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2021/22 Lucas Digne

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If we paid that for a left back on his wages there would be some discontent on here for sure. Granted, there will be teething problems with Mykolenko you would think but pretty for his fee and wages we were able to sign 2 younger fullbacks on an upward trajectory, on lower wages with something to prove.

I'm certain he'll score a free kick in a couple of weeks like but that's Everton.
 
On paper this is a good deal but it's the way it went down is the issue. Yes getting £25m+ for a 29 year old will be good business but he's only being sold because he had a disagreement with the manager who no one wants and over something that the fans would agree with Digne, on top of that even though he's been poor he's still one of if not our best players. Not that hard to argue that it's good and bad for different reasons but both reasons are equally valid.
 

Neiler said:
How are we in a stronger position, we essentially swapped Digne cost for Patterson's and speculated on the Ukrainian lad, if you had to name the best players in the team Digne is in there. Neither of the new lads are proven or established in the PL, one not in senior football. We signed Patterson for 16 mill, selling Digne for 17 mill. The Ukrainian lad more expensive again. taking on two wages and loosing one. Not sure from a footballing perspective nor a financial how this leaves us in a healthier position.
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25mill for Digne not 17 and we have replacements in both positions. I really like Digne but he hasn’t performed to his own standards for past 18 months. We have to give our new left back a chance, people writing him off already because he ain’t Digne. One of the problems of our football club is not moving players on when there is value in them still. This has happened for years, do we want another situation like coleman where the fans turn on the player because we can’t replace him and he isn’t good enough anymore
 
Baggzio said:
On paper this is a good deal but it's the way it went down is the issue. Yes getting £25m+ for a 29 year old will be good business but he's only being sold because he had a disagreement with the manager who no one wants and over something that the fans would agree with Digne, on top of that even though he's been poor he's still one of if not our best players. Not that hard to argue that it's good and bad for different reasons but both reasons are equally valid.
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£22m and he’s 28

Only ever becomes a good deal if Mykolenko can perform consistently to Digne’s standard for 2/3 years
 
Baggzio said:
On paper this is a good deal but it's the way it went down is the issue. Yes getting £25m+ for a 29 year old will be good business but he's only being sold because he had a disagreement with the manager who no one wants and over something that the fans would agree with Digne, on top of that even though he's been poor he's still one of if not our best players. Not that hard to argue that it's good and bad for different reasons but both reasons are equally valid.
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And he had a disagreement with the manager because our last 2 managers want defensively solid full backs, and he isn't one.
 

Neiler said:
How are we in a stronger position, we essentially swapped Digne cost for Patterson's and speculated on the Ukrainian lad, if you had to name the best players in the team Digne is in there. Neither of the new lads are proven or established in the PL, one not in senior football. We signed Patterson for 16 mill, selling Digne for 17 mill. The Ukrainian lad more expensive again. taking on two wages and loosing one. Not sure from a footballing perspective nor a financial how this leaves us in a healthier position.
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For all intents and purposes, Digne's wages were circa £120,000pw, which covers the wages of the new lads combined.
 
phil_t98 said:
25mill for Digne not 17 and we have replacements in both positions. I really like Digne but he hasn’t performed to his own standards for past 18 months. We have to give our new left back a chance, people writing him off already because he ain’t Digne. One of the problems of our football club is not moving players on when there is value in them still. This has happened for years, do we want another situation like coleman where the fans turn on the player because we can’t replace him and he isn’t good enough anymore
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We clear 17 mill after Amort for accounting purposes i.e. free cash in regard to FFP.

I dont agree, i think hes one of our most influential players, if people think he didn't perform last year i think its down to confirmation bias, hes had less of an impact this year - really because the manager put shackles on him and he rebelled against that and here we are.

Its this simple, we have gotten 5 points in the league since Oct out of 33. We're one of the worst teams in the league, we've just given away one of our highest quality players to a rival, for little or no benefit to us and replaced him with two non established players - who we dont know will be up to contributing or improving us in any way, we did this at a higher cost to us - than doing absolutely nothing.

You can extol the philosophy of player trading all you like, it doesn't matter if you are selling quality players when your in relegation form, and your taking the risks in the market we are.

We are in a worse position - therefore bad deal.
 
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