2019/20 Marcel Brands

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billyblue80 said:
Delph was a terrible buy really, clearly done at this level his body isn't up to game after game he never looks fit even in games. Can't blame him for Gbamin that was bad luck. Iwobi was bought to play as a ten. We definitely didn't do well enough in our midfield recruitment last summer mind you. Replacing Gana was always tough we failed miserably.
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Delph is terrible in hindsight but I can understand why he was brought in. A smart gamble that ultimately hasn’t paid off.
 
Schneiderlin away for a couple of million.

Hold on, it was wondered by many of us for at least 12 months why Brands didn't just drop the asking price on the likes of him and get his wages off the bill. In the end, that's what he does, but about £5M in wages was paid out to him last season.
 
davek said:
Schneiderlin away for a couple of million.

Hold on, it was wondered by many of us for at least 12 months why Brands didn't just drop the asking price on the likes of him and get his wages off the bill. In the end, that's what he does, but about £5M in wages was paid out to him last season.
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In order to sell.
Somebody needs to buy.

Unless you think he was batting away offers of 50m from PSG and Real.

I suspect it was more Snides wanting to milk his 120k a week for another year, but hey, you gotta push that agenda.
 

Robert Chambers said:
Just because they want him now doesn’t mean they have in the past.
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But there will have been interest in a player who for the last two seasons at least has been surplus to requirments. The argument has always been that if you drop the fee to rock bottom you at least entice a club to take him off your hands...which is what looks to be the case now.
 

davek said:
Schneiderlin away for a couple of million.

Hold on, it was wondered by many of us for at least 12 months why Brands didn't just drop the asking price on the likes of him and get his wages off the bill. In the end, that's what he does, but about £5M in wages was paid out to him last season.
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never enough for you is it dave.
 
davek said:
But there will have been interest in a player who for the last two seasons at least has been surplus to requirments. The argument has always been that if you drop the fee to rock bottom you at least entice a club to take him off your hands...which is what looks to be the case now.
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And the counter-argument has always been that even if you gave certain players a free transfer they will still stay at the club who is paying them triple the salary they would get elsewhere.
 
davek said:
But there will have been interest in a player who for the last two seasons at least has been surplus to requirments. The argument has always been that if you drop the fee to rock bottom you at least entice a club to take him off your hands...which is what looks to be the case now.
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Any other time we might have got more, but I think the selling strategy has had to change in the current climate. If it means we take massive hits I’m all for it to get underperforming wage thieves off the books and give them to players with better quality and who won’t go missing
 
MarcelsGoat said:
And the counter-argument has always been that even if you gave certain players a free transfer they will still stay at the club who is paying them triple the salary they would get elsewhere.
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Also... it’s not like he hasn’t played this year. We would have been up the creek if he hadn’t leeches another year off of us. Granted we could have panic bought, but still...
 

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