I agree with you Razor. The ongoing rumours in relation to Keane (and Stephen Ireland) are getting frustrating. I really don't care where they end up - Blackpool, QPR or Newcastle, once two quality footballers get to do what they are paid to do!
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I agree with you Razor. The ongoing rumours in relation to Keane (and Stephen Ireland) are getting frustrating. I really don't care where they end up - Blackpool, QPR or Newcastle, once two quality footballers get to do what they are paid to do!
Couldnt care less where SI ends up, rot in the reserves somewhere for all I care.Quote:
Originally Posted by gastric
Keane though is a completely different story. WHam rumoured to have made a bid today, not the biggest fan of that club but he needs a move and quick. He would fit in well alongside Cole or Piquionne (who i think is a damn fine player).
Goal.com (I know, I know, hardly the pinnacle of journalism)
reporting that the West Ham deal is done. West Ham will pay his €65,000 a week until the end of the season (£1.2m approx). If they avoid relegation, they have to buy him for £6m. Otherwise its back to Tottenham and we start this saga again.
Said his goodbyes at training apparently. Best of luck to him.
I assume he'd be eligible for the Notts Forest game on Sunday.
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/...ego-forlan-as-
Win-win for Robbie. Stays in London, keeps his wage and his own personal safety net should his borrowers fall through the trapdoor. I'll be glad just to see him playing regularly.Quote:
Originally Posted by joe_denilson
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...snt-leave.html
if he doesn't get a move then he won't be playing any PL football for Spurs because they will axe him from 25 man squad according to the Sun.
Sounds like an ultimatum. Spurs dream is over for Robbie, hope he realises. Think he'll score goals at West Ham and could keep them up.
I'm almost certain Redknapp has used that threat of the 25 man squad thing before to get players off the payroll.Quote:
Originally Posted by shakermaker1982
Silly threat to make. No way the Spurs brass would bite 65k a week if Robbie refused to move.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noelys Guitar
From soccernet.com:
"The Hammers will pay a loan fee of £1 million and have agreed to pay his £65,000-aweek wages in full until the end of the season."
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...n-deal?cc=5901
Balls... I wouldn't have cared if the Hammers went down before now!! Now I have to root for them to stay up, but not at the expense of Wolves or Wigan!!
Rooting for the Hammers big time now!
I think he will flop tho
I don't think so... I think he'll do alright at the Hammers. Decent enough potential in terms of the players, on paper anway.
I think he'll do OK. He is at his lowest ebb in his career at the moment, but he has never really failed to score at any club he has been at. Even at Liverpool, which would have been considered a failed move, he sill managed to bag 5 goals in 19 league games, and he scored a couple more in Europe too. I think he would be looking at scoring around 5 - 7 goals in remaining 14 games if he does end up at the Hammers. West Ham have problems at both ends of the pitch though, they have the worst defence and the second worst attack based on goals scored / conceded, so I can't really see them staying up personally.
West Ham will go down, Robbie will get a move to a club like Blackburn or Wigan in the summer, Harry will get his money and everyone will go home happy.
Hammers keep up Keane pursuit.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...707572,00.html
From the article posted above, Harry said:
"If he stays he will make the 25-man squad. There's no way I would leave him out of the squad. I've got too much respect for Robbie Keane as a player and as a person."
In Arry speak that means the deal is already complete. You have to give it to Redknapp. He should be a politician.Quote:
Originally Posted by irishfan86
I like the way you are reading between the lines there and you are probably correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noelys Guitar
Robbie is doing a medical now.
Harry says its not a loan deal, it's a conditional hire purchase lease deal.
Sounds like 'Arry's car salesman talk. Wonder if Robbie's under warranty too.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Just been announced on ESPN that West Ham have signed Robbie Keane on loan until the end of the season
Yeah SSN have it now too. Loan deal until the end of the season. At which point, should he regain form and impress, I 'd expect him to land a permanent move. To West Ham or elsewhere.
Robbie: "I like to play and don't want to sit on a bench. I'm here to help the team. I'm ready to go." Ubiquitous 'Keano' chants in the background.
If he was that desperate to play, he wouldn't have waited until the day before the transfer window closed to move on. He would have been out of White Hart Lane on January 1. Greed.
It's a Credit Default Swap ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Good that Robbie has gone to such a massive club.
You can't sign for clubs that haven't made offers for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colbert Report
Birmingham had an offer accepted two weeks ago. No excuse for Robbie. Greed.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlaskaFox
David Gold
"Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy drives a hard bargain but we've got our man."
Keane obviously wanted to stay in London, so don't think you can blame him. Tottenham wanted something decent for him.
Stop would ye?? He held out for as good a move as he could have got, in the end. Financially, location or otherwise. I see it working out. Decent squad player for player. They're only two points off safety. 3 of the next 4 games are against West Brom, Blackpool and Stoke on top of a home tie against an erratic Liverpool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colbert Report
Prediction.....He'll finish the season still in the premiership with a 2:5, goals per games ratio..
First interview as a West Ham player :
http://www.skysports.com/video/inlin...712006,00.html
Good to see him get a move. A confident and happy Robbie is a dangerous player.
Yeh saw the interview. Surprised he didn't say 'I've supported West Ham since I was a boy'.
The BBC are reporting West ham are in for Shane Long. This could get very interesting. Whoever scores the most goals gets the spot beside Doyle.
Well I guess my suspicion that Robbie wouldn't be going anywhere turned out to be false... but even so; bloody 'ell, West Ham? How the mighty have fallen. Sad that they were the best he could do.
in fairness hes a over 30 yr old striker, his best days are behind him, hell be important to ireland for a while yet but only because there hasnt been an emerging very very good striker since rk at the end of the 90s.
(i love doyle but at int.level hes decent, nothing more)
West Ham. Where another Irish legend was put out to grass - but apparently scoring an amazing solo goal in his last game.
eamonn dolan?
Gary Breen?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
It's not David Connolly, David Kelly or Chris Hughton either....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOz4wVRjEuI
I was at Brady's last game when West ham beat Wolves 4-0. Half the chicken run came on the pitch when Brady scored.