Friday, July 27, 2007
Quinn: It's all West Ham's fault
"There's six or seven new owners who are spending money, but are they getting the type of player that the top four want? I don't think so. If I was going to spend a fortune on breaking the bank, I would be going after the players Liverpool or Manchester United wanted to sign. But, in the middle, people are fighting each other and raising the prices for the same players. You can see it with West Ham and Portsmouth. The agents are having an absolute 'beano'. It's like a property market, where estate agents own half the property or, in West Ham's case, it looks like all the property. What horrifies me is people who have made money out of property or biscuit tins telling a class act who's managing their club who they should be signing. That's for the birds, but it happens in a lot of cases. I see players signing and chairmen standing there with the jersey and their arms around the player and I say 'Oh my God, what are they doing?' It's their call, they may be like that and may be in it for that, but it's not right. If I start telling Roy Keane who to sign, I'm going against my own doctrine. Football is football, administration is administration. I'm 100% behind Roy on this. People are being pressurised into signing players from videos and giving agents lots of money. We won't do that. We have to keep our heads when this is going on."
Right OK - so Eggy's choosing our players is he? What evidence does he have?
By the way:
Sunderland
Ins: Dickson Etuhu (Norwich, £1.5m), Kieran Richardson (Manchester United, undisclosed), Greg Halford (Reading, £2.5m), Russell Anderson (Aberdeen, £1m), Michael Chopra (Cardiff City, £5m), Paul McShane (West Brom, £2.5m).
Outs: Kenny Cunningham (released), Tommy Miller (Ipswich, released).
Total £12.5m out not including Richardson spending.
West Ham United
Ins: Scott Parker (Newcastle, £7m), Julien Faubert (Bordeaux, £6.1m), Richard Wright (Everton, free), Craig Bellamy (Liverpool, £7.5m), Freddie Ljungberg (West Ham, £3m).
Outs: Paul Konchesky (Fulham, £3.25m), Nigel Reo-Coker (Aston Villa, £8.5m), Tyrone Mears (Derby, £1m), Yossi Benayoun (Liverpool, undisclosed), Marlon Harewood (Aston Villa, undisclosed).
Total £10.85m out, not including Benayoun and Harewood fees (income) at probably about £6m total, so my guess is we've spent just under £5m.
OK so you need to spend more coming up from the Championship, but I think Quinn's being a bit of a dick if he thinks we're pushing the spending up.
Right OK - so Eggy's choosing our players is he? What evidence does he have?
By the way:
Sunderland
Ins: Dickson Etuhu (Norwich, £1.5m), Kieran Richardson (Manchester United, undisclosed), Greg Halford (Reading, £2.5m), Russell Anderson (Aberdeen, £1m), Michael Chopra (Cardiff City, £5m), Paul McShane (West Brom, £2.5m).
Outs: Kenny Cunningham (released), Tommy Miller (Ipswich, released).
Total £12.5m out not including Richardson spending.
West Ham United
Ins: Scott Parker (Newcastle, £7m), Julien Faubert (Bordeaux, £6.1m), Richard Wright (Everton, free), Craig Bellamy (Liverpool, £7.5m), Freddie Ljungberg (West Ham, £3m).
Outs: Paul Konchesky (Fulham, £3.25m), Nigel Reo-Coker (Aston Villa, £8.5m), Tyrone Mears (Derby, £1m), Yossi Benayoun (Liverpool, undisclosed), Marlon Harewood (Aston Villa, undisclosed).
Total £10.85m out, not including Benayoun and Harewood fees (income) at probably about £6m total, so my guess is we've spent just under £5m.
OK so you need to spend more coming up from the Championship, but I think Quinn's being a bit of a dick if he thinks we're pushing the spending up.
Posted by whubris at 7:05 pm
Stu. said...
Let's see what happens come 21st October.
If Quinn's lucky Eggy might give him a cup of tea and some Bourbon creams.
said...
Quinn is a dick.... he moans about us and Pompey and as 'Arry said.. they both bid the same for Nugent and didn't they just bid 9M for a Keeper... they are pricks... I think that they thought they would spend money and have the edge but everyone else is spending money (that they thought they could catch) and thus left them behind still... He should butt out, anyone who thinks that Freddie at 3M is shit business knows nothing about football...
beggers said...
He isn't too clever is he!
Players have been expensive well before we got involed in the market it's been this way for ages. And as for the chairman telling the manager who to buy, ...errr I don't think so.
I've read elsewhere that we're being blamed for the inflated price of players. Yeah it's all our fault, players were really cheap before this off season!!!! People are really stupid sometimes and seem to believe anything they read in the papers or hear off the street. Wakie, wakie dickheads!
norven munky said...
Quinn apologises
"Quinn has today suggested that his comments were misconstrued and apologised to any party that had been offended.
“I want to say fair play to West Ham and Portsmouth,” Quinn told Sky Sports.
“They're having a go and it's very tough. We're having the same kind of a go and we're trying very hard.
“It was in response to a question about why is it so dear. We're all trying to get into that top four - that's what everybody's dream is. Fair play to Portsmouth, fair play to West Ham.
“The real people who are loving this are the agents and that's the point I was trying to make.
“If I offended people in Portsmouth and West Ham I apologise, that was not my intention at all.
“But it had to be pointed out that, while it's going on, this real quest and hunger to drive clubs up, with the prices going as high as they are, it's the agent and player, ultimately, who is benefiting.
“That's the point I was trying to make. I apologise to Harry, who I think got a bit upset. I will meet him some time and buy him a drink!”
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Stu. said...Let's see what happens come 21st October.
If Quinn's lucky Eggy might give him a cup of tea and some Bourbon creams.
said...Quinn is a dick.... he moans about us and Pompey and as 'Arry said.. they both bid the same for Nugent and didn't they just bid 9M for a Keeper... they are pricks... I think that they thought they would spend money and have the edge but everyone else is spending money (that they thought they could catch) and thus left them behind still... He should butt out, anyone who thinks that Freddie at 3M is shit business knows nothing about football...
beggers said...He isn't too clever is he!
Players have been expensive well before we got involed in the market it's been this way for ages. And as for the chairman telling the manager who to buy, ...errr I don't think so.
I've read elsewhere that we're being blamed for the inflated price of players. Yeah it's all our fault, players were really cheap before this off season!!!! People are really stupid sometimes and seem to believe anything they read in the papers or hear off the street. Wakie, wakie dickheads!
norven munky said...Quinn apologises
"Quinn has today suggested that his comments were misconstrued and apologised to any party that had been offended.
“I want to say fair play to West Ham and Portsmouth,” Quinn told Sky Sports.
“They're having a go and it's very tough. We're having the same kind of a go and we're trying very hard.
“It was in response to a question about why is it so dear. We're all trying to get into that top four - that's what everybody's dream is. Fair play to Portsmouth, fair play to West Ham.
“The real people who are loving this are the agents and that's the point I was trying to make.
“If I offended people in Portsmouth and West Ham I apologise, that was not my intention at all.
“But it had to be pointed out that, while it's going on, this real quest and hunger to drive clubs up, with the prices going as high as they are, it's the agent and player, ultimately, who is benefiting.
“That's the point I was trying to make. I apologise to Harry, who I think got a bit upset. I will meet him some time and buy him a drink!”
