supercrystal7 said:Just makes it look worse for Bayer. You buy a player hoping he will improve, especially a young player. It's crazy to have a minimum release fee in this day and age for 1.5 million. If the played insisted then you look elsewhere.
Yes really it's terrible. You don't have to put a minimum release clause on a player to accept transfer bids from other clubs. If he was just a lowly Bundesliga 2 player then go and find someone else if he won't sign or make a gentleman's agreement.Maldeika said:supercrystal7 said:Just makes it look worse for Bayer. You buy a player hoping he will improve, especially a young player. It's crazy to have a minimum release fee in this day and age for 1.5 million. If the played insisted then you look elsewhere.
Really?
They somehow bought a squad player - he was no world beater in Bundesliga 2 but a regular player. They only paid 2 millions for him. Letting him go somewhen for 1.5 millions does not mean a loss for the club especially if they save this with his wage.
Leverkusen is no club that intends to sell players again. For Sam this sum was important to make sure that - if he does not get enough match time - still finds a club willing to pay for his transfer - and he had a five year contract like this.
It is different when it means top talents.
We will see. Schalke certainly appear to be going down the right path with Draxler. Even if they don't sell him for 45 million euros I can see him going for £30m at least.BayernMan said:Clubs like S04, BvB and Leverkusen seem to have learn their lessons in my opinion like Brazilian clubs. Even after selling Santana and Gotze for low release clauses they hve learnt from them and now dont put any clauses on player contracts. Schalke put a €45m one on Draxler and Bayer 04 didnt sell Schurlle for chump change and dont look like doing the same for Bender. Sadly this had to come after the likes of Vidal, Khedira, Ozil, Kagawa and Sahin had left for peanuts....
supercrystal7 said:Yes really it's terrible. You don't have to put a minimum release clause on a player to accept transfer bids from other clubs. If he was just a lowly Bundesliga 2 player then go and find someone else if he won't sign or make a gentleman's agreement.
Good management would have taken into account what happens if Sam becomes a success? Then the club look foolish as a German international leaves for 1.5 million. There is no defence for such poor management. Leverkusen lost out on a possible 8 million at least, which could have been used to pay wages for other players, fund new signings, be kept by the club or reinvested in some other area.
JollyGood said:supercrystal7 said:Yes really it's terrible. You don't have to put a minimum release clause on a player to accept transfer bids from other clubs. If he was just a lowly Bundesliga 2 player then go and find someone else if he won't sign or make a gentleman's agreement.
Good management would have taken into account what happens if Sam becomes a success? Then the club look foolish as a German international leaves for 1.5 million. There is no defence for such poor management. Leverkusen lost out on a possible 8 million at least, which could have been used to pay wages for other players, fund new signings, be kept by the club or reinvested in some other area.
Not buying him would have meant missing out on a few years of quality service for peanuts in wages, how is that a better decision? How do you know that the next best player who might have agreed on a contract without a release clause would have become a comparable success? In the end, they got a lot of quality for the money they spent on him over his years at Leverkusen, sounds like a good deal to me. Maybe they could have done a better deal, maybe this was the best Sam agreed on after tough negotiations, we don't know and it really doesn't matter, because overall Leverkusen definitely benefited from the deal.
It's one year, but you are right. The league is over and now the fight for the top four is the most interesting thing left.Castiel said:Played/GD/Points
Bayern 16 +34 44
Leverkusen 17 +16 37
M'Gladbach 17 +16 33
Dortmund 17 +18 32
So much for the competitive league in Germany. They're pretty much the SPL now.
I think even spending 20 million on a Lewandowski replacement might be beyond them. When you look at their weak financial position it really makes the decision not to sell Lewandowski, but instead reward him with a pay rise complete insanity.Castiel said:I don't think Dortmund are even capable of spending that much. Nobody in Germany is close to Bayern at the moment and when they get Lewandowski it'll all be a foregone conclusion domestically for the foreseeable future. It's a shame considering how good that league looked only a season ago.