Question of the Week: How would you invest 50m?

[ShiftyPowers]

Seeing Shifty's post has reminded me of something. Change 'Gotze/Hazard' to 'Gotze/Hazard/Muller'.

You can have Robben!

EDIT: As an aside (and this doesn't apply to Az since I know he was kidding), I've noticed that English fans don't seem to realize that FC Bayern is just as big of a club as their favorite club (City, Chelsea, United, whatever). Seeing City fans fantasize about Schweinsteiger is ridiculous to me because not only would he be going to a much worse place to live, possibly sitting on the bench more, having to gel with new teammates and staff, for a club who has just as good of a chance to do worse in the CL as Bayern (and certainly worse domestically), and... Bayern could match any wages City drop. Just because they don't doesn't mean they can't; Hoeness suggested we could drop 80m on a player if it was the right move. Rob the rest of the BuLi, we do too, look at how cheap Sahin, Ozil, and Vidal were, but Bayern is different. Typical English arrogance.

 

[Filipower]

You can have Rodriguez. Cristian.

 

[poet11]

There is this guy from Porto......something Rodriguez. Most probably is a left winger. Pretty impressive player. Another one is Strootman from PSV. He might have a great future ahead of him. Wanted him for Arsenal but is too much like little Carlos.

 

[Keegan]

Entirely simplistic, but, Coker, Eagles with goals, Davies with assist today (missed a penalty though).

Reo-Coker has probably been our most consistent player all season, but that's not saying a whole lot. Eagles pulled this performance completely out of his ar- ummm... hat. In one friendly game he showed glimpses of what he did against Wigan. Big Kev mugged the defender, which is what he does best. Wheater seems to gotten laid before the game - he finally got 90 decent minutes under his belt. It remains to be seen how they'll manage against Sunderland.

 

[Xifio]

even my FIFA 12 manager mode sim has something to say about the question of the week:

he went for: [yup] 55 mil ...

as good as he is (I think I saw "golden god" earlier in this thread), I don't think he's worth that much ...

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I honestly don't know what players are worth anymore. Even 6 years ago it seemed like the market was fairly predictable and you knew roughly what clubs could spend. I have no idea now, it's so wildly inconsistent. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. I doubt he's worth that much to Barca because they have so many great players who can play the same role (and are the same age or younger). He's amazing though. Clear top 20 player in the world. Just wish I realized it before this season started, because I would have tried everything to trade up to the top of the 2nd Round to get him... 29th in our Draft seems criminally low (behind: Thiago, Gotze, Bale, Falcao, Neymar, and those are just the ones you can't argue at all IMO; personally I'd also put him over Zlatan, Aguero, Villa, Hulk, Suarez, Tevez, and Alonso. Pique too, but that's harder to judge.). Too bad Theo boned his first pick with van Persie instead of Rooney

 

[poet11]

This is an off topic question......What do you guys think of Yoann Gourcuff? Great talent but he has had only one good season. I ask this because there has been serious interest from Arsenal and talk of a January move.

 

[Pogba4Now]

overrated

 

[Sevillista]

Manu del Moral is not a real competece to Negredo and Kanoute

Not that one goal proves anything.

 

[MaSsiVe]

There is this guy from Porto......something Rodriguez. Most probably is a left winger. Pretty impressive player.

you mean James. He plays in the left wing but tends to drift a lot into the middle, playing the role of a trequartista...he's gonna be ******* huge

 

[ShiftyPowers]

overrated

+1

 

[RobbieD_PL]

This might be a bit OT, but how about spending $50 million to improve a NT?

 

[Mandieta6]

How would you do that? Bribe players and immigration officers to switch nationalities?

 

[Pogba4Now]

Haha.

The only thing you can improve is to build a larger stadium for the NT.

 

[Arnau]

Qatar NT will found the way.

 

[Mandieta6]

Probably, with millions of euros invested yearly in developping facilities and infrastructure and the likes, which, in 50 years, would allow for a good NT, but 50m for an immediate improvement is impossible. Maybe you can buy ouy Mourinho's contract or something.

 

[Arnau]

They want Guardiola and apparently have offered a blank check.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Probably, with millions of euros invested yearly in developping facilities and infrastructure and the likes, which, in 50 years, would allow for a good NT, but 50m for an immediate improvement is impossible. Maybe you can buy ouy Mourinho's contract or something.

Germany did it in about 9 years.

 

[Xifio]

Probably, with millions of euros invested yearly in developping facilities and infrastructure and the likes, which, in 50 years, would allow for a good NT, but 50m for an immediate improvement is impossible. Maybe you can buy ouy Mourinho's contract or something.

Germany did it in about 9 years.

Clairefontaine had a similar timeline of success in France ... but obviously Qatar does not have a large, pre-existing pool of talent that both Germany and France do ... so 25-50 years sounds about right for a "natural" solution ... but why wait for "natural" when there are all those funds waiting to be put to use?

They want Guardiola and apparently have offered a blank check.

considering his history with Qatar, and fondness for them, I'm sure he'd be willing in a few years ...

Qatar should instead hire a few administrative and technical personnel overseeing La Masia and the Barcelona Youth programs as consultants, to plan the 'National Qatari Masia', and to detail the credentials necessary for all the necessary coaches, trainers, nutritionists, etc. ...

 

[Mandieta6]

Germany did it in about 9 years.

What Xifio said, Qatar doesn't have the foundation, so investment and time is needed.