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Player Valuation: £60m
All the noise made by brands and the club over signings will be for nothing if we do sign him.
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Would you be happy paying him over a 100K for 20 appearances a season though?
All the noise made by brands and the club over signings will be for nothing if we do sign him.
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We already have Walcott as the overpaid underproducing former English wonderkid/pace merchant at 30.
No thanks.
For what he gets paid he needs to be good enough to start every week and he definitely isn't.under producing??? he has scored 9 in 54 games. Pretty good for a wide man.
The Bernard deal is very different imo. He’s 25 and we could easily sell fur decent money a couple of years down the line. If he hasn’t adjusted to the prem. I read somewhere we had given him a 40mil buy out clause. Probably rubbish like.I wouldn't look at it that singularly, i would accept that signing any striker is going to be your highest wage out put, that is the market. If the existing squad in that position stays the same, then back up strikers are Tosun, Niasse and Sandro costing north of 200k a week, i would be surprised if they have managed 20 appearances this season between the three of them (Havent checked like).
If as i hope, we loose two of those and hope against hope we get a fee, then its a simple redistribution of wages, likely a small profit. So to put it simply, yes. To present another slant on it, this seems to be a sticking point, the wage. Its the same concept as the Sandro deal that we were happy with and thought great business a couple of years ago. Equally Bernard who is on a high wage. if you didnt have a problem with that deal or Beranrds, there can be gold in deals of this nature, i dont see the beef really and i would be a strong advocate on bringing the wage bill down.
I wouldn't look at it that singularly, i would accept that signing any striker is going to be your highest wage out put, that is the market. If the existing squad in that position stays the same, then back up strikers are Tosun, Niasse and Sandro costing north of 200k a week, i would be surprised if they have managed 20 appearances this season between the three of them (Havent checked like), two spent the entire season and half of it not at the club, therefore from a wage/impact/contribution point of view its a no brainer. Its the cocktail that has me so open minded about this. Our back up striker situation is an absolute joke on every front i mention.
If as i hope, we loose two of those and hope against hope we get a fee, then its a simple redistribution of wages, likely a small profit. So to answer your question simply, yes.
To present another slant on it and this seems to be a sticking point, the wage. Its the same concept as the Sandro deal that we were happy with and thought great business a couple of years ago. Equally Bernard who is on a high wage. if you didnt have a problem with that deal or Beranrds, there can be gold in deals of this nature, i dont see the beef really and i would be a strong advocate on bringing the wage bill down.
under producing??? he has scored 9 in 54 games. Pretty good for a wide man.
But that's the key isn't it? Sandro has shown us that it in fact wasn't a good deal. We've had our fingers burned already, so why stick them right into the furnace again?
Also Bernard was a different situation because he was being signed to be our regular winger, so of course he'd get a bigger wage because he's going to play more. Welbeck would be coming in as a back up. There's also the possibility of him getting in the way of someone like DCL, who is on far less, is much younger and has way more of an upside. If he's on a bigger wage then he'll likely get picked over DCL a lot just to justify the contract, whether he deserves to or not
I'd much rather us persist with DCL, a new first choice striker and a back up whose on less of a wedge
Let's not forget that Welbeck has had a lot of injury issues. If we sign him to 100K a week deal for 3 years and he spends most of it on the trainers table then we're going to be looking at a river of wasted funds. Moshiri might as well throw millions of pounds in an oil drum and burn it in the center circle whilst cackling maniacally