Two different investments.
Grealish is an investment for right now - you look at him and say go on get us up the league and into Europe and make us money next season.
Dibling in an investment in the future, you cost me £50 mill today, but you...
….from Southamptons perspective, if nobody is willing to meet their valuation they could be left with a young player who doesn’t want to be there, who is drawing a salary and who’s value will start decreasing.
It’s a good game to play if you...
Exactly.
If his cost all in £12 mill a year, we loan him for the last two season of his contract = 12 mill a year, £24 mill in total - then he can sign on a free.
If we sign him permanently now for £25 people
- like KDH, people probably look...
Its not even scandalous by our own poor standards mate.
KDH i imagine is prob costing something like 10 mill a year min, wages and amortisation.
The other thing is a loan deleverages the risk, say he comes, doesn't recover his form, gets...
I’m not sure it’s so ridiculous really if it’s a total cost.
The per annum cost (fee plus wages) for all PL players is really high.
Just using loan player examples, Harrison was costing 5m a year, Lindstrom was a 3m loan fee plus probably the...
We've signed a fair few prospects as well, that wont hit the ground running in the starting 11 bar KDH - Grealsih would give us a bit of PL know how in advanced positions.