Frenkie de Jong

[Zenmanc]

Lol! Surely even with a year to go on his contract and coming into his peak age sterling is worth £50m?

FdJ's worth 3x that hence my exuberance if we got him for Raz and 15m

 

[WRicko]

Estimations really we generally make quite a fair amount in player sales on kids we tend to sell them for £5m-10m a pop, think the least we've made in player sales for the last 4 years is about £50m it's quite normal now, when you think we haven't spent the Torres money from this season too yet and with the freed wages that have been generated from Torres, Fernandinho and Aguero.

Now keep in mind we didn't have the Torres money until January but were still prepared to still sign Kane, it shows we already have the funds if we want now Torres is gone, we'll make more too this summer on top of the fee Barca paid us, signing Frenkie DeJong already pays for itself potentially that's without other possible player sales of Sterling or Jesus or anyone else.

I don’t see us making that much money in player sales would be helpful if you guess who might sell for what money

 

[LongsightM13]

CFG players like Herrera, Porro, Palaversa, Stevanovic, Itakura, Smith-Brown, Moreno, Bustos probably £35-40m there. Maybe one of Couto or Kabore would add another £5-10m.
And thats before we consider possible sales of domestic loan players like Doyle, THB, Fiorini, Rogers etc

 

[Centurions]

CFG players like Herrera, Porro, Palaversa, Stevanovic, Itakura, Smith-Brown, Moreno, Bustos probably £35-40m there. Maybe one of Couto or Kabore would add another £5-10m.
And thats before we consider possible sales of domestic loan players like Doyle, THB, Fiorini, Rogers etc

And that's without possibly losing any of Mahrez, Sterling, Gundogan, Zinchenko, Bernardo(really hope not) or Jesus perhaps.

The last 10 years have seen incomings of £84, £69, £64, £52, £82, £32, £61, £27, £10, £40 (rounded up and all in millions, £521 million in total). The incomings have risen in recent years at least partly because the players leaving are of higher quality nowadays.

 

[JDV]

Absolutely sign him if hes available. Would be good Gundogan replacement just 1 year in advance.

Agree. Better 1 year in advance that 1 too late. Especially for this position where a player of this quality doesn't come along often.

 

[richards30]

who would you pick though............... Frenkie this summer or Bellingham next summer?

 

[razman]

Not if Raheem and Barca are up for the swap.

Haaland and De Jong for £63m is meltdown territory.

Do player swaps really work without any fee involved?

I know we have done one, a very successful one at that. With cancelo and Danilo but with transfer fee involved

 

[Jokithedruid]

who would you pick though............... Frenkie this summer or Bellingham next summer?

Both.

 

[bluenova]

Do player swaps really work without any fee involved?

I know we have done one, a very successful one at that. With cancelo and Danilo but with transfer fee involved

Of course they work out - just look at the Mkhitaryan/Sanchez swap ;)

There was an interesting Athletic article about why it's unusual, even with fees. Upshot is that finding two players who agree is unusual. Then you have to negotiate the difference in their worth, which sounds more difficult than two single deals, as you're directly comparing players (hence the article title, "every owner thinks their pony is the prettiest at the fair").

Ultimately, it seems to be that restricting yourself to having to sell to the club that you want to buy from is just adding extra layers of complexity for little gain.

'Every owner thinks their pony is the prettiest one at the fair' - why swap deals don't happen more often

Swap deals get talked about all the time in football. So why don't they happen more often?

theathletic.com

 

[doobyedoobye]

I would prefer any big chunk of wages to go on Rice.