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Johan Berg Gudmundsson - Burnley bid accepted
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Not as much of a shock as the Premiership will be...Fortune 82nd Minute said:Good luck to him. Will remember the goal he scored against Cardiff a couple of Christmas' ago for a long time.
But Burnley? FFS. Will be a culture shock to him when he moves up there that's for sure.
Thought the same of Poyet: he'll struggle and fade.
Best of luck, blah, blah, blah.
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Good luck to him, decent player but not sure he has the pace to be a PL winger. Will graft away for a struggling team under the right boss/circumstances though and obviously has great delivery. Could make a bit of a name for himself if he can ping a few long rangers for the cameras I guess.
Deal sounds reasonable enough to me and in line with upper ends of what I expected.... That being said, I expected him to go to the Championship !1 -
He'll definitely be in the championship next year if he does go there.0
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Or fund a large and increasing operating loss.SantaClaus said:
Excellent deal. That's the kind of money to fund a promotion.AFKABartram said:£2.5m + 1m potential add ons.
See that as a fair deal?17 -
Like Gomez he has gone for relative peanuts with the window barely off its hinges. Do these morons not understand how to build interest in a player? Even keeping him until 30/08/16 would only cost £200k at £25k pw. How much more could we get on deadline day?1
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So Burnley have c. £150m TV money to spend and we manage to get them to stump up £2.5m.
I suspect that KM couldn't sell a £1 bottle of water to a billionaire dying of dehydration.
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It is a poor fee considering the money in the prem. However seeing Roland/Katrien's very poor track record over the likes of Yann, Morrison, Gomez outgoing, and countless numbers of incomings this low fee is what is to be expected. We are a bit of an agents dream.
The extra tragedy is the money funds losses entirely created by this regime and we don't benefit.7 -
Red_Henry had said on the rumours thread that Norwich would have paid more but JBG wants Burnley.
I hope he does well in the premiership, I think he has it in him and fair play to him for trying to give it a go.
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The poor misguided, deluded idiot.Alwaysneil said:Red_Henry had said on the rumours thread that Norwich would have paid more but JBG wants Burnley.
I hope he does well in the premiership, I think he has it in him and fair play to him for trying to give it a go.
Christ, a few weeks up in that hell-hole will have him pleading to Norwich to sign him.1 -
Great bit of business considering we got him on a free.2
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You may be right but with regard to Poyet in the context of the moment it happened it was a steal. I get Poyet's contract was structured by the spivs but we did little to mitigate their poor work. The fact that Diego has not pushed on could hardly be seen at the time he was sold.Redskin said:
Not as much of a shock as the Premiership will be...Fortune 82nd Minute said:Good luck to him. Will remember the goal he scored against Cardiff a couple of Christmas' ago for a long time.
But Burnley? FFS. Will be a culture shock to him when he moves up there that's for sure.
Thought the same of Poyet: he'll struggle and fade.
Best of luck, blah, blah, blah.0 -
The Jordan Cousins giveaway is going to be an especially bitter pill.2
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It's a good deal.1
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As fearful as Burnley is, the chance to play in the prem and earn tens of thousands of pounds a week will no doubt soften the culture shock for him.Fortune 82nd Minute said:Good luck to him. Will remember the goal he scored against Cardiff a couple of Christmas' ago for a long time.
But Burnley? FFS. Will be a culture shock to him when he moves up there that's for sure.
Good player, but seemed uninterested, fed up and lacking fire in his belly for large parts of last season, which made him a bit less likeable. To be fair to him, this was probably due to having to work with three different managers.0 -
Unless, of course, it's a very rare aquatic crow, or can hitch a lift on a boat heading that way....newyorkaddick said:
It's in his way home to be fair - indeed a crow flying from The Valley toFortune 82nd Minute said:Good luck to him. Will remember the goal he scored against Cardiff a couple of Christmas' ago for a long time.
But Burnley? FFS. Will be a culture shock to him when he moves up there that's for sure.Icelanda watery grave in the North Atlantic would virtually go over Burnley.
Good luck to JBG (there are nice places to live in easy commuting distance).0 -
Awful signing for Burnley, hasn't got the stomach for a fight and that's what they're gunna be in next season. Will be good the season after when they're trying to get promotion again3
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Even though Burnmey might not appeal to all of us he will, no doubt, live is a massive house on an estate that is nowhere near the riff-raff and he will drive to and from work in a £150k Range Rover (or similar) with blacked out windows and never go anywhere near any fans or the estates that they live on.
