[talkSAFT]

Yes, Aries.
I bet Fatso wishes Chinese Football had got themselves involved 2 years ago. We might have got £25m, and he could have been on a £15m salary. (Just reading that Supersub Ighalo's going for a £10m pa wage).

I don't get it:  the average wage in China is about £50 pw, which is geared around their economy - which has stopped growing. How can they possibly pay 2nd rate footballers £10m pa? and what does the average Chinaman feel about this? Chairman Mao must be rolling in his grave.

[aries22]

Yes, Aries.
I bet Fatso wishes Chinese Football had got themselves involved 2 years ago. We might have got £25m, and he could have been on a £15m salary. (Just reading that Supersub Ighalo's going for a £10m pa wage).

I don't get it:  the average wage in China is about £50 pw, which is geared around their economy - which has stopped growing. How can they possibly pay 2nd rate footballers £10m pa? and what does the average Chinaman feel about this? Chairman Mao must be rolling in his grave.

I suspect football has become a rich Chinaman's plaything, rather like the Premier League has. China is on record as saying it wants to invest in foreign assets, and what better than the cash-rich PL? Even Villa and Wolves have been bought by Chinese. Birmingham City's Chinese owners have aready made another mistake sacking Gary Rowett in their bid to get to the PL quickly under Zola. God forbid our owners sack TP. We won't get anyone better at our level in the PL and I hope they realise that.

[Alouion]

I doubt I will ever forgive him. I think there will come a time when he will be more  ashamed of his behaviour at WBA.
Joining us as an 11 year old he has grown as a player to the point where he was on the fringe of England. He has not however, outgrown the club who itself have grown from a struggling side switching season-on-season from championship the PL to a very respectable PL side.
I believe he was "got at" when on loan at Brentford. From then on I think he saw a big future for one of the London clubs. I think Spurs deliberately unsettled him and, at the same time made a derisory offer to us. I don't blame Peace for rejecting this offer with a ridiculous downpayment of £3m. The effect was to derail Berahino and make WBA look bad in his eyes.
His heart was never with us after that. Shame on him. The club who made him. It does not augur well if we cannot convert players like him, Brown and Dhanda to become big players for us.
Now he's ended up at Stoke. There is an irony in his ending up here, a club actually below us, rather than the bright lights of London. He has a 5 and a half year contract. I think he will become a player for them, in which case he could be very highly valued in 12 months. I have little doubt he will do the same to Stoke to agitate for a move if this happens.

[drewks]

Back to Berahino.........fair play to our negotiators - IMO we've got a bloody good price for him, plus some add ons......PLUS this sell-on extra of 20%* (am I right there?). If so, with only months left on his contract we've got an excellent deal there

*Maybe I'm influenced by this, but I do actually hope he does well, irrespective of how he's behaved during the last 18 months.

[Worldclassalbion]

Back to Berahino.........fair play to our negotiators - IMO we've got a bloody good price for him, plus some add ons......PLUS this sell-on extra of 20%* (am I right there?). If so, with only months left on his contract we've got an excellent deal there  

*Maybe I'm influenced by this, but I do actually hope he does well, irrespective of how he's behaved during the last 18 months.

I don't because I hold a grudge, hope he goes the way of Odemwingie.

[Stairs]

I'm with Worldclass on this one.

There are lots of examples of young people doing great unselfish and wonderfully charitable things. There are plenty that hold themselves up and get counted for great acts of kindness and chivalry etc - then there are those spoilt by the modern world with all of its excesses and wealth for those lucky enough to have a skill, intelligence or pure good luck to take advantage of it.

I am sure the same applies to many generations but it is much more apparent to me at this current time.

Biryani despite what he says falls into the spoilt brat, smothered by mother, agent and probably West Brom's backroom staff. He has never grown up and had no appreciation of how lucky he is and how well looked after he was.

Good riddance and watch this space - this will repeat itself in a few years time. Sooner maybe if he starts scoring goals and his pig greedy agent persuades the Chinese to offer him a big fat deal.

[Beefy 1965]

Whose firstclass

[Stairs]

Whose firstclass  

Oooops

[Worldclassalbion]

Whose firstclass  

Oooops

I'll answer to anything

[silverbaggie]

This article may explain a lot:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsn...-test.html

In the circumstances we may have been lucky to get £12m for him.