Hypergooner wrote:Power n Glory wrote:Hypergooner wrote:As I said, if he wants to be playing regularly this side of a WC, he needs to sign or find a buyer. It's not about us not respecting him or anything. We have made it quite clear we love him by offering loads more money to stay. It's about our failing transfer model, by letting players run down contracts, not put as much in for the final months and us loosing transfer fees!
We're not talking about Henry here! As good as Saka is, he's not single handedly dragging us in to CL finals and top 2 finishes.
Everyone understands the hardline stance you're presenting but it's whether it's enforceable and realistic. Saka is the poster child for Project Youth 2.0 and the 'Process'. If we sell this summer or decide to freeze him out, which is cutting our nose to spite our face, how do you think the fans would react?
You've seen and acknowledged the crazy transfer fees for players. Replacing Saka won't be cheap or easy. He contributed to 19 goals last season and we were close to a CL finish. Losing him could harm our CL chances and trying to freeze him out of the team drops his value, which harms us off the pitch as well.
We don't hold the best cards in this situation no nlmagger how it is sliced. But we have to make a tough choice.
I Don't agree that it's hard line. It's just honesty and very much depends on how it's present. I'd like to think fans were bright enough to understand if the club explained the position honestly.
Our transfer policy has put us in a financial and sporting mess. We need to get out of it, if we have any hope of being a top team again!
The numbers say it all!
Saka signs for £120k per week for 6 years, thats total loss -£37.44m and we keep a poster boy. Best case!
If he doesn't sign leaves in 2 years at £40k per week, that’s -£4.16m. We buy -£40m replacement on £100k PW thats -£20.8m total loss = -£64.96m Over 6 years. Worst case!
We sell him for £70m now, cheap for a player of his quality and age. Buy £40m experienced replacement on £100k pw, 6 year deal, that’s £71.2m. Toal loss -£1.2m
Again, that all sounds sensible until you try to name the the £40m experienced replacement on £100k a week.