Player Suggestion Tom Cairney

[Blade58]

LOL £10m for a 30 yr old Championship player?

If that is true by any chance, as decent as he might be, no ta

Fulham maintaining firm stance on Sheffield United target with Slavisa Jokanovic ready to test their resolve

Fulham are going to place a price tag of around £10 million on midfielder Tom Cairney with Sheffield United registering an interest in him

footballleagueworld.co.uk

 

[Roygbiv]

This almost certainly won't happen

 

[Frank the tank]

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[Yogi]

LOL £10m for a 30 yr old Championship player?

If that is true by any chance, as decent as he might be, no ta

Fulham maintaining firm stance on Sheffield United target with Slavisa Jokanovic ready to test their resolve

Fulham are going to place a price tag of around £10 million on midfielder Tom Cairney with Sheffield United registering an interest in him

footballleagueworld.co.uk

Football league world very unreliable source but if that figure is even in the ball park I wouldn’t waste the expense of making a phone call.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

Football league world very unreliable source but if that figure is even in the ball park I wouldn’t waste the expense of making a phone call.

It’s probably a fair price pre covid, but you could secure younger and better for that kind of investment especially when you add his contract into the cost. There’s probably another £12M there so £22M not including signing on and agent fees making a nice round £25M for a playing turning 31 in his first season. We’re good ta.

 

[Yogi]

It’s probably a fair price pre covid, but you could secure younger and better for that kind of investment especially when you add his contract into the cost. There’s probably another £12M there so £22M not including signing on and agent fees.
We’re good ta.

Yeah it’s a reasonable price if there was any resale value to him but at 30 coming off a serious injury you may as well set fire to that money

 

[Harrisblade]

Yeah it’s a reasonable price if there was any resale value to him but at 30 coming off a serious injury you may as well set fire to that money

How many would care about 'resale value' if he helped provide the mid-field creativity we've all been clamouring for for the last 12 months?

 

[Yewsman]

How many would care about 'resale value' if he helped provide the mid-field creativity we've all been clamouring for for the last 12 months?

Re-sale value got to be a consideration. OK if he comes and we get promotion back to PL but if we don't then that's a lot of money gone.

 

[ancientblade]

Yeah it’s a reasonable price if there was any resale value to him but at 30 coming off a serious injury you may as well set fire to that money

fair comment yogi but we took that route in the premier league if we had brought 2 or 3 genuine quality premier league players instead of going for resale players i think we would have had a better chance of staying up as for cairney i would say 7m tops with his age just because fulham want 10m for him doesnt mean there going to get it i will go against most on here and say it would be a good signing

 

[Yogi]

How many would care about 'resale value' if he helped provide the mid-field creativity we've all been clamouring for for the last 12 months?

Not many but it narrows the positive outcomes from the transfer. Not saying it’s a bad transfer but you’re narrowing your margin for error significantly with that type of deal. Especially as united won’t be able to fund those type of signings outside the parachute payments window.

 

[Yogi]

fair comment yogi but we took that route in the premier league if we had brought 2 or 3 genuine quality premier league players instead of going for resale players i think we would have had a better chance of staying up as for cairney i would say 7m tops with his age just because fulham want 10m for him doesnt mean there going to get it i will go against most on here and say it would be a good signing

You’re not wrong but the counter point would be that if we’d Signed those players and still gone down we’d be in a worse position to rebuild now. Berge for example hasn’t really stamped his mark on the team despite having ability but because of his age we stand to make a significant profit if he was 30 we’d be taking a significant loss. If we go up then what we pay doesn’t matter but if we don’t we’ve no chance of recouping that money.

 

[Whitby-Blade]

Quality player but would much prefer someone along the lines of Michael Olise although that ship has probably sailed already. Really hope the days of buying players who have passed their peak have gone.

 

[Sithblade]

The only way he'd be worth 10 is if it was 5 million up front, a further 3 if we get promoted and the other 2 depending on us then staying up.

 

[robbiez666]

I'd speculate £5 million on him tops 30 coming off a serious injury. Quality player but there's a bit of post-injury Coutts uncertainty

 

[ancientblade]

The only way he'd be worth 10 is if it was 5 million up front, a further 3 if we get promoted and the other 2 depending on us then staying up.

yeah good point most transfers these days have stipulations in them think your assesment is just about right

 

[BigBed]

No, to old and injuries seem to be becoming more regular.

 

[CTRL ALT DE LAET]

I really don't see £9/£10 million being a huge problem here. Unlikely all of this will be due upfront and could be based upon promotion.

