With the Newcastle takeover I wonder if the money men will view that it’s likely that there’ll be hyper wage inflation over next few years so even if we over pay in salary it’ll seem reasonable in 2/3 years?
if Puma are willing to foot some of this, if we pay a large signing on fee and build in performance related bonuses his Guaranteed weekly may not be sizeably different to KDB and all parties are happy.
I still view it as unlikely that he’ll land here (as we don’t overpay) but I hope we’ll at least be at the table and ensure whoever lands him pays over the odds And if we get him brilliant.