Mitroglou Joins Besiktas

[PakistaniWhites]

is this the source?
http://www.turkish-football.com/news_read.php?id=6052


I highly doubt its confirmed!

[FPT]

They have just lost/released Hugo Almeida so it's logical on that front. We've done business with them before with the Kerim Frei deal so relations are probably quite good.

We still have an invested interest in the player but get the wages off our wage bill as well as picking up a good sum for just a year.

Fingers crossed he gets fit, plays well and we can break even or maybe even profit on the situation.

[f321ffc]

Always sad when a great , loyal , talented  valuable servant of the club leaves. Shame he was'nt one of them. 082.gif

[bobby01]

K33ny, has posted on the Saturday stuff comments on him, it's worth a look

[God The Mechanic]

They have just lost/released Hugo Almeida so it's logical on that front. We've done business with them before with the Kerim Frei deal so relations are probably quite good.

Hasn't Frei been injured most of the time he's been there?  Not sure selling another crock will help the good relations much ;)

[ChesterTheTabby]

If we can get 2.5 Million on the loan deal, free up the wage bill, and if he comes around keep him/sell, that will suit us tremendously.

[Baszab]

With the greatest of respect, the fact that everyone knew he was injured and it wasn't the player's fault is totally irrelevant - the management wasted the one investment that the new owner was prepared to make in the transfer window - against scouting opinion - and we should have (not could have) bought a minimum of three solid Premier standard players to stabilise an unbalanced team and give us a much better chance of staying up - that's why I keep going on about it - it's not a personal crusade against the unfit Greek

[Burt]

A Greek playing in Turkey... Brave move!

[Burt]

At least Marlet has competition now for the accolade of "Biggest Waste of Money".

[Beamer]

Hang on, the rumour is that they are signing him, nothing said about him actually playing for them.

[westcliff white]

With the greatest of respect, the fact that everyone knew he was injured and it wasn't the player's fault is totally irrelevant - the management wasted the one investment that the new owner was prepared to make in the transfer window - against scouting opinion - and we should have (not could have) bought a minimum of three solid Premier standard players to stabilise an unbalanced team and give us a much better chance of staying up - that's why I keep going on about it - it's not a personal crusade against the unfit Greek

I understand your view point I may not 100% agree with it but I respect it. Although I do not think we could have got 3 premier league quality players for 12 million even though we have only paid 6 for mitro so far so even less chance for that amount. I do agree though that those in power back then should have made certain he could have played at least 50% of our remaining games when we signed him. I have to say having seen him live this season a fully fit mitro from the evidence of those games would have been a major asset, sadly wasn't to be.

[bog]

He can clear off. A worse signing than Marlet I never thought I would see.  :dead horse:

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[cmg]

They have just lost/released Hugo Almeida so it's logical on that front. We've done business with them before with the Kerim Frei deal so relations are probably quite good.

Hasn't Frei been injured most of the time he's been there?  Not sure selling another crock will help the good relations much ;)

No. He's been on the bench most of the season, a few sub appearances here and there and played most of the last game of the season.

[love4ffc]

Always love good news.  Best of luck to him in Turkey.  Hopefully they can get more out of him then we ever did. 

[bill taylors apprentice]

Could it be he always intended to go to Turkey and due to the tension between them and the Greeks it was some how seen as a way to avoid grief from the fans?

Sounds a bit far fetched but so is us signing an unfit player when we all know what was needed.   

[MasterHaynes]

With the greatest of respect, the fact that everyone knew he was injured and it wasn't the player's fault is totally irrelevant - the management wasted the one investment that the new owner was prepared to make in the transfer window - against scouting opinion - and we should have (not could have) bought a minimum of three solid Premier standard players to stabilise an unbalanced team and give us a much better chance of staying up - that's why I keep going on about it - it's not a personal crusade against the unfit Greek

Exactly this, in January Hull bought Jelavic and Long for considerably less than £12m both went onto score 4 goals tying to end up top scorers for the Hull 2013/14 which tells the whole story of how ridiculous our signing of an injured player was, regardless of how much promise he may have for the future.

[EJL]

£12 million for Long and Jelavic may be comparatively good business, but I still think it's silly money.