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fran-MLs little camera said:
I heard that United still owed us some money on Morgan...if so, will they carry on payments as planned or cough up now they have shipped Morgan. Unless the rest of what is owed is based on appearances and therefore cancelled.
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Good question and I don't know the answer.

I assume in the rich world of the premier league that the finance of a purchase is not linked with the commodity of a player.

For example car finance is structured with car as collateral for the loan and full ownership is not transferred until the finance is paid in full. So if you want to sell the car before the end of the term you have to settle the finance.
Alternatively on smaller items such as sofas or TVs where you can spread the cost then the finance is not linked to the product and if you resale that product you're under no obligation to notify them or settle those repayments early.

Sorry if those examples are teaching some of you to suck eggs. :emoticon-0100-smile
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
I heard that United still owed us some money on Morgan...if so, will they carry on payments as planned or cough up now they have shipped Morgan. Unless the rest of what is owed is based on appearances and therefore cancelled.
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Clubs will still owe us transfer fees, but equally we won't pay whole fees up front either.
 
SaintsFan86 said:
I would rather our club be run properly, And within its means than go down the route of Portsmouth.
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I have to assume we made the offer of 16 million before we sold Fonte and just received about 8 million for him so take the 16 million and 8 million and there you go, sign him up. But if doing this deal would result in us playing in Div 2 in the next few years, we should hold off.
 
fatletiss said:
Beddy what's happening to you. What the hell is the point of dragging up a short managerial stint from 1889 to bash Les. He ain't perfect and can be a miserable, stubborn sod sometimes, but he's our miserable, stubborn sod. He's done a massive amount for this club and putting us where we are now.

The only issue I have is the rumblings about his son being an agent and Les pushing things that way. Outside of that, you draw two lists and write down the pros and cons of Les at Saints.

Time to stop bitching. Life ain't perfect.
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Damn Les is old. He's nearly as old as Yoda. :emoticon-0142-happy
 
Mr_Saintly said:
Clubs will still owe us transfer fees, but equally we won't pay whole fees up front either.
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This has been one of the underrated aspects of our post-Cortese switch in tack, for what it's worth: In 2013, we owed 21.2m more in transfer fees than we were owed; by 2015, we were owed 11.5m more than we owed. Chances are that the gap is even larger now (though as we haven't released our 2016 books yet, it's hard to say). So, our net debt from 2013-2015 increased by 28.4m, but our future fees (which don't reflect in the debt figures until paid) swung by 32.7m in the other direction; if all of those fees were paid at the moment the transfer happened, our debt would actually be trending down.
 
SaintinNZ said:
I havent seen this posted anywhere http://www.football-italia.net/96843/napoli-too-big-gabbiadini

Interesting background. His style doesnt fit Napoli, wonder how we think it will fit us..
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My take on that was he prefers to play right of a front three. Napoli started with two up front which didn't suit him. They then switched to 3 up front but another player was favoured on the right. He was given his chance down the middle as the main striker but it didn't work... the article had earlier said his success was playing wide and cutting in. Maybe that is how we want to use him?
 
fatletiss said:
My take on that was he prefers to play right of a front three. Napoli started with two up front which didn't suit him. They then switched to 3 up front but another player was favoured on the right. He was given his chance down the middle as the main striker but it didn't work... the article had earlier said his success was playing wide and cutting in. Maybe that is how we want to use him?
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That's how I'd like to use him. Tadic or Boufal on the left (and maybe, if we're feeling frisky, a CM sacrificed to play one of them/Redmond in a pseudo-10 role), Gabbiadini being a wide forward on the right, hopefully with a bit more tempo. Both Jay and Long, in times past, have looked better as strikers when someone else was getting more attention from the defense as a goal threat.
 
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Schad said:
That's how I'd like to use him. Tadic or Boufal on the left (and maybe, if we're feeling frisky, a CM sacrificed to play one of them/Redmond in a pseudo-10 role), Gabbiadini being a wide forward on the right, hopefully with a bit more tempo. Both Jay and Long, in times past, have looked better as strikers when someone else was getting more attention from the defense as a goal threat.
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It's actually how we've had success over the last few seasons, barring Koemans brief stint with 3-5-2
 
fatletiss said:
It's actually how we've had success over the last few seasons, barring Koemans brief stint with 3-5-2
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And as it turns out, my other preference would be a 3-5-2, but we'd probably need another CB for that (Maya seemed to struggle with the role a bit, from what I remember).
 
fatletiss said:
I'd like to see McQueen in that left hand wing back role. He'd be pretty good I'd bet.
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Same. Think (beyond our CBs) we're better suited in many respects to that sort of setup. Three attackers more or less in the middle with one willing to drop back from a pure striker role, one interested in pushing forward from the number 10 spot, and one happy to run around in circles until chances occur while we get wide support sounds about our thing. I mean, we could have crosses with more than one person in the box!
 
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Schad said:
And as it turns out, my other preference would be a 3-5-2, but we'd probably need another CB for that (Maya seemed to struggle with the role a bit, from what I remember).
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Bertrand had an excellent few games at CB. Cedric, Maya, Virgil, Bertrand, McQueen could definitely work as a back 5. We'd certainly need another back up CB to play that though. Also I'm not sure 3 at the back is in Claude's repertoire.
 
His agent has come out saying that Napoli need to lower their asking price or the move will be off.
 
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