CONFIRMED Iliman Ndiaye to Marseille

[Yellarbellyblade]

Me trying to kid myself that this won’t hurt like hell when he goes

 

[Rodley]

Dont speak too soon.

Best be quick, both out of contract next summer! If they perform they’ll sign a pre-contract elsewhere in Jan anyway!

 

[Westran]

You ever been?

He watched La Haine

 

[Davalon]

Expected this to happen.

Not remotely ITK just felt he'd be off with his paltry wages here and the opportunity to make hay.

Yeah we've apparently offered something very lucrative by our standards but I'd imagine it's well short of what OM will pay.

Just got to hope the fee is palatable.

Despite all the recent talk I've got far more faith in PA doing that than KM.

 

[Bladesman]

Expected this to happen.

Not remotely ITK just felt he'd be off with his paltry wages here and the opportunity to make hay.

Yeah we've apparently offered something very lucrative by our standards but I'd imagine it's well short of what OM will pay.

Just got to hope the fee is palatable.

Despite all the recent talk I've got far more faith in PA doing that than KM.

Under KM we wouldn't even be talking about Illy. He would have been sold after his breakthrough season for £3mil to L**ds.

 

[adiosmiamigo]

I oringally thought the same. After the season playing with MGW the club should have tied him down to a new deal then. I think what's happened now is a combination of naivety, budget planning where we didn't know which league we'd be in, and an unforeseen curve ball.

After that season we received bids in the summer for Ndiaye and turned them all down and he didn't express any interest in wanting to leave. The same happened in January where more clubs came in for him which we turned down. Again, Ndiaye expressed no interest in leaving. As far as we were concerned he was happy playing for us and would do next season, so they figured they'd negotiate a new deal in the summer, not during the season, I'll get to that.

The new deal could have included a relegation transfer fee release clause, or Ndiaye might not sign. Other than that sign a new deal and we sell him next summer if we go down for a decent fee. He'd be gone anyway unless we stay up (probably not likely whether he stayed or not, we can only hope). Naivety on the clubs part, but done in the genuine belief that he didn't want to leave and was happy at Bramall Lane, as everything pointed to that and was true.

The curve ball is the involvement of OM, the one club on Planet Earth to get Ndiaye's interest to the point where he has expressed interest in leaving. If other clubs had bid for him this summer I genuinely believe we'd have turned them down and so would have Ndiaye. It's just unfortunate that it's the only club he wants to play for that's come in.

Potentially part of the problem is our cashflow from falling out of the Premier League. We probably wanted to offer Ndiaye a new deal last season, where he would want a deserved pay rise, but we couldn't commit to paying more if we didn't go up. If we failed to go up budgets would be slashed again and we'd have no money to fund an improved contract. That meant we couldn't renegotiate until this summer when we knew what league we'd be jn and what budget we'd have respective to that league. Unfortunately the curve ball has hampered this.

Personally I hate the thought of us finding talent,nurturing and coaching it and some other club reaping the benefit,that makes us a "feeder"club.

 

[madeinsheffield]

A lot of fan accounts.

Not sure, just said it's a big house

 

[Davalon]

Under KM we wouldn't even be talking about Illy. He would have been sold after his breakthrough season for £3mil to L**ds.

Quite probably.

I've just never felt comfortable he'd be here this coming season. Hopefully it's a gut feeling that's wrong. Certainly wouldn't be the first time.

 

[madeinsheffield]

Well his current or old house isn't far away if that's the case.
Did this mate say if it was a rental or a purchase?

Not sure, just that it's a big house

Apologies for quoting wrong message, long day.....

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Personally I hate the thought of us finding talent,nurturing and coaching it and some other club reaping the benefit,that makes us a "feeder"club.

That's football. Villa discovered and nurtured Grealish for the benefit of Man City. Southampton have done this for decades and made a handsome profit over time. Walcott, Bridge, Bale, Mane, Van Dijk, next will be Ward-Prowse.

 

[Bert]

You ever been?

Bert has many times, most wealthy people live in nearby Aix-en - Provence.
A very elegant town.

 

[Katzenjammer]

"And we go live to this evening's negotiations between officials from Olympique Marseille and Sheffield United as they discuss Illiman Ndiaye's proposed transfer between the two clubs"

 

[Frank the tank]

"And we go live to this evening's negotiations between officials from Olympique Marseille and Sheffield United as they discuss Illiman Ndiaye's proposed transfer between the two clubs"

 

[Bladesman]

Marseille are now interested in Aubameyang.

