Report: Rio Ferdinand at a reported £80K per week?

[Busheyboy]

Hill stated two years back that he knows himself he's not up to PL level. Rio is so far above those two, miles and miles. Even with one bleeding knee.

Of course, everyone would prefer a 25 year old quality defender with top flight experience from a European league of a similar age defender from the Championship top 6. Either way, they don't come cheap when fees and wages are accounted for, you're still taking a massive gamble. Redknapp rarely does gambles (Di Canio the only one I can think of in 32 years)

agree with this

as stated in my previous post, other players, like Nedum, would learn a lot from Rio and he's still walk into at least half the teams in the pl

not quite sue why so many of our fans are critical of Rio, he's had a more successful career than any player in the history of Rangers and yet he's not good enough for us!!
how strange

[Johnny Tightlips]

we should be going after players like scott dann, hanley, caulker, williams, etc

not farking hangerland and ferdinand.

Shocking player. Relegated with Birmingham, been poor at Blackburn. Would prefer Roger "relegation" Johnson if you're going down that road.

[Johnny Tightlips]

Agree with you there mate every time ive seen Ned he looks absolutely awesome and very very rarely does a thing wrong. But it would be a bit of peace of mind to heave someone to help out with Hill and Dunne who IMO has rightly so earned there place in the squad for next season. But the prem is a faster, more physical game and I can just see 1 of them just being a game away from an injury. I personally would like to see a couple of decent young hungry strikers.

But with the press being the press any player who is reaching the end of their career will always be linked with us. And with us now being well known as a club with a bit of money in it, we'll always have silly money mentioned know matter how true OR untrue it is.

Hill stated two years back that he knows himself he's not up to PL level. Rio is so far above those two, miles and miles. Even with one bleeding knee.

Of course, everyone would prefer a 25 year old quality defender with top flight experience from a European league of a similar age defender from the Championship top 6. Either way, they don't come cheap when fees and wages are accounted for, you're still taking a massive gamble. Redknapp rarely does gambles (Di Canio the only one I can think of in 32 years)

[Hitman34]

we should be going after players like scott dann, hanley, caulker, williams, etc

not farking hangerland and ferdinand.

[Nick]

i really dont know Nick. I hope to god TF veto's this and other old carthorse signings. we have plenty of experience at the back with the likes of hill and dunney. even ned and simpson has played plenty of matches in the premier league. there are no valid reasons for signing ferdinand whatsoever.

what we need and have been crying out for over the past 3 seasons are mobile center backs.

Agree with you there mate every time ive seen Ned he looks absolutely awesome and very very rarely does a thing wrong. But it would be a bit of peace of mind to heave someone to help out with Hill and Dunne who IMO has rightly so earned there place in the squad for next season. But the prem is a faster, more physical game and I can just see 1 of them just being a game away from an injury. I personally would like to see a couple of decent young hungry strikers.

But with the press being the press any player who is reaching the end of their career will always be linked with us. And with us now being well known as a club with a bit of money in it, we'll always have silly money mentioned know matter how true OR untrue it is.

[Hitman34]

Hitman What's your honest view on this, do you think it'll happen? I personally don't think it will especially at 80k. I really think TF has learnt from past mistakes.

i really dont know Nick. I hope to god TF veto's this and other old carthorse signings. we have plenty of experience at the back with the likes of hill and dunney. even ned and simpson has played plenty of matches in the premier league. there are no valid reasons for signing ferdinand whatsoever.

what we need and have been crying out for over the past 3 seasons are mobile center backs.

[Johnny Tightlips]

Nothing wrong with buying experience pros though is there?.....Experience doesn't have to add up to 30+ players.
Off the top of my head i can remember Arry buying
Paul Kitson & John Hartson and getting the hammers out of trouble ...both of them weren't 30+
at Spurs he bought Walker, Naughton, Modric, Defoe, Kracjar, Bassong
at QPR he has signed Austin, Phillips Simpson...etc
Let's not get stuck down the road of slagging off our manager....again,.. over a story (which is all it is) in a newspaper

I wasn't slagging him off, nor did I mention age. Just stating the bleeding obvious. Redknapp buys experience, more often than not on huge money.

