SlowDownDerek
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Randal Kolo Muani - 75m euros
Never heard of him tbf but I'm sure he's very good.
Randal Kolo Muani - 75m euros
The thing is though, he is on a long term contract with us and we could just play hardball and say 70m or he stays. I could see one or two clubs being desperate enough and worried enough about losing him, to stump up something close to that, even if that includes an element of add ons.
So 70m including add ons. I could see somebody deeming that a fair price tbh.
We potentially have other players who would be easier to replace whom we could sell to plug any FFP holes.
Will be interesting to see how we play this in the summer.
I have faith in the new owners. They won’t just bend over and get shafted. Any sale has to make sense. He’s our player, it’s our call.
The new owners will be looking to balance on field success with the financial considerations. Currently you’d say that Dom is likely to be a massive facilitator of another successful season next season, so what is that worth to us ? Then there are the FFP benefits to selling him and cashing in, but how will we cope next season without him ?Who knows, I still wonder about how significant the period he struggled will be. There's still going to be question marks over whether that was a blip or of this is a purple patch.
Tbf to the club they've usually done ok in extracting value when selling players.
Came to say this basically. The market was red hot a year or so back, Chelsea and City (for example) were throwing huge sums around. Seems like maybe all the FFP/PSR hoohaar might have lowered the ceiling? We’ll find out I guess.Be an interesting window, the last one was a damp squid due to ffp.
Who's got 50m to spend on one player?
If (big if) Dom does go in the summer, it will be one of the toughest assignments for Franno to deal with replacing 17+ goals? I wouldn't want that as my first job in charge
I very much disagree and said as such at the time.
And the old body language argument isn’t going to do much to sway me. It’s amazing it still comes up. We really shouldn’t judge players by body language.
Darren Anderton, Brett Pitman, Philip Billing…
Fair enough. Having spent a fortune on terrible performances that season at home and away, I respectfully disagree.I very much disagree and said as such at the time.
And the old body language argument isn’t going to do much to sway me. It’s amazing it still comes up. We really shouldn’t judge players by body language.
Darren Anderton, Brett Pitman, Philip Billing…
Not in isolation maybe, but within the context of him having wanted to leave and the very poor performances with lack of movement, I believe he checked out.Two fine examples of why you can’t judge a player on body language. He managed to look negative and too positive, both adjudged to be wrong.
Fair enough. Having spent a fortune on terrible performances that season at home and away, I respectfully disagree.
You may not be old enough. But!!Fair enough. Having spent a fortune on terrible performances that season at home and away, I respectfully disagree.
Been a while since I've left a game and heard the comparison to Benson-era football.You may not be old enough. But!!
I among others was daft enough to spend a fortune watching Bensons team to name but one.
Be thankful that you regard the above as terrible.
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I believe that Dom will go in the summer. The speculation is far too rife to be ignored. A more important issue is who do we replace him with. We have to bear in mind that we cannot afford to buy the ready made 'off the shelf' PL striker. We buy players that we can develop, as we did with Solanke. The problem is that while a new striker is being developed and the time it takes, we will be losing football matches as a result.