KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Football madness! Wilfried Zaha rated at 20 million pounds!

Dis Gillet and hicks run us into debt or was it that they bought the club on a levered deal and could not refinance it? It was not like a Leeds situation under ridsdale

Every sh*t club with a player who's have decent for them (at their low level) thinks they're worth £20m. It's almost like a default figure for the greedy delusional f*ckers. I don't rate the guy, and at that price I CERTAINLY don't. £10m for him would be a rip off. I don't want to see him signed, but for argument's sake, if BR did fancy him and signed him, I'd be unhappy if the club paid over £6-7m for him.

stanley, spending money which you dont have is called spending beyond your means, we simply cant spend 15 or 20 million pound on players and give them 60, 70 or 100k a week wages unless you are a champions League Club which if you have'nt noticed we are not nor ever will be unless football changes. If you look at our rivals or Clubs around us Everton, Newcastle, West Brom, Stoke and Fulham you just dont see them spending that much on players or giving them that much in wages, it's called cutting your cloth accordingly, this is what we need to start doing otherwise we will get ourselves into serious financial trouble like last time under Hicks and Gillette, were we are crippled with loan payments.

Don't disagree but the debt with gillet and hicks was not caused by overspending on players primarily. I believe the club was in a trading profit.

stanley, when Hicks and Gillette were in power we were Champions League regulars, this is not the case now, the point I am making is when you dont manage your finances you get into trouble, we are no longer in a position to buy players for 15 million pounds or give them 60 grand a week wages, not when you are now an established mid table Club, if we do spend out that sort of money it will come back and haunt us in about 2 or 3 years time. I can remember Rick Parry a couple of seasons ago talking about us missing out on Champions League qualification, he said we could get away with it for maybe another season or two before we would start to get into trouble well we are now three seasons going into four yet we are still buying players for 15, 20, 22.5 and 35 million pound and paying them all well over 60k a week wages all the time with not a hope in hell's chance of Champions League football returning now or in the future, something has seriously gotta give, it just cant carry on, be even worse when they start this redevelopment as there will be less money again for the team.

I think Rogers was brought in because he can work in that bargain bin type transfer market as you put it. I think these owners know they made mistakes giving the previous incompetent manager so much money to waste and have had there fingers burnt so there was no way they were going to make the same mistake twice.

Who cares what Wilfred Zaha is valued or rated at by his club. Essentially he is only worth what another club is willing to pay for him. If there's a club stupid enough to pay that price for him then that's there choice. Just as we did with Carroll, Downing and Henderson....we clearly got ripped off!!

Zaha is worth as much as someone will pay. If Palace want to ask £20m for their starlet then thats up to them. Weather anyone will pay it is another matter. Either way Palace win. Keep their best player or get £20m. Better than just asking £3m and getting [oops] by the bigger, richer clubs ain't it?

Didnt we pay 13 million for Henderson? Zaha could be a good signing for anything under 10 million. Seems the sort of player both FSG and Rodgers would go for.

av only seen him play a few times and once he was very very good and the other time not so. i would be against us buying him but wouldnt want to pay well over the odds