Chez

To provide context, Haller (26) was just sold (right in the middle of the COVID financial situation) for £20m and he was a non scoring, dare I say it, complete and utter failure.

I was thinking the same. £20m is far too low. At this very minute would we accept £20m for him? I think no, and thus a £20m clause could create a possibility of a bid today that we could not turn down. Come the end of the season, would we accept a £20m (again assuming no contract has been signed) or risk an unhappy player that leaves for free 12 months later. Not sure, but at least its in our own destiny. As you say, may as well remove the contract offer - all it does is give him big money security and prevent him going for £0 in 18 months. Tricky though. As a company, allowing a valuable asset to depreciate to £0 would be bad business.

11 league and one league cup game now. Fulham have improved, but points are still few and far between.

he ain't gonna make 20 unless he comes on off the bench in games like this.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1301034/Timo-Werner-contract-details-Chelsea-salary-bonus not sure how accurate that is, but £270,000 a week might be sightly beyond us.

like they know.

we appear to have offered him the biggest contract in our history. Not sure we can do much more than that. we want to keep him, no doubt about it, but there is only so far we can go. We just can't compete with the big boys who pay the likes of Lingard £150k a week, and proper players many times more.

Players want CL money more than CL football IMO. If we paid him say £350k a week, for the sake of argument, and United came in offering him CL football but on £150k a week do you think he'd leave?

This story doesn't make sense to me. The older he gets the less likely a big club will come in for him. Sign a new deal and any move disappears. No better moment for him to get his move than this summer (when his price will be low, thereby attracting suitors) or the summer after when he his price will be nothing. Both rely on his not signing a new deal.

I thought the idea was to see if the next guy could fill his shoes. Walcott has looked good working up and down the line, but not up the middle. N'Dundulu is interesting. Not sure I am confident he is gonna be good enough ti be our starting striker by the start of next season.does he score for fun for the B team?

makes you wonder how much Ings proven, but older is truely worth. I guess one year left in the summer changes things a lot.

Brentford not known for giving away their star players

If Long is the only other option, then perhaps you'd need to reconsider. Back to the original question, do you drop him (like we did Hoj) and who do you pick? The adopting the formation throughout the club is the new black box for me.

Like the all red design a lot, less so the black, the yellow is decent top. I'd much prefer a new shirt like that, which has a very solid design to repeating or rehashing the `Denmark' design as they did with Coventry. Not convinced by the stripes design, but Hummel will get it right I'm sure.

good point. I'd say the rest of the season. Can't see big money moves happening in Jan. Can't see him signing now he has said he wants CL.

Depends if we play one or two up top. If we play one, then Ings first choice, Adams second.

I'd expect so. That money would come in handy to pay Ings, or get a free transfer like Omar Richards this summer.

good point, but we had Romeu playing well. Who is the replacement this time, Adams?

he cares about his investment, but Premiership survival is all that has ever been required for the owner to ensure that investment pays off, with the value if clubs going up every year - except this.

when a player start talking about wanting champions league to the press, they mean they want champions league money. Basically the article is a `come get me' big six. Usually what happens is a big side not actually in the CL comes in for them and they sign for them anyway. I'd say it's pretty much over - negotiations wise. He's gone, so long as their is a buyer of course.

I have no issue with them expecting the club to be self financing, so long as that also meant are debt didn't start growing (which it has), but it the current climate it would have nice to have seen Gao lend us the £78m rather than us pay 9.14% interest rate.

Understood, but equally I should imagine the owner requires that we don't continue to lose tens of millions each year, which willbe hard with revenue down and the need to spend some money on new players in the summer. Youngsters could fill the void. On tonights showing you have ask if they are good enough.

as I have mentioned several times matthew, the debt rises to £122m if we don't start paying ti until 2025. So I have little doubt the club WILL be making a debt repayment before then. The sooner we pay it down, the less we `waste' in interest payments, which eat into our annual budget.

did he touch the ball in anger? Not sure the left side was used in the second half, at all. Vokins and Chauke simply didn't figure.

complain no, critique, yes.