Well at least if they want £12m, we aren't offering £5m lol. To me if true, £10m is at least a start of negotiation without pissing them off.
No - I was busy at the time and not reading the forum. I just know there was one but not the details. But that doesn’t seem to be the question. Unless the implication is that they are pricing him as if we were in the premier league ? Or that they’d charge a Prem club less ?
He was making a joke. Swansea insisted we were still a PL club when we approached Martin and due to a clause in Martin's contract felt they were entitled to more compensation. Anyway, to cut a long story short, it turned into a long and drawn out saga and he was making fun of that in the comment above.
On Archer, I think the idea for Villa was always to appeal to premier league clubs. It’s basically a way round the loan market and the restrictions in place and I believe further restrictions on the way.
Do those restrictions still exist / have they ever been introduced ? I thought they only applied to over aged players which I’d have thought Archer wasn’t ?
That would explain why I didn’t understand. Gosh that is what Swansea got funny about? How ridiculous of them. It is similar to something I wondered earlier about ABK - if he goes on loan and we get promoted can a club activate his relegation clause during May before we officially go up? I expect it is tied to transfer windows?
Not really sure £5m up front for a player of his ability is too good to turn down but there you go. Shows what a mess Everton are in if they can't afford that.
If that's true I don't really get it. £5m up front is nothing in todays market. His goals have won us 5 points in 3 games.
Down from a rumoured 7m Perhaps this should be read another way - we want a third up front. And how does that relate to similar deals. All deals are paid in instalments unless a clause is activated So comments about 5m up front not seeming very good are besides the point. It is the total fee that is the issue. Now if say, the common practice was for half up front and the rest in instalments then it would be bad by comparison. But i don’t think it is. Implication is that we might be asking either for the expected or more than the expected up front payment. But these things will never come out clearly I can’t imagine
But 15m for a player with one year left who won’t sign a new contract is not nothing. Any replacement will also be a structured deal where we potentially only give a third up front ourselves
It was reported that if Che stayed beyond the deadline, then a new contract would be negotiated with him. So maybe he's not 100% against a new one.
Wasn’t it more that one would be offered and we’d try to get him to sign. Doesn’t mean he will Still - it shocks me how many people (especially on Twitter) have read that tweet as “the final fee will be 5m”. Yes I know i said I should avoid Twitter today
