Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Actually bringing in a bloke who has a proven record of scoring goals in the PL for free when your team is in a financial black hole actually makes some sense? Not to the hipsters though.
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KaiserEFC
Player Valuation: £70m
Day in the life of our Kev
0900: gets to work. An hour late the bloody Ford Escort wouldn’t start again
09:15: make a coffee
9:30: log in to work account
Username: stevewalsh69
Password: number10
Delete message from IT saying “sorry Marcel we still can’t work out how to change your username”
09:45: Check emails, something about a load of wigs left in the changing rooms, a new Blood Brothers and a bunch of Americans buying the club. Straight to junk.
10:00: fire up the Everton scouting database; a custom “wunderkind” shortlist on Football manager 2013 made by XxXGScoutZzz. Hmm this Alexandre Pato sounds good.
11:00: meeting with the scouting department. Only two of them have shown up again. Starting to think we might only have two scouts. Anyway one of them has discovered a bloke called Falcao and Jesse Lingard is available on a free. He’s high up on the shortlist.
12:00: try for a meeting with the board, doors locked again. Pumping German techno and whipping sound coming from the other side. Strong smell of tiger balm. Sigh, maybe next week.
12:30: lunch time. Just a note saying tosser in the lunchbox. Christ this divorce is hard.
13:30: another scout meeting. Only one of them here this time, says the other one has gone to watch a game. Funny didn’t think the season had started yet.
13:45: Bill Kenwright bursts into the cupboard/office shirtless, lots of white powder under his nose. He looks a bit like Nan. Apparently we’ve sold Richarlison. Asked if there’s money available now and was laughed at and told “you’re a right one you are”. Few cat videos on YouTube now.
14:00: leave the office, absolutely nobody around. Like a scene from 28 days later. Eventually run into Doris the tea lady, told “they’re always like this, money for old rope innit” as she steps into a brand new Range Rover and blasts off.
15:00: no emails for an hour. Tried ringing Bill just got an advert for a play and the Corrie theme tune. Might go home but there’s not much for me there.
23:30: just woken up by a call from a man with a funny accent laughing hysterically asking me if I enjoy Andre Gomes and Doucoure in midfield. Don’t know who they are. Got called a “trouser head” and hung up on. Looks like a Dutch dialling code. Same again tomorrow I guess
0900: gets to work. An hour late the bloody Ford Escort wouldn’t start again
09:15: make a coffee
9:30: log in to work account
Username: stevewalsh69
Password: number10
Delete message from IT saying “sorry Marcel we still can’t work out how to change your username”
09:45: Check emails, something about a load of wigs left in the changing rooms, a new Blood Brothers and a bunch of Americans buying the club. Straight to junk.
10:00: fire up the Everton scouting database; a custom “wunderkind” shortlist on Football manager 2013 made by XxXGScoutZzz. Hmm this Alexandre Pato sounds good.
11:00: meeting with the scouting department. Only two of them have shown up again. Starting to think we might only have two scouts. Anyway one of them has discovered a bloke called Falcao and Jesse Lingard is available on a free. He’s high up on the shortlist.
12:00: try for a meeting with the board, doors locked again. Pumping German techno and whipping sound coming from the other side. Strong smell of tiger balm. Sigh, maybe next week.
12:30: lunch time. Just a note saying tosser in the lunchbox. Christ this divorce is hard.
13:30: another scout meeting. Only one of them here this time, says the other one has gone to watch a game. Funny didn’t think the season had started yet.
13:45: Bill Kenwright bursts into the cupboard/office shirtless, lots of white powder under his nose. He looks a bit like Nan. Apparently we’ve sold Richarlison. Asked if there’s money available now and was laughed at and told “you’re a right one you are”. Few cat videos on YouTube now.
14:00: leave the office, absolutely nobody around. Like a scene from 28 days later. Eventually run into Doris the tea lady, told “they’re always like this, money for old rope innit” as she steps into a brand new Range Rover and blasts off.
15:00: no emails for an hour. Tried ringing Bill just got an advert for a play and the Corrie theme tune. Might go home but there’s not much for me there.
23:30: just woken up by a call from a man with a funny accent laughing hysterically asking me if I enjoy Andre Gomes and Doucoure in midfield. Don’t know who they are. Got called a “trouser head” and hung up on. Looks like a Dutch dialling code. Same again tomorrow I guess
Are you pretending he plays for free or something.
Do you mean Lingard?
He has scored 20 league goals for United and 9 for West Ham, and made his PL debut in 2014. That's basically 29 in 8 seasons, so under 4 a year. I don't see that as a proven record.
His wages would be high as well. That's the point everyone is making.
"It was understood in May he wanted £200,000 per week which is currently above the wage structure Newcastle have sensibly put in place."
Jesse Lingard 'testing market' on big wage demands after Newcastle's January bid
Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe remains a fan of Jesse Lingard
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AmericasToffee
Player Valuation: £40m
Lmao. 200k a week.
…I’d be concerned about whether the game matters to him at 29 years of age (30 later this year). He’s been earning huge money for a long time & although he did well on loan, a permanent contract offers him the security he seeks. Too much risk he’s in a comfort zone, he could be another expensive millstone as he won’t come cheap.
A struggling United have rarely used him.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Can you pint me towards the bit when I said he plays for free?
Now which one costs less? A player on 100k a week that was a free agent, or a player on 100k a week who cost a transfer fee?
Now which one might a club in financial issues prefer?
How about… we sign a player that isn’t on £100k p/w then?
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Oh sorry I didn’t realise we’d already agreed a contract with Lingard
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
We got rid of James because we couldn’t afford those wages, we’ve not offered close to that to any other player in our history, I doubt we’re offering that to Lingard
Never said we had. Think you’re not getting it, again.
You say we are in a financial black hole but advocate signing players on £100k p/w contracts we will never ever sell.
Players do exist that will come here for less money.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
The 100k was a hypothetical example as you didn’t seem to understand that players on a free transfer usually cost less money than players commanding a transfer fee hence the interest of a team with financial issues. The wage increase for a player arriving for free would have to be a lot per week to make the deal more expensive than a player who arrives for a decent transfer fee.
Well it isn’t the same thing considering we’re held to wage structures and wages as a % of turnover. It’s not all one big pot can look at.
Just because Patterson cost a fee + low wages doesn’t make his move more financially damning than signing on fee + wages Lingard.
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