Then as soon as a better opportunity comes along he'll be off again to another town he had never heard of that he will never, by choice, visit again after he's left.
This is the life of the modern day footballer. We can't blame them, the TV money ensures that the agents can convince the players to go anywhere.
Good luck to him. He has moved on free transfers twice and allowed his contract with us to get to one year so he was able to dictate terms last summer. He used us as a stepping stone, which wouldn't be so galling if he hadn't been one of the the highest paid players to ever be relegated to the third division in a Charlton shirt.4 -
Playing under three managers with Riga being the best will not have helped. More difficult will have been the quality he had In the rest of the team.
JBG I've only really seen playing on the right, maybe drifting across, sometimes popping up in the left.
He can play some amazing crosses when he is up like he did in the first Iceland game and if he had anyone making a run, that would be god.'
In his first season for us he also scored from outside the box and from free kicks and he had that nailed, he lost that scoring touch this season but that doesn't mean he's lost the ability to do it.
we will see whether he scores much in the premiership.1 -
Totally agree. I dread to think how much we'd get for the others - he was our most valuable asset.seth plum said:It is a poor fee considering the money in the prem. However seeing Roland/Katrien's very poor track record over the likes of Yann, Morrison, Gomez outgoing, and countless numbers of incomings this low fee is what is to be expected. We are a bit of an agents dream.
The extra tragedy is the money funds losses entirely created by this regime and we don't benefit.0 -
I don't see the fee as that bad. JBG is too slow to go any higher than championship. For me the real issue is how much of it will be seen in team rebuilding. If it's correct that his wages were 25k a week then I think Ajose, Holmes and Novak are only 15k between them with combined fees of 900k ?
Three more signings like those three could make our season very competative. If Lookman, Texeira and Cousins all go for reasonable fees then RD has his losses covered. Good wages off the books in the case of Tex and Cousins and Henderson must be on reasonable money. IMHO there is no excuse for RD not sanctioning at least four good quality signings.1 - Sponsored links:
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Can someone name me one of our wingers in last few decades who hasn't been accused of fading out of games, uninterested, can't cross etc etc. Even Ronaldo needs service. Game has changed and sides have better shape than the days of Paddy Powell.5
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We made mistakes but we learnt from them!
Yeah rite!0 -
Was JBG a winger?
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Would have thought his agent got a release clause when he resigned. For him to sign a long contract would have thought he'd have held all the cards.2
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Anyway, his fee will pay the club's bills for extra police,bouncersstewards and fencing in the despisedsupporterscustomers.
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The context of the moment and the structure of his contract meant little as far as I was concerned with regard to his ability to hack it in the Premiership. I always thought he was overrated and so it ultimately proved.seth plum said:
You may be right but with regard to Poyet in the context of the moment it happened it was a steal. I get Poyet's contract was structured by the spivs but we did little to mitigate their poor work. The fact that Diego has not pushed on could hardly be seen at the time he was sold.Redskin said:
Not as much of a shock as the Premiership will be...Fortune 82nd Minute said:Good luck to him. Will remember the goal he scored against Cardiff a couple of Christmas' ago for a long time.
But Burnley? FFS. Will be a culture shock to him when he moves up there that's for sure.
Thought the same of Poyet: he'll struggle and fade.
Best of luck, blah, blah, blah.
Sadly, I think the same is true of Gudmundsson.
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Good luck, JBG. Wants to move up north cos it's closer to Iceland and the weather's similar0
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Fuck him
Lazy bastard failed to turn up more times than is acceptable, he has undoubted quality but his attitude stank all of last season and a huge chunk of the season before
And anyone thinking this is a good deal for the club just remember we are a franchise of staprix. Not one copper coin of that will go to us like airman said it will be a drop of piss in the ocean compared to the enormous debt being racked up to a lunatic old sod intent of fritzelling us to death
Didn't matter what 'we' got for him it won't be used to fund a league winning campaign. Wait until all the other rats start abandoning ship now11 -
Good player - should arguably have been better for us more consistently.
Nice guy when I met him.
Wank fee, under the circumstances. Another mistake from Meire.4
