Jorginho

[Citizen Green]

So accirding to the press Jorginho will apparently sign this week for £48.5m + £5m in add ons.
Txiki will have saved the club a whopping £1.5m in trasfer outlay!
Wed or Thu for the official announcement?

If Txiki had gone straight in with what they initially wanted they would have moved the goalposts and wanted anything from £65m upwards.

He's done a good job in today's market getting him at the agreed fee.

 

[BlueAnorak]

What's actually your issue here?
we got our player, we didn't cave to their demands and it's only just turned July.

No issue - just saying we have actualy have saved money. Not a lot but some.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

I love how 1.5 million is now seen as a waste of time negotiating nowadays, put it into perspective it's a lot of money

Whilst £1.5m is a lot of money I would point out we have no idea what went on. It could have been £10.5m saved. Who knows?

 

[oakiecokie]

I love how 1.5 million is now seen as a waste of time negotiating nowadays, put it into perspective it's a lot of money

We don`t half have some bozo`s on here.I`m glad they`re not in charge of our finances.We have no idea as to how the breakdown of money will be paid and for all we know Txiki may have had to work on a lot of scenarios that suits our needs.

 

[nmc]

I love how 1.5 million is now seen as a waste of time negotiating nowadays, put it into perspective it's a lot of money

Quite. However rich you are you don’t piss 1.5m away. Otherwise you won’t be rich for long.

 

[lee_wsm]

Saved money on wages and put a message to selling clubs

 

[cyclops]

I love how 1.5 million is now seen as a waste of time negotiating nowadays, put it into perspective it's a lot of money

Surely it would have been better for Txiki to have paid the £1.5M to avoid Big Dave off the internet having a couple of frustrating weeks during the close season.

 

[Rammyblues]

And we have saved whatever wages he was on. Prudent fiscal accounting IMO.

 

[crazyg]

I love how 1.5 million is now seen as a waste of time negotiating nowadays, put it into perspective it's a lot of money

Over double what I earned gross in my 38 year working life, starting at £455PA in 1968.

 

[TonyM]

It all depends on how much money we've spent on teas, coffees, croissants and danishes while negotiating with them. If it's anything less than £1,500,000 then we did a great job.