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23 Jan 2008 17:17
Hoop Blah Archie's penalty Hoop Blah I can't believe he's only been offered 7 grand a week.
I thought it was agreed on here that any half decent new players are supposed to on at least 40k
I knew someone would take what I wrote the wrong way. The Polish article said that he wanted at least 7k a week salary and that he wouldn't go to Korona Kielce (a Polish club) cos they couldn't afford that. It didn't say that we didn't offer him that. We probably offered him an awful lot more and then Lazio came in with an offer. Come on he wasn't going to turn down Lazio over us was he???
That wasn't a pop at you're comment, more at the people that keep saying we can't attract decent players because they'll be demanding 40k a week and it'll up set the dressing room.
It does look like Lazio have a mixed bag of keepers, it'll be interesting to see if they really are the Italian club that's come in for him.
The Polish website says that Lazio's main keeper is Marco Bellotta who is 44 years old! They have been trying to replace him with a 23 year old Argentinian goalkeeper Pablo Carrizo but they are having problems with his work permit. If he doesn't get one then Kowalewski will be in. Anyway it doesn't matter anymore he won't be a Reading player anyway!
I take your point regarding decent new players having to be offered huge wages though. The Kowalewski saga proves that you don't have to pay that high to get quality...