Appreciate there isn't any sale on value with him but there isn't with Luke Freeman either who was a similar price

 

[ancientblade]

with his age and previous injuries i think we could get cairney for about 7m and as a previous poster said 5m then rest on promotion if achieved

 

[BarryBigtime]

I think he's a quality footballer. Being from Notts I would think he'd have no qualms in joining us but for myself, the fee will be the factor in determining whether it's a good deal or not. His injury record isn't too bad...his worst season in the Championship saw him play 34 games. It's always the question of if he is still the same player he was prior to the injury last year.

I imagine under Slav, you play through the pain...

 

[Tazzy]

I think freeman can do a job for us in this league if fit

 

[Macfarlane21]

Cairney would be great addition to the the squad but not at 10 million plus the guaranteed big wages having been promoted to the PL twice.

 

[Pedro Verde]

Luke Freeman either who was a similar price

Freeman wasnt £9m /10m
He was also younger than Cairney when we signed him

 

[Harrisblade]

Cairney would be great addition to the the squad but not at 10 million plus the guaranteed big wages having been promoted to the PL twice.

Why 'guaranteed' big wages?
He'll be playing in the Championship and almost certainly on the same wage range as the rest of the squad.
Higher wages will come with success and job satisfaction (hopefully) from playing a big part in a succesful/formation managed by a manager he respects.
Otherwise we might as well give up now on the thought of ever buying an already proven quality player and return to the usual 'same old, same old' transfer policy.

 

[Berlin Blade]

I’d like to have him, but I’d rather have Chair from QPR for 6/7 million instead. His numbers probably aren’t as good but he’s a lot younger.

I’d also rather we got Dembele from posh for about 5. He looks the real deal and won’t be there for long.

 

[Balham]

I’d like to have him, but I’d rather have Chair from QPR for 6/7 million instead. His numbers probably aren’t as good but he’s a lot younger.

I’d also rather we got Dembele from posh for about 5. He looks the real deal and won’t be there for long.

Both completely different players to Cairney. Dembélé is a 5'7" centre forward/winger, Chair a 5'7" attacking midfielder/winger, Cairney a 6' central midfielder. Cairney is also Fulham's captain and we're sorely lacking in leadership at the moment.

 

[ancientblade]

cairney is also left footed so if we sign him i would think either fleck or freeman will be moved on

 

[Berlin Blade]

Balham Blade I was under the impression Cairney was a 10. He’s played there every time I’ve seen him. Dembele, although he did start as a winger has played a lot this season in the 10, more centrally behind the striker so I’d be signing him for that position with the bonus of him being able to play wide. Chair is a 10 too, so while I’m not saying they’re all very similar players, I don’t think they’re totally different either, certainly in terms of position.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

Why 'guaranteed' big wages?
He'll be playing in the Championship and almost certainly on the same wage range as the rest of the squad.
Higher wages will come with success and job satisfaction (hopefully) from playing a big part in a succesful/formation managed by a manager he respects.
Otherwise we might as well give up now on the thought of ever buying an already proven quality player and return to the usual 'same old, same old' transfer policy.

Then he’ll stay at Fulham on higher wages.
It’s alright moaning about “same old, same old” transfer policy but players don’t want to come to us for less than they’re on.
If Fulham want £10M for him, which isn’t unreasonable given we’re a direct rival, the deal is likely to cost us around £24M for a player who turns 31 this season and has some serious concerns around his knee injury.

 

[bongleblade]

LOL £10m for a 30 yr old Championship player?

If that is true by any chance, as decent as he might be, no ta

Fulham maintaining firm stance on Sheffield United target with Slavisa Jokanovic ready to test their resolve

Fulham are going to place a price tag of around £10 million on midfielder Tom Cairney with Sheffield United registering an interest in him

footballleagueworld.co.uk

lol sorry to point this out, but i have seen some of our fans asking for £10m for didzy on the other thread. I’d imagine Fulham have asked for £10m as a maximum fee, and then hopefully with negotiating it’d fall from there, although a newly promoted PL team might want to take a punt so i’d imagine they’d get their £10m

 

[Berlin Blade]

Value is often determined by how much the player is worth to the selling club, rather than how much someone is willing to pay or the quality of the player.

For example, Didzy probably is worth ten million to us because he’s just scored nearly ten goals in a premier league season where his team scored about 20 all season, and more importantly we have nobody like him, he’s under contract and a long term replacement would not come much cheaper than that. If Fulham want Cairney’s wages off their books and they have an abundance of players in that position, they would probably be willing to negotiate for 5 million because if they stubbornly say ‘15 million or no deal’ it’s no deal and nobody gets what they want. They aren’t in the strongest of negotiating positions in that respect.