Maybe trying to get him and Illy?

 

[Harrisblade]

1. He's not English or the fee would be silly

2. No, £17mil is a good fee for a player who's entering the last year of his contract and can sign a pre-contract agreement for anyone in January. A fee double that? I don't think so.

Haaland was entering the last year of his contract and went to Man City for only £50mil. Mane was entering the last year of his contract and left Liverpool for £34mil. Do you seriously think a kid unproven in the Premier League is worth the same as these two in the same scenario?

Dose of reality needed here dude. No offence.

Reality is what the buyer wants to spend.
If they won't meet our price, we keep him and maybe find it a little bit easier to stay in the PL.
And didn't Gyorkes go for £20m in his last year, without having played in the PL either?

 

[Balboni]

You ever been?

Yeah mate, in the euros. Why do you ask?

 

[Westran]

Marseille are now interested in Aubameyang.

Maybe trying to get him and Illy?

Could be that, could be trying to suggest they will go elsewhere if we don't except their offer, or could be looking to otter options in case negotiations with us don't go there way. Could be loads of things at play here.

 

[Gin&Juice]

Bert has many times, most wealthy people live in nearby Aix-en - Provence.
A very elegant town.

Both are great towns, Once melted due to the heat on a bus from Aix to Marseille and ended up stuck near the station, which is admittedly not a place you want to be stuck.

 

[Balboni]

Bert has many times, most wealthy people live in nearby Aix-en - Provence.
A very elegant town.

That must be much nicer than Marseille then. The Naples of France.

 

[brownblade]

Anyone able to edit some audio and video to make it look like Ndiaye is saying Hendo's "I'm not f***ing leaving"?

Then send it to everyone in Marseille.

 

[Greg.]

I agree with a lot, however Marseille is an absolute dump.

Parts around it are lovely though e.g. Aix en Provence

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

 

[ThatJa]

Looks like the boy is off

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

But he is on the sky opening day promo....you can't go, you just can't....... Fine get a sh*t load for him, plus add ons, plus whatever we can get

 

[adiosmiamigo]

That may well be but Villa didn't sell Grealish to the detriment of their club,Southampton may have done it for years and now have payed the price with relegation.I'm mindful of an old friend of mine,Brian Bradley who maintained that Sheffield United were a First Division club with a third division mentality,I would hope we've moved on from that thinking in the 60s.

 

[derfblade.3]

I bet we get "Sold for an undisclosed fee". They will take Illy for peanuts and we will never know.

 

[Flumps]

That may well be but Villa didn't sell Grealish to the detriment of their club,Southampton may have done it for years and now have payed the price with relegation.I'm mindful of an old friend of mine,Brian Bradley who maintained that Sheffield United were a First Division club with a third division mentality,I would hope we've moved on from that thinking in the 60s.

I don't think we have. It was one of the very few things that used to piss me off about Wilder. He regularly said things that suggested we had no right to be in the PL and that mentality ran through the club, I imagine it still does. We may have players like Anel, Berge, Illi that are fired and ready to play I fear we still have more than enough of the veterans to bring the new lads back down to earth. Personally I don't care if they lose and get relegated so long as they take the game to every team and play with no fear.

 

[adiosmiamigo]

Apologies didn’t think

Good job the pic wasn't of an abbatoir,depicting the ill-treatment and abuse and slaughter of innocent creatures,but it wasn't was it?

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Reality is what the buyer wants to spend.
If they won't meet our price, we keep him and maybe find it a little bit easier to stay in the PL.
And didn't Gyorkes go for £20m in his last year, without having played in the PL either?

Gyorkes scored 17 goals in 21/22
Ndiaye scored 7 goals in 21/22

Gyorkes scored 21 goals in 22/23
Ndiaye scored 14 goals in 22/23

Reliable goalscoring strikers will always command higher transfer fees as they're a rarity and more sought after.

The funny thing is that after we announced our £20mil budget some people on here were suggesting we should sign him, as if somehow he was only worth £10mil, or we'd have a cat's chance in hell.

 

[YES Blade]

I bet we get "Sold for an undisclosed fee". They will take Illy for peanuts and we will never know.

Do we ever announce the fee? I can’t remember the last time we did for either a purchase or sale.