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is the minimum release free to £10 million? Not sure how this benefits the club. We'd be paying him an extra £1-1.5 million a year, million signing on fee, £500k for his agent. To leave for less than we'd get by selling him now.
I see your point but I doubt any team would look at it as a good deal for a player who would be in their first team.
Hi Stegosaurus here,
Good point i was in that camp too but does lightening really strike twice ?? This is the Blades we ain't that lucky.. will be a massive loss aside of the undoubted quality his workrate is phenomenal.. UTB
I reckon so. How much more is another question. If teams have money and think he can help them be successful I don't think they'd wait. Especially if they thought he'd have a good season and therefore push his value up and be in competition for his signature with a lot more clubs.
Unless he does his ACL or ruptures his achilles against Palace of course.
You can’t play through fear of injury though and he isn’t going to get the wages here, probably only Luton can pay less
Yeh good luck with offering way over what anyone else is getting
brownblade (and others) are no doubt correct that the most likely outcome right now is Illi just plays out his contract and we lose him for nothing in twelve months. However, we should be looking at creative options to mitigate this. I still believe a sale and loan back could possibly work for all parties. It may be less than 10mil (just plucked a figure out my backside), but even a couple of mil would make it worthwhile to us (so long as we get to keep him this year).
The benefit over a sale now is we get to keep our best player and watch him for another year. If he just plays out his contract we get nothing back. I am all for a contract with a low release clause in twelve months (or anything else that keeps Illi here next season and gives us some cash when he does move on).
Why would anyone pay any fee for him only to loan him back for the season though?
I just don't see why he'd sign a contract.
There are three reasons I can think of why Marseilles may benefit from a buy and loan back off the top of my head: 1. Secure him for the following three to four years, 2. Avoid being priced out (wages wise) next year if he has a great season. And 3. To increase the player's value from having a year in the PL. It's happened plenty of times before (with other clubs). I'm not saying they (or Illi) would definitely be keen, just that it's something worth considering.
I agree playing out his current contract looks like the most likely scenario. However, a few reasons he could be swayed are higher money now, some longer term security if he gets seriously injured (a la JOC) or flops in the PL (unlikely, but next season we won't be doing as much attacking). That's surely worth something, but whether there are terms that would be agreeable to both Illi and the club is another matter.
He would lose out on earning £100k a week this year though which would probably equate to the signing on fee
I see people saying a lot of things about signing on fees, wages etc. It's true he might get more as a free transfer, but it's also worth considering that even regular transfers involve player signing on fees.
What way more that about £4million quid?
His missus is dueNot sure if anyone has already asked this but was there a reason why he didn’t play for Senegalthe other day ???
Ahhh ok
Signing on fees are massively higher for Bosmans. He would walk away from a lot of money by leaving this summer.
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