Re: At least we made a profit on AJ!
Slight correction for on Anelka SIB we sold him to play in the Turkish League with Fenerbache.
We were a club running on a shoe string after many relatively expensive purchases were sanctioned for KK .
Anelka had lost interest in playing for us and no doubt we offloaded him for much less than what we paid for him.
Your general summary of what we paid for players as opposed to what we have released them for is not far off the mark.
SWP to Chelsea aside we haven't made any money of any note on players we have bought in and subsequently sold.
If am confident for example that QPR paid a deal less for SWP than we paid Chelsea for him.
We are going to have to get much better at ensuring we are far more prudent in the transfer market in future windows than we have been in the past for many good reasons and I am confident we will even if some of our suporters who believe we are a cash cow when it comes to spending in the transfer market should continue as it has in the past because of the capacity of our owners to fund such purchases will grow impatient.
St Ives blue said:
Slight correction for on Anelka SIB we sold him to play in the Turkish League with Fenerbache.
We were a club running on a shoe string after many relatively expensive purchases were sanctioned for KK .
Anelka had lost interest in playing for us and no doubt we offloaded him for much less than what we paid for him.
Your general summary of what we paid for players as opposed to what we have released them for is not far off the mark.
SWP to Chelsea aside we haven't made any money of any note on players we have bought in and subsequently sold.
If am confident for example that QPR paid a deal less for SWP than we paid Chelsea for him.
We are going to have to get much better at ensuring we are far more prudent in the transfer market in future windows than we have been in the past for many good reasons and I am confident we will even if some of our suporters who believe we are a cash cow when it comes to spending in the transfer market should continue as it has in the past because of the capacity of our owners to fund such purchases will grow impatient.