Greenridge Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 How much of the £10m will i have to pay personally? Yep nothing. . Seems like it's £12m if being reported correctly on SSN. You don't pay to go and watch Saints? Fair play.
Beckenham Saint Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Can't work out what I find more ridiculous, the reported price tag or the avatar's of the posters on this Hull forum! http://www.hullcityindependent.net/?page=forum&forum_id=8&thread_id=19315
Sour Mash Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Crikey! Wonder how much we bid for Ings? I'd be happy enough with Long as an addition to the squad, but not for £12m for f**s sake!
Donatello Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Really don't see why we don't get Ings We pursued Ings. It hasn't come off (yet). Pretty simple.
hypochondriac Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 JimWhite: Just heard that striker Shane Long is on the move again. £12m fee agreed to take him from Hull City to Southampton. #saintsfc #hcafc Christ. If that is true then I give up. In many ways that is worse than not spending anything!
Turkish Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 To coin a phrase from a much loved ex manager Pelle and long will score more goals than Rickie lambert this season.
Saints foreva Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 JimWhite: Just heard that striker Shane Long is on the move again. £12m fee agreed to take him from Hull City to Southampton. #saintsfc #hcafc Surely there is much better on the market for that price?
hypochondriac Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 If we are prepared to spend 12 million on a striker, you would hope we would go for someone a hell of a lot better. What a waste.
modern matron Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 So who's the exciting signing we should go for? The player who will score 20 goals, but is not good enough for a top side and wants to move to the mighty mid table Southampton? Look Long is a very dull signing in my view and I am underwhelmed - that's my view and I'm entitled to it. The bloke has never done anything apart from one season with Reading so he's got a lot to prove to me. Hopefully I'll be wrong........
SuperSAINT Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Surely there is much better on the market for that price? TBF, Guan did say the other day that our 'massive' targets weren't making positive noises but our other, 'lesser known' targets look good.
Goatboy Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 To coin a phrase from a much loved ex manager Pelle and long will score more goals than Rickie lambert this season. They'll need to. They cost 20 times as much.
Ivan Katalinic's 'tache Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Jim White says 12 (TWELVE) million pound fee agreed. I'm hoping this will turn out to be £12 mill I'm the same Rickie was costing Liverpool £8 mill... Still think Long could be OK for us but £12 mill is too much.
Trout-Tickler Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 At £12M he's an expensive Paul Dickov! Can't believe this is a Koeman signing, be surprised if he'd even heard of him.
Patrick Bateman Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 We pursued Ings. It hasn't come off (yet). Pretty simple. I think someone else said this, but it could be a stalking horse to get Burnley to part with Ings and accept our offer, or risk losing Ings for nothing at the end of the season?
hypochondriac Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 At £12M he's an expensive Paul Dickov! Can't believe this is a Koeman signing, be surprised if he'd even heard of him. It's the worldwide scouting network proving their worth!
stevy777_x Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 My god. Spending 12m on Long when you have Remy available for 9m. What is wrong with the transfer committe. Long is worth 7m top no more. I prefer someone foreign who would be available for less. If we pay 12m for a striker might as well take la crème de la crème of most leagues in Europe. Hope this is just a rumor and no more, agent talk please Saints don t let this be true.
corky morris Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 £12 million!!! I like him as a player, but he is never worth even half that. If we oay that I fear he is on a hiding to nothing as our expectations will be so high.
Ex Lion Tamer Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 I think someone else said this, but it could be a stalking horse to get Burnley to part with Ings and accept our offer, or risk losing Ings for nothing at the end of the season? Could be, although it demonstrates that we could pay more if we wanted to
Saint Charlie Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 (edited) We wouldnt be spending that much for him to sit on the bench either. I many ways Pelle was the one that was overpriced. Older than Long and no guarentee he will adapt. Long is a good solid Prem striker with attributes we lack. We have cash and no doubting he will add to the squad. Edited 12 August, 2014 by Saint Charlie
Saint_Tony Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Look Long is a very dull signing in my view and I am underwhelmed - that's my view and I'm entitled to it. The bloke has never done anything apart from one season with Reading so he's got a lot to prove to me. Hopefully I'll be wrong........ Of course you are. It isn't the most inspiring signing ever I'll agree, certainly not for the price,but that's the level we're at. I would have preferred Ings but Burnley must be asking for a lot for him. We've sold players for inflated fees this summer, but unfortunately it works both ways. We've only bought 2 players for more, Ramirez and Osvaldo. I remember the excitement when they both signed, and both turned out to be very poor buys. At least the disappointment won't be so great if Long turns out to be another disaster buy!
