sure. But if he sees himself as wealthy enough, was doing a homecoming, he could cut a deal.

I think if it were me as Ramsey, and my motivation was being near kids and playing for my club, I would say “Make me your top earner, and give me £1-2m bonus if we are promoted, and leave it at that.”

Deals can be done and there are ways of cutting them. That is how I would cut mine if I were him. No risk to the club (heart), but an upside to represent my worth if my impact is that much of a gamechanger.

A large slice of merchandise/shirt sales is normally a lever in these situations. My head says he's teasing us, but my heart would like to see him back - to be fair we got most of the way down the track with Bale last year before LA came in, so perhaps it's not that much of a stretch.

[blue_emu]

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To have Ramsey for 20 to 30 games this season would be superb for a club with our current squad. Im still not convinced it’s going to happen mind.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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I hope we are going to be paying a peppercorn wage for Ramsey if he does sign

Surely these top flight players have more money than they can possibly ever need ?

If I was as financially well off as they are these days I would play for the fun of it , money would be irrelevant

[the other bob wilson]

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Aaron Ramsey has been my favourite footballer for more than a decade so, with one small concern, I’d love to see him playing for us again. That concern is that the player I’ve seen in the Wales team in our last four qualifiers is not one who looked like he could be a regular in a Ligue 1 team during the second half of last season (I also recall him struggling to get a game for Rangers in 21/22 I think it was) and yet he was doing that.

Ligue 1 is level down from the Premier League, but someone who plays every week in that division should be more than good enough to hold down a place in a Championship side, but then you look at some of Ramsey’s recent Wales displays and wonder if that is really the case?