by Royal Lady » 28 May 2012 09:05
by Royal With Cheese » 28 May 2012 09:11
winchester_royal Nonsense, Swansea did very well 1st half of the season without him. He certainly helped them, but 'kept them up single handedly'? No.
by Royal Rother » 28 May 2012 09:13
RobRoyalAvon Royalwinchester_royal
I agree that Sigurdsson's value will only go up, and he would be a good investment, but right now we need to be spending our money on making sure we stay up, as that is crucial to our long term strategy.
I can't think of many better ways to spend £7m than on a player that single-handedly kept Swansea up last season.
They were 11th when he had his debut, and they finished the season 11th
by winchester_royal » 28 May 2012 09:28
Royal With Cheesewinchester_royal Nonsense, Swansea did very well 1st half of the season without him. He certainly helped them, but 'kept them up single handedly'? No.
Hmm,
Without the sig they were languisuing around the bottom five positions. They were doing "OK" for a team promoted in the playoff final.
Personally I think without him they would be 9 points worse off - this would have meant they would have needed to beat Liverpool on the last day of the season to survive.
To my mind it was nothing short of miraculous.
by Royal With Cheese » 28 May 2012 09:35
by winchester_royal » 28 May 2012 09:41
by Royal With Cheese » 28 May 2012 09:51
by winchester_royal » 28 May 2012 09:54
by leww_rfc » 28 May 2012 10:02
by Barry the bird boggler » 28 May 2012 10:07
by leww_rfc » 28 May 2012 10:12
by West Stand Man » 28 May 2012 10:32
Barry the bird boggler This is not over yet. If Rodgers is going to talk to Liverpool this week then the Sig will most likely want to bide his time before signing so he knows what's going on.
Still would like a statement from Reading about why there is seemingly no interest.
by loyalroyal4life » 28 May 2012 10:32
by Hoop Blah » 28 May 2012 10:38
by West Stand Man » 28 May 2012 10:40
loyalroyal4life at least we will get some money out of this which is good!
by TBM » 28 May 2012 10:41
by winchester_royal » 28 May 2012 10:54
Hoop Blah I'd be amazed if McDermott didn't think bringing Sigurdsson back would improve his squad or improve our chances of winning games and staying up and so I can't believe we've not registered an interest somewhere along the way (that might just be sounding out our contacts to see if he'd be open to coming back).
If we haven't, then I'd question our ambition to sign the best players we can attract and afford.
On the affordability aspect, I see no reason why we can't match Swansea's offers for both fee or wages. We're in a very healthy state financially and the £35k being mooted for wages at Swansea won't be far off the figures we're already offering our better players and potential targets.
by Royal Lady » 28 May 2012 10:59
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