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2021/22 Alex Iwobi

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If we sell players (like Digne) and replace them with others (like Mykolenko) then we're well up on transfer fee + wages FFP wise.

That gives us room to take a loss on Iwobi on both fee and wages.

….the challenge is giving Iwobi a financial package that means no loss of income over the remainder of his contract. He will be entitled to 10% of any transfer fee which helps.
 
….the challenge is giving Iwobi a financial package that means no loss of income over the remainder of his contract. He will be entitled to 10% of any transfer fee which helps.

If we sold him at a big loss but that was balanced in FFP with a sale then in theory we could give him a pay off on wage difference as well if the new replacement was on less.
 

If we sold him at a big loss but that was balanced in FFP with a sale then in theory we could give him a pay off on wage difference as well if the new replacement was on less.
In the summer he will have a book value of 11.5M, so if you sold him for 8M or so, you wouldn't expect him to have any impact on the accounts next season (if you don't sell him you keep the player and are 8-9M worse off).
 
….the challenge is giving Iwobi a financial package that means no loss of income over the remainder of his contract. He will be entitled to 10% of any transfer fee which helps.
This has been our achilles heel over the last few years. A bunch of players Iwobi, Delph, Besic, Bolasie, Gomes even, that someone would probably take a go on, but who's wages are so high it scuppers any move. Amazed we got Bernard off the books.

Hopefully we get smarter with the contracts we dish out in future.
 
In the summer he will have a book value of 11.5M, so if you sold him for 8M or so, you wouldn't expect him to have any impact on the accounts next season (if you don't sell him you keep the player and are 8-9M worse off).

So is £8m the minimum amount we can accept to cut ties and not impact future spend?
Surely there's another club out there who would be willing to take the risk - pay him a similar salary and only pay that amount?
 
So is £8m the minimum amount we can accept to cut ties and not impact future spend?
Surely there's another club out there who would be willing to take the risk - pay him a similar salary and only pay that amount?
That's more or less break even value in the summer. Which would mean the projection for 22/23 would already be 8-9M or so better than it is currently.

If we let him go for free in the summer it would be the same as keeping him next season, but the final year of his contract we'd be 8M better off.

More or less.
 

I used to try to defend him in some degree in the past, he's a weird player and I still don't know what position he's best at.

That being said, you can have the ability of Messi but if you are too scared to play a simple 10 yard pass then you're useless. I can forgive lack of skill but being a coward is properly not on. I'd get rid as soon as possible.
 
It really comes down now to the level of ambition that Iwobi shows.

In the middle of a crippling injury crisis he still did not start in every game and certainly has now been passed by Gordon and with any luck we may even make a signing in January for the wide positions.

He is very much a squad player now and if he is unhappy about that then there is really only one thing he can do.... move clubs.
 

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