Kevin Van Veen

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The_Green_Man said:
Couldn't see Billy taking off to the other side of the world with his kiddies and family all around him and stuff....This partnered with the fact that he is out to prove a point at the club he loves. On a decent enough salary too?
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Like Van Veen it'd be like hitting the jackpot for him, being offered money he knows he'll never ever be close to being worth. It would be very hard to turn down.
 



Ricky said:
What do we do if one of the stupid cunts offer £10m for Sharp?

We'd have to take it and quickly replace him. But what a ridiculous situation that would be - it could fuck up our season but you could hardly blame the club!




That's why I can't believe they'd reject it - accept it ASAP and get some of it spent to secure promotion.
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If they accepted it and it went through then every club would be aware Scunthorpe would be in need of a replacement and quick so the value of their strikers Scunny are interested in would go up 100000x.

Absolutely crazy money but I can see why it's rejected at £4mil even if he isn't worth anything near that.
 
dannysufc_ said:
Of Scunny.

Subject of a £4mil bid from China.
Scunthorpe allegedly holding out for £8mil.

Please don't ever say United have got a good deal out of any of their best players ever, ever again.
If this happens... wow.

Strictly Blades related, what with them being our rivals for promotion :)
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We've never sold anyone to China though. They're fucking mental.
 
£10 million offer for Sharp ?

You are joking of course
The bid wouldn't get passed a million before McCabe sold him, had a wank and then blamed Billy for wanting to leave
 
Hopefully deals like this show that the PL bubble is coming closer to bursting. TV money is gradually becoming an irrelevance rather than the key driver in the game, since the PL's inception. China can offer more without the TV money; other international markets are only getting stronger and more competitive.
 
Chinese clubs' criteria:

Have a pulse
Be an attacking player
Have an interesting name
Be from an established football country
Score 2 or 3 good goals and make sure they're on YouTube
Make sure you've been on TV a few times
Be quite prominent in your team
Have no potential to improve
Ideally have at least tenuous links to the Premier League
 
dannysufc_ said:
Of Scunny.

Subject of a £4mil bid from China.
Scunthorpe allegedly holding out for £8mil.

Please don't ever say United have got a good deal out of any of their best players ever, ever again.
If this happens... wow.

Strictly Blades related, what with them being our rivals for promotion :)
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to be fair china wasnt in the equation till this last year
 
nopigfansintown said:
Hopefully deals like this show that the PL bubble is coming closer to bursting. TV money is gradually becoming an irrelevance rather than the key driver in the game, since the PL's inception. China can offer more without the TV money; other international markets are only getting stronger and more competitive.
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At £100m per club per season, the tv money is a very long way from becoming 'an irrelevance'.

China want to host the World Cup around 2030 and expect to have a team to match. They are a million miles away at the moment, so are trying to create a league from scratch. Massively overpaying for average foreign players is not the way forward. The Chinese governement have already threatened to clamp down on 'excess' so this trend will not continue indefinitley. There are plenty of wealthy Chinese, but not an everlasting supply of near-billionaires prepared to spunk fortunes to make their home town club into a 'big player'.

The China football bubble will burst well before the Premier League bubble. You have my word on it as a gentleman and a Blade.
 



What is McNulty worth I wonder? Is China far enough away from Bramall Lane?
 
metalblade said:
What is McNulty worth I wonder?
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I should coco said:
At £100m per club per season, the tv money is a very long way from becoming 'an irrelevance'.

China want to host the World Cup around 2030 and expect to have a team to match. They are a million miles away at the moment, so are trying to create a league from scratch. Massively overpaying for average foreign players is not the way forward. The Chinese governement have already threatened to clamp down on 'excess' so this trend will not continue indefinitley. There are plenty of wealthy Chinese, but not an everlasting supply of near-billionaires prepared to spunk fortunes to make their home town club into a 'big player'.

The China football bubble will burst well before the Premier League bubble. You have my word on it as a gentleman and a Blade.
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Well, that's disappointing, if the Chinese government gets involved. It's the free market that has created the den of iniquity that is the PL after all. I see it as a challenge western sporting hegemony and an emblem for the general shift in power to the Far East. The end game would be to make our product less attractive to tv companies, and the bottom fall out. For me, that's the only way that football would return to it working class roots in this country.
 
GRUMPY BLADE said:
Scunny, China and Van Veen Blades related?

That's madness.
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No, think about it, Scunthorpe, they have a steel industry, and so... does........Sheffield!, Sheffield is the home of........... Sheffield United!, Sheffield United used to have a sister club in Chengdu, called Chengdu Blades.... which is in........China! Kevin Van Veen plays for Scunthorpe United, whose initials are SUFC, the same as.....Sheffield United! yes, yes this all starts to make sense to me now, it's all starting to add up.

Now even though these aliens come from a totally different galaxy, with vastly superior technology, I am convinced that all I have to do, is plug in my Apple laptop and upload a simple computer virus to defeat them.......

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Can't imagine the player is going to be happy, he'd probably have got a small fortune handed to him in the shape of a contract.

Whether he goes or not, the rumoured bid could trip them up!
 
If they don't let him go today Van Veen will be furious. It's probably a once in a lifetime opportunity for a fairly average third tier player to make millions. If I was him I'd tell them that I'll refuse to play for them again if they don't accept the offer. They know full well he's not worth that much too.

It could well mess with his head and badly affect his form.

But it shouldn't affect Scunny too much, they've signed Craig Davies who could replace him. They don't even need Van Veen that much so to reject this offer is mental.
 
I still doubt the Chinese Super league will ever threaten the Premier Leagues number 1 status. The standard at present is terrible I say that having watched both Shanghai SIPG and Guanghzou Evrgrande a fair amount. One problem (which funnily enough we face here) is the what I call the "London effect" . Foreign players especially are drawn to London as like it or not its a great city for culture and a great place to live if you have money. Beijing and Shanghai are not they are full of pollution and 95% of the city are just overcrowded dumps miles behind the times that many news reports on China would have you believe. The Chinese are providing great 1 or 2 year wage top ups but for players to suddenly start spending the majority of there careers there seems unlikely. I honestly see the MLS as more of threat to the premier league as personally I'd much rather live in LA than Beijing.
 
dannysufc_ said:
Of Scunny.

Subject of a £4mil bid from China.
Scunthorpe allegedly holding out for £8mil.

Please don't ever say United have got a good deal out of any of their best players ever, ever again.
If this happens... wow.

Strictly Blades related, what with them being our rivals for promotion :)
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Ricky said:
If they don't let him go today Van Veen will be furious. It's probably a once in a lifetime opportunity for a fairly average third tier player to make millions. If I was him I'd tell them that I'll refuse to play for them again if they don't accept the offer. They know full well he's not worth that much too.

It could well mess with his head and badly affect his form.

But it shouldn't affect Scunny too much, they've signed Craig Davies who could replace him. They don't even need Van Veen that much so to reject this offer is mental.
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must be 4 million yen
 



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