Batman Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 We wouldnt be spending that much for him to sit on the bench either. True Our 2nd most expensive striker in our history
CB Saint Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Hopefully it is up to £12m with at least £5m on three consecutive 20 goal seasons and £3m for his 10th cap
Lallana's Left Peg Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 I think someone else said this, but it could be a stalking horse to get Burnley to part with Ings and accept our offer, or risk losing Ings for nothing at the end of the season? If there is one thing that pressures a club into selling their player and taking your offer its when you bid more for another player on another team #LesReedFootballGenius.
St Chalet Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Seems like it's £12m if being reported correctly on SSN. You don't pay to go and watch Saints? Fair play. I do, but ultimately whether it is £8,10 or 15m doesn't won't impact me personally
Matthew Le God Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 My god. Spending 12m on Long when you have Remy available for 9m. No he isn't.
modern matron Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 I would suggest Koeman is involved of course but it just makes no sense to me. Rather worryingly is the way we've been pumping long balls forward at times pre-season - anyone who was at the WBA and Hull away games would have seen how Long performs in this conditions. For every five long balls pumped forward he'll jump into the defender once giving a free kick away, not bother with two, and for the two that go over the defenders head he'll chase full pelt even though the ball is clearly going behind for a goal kick. I just do not understand what we are trying to do with the balance in the squad. This isn't a striker who fits into a possession based strategy. Well put, SL runs around like a headless chicken most of the time, so if this is the way we're going jeez......
Killers Knee Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 wow! considering it was his family not liking the grim north as the driver behind the move (ie he was going south no matter what) how do we end up paying so much? there are far better players available for £12m.
pap Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Long was highly thought of at WBA. Form dipped when tensions arose over contract situation. Might not have been settled up north either. Possibly a good player that needs a fresh start.
saint lard Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 See..I would take a strike force of Pelle,Ings and Long. But just taking Long For £12m and no other is mental,pure madness.
Stud mark of doom Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Hopefully it is up to £12m with at least £5m on three consecutive 20 goal seasons and £3m for his 10th cap He already has 11 caps.
St Chalet Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 £12m? apply Sky Sports Factor (Lambert Deal) and you are looking closer to £6m.
Saint Charlie Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Some of the Ings stuff on here is OTT. Its like his fan club FFS.
Donatello Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 I think someone else said this, but it could be a stalking horse to get Burnley to part with Ings and accept our offer, or risk losing Ings for nothing at the end of the season? Yeah, potentially I think Burnley would rather lose him on a free personally (well, take the risk and attempt to convince him to resign through the course of the season) They'd only have to spend what they receive in transfer fees to replace him, and why take the risk? Obscene PL money is at stake.
Baird of the land Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Paying over the odds for the likes of Ings I could understand. Massively overpaying for dross like this is nuts.
Mr Saints Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 I really doubt it would be 12 mil, certainly not all up front anyway.
Cheeky Monkey Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Can we not get Joel Campbell for that price ????
S-Clarke Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Surely, Surely....we can get a much higher quality striker from Europe for £12m? Surely? What the hell do our scouts do if Shane Long @ 12m is the best they can do.
hypochondriac Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Some of the Ings stuff on here is OTT. Its like his fan club FFS. Much more like the intelligent signings we have been used to. Young, likely to improve, English, can probably sell for a huge profit in a season or two. Long is an uninspired signing and his value is only going to go one way. It's a waste in comparison to Ings and is a poor signing for 12 million IMO.
saint_ed Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Oh dear. They really are putting us through it this pre season aren't they. Long would be a good squad player, no more no less. He definitely is not worth 12million by any stretch of the imagination!!! There must be FAR better options for that money! It smacks of a panic buy at that price to be honest.
S-Clarke Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Oh dear. They really are putting us through it this pre season aren't they. Long would be a good squad player, no more no less. He definitely is not worth 12million by any stretch of the imagination!!! There must be FAR better options for that money! It smacks of a panic buy at that price to be honest. It looks as if we've flustered around all summer and are now in the desperation market.
Dig Dig Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 McCormack for 11M, Deeney touted for around 10M. He can't realistically expect to pay less for Long. Prob would have been better off looking abroad but our supposedly amazing scouting network seems to be all over the shop this window.
St.Patrik Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 I think Long should be given the #7 Jersey and a place on the forum banner - fact ......
Hopkins Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Don't believe the £12 million Jim White crap and just have a little think about Long and Jay Rod buzzing around the unit that is Pelle. It could work out alright.
farawaysaint Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Right, judge the board time again... I know strikers are overpriced and scarce but 12mill for Shane Long?
Patrick Bateman Posted 12 August, 2014 Posted 12 August, 2014 Don't believe the £12 million Jim White crap and just have a little think about Long and Jay Rod buzzing around the unit that is Pelle. It could work out alright. Big man, little man ... have we gone back in time?
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