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Fair play to Tom28 for posting and then standing by it when the usual suspects went apesh*t.

"We don’t sell any of our players just to get money. Lately we got a €75m offer for Naby Keïta. No way! He has a contract and he will fulfil it. To sell him would not only be a proof of distrust to our fans but also the wrong sign for our players like Timo Werner, who is in demand too." It is a bit hardline, but I largely approved of the underlying stance when I read it (owner of Leipzig).

We should treat in a similar fashion to how Dortmund have with Pierre Emerick Aubameyang. There's a cut off, and beyond that he won't be allowed to leave under any circumstance.

P.S Fair play to him though. P.P.S Although I do have to ask, what was the point if he was contracted to 2021 anyway?

This

It's the complete reverse of what you've said (as Whitney Grandad has alluded to). Sales are booked immediately in full, and purchases are spread over the length on the contract.

Yeah, I got there eventually But then there's the discrepancy for the 15/16 year itself - ~£30m....where Schneiderlin was sold for £25m and Clyne for £12.5m(ish). It probably is something to do with the nuances of how it's reported/booked, which I simply don't know enough about.

As much as Glasgow is derided....I'm having trouble marrying this with the reported transfer fees too. Any comment, MLG? Mane ~ £34m Pelle ~ £12m Wanyama ~ £10 Fonte ~ £7m Koeman ~ £2m Juanmi ~ £2m (unsure of fee) = £67m. There's a ~£9m shortfall. And since profits on player sales tend to be booked immediately..... And that's overlooking previous years where player sales are lower than reported elsewhere (i.e. SwissRamble) and purchases are higher Edit: I'm assuming the discrepancy relates to the fact that it's a forecast, and only transfer up to and including the 15/16 season have been booked.

Getting worked up over how someone else/a stranger spends their free time. Sheeeesh

Largely agree with the original post, but this thread is just a circlejerk :thunmbup:

Underwhelmed/Slight grumble/Content...ish. If we can't afford to go out and buy a CM (~£10m or less) without having to finance it through sales, then my eyebrow would certainly be raised. We'd probably have to lose Clasie though, for numbers sake.

Increased and guaranteed money for the next six years regardless of health (injuries and whatnot). The contract would've, in theory, set him up life even if he never kicked a ball for us again. Not that I disagree with you that the business plan has changed. I just think players take the money knowing that they can sulk their way into a transfer.

Cheers 75 million then

That should be the benchmark for any Bertrand related offer/transfer then (although I'm unsure of the years left on their respective contracts)

What does 'kick up a fuss' actually mean? Will he turn up to Staplewood without his P.E. kit? Fine, play in your underwear, son. What can a player actually do? Refuse to play/train, presumably? And then we'd fine him. But then what? It all sounds very perpetual Has any player actually been fined for refusing to play? Tevez comes to mind (answered my own Q)....can't remember how that panned out though.

And then buy Sigurdsson

This. He's a pretty uninspiring signing though, but then they do have Coleman.

So, yeah, any opinions about him/decent info, rather than the sniping?

Cheers

Ugh, the idea of perpetuating Chelsea's hoarding policy is slightly off-putting. So as others have said, unless there's a buy clause, we shouldn't be going anywhere near it.

If these are the sort of fees ManU/City/Chelsea are willing to pay, we can bump that Van Dijk fee up about

What's the assessment on Callum at the moment? I know he was talked about rather enthusiastically during all the Arsenal talk. Getting close to the first team involvement? Prowse, Shaw, Chambers, and to a far lesser extent, Hesketh, started making inroads around this sort of age, hence the curiosity.

Ah, okay, cheers. Best of luck to him moving forward then

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