Modric was bought in the Ramos era at Spurs and Defoe (first time round)- was bought by Santini. Redknapp bought him back with Kaboul when Portsmouth couldn't afford the repayments.

But - from the Devil's Advocate perspective, Redknapp also bought James, Campbell, Sheringham, Merson, Gallas, Parker, Saha, Redknapp Jnr, Kanu - all on sky high money for their respective clubs at the time and all over 30. You can see why some would flag concerns.

[Nick]

would rather lescott than this old carthorse.

at least lesscott has a couple of years left in him and is more mobile.

80k for ferdinand! ffs

Hitman What's your honest view on this, do you think it'll happen? I personally don't think it will especially at 80k. I really think TF has learnt from past mistakes.

[Hitman34]

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would rather lescott than this old carthorse.

at least lesscott has a couple of years left in him and is more mobile.

80k for ferdinand! ffs

[Nick]

Nothing wrong with buying experience pros though is there?.....Experience doesn't have to add up to 30+ players.
Off the top of my head i can remember Arry buying
Paul Kitson & John Hartson and getting the hammers out of trouble ...both of them weren't 30+
at Spurs he bought Walker, Naughton, Modric, Defoe, Kracjar, Bassong
at QPR he has signed Austin, Phillips Simpson...etc
Let's not get stuck down the road of slagging off our manager....again,.. over a story (which is all it is) in a newspaper

Agree with all of that Dave.

But hey if we're not going to sl4g the manager of we could always do the next best thing, and that is of course turn on each other..... What's that you don't agree with my views, you must be chelski scum...... and you're not a season ticket holder, well you're just riff-raff and obviously not a proper fan........ fock it lets go all out and have a massive debate on whether Adel should play for us next season....

[Ginger Ninja]

Firstly, Rio is obviously not the player he was but would still get in at least 10 premier league sides.
His wages are not my concern, I don't pay them but let's all remember the wages we won't be paying (probably Mbia, Adel, Remy, etc, etc)
In the last 2 seasons Nelsen and Dunne ( both ageing and so called knackered players) have been superb for us.
Ironically, Samba, the defender we spent £12 million on, was one of the worst since the days of Gus Caesar.

Harry took on a shambles, got some of the problems shipped out, brought in some players he felt he could trust and still got us up at the first time of asking.
Everyone on this forum is a great manager.
I think we should give Harry more credit and trust him to make the right decisions.
We haven't signed Rio, it's all talk at this stage, so let's see what happens.
How much would Nedum learn from someone like Rio, not to mention the younger players at the club.

If Rio does come, he'll get my backing

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[dave58]

Can't believe it? If our board allow H.R. To sign Rio, They have learnt nothing? Tony said we were wiser & smarter, well I can assure you if we sign what's probably been the most overrated player in the prem for years? We ain't no wiser or smarter, he's Crocked played very few games last season, and at £80k a week I don't think so, if we do buy players like this and keep B.Z it must be on pay as you play!

[Busheyboy]

Firstly, Rio is obviously not the player he was but would still get in at least 10 premier league sides.
His wages are not my concern, I don't pay them but let's all remember the wages we won't be paying (probably Mbia, Adel, Remy, etc, etc)
In the last 2 seasons Nelsen and Dunne ( both ageing and so called knackered players) have been superb for us.
Ironically, Samba, the defender we spent £12 million on, was one of the worst since the days of Gus Caesar.

Harry took on a shambles, got some of the problems shipped out, brought in some players he felt he could trust and still got us up at the first time of asking.
Everyone on this forum is a great manager.
I think we should give Harry more credit and trust him to make the right decisions.
We haven't signed Rio, it's all talk at this stage, so let's see what happens.
How much would Nedum learn from someone like Rio, not to mention the younger players at the club.

If Rio does come, he'll get my backing

[Jeems]

To play devils advocate, it's the equivalent of paying just under 4m for a Prem level defender which (if injury free), could go a long way to ensuring our survival next season.

We should also not assume he would be our only CB signing. A CB quartet of Rio, Dunne, Hill and Ned would be trouble. Rio + a younger, more mobile CB wouldnt be so bad...

[ArcticHoop]

are there any cheap old players?