Nah, piece of piss. Well, as long as you’re one of the 2% of footballers to make it professional and even less to make it as an international, but yes, other than that it’s a doddle.
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It's Quiet thread 14 - 'do one' edition
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OccupiedPalestineBlues
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Surely the buy back fee is his true worth?
Nope, the fee that we're currently happy to sell him for is about right under the current circumstances and the buy-back fee is what he may become worth if he develops further during the loan, and beyond, and if football finances recover.
He's not worth what he was 12 months ago because the disruption of covid means that clubs are struggling for money.
If we kept him for development, but he doesn't fit into our system of play, then we'd have him in the squad, taking a squad place but rarely playing, getting paid a lot of bunce and not developing.
That's neither good for him or for us, but if he goes out on loan / plays regularly, develops into a great player, gets bought by loan club, develops further to become worth say £60M in 3 years time, we can pick him up for a bargain price in a resurgent market and they've paid his wages for 3 years.
The people running our club are extremely astute and they make their decisions with much better information than is available to the forum pundits and from a position of great experience at the highest levels in football.
Not aimed at you BTW but having seen this club develop and achieve fantastic success over the last decade, only an idiot could suppose that they don't know what they're doing.
I do not get this idea that Stones lacks fight I think people are equating injuries with lack of fight. People keep saying he does not win the ball headers enough or gets shoved off the ball but I dont remember him ever loosing it like Mendy I paid extra close attention to him recently when it came to header and he was usually the one that jumps for headers in our system and usually wins
mancityscot
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Nope, the fee that we're currently happy to sell him for is about right under the current circumstances and the buy-back fee is what he may become worth if he develops further during the loan, and beyond, and if football finances recover.
He's not worth what he was 12 months ago because the disruption of covid means that clubs are struggling for money.
If we kept him for development, but he doesn't fit into our system of play, then we'd have him in the squad, taking a squad place but rarely playing, getting paid a lot of bunce and not developing.
That's neither good for him or for us, but if he goes out on loan / plays regularly, develops into a great player, gets bought by loan club, develops further to become worth say £60M in 3 years time, we can pick him up for a bargain price in a resurgent market and they've paid his wages for 3 years.
The people running our club are extremely astute and they make their decisions with much better information than is available to the forum pundits and from a position of great experience at the highest levels in football.
Not aimed at you BTW but having seen this club develop and achieve fantastic success over the last decade, only an idiot could suppose that they don't know what they're doing.
sorry mate but €20m for a solid, champions league standard left back is derisory. We've had our pants pulled down
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Can we ask the recruitment person for the women’s team to have a look round? They’ve had a better window than the men.
itisrising
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Coming off a poor season, this has to be our worst transfer window we've had since the takeover. We're usually quick and efficient in the market post a poor season, we're now twelve days away from our first game and our defence is still shambolic.
The Doctor
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Why doesn't Tosin get any mentions?No worse than what we currently have!
I do not get this idea that Stones lacks fight I think people are equating injuries with lack of fight. People keep saying he does not win the ball headers enough or gets shoved off the ball but I dont remember him ever loosing it like Mendy I paid extra close attention to him recently when it came to header and he was usually the one that jumps for headers in our system and usually wins
Anfield in Jan 2018 when Firminho nudged him off the ball and scored . Stones is too nice and not dominant enough imo
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Anfield in Jan 2018 when Firminho nudged him off the ball and scored . Stones is too nice and not dominant enough imo
Same thing happened against Falcao in the CL he just lacks the physical presence and ability to dominate as a CB.
What if we get relegated this season?He wasn't good enough the first time and he certainly wasn't good enough the second time.
So we won't be buying him a third time so that figure is meaningless
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