angelman

Fees.... Buying club under "reports" it, selling club over "reports" it. So we have £11m and we also have £14/15m rising to £17m. Choose the one that makes you feel happiest.

Super, seems you are right - https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2019/marseille-sign-ffp-agreement-with-uefa/

Good to see that he's already been written off by a fair few on here!!!!! Me, I'm looking forward to him, Djenepo and Redmond up front with maybe Ings playing a little deeper as secondary striker.

Why would we pay any of his wages if he went to another PL team?????????????????????????

If he goes, the price paid also gets PL experience off the pitch, not just on it.

15 minutes is just nonsense. I saw one game that had 7 or 8 minutes each half which was bad enough, but 15!!! If refs are going to get worse and worse, then the decisions making will take more and more time. I think that we can all agree that VAR for the women is just not working. If it is a choice between a dodgy decision or two, or tens of minutes of breaks and ET, then I'll take the dodgy decisions all day long.

Seeing the complete farce at the Ladies WC, I cannot see the PL accepting anything like that. And I read today that the ref over ruled the VAR people on the red card that should have been, for fear that Cameroon would have walked off. There needs to be a far quicker decision made, and I would include "umpire's call" margin of error/interpretation. The last thing I want to do is be sitting in the stands with 10 minutes of ET just because the ref and VAR have faffed about for so long. Long breaks break up the flow of the game and ruin it. Maybe the VAR people should have a 15 second time limit, otherwise stick with the ref's original decision.

Life isn't that kind to us.

Surprised Austin isn't included in the list to off load, and had thought that maybe Boufal could be reintegrated.

Bit of a joke in the Eng V Cameroon game. Cameroon not accepting the VAR decisions and apparently the Cameroon players were saying racism was at play!!

I do think that transfermarkt get their figures wrong a fair bit, but it seems to give more info than elsewhere. So having said that.... looking at the total market value of the squad, we were 7th or 8th not so many seasons ago. Now we are supposedly behind Bournemouth. I know it's subjective to a large extent, but it does show how sit our recruitment has been recently....https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/startseite/wettbewerb/GB1

All this talk about spending big bucks, got me thinking about other clubs and their Record transfers (according to transfermarkt.co.uk) which I know is only half the package, as wages, Bosman, etc etc Ignoring the Big 6..... this is so far what is listed... Sheffield Utd - James Beattie - £5.4m Norwich - Naismith - £9.9m Burnley - Gibson - £15.21m Cardiff - Sala - £15.3m Brighton - Jahanbakhsh - £17.1m Huddersfield - Kongolo - £18m Watford - Gray - £18.36m Newcastle - Owen - £22.5m Aston Villa - Wesley - £22.5m Saints - Vestergaard - £22.5m Bournemouth - £25.2m Fulham - Seri - £27.0m Leicester - Slimani - £27.45m Palace - Benteke - £28.08m Wolves - Jiminez - £34.2m West Ham - Anderson - £34.2m Everton - Sigurdsson - £44.46m

Reckon no one has bought a single top because it is so ****, so they will change it. Pride comes before a fall.....

60k is Euro, so more like £50k a week, which is about standard really in this bloated world of football. As you say Egg, it's madness that this sort of deal is going to cost us, but it shows our folly (and not just us who does this) that we over pay and then can't rid ourselves of the burden. But I do think that if these Dutch clubs sell big, they have to accept that they are going to have to pay bigger than they want when buying back. Looking at them, they seemed to spend big about 12 years ago - with their record incomer being about £6.3m, £5.4m (Pelle) and £4.5m. But since then it's down to £2m ish. But the sales..... In 16/17 they flogged Janssen to Spurs for £20m, and last season they flogged Jahanbakhsh to Brighton for £17.5m and someone else to the Bundesliga for £9.5m. So they can afford to pay us something and pay Clasie.

There are many reports that the cost was £8m-£8.5m, and you have forgotten to deduct loan fees and others paying part of his wage.

I think the feeling is entirely mutual, or very nearly so.

What did he score last season - 22 goals. We currently have 3 players who scored 20+ in the Championship in a season. Long - 21 in 2010/11 Austin - 24 in 2012/13 Ings - 23 in 2013/14

Isn't he great pals with Redmond?

I can't be the only one who, when this thread has a new post, is hoping that this might have been resolved, and am sorely disappointed that it never is!

Sad that no Saints coming through the U21.

Nah, tajuk, the weather in Seville is FAR too hot, the beer isn't as good, nor are the pork pies. And Spanish cheese??

Looking at him play, thought it a bit tough on Harry Reed, who I thought the better player.

We signed him for £8m on a 5 year contract (although transfermarkt says £13.5) and got 49 games out of him, spread over 2 seasons. As things go, not a disaster and it falls into one of those categories of "worth a chance", something a club our size has to take. £2m would be good I would have thought.

Giving the manager the money was a big mistake. Its not even hindsight saying that. We all saw MP was struggling, and we all saw GC's stats. Monaco took our pants down on that one.

Does Bertrand want to go?