With regards to their signings, I have a couple of business colleagues who are huge football fans, one of them supports RC Lens, and gave me the inside track on Mammadov, once his name was linked with S6, saying something like "you will have fun with your rivals if Mammadov gets involved", in other words, a conman is taking over at S6.
The other is a Swedish bloke who lives and breathes football, and I mean "lives and breathes". He is the sort of lad who will tell you about some great player who only makes the bench at Juventus, or he will decide on a Friday afternoon to buy a cheap plane ticket and fly to the UK, Spain, Italy or Germany just to watch a game he fancies. Knows more about Engish teams (in any division) than anyone i know. Anyway, I think it was when they bought Matias (or Joao, one of those two), the rumour was that they had paid 3 million. During a phone call with the Swedish lad, I asked if the player (whicherver one it was) was any good, and he said he was OK but had been up for sale for 140 thousand Euro's recently, but the deal fell through. Now a player who can be bought for 140k does not get sold the following week for 3 million.
McGugen was 300 thousand pounds I think, and that sounds an absolute bargain to me.
For me it is not the money, but the fact that there are good players out there in Europe who are available on free transfers, we just need to know about them.
