AndyZ
Player Valuation: £10m
Yes, but that would require actual scouting.
EFC_FRANCIS
Player Valuation: £35m
Elanga is a tough one. Borges is availible who will be a better player but would be more expensive and isn't as good right now which we half need. Problem with Elanga is he's pants and also a left winger. Would it kill us to buy a right winger for a change?
Mr Happy
Player Valuation: £15m
So sign someone worse than the player we want to sign who you say is rubbish in the first instance. Wow. Such a low bar..
Marius57
Player Valuation: £50m
Elanga has played more games at RW than LW over the past 2 seasons.
I have never seen him play but this is exactly the type of player we should be in the mix for.
Young, hungry, and affordable.
There is very little downside to these deals as long as they don’t completely flop.
Lookman , Vlasic and even that Nigerian Henry all were similar deals and we didn’t lose money on any of them
If one makes it like Coleman has then great we even made money on nkouno or however you spell his name and he could have made more if we didn’t have an obligation to buy inserted.
Also holgate , stones , DCL all would or have gone for more than we have paid
Thing is those deals were all relatively cheap. Lookman 9m, vlasic 8m, Onyekuru 7m, coleman 50k Nkounkou 500k.
Apart for coleman they all flopped here and we could move them on at a profit because of the age and price we paid for them.
But 25m for a player? He has to be a success to make any money on him.
jonnyboy316
Player Valuation: £35m
It is a huge embarrassment. Every other league bar the new Saudi league is essentially now a feeder league for the PL. outside a handful of clubs in those leagues they are pretty much all broke. You are telling me for £10m you can’t find better than Anthony Elanga. It reflects that we have no scouting network
But even if he turns out average … you’d be able to sell him for 15m at a minimum.
10m loss wouldn’t be ideal but you wouldn’t have scenarios like Morgan, siggy, delph, bolasie, walcott, tuson, Williams , Mina, and what looks likely with iwobi, gbamin and gomes , where we are likely to recoup 2m from over 200m in paid transfer fees.
There is a risk with every signing but these types of signings are what we should be looking at.
Also the fees paid for lookman and co don’t exist anymore really because now championship players are going for 20m.
Meaning championship clubs can pay 15m for players … which means we will always have the opportunity to sell them as long as we don’t give them 100k a week contracts
samsonthedog1
Player Valuation: £6m
Elanga on the cheap and Danjuma loan would instantly improve us. Sell Gray to fund it.
OneTrueLegend
Player Valuation: £35m
The DOF model is pointless for us because we don’t have a specific style of play and when we are bringing in a new manager we don’t look at them and find one that aligns with our existing footballing philosophy. We just ricochet from one manager to another, all with differing styles, we allow the managers to sign players they like, then we sack the managers every season and that’s why we have this Frankenstein’s monster of a squad.
Elanga on loan with an 8mil obligation sounds like a good deal.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
Option rather than obligation
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £40m
Anyone decrypted this yet? Has to be an anagram or something.
I like Scott and think he will turn out to be a good player but you are absolutely right.
That's why the Elanga deal at less than £10m makes great sense.
Eagle Eye
Player Valuation: £5m
Trust me. Alex Scott won't turn out average. He will be a £50 million player minimum at some stage of his career.
So agree with you, we should definitely be looking at this.
Trouble is, Bristol City won't accept 25mil over 10 years of installments..
