Baby Give It Up
Midfield
If we sold Defoe we may as well give up as fans for this season. Don't think we will sell him though.
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The problem would also be finding a replacement for Defoe who would be willing to sign.
What would that buy you in terms of an effective striker?Yes and if anyone wants Defoe it's £25M. Age is irrelevant. Not the I'd sell.
I wouldn't sell Defoe on his own.....that would be absolutely pointless but in conjunction with Kone it could make sense. Defoe will be worth less every window where Pickford could conceivably be worth more every window. We couldn't give Khazri away currently.....he's f***ing useless this season.
Astronomical?........£18m for Kone and £6m for Defoe.....perfectly reasonable numbers those.
As I keep pointing out though we are hamstrung wages wise by FFP and the only way around this is to remove some and/or generate player profit. As regards Defoe it just depends on whether you believe it's possible to improve the team OVERALL if he and/or others are moved on.
If we do nothing we will go down imo....
Fuck offWhat like saving us from what looked like relegation and leaving a stronger squad than what he was left?.
What a horrid man
Its going to be interesting to see whether any of his usual cronies have distanced themselves from him. There could be one or two who want to avoid any scrutiny.
I amseething
The gullible American investors at Palace are like a dream come true to him.He'll be inundated with dodgy characters he knows waiting to grease the wheels of a shady deal.
Bloke's a shady con-man
Iirc he dropped Defoe when he first got here and only played him after he realised how shite the alternatives wereNo chance on Defoe. Kone possibly IMO
I'm not suggesting we sell him but what would be quoted for Defoe would be a ludicrous £5M because of his age.What would that buy you in terms of an effective striker?
True, but he still left us high and dry and for that him ( and the FA for that matter ) can get fucked for me like.I think it was the FA poaching him marra.
Not BSA's fault.
After that, it was BSA's own fault for what happened.
What about that Murphy lad he's banging them inThe problem would also be finding a replacement for Defoe who would be willing to sign.
Good shoutWhat about that Murphy lad he's banging them in
I still say it would be madness to sell DefoeWe have two other central strikers on the books.....Anichebe and Borini. We would need to markedly improve our options in other positions if we let Defoe go though.
Tell me a player that we could get in that could adequately fill his boots. Given the poor goal return from the rest of our squad it seems to me that selling him and rejigging the team with lower salaried prospects is dangerous.
The only player we have adequate cover already already is Pickford. If we can do a little bit of tinkering and get a competent midfielder and CH in on loan I'd do that instead of selling anyone. If we cannot I'd sell anyone but Defoe. He is absolutely critical to our survival. Everyone else is disposable on the basis of creating an overall improvement - if Moyes is capable of finding the right players of course.
I still say it would be madness to sell Defoe
Couldn't agree more. And the FA are a bunch of hypocrites anyway. They fucked him off when he was England Manager and yet are happy for him to manage in their Premier League. Tossers!True, but he still left us high and dry and for that him ( and the FA for that matter ) can get fucked for me like.
To be fair to the lad he does point out in the article that it'd take £25m to get Kone alone and that Defoe simply isn't going anywhere. I saw the thread was 5 pages long and worried that there was some substance in it. Should have guessed that it was being padded out with the usual mix of nonsense and histrionics.So the news comes out that BSA has £20 million to spend in the window and the ever diligent and hardworking Echo reporter puts 2 and 2 together and makes a complete load of tripe. End of story.