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Dimitar Berbatov
Oh for gods sake, we should rename this war n peace it's went so long. I stopped reading about 60 posts ago
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Berahino in January for £25m?
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Baleforce
Ron Henry
if we don't get to 100 pages how can we sign him in January?
Spurs7891
Jermaine Jenas
Frankly, can't see us signing Berahino in January. I don't remember us ever going back to players we failed to sign in the past. If we do go and sign him for the reported fee, it will only show the apparent weakness in our current transfer policy : our transfers targets are very limited and we don't have alternate plans when we failed to get them !
Gazza
Nick Barmby
Really? this is not a mafia type situation ... it shows more weakness if you can't swallow your pride for something that we may need come January. Not saying we will or won't but that rational is borderline.
Yiddo
Cecil Poynton
This forum does not know how to let things go.
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indianspur
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I think we we just go with what we have now for the rest of the season and then next summer try and sign Jay Rodriguez .....just a prediction
superfaisty
Nico Claesen
We don't need him, not for that fee.
I'd rather our brains trust found us a strong forward a la drogba lukaku bent eke- we've been crying out for one for years surely he's out there somewhere?
I'd rather our brains trust found us a strong forward a la drogba lukaku bent eke- we've been crying out for one for years surely he's out there somewhere?
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indianspur
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superfaisty
Nico Claesen
Can we find another one please then 
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Gazzasrightboot
Pascal Chimbonda
It will only be negligence if it is proved that we needed the backup, and our form is worse than the previous year as a result. I think it is too early to tell now. Rather than assessing the performance by way of Kane's individual performance, we need to be looking at the contribution from our attacking players. If we win as many then "the plan" worked.
Stadium or no stadium comment has been done to death. WBA are not spending £400m-£500m on a stadium hence the disparity. Nothing very wrong about that.
As for whether we will go in for Berahino or not, I think a lot depends on the situation at the time of the window opening. If Berahino is brick between now and then, would we even want him. He could easily have been the one season wonder that some on here are fearing is the case with Kane.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
What about Vardy for £12m? He could be decent Kane back-up
Who is fearing Kane is one season wonder? The pundits or some of our worst type of fans? Kane is quality and if he played to the standard he has set in the first 5 games all year then we will have a real threat in our hands who will score a good amount too. Will he score 30 again - maybe not but not many players do!
Similarly Berahino is a player who is sharp, skilful, quick and can score goals - he will do well to fade considering the pedigree he currently has.
The idea of negligence remains. If you build a house without a door and you aren't burgled for the first year you can't turn around and say 'well I told you we didn't need to waste money on a door' because eventually you will be burgled! Stupid analogy I know but say Kane fires 40 goals this year it still can't hide the fact that to only have him as a recognised striker in the squad is extremely poor.
Berhaino would have been a good option and even someone like Vardy wouldn't be the worst ever buy for 12m, just so we have some more options as and when its needed. Even based on last year we needed Soldado and Ade to start and come on in various games and despite how bad they were sometimes having a recognised body is better than no one at all.
I agree let's not get back onto the argument about Levy's spending but my point is to illustrate that small clubs with v little backing can now afford to outlay that much due to the massive TV deals and those that are in the pipeline. Making money on transfers each year since 09 doesn't quite add up when if you look at Arsenal, their period of thrift came after the stadium has been built and they actually had taken out a loan! I predict that the real period of hardship will be 2018-2028 rather than now. Also with the new TV deal, the importance of the extra 25 ,000 seats could well be minimised. For me a 25m purchase of Berahino would have done little to affect our ability to pay back loans, esp when he is an asset that will probably not decrease in value and we have other assets we could sell in addition to this. My gut feeling is that the stadium is a tool to simply sell the club for as much profit as possible, rather than any vision of making us competitive.
And you think they'd sell for less than £25m. I know it sounds laughable but @Jordinho is right. As long as a team want to keep a player in the PL it will take £30m bids toeven be taken seriously. And all a player has to do is perform for half a season.
Let's be honest we'd want well in excess of £50m for Kane at least if you had to give a figure
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Vardy is 28 cf to 21 YO Berahino
Is he? Ok fair enough. I just don't like the guy
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
I'd never really noticed him till I saw him on MOTD last night. I just thought he had a Kane-like drive to him.
Mind you - Naysmith looked a world beater too.
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indianspur
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Pirate55
The Last Man Standing 17/18
I agree with this. He will go for £25m or thereabouts in January, but sadly not to us.We need a plan B ready now.
