Or he's been offered a 3/4yr deal back in his home country and at this stage of his career has snapped their hands off ....
It’s a shame as I can’t imagine he forced a move but if it’s a good move financially for both then what can you say
He's a bleedin' ringer, played for the over 70's when he was well under that age. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
He's got effectively 2 years left with us and would definitely have been offered a new deal by Acun It still doesn't excuse why we'd accept a low fee. In our current predicament, losing a goal scoring midfielder is a major issue.
Because he’s on huge wages and wants to leave so you have to make do or have an unhappy expensive player on your books.
It's not even July yet, why not wait a few weeks and try to get a better offer? £1.6m is undeniably on the low side.
I've felt for a while that if Tufan was out of contract this summer we'd probably have let him go. He's never been a player the manager really trusts; he fits in at times wherever we have room for him rather than him really nailing down a spot of his own. If as reported he's one of our highest earners then I think there is some logic in letting him go and instead allocating those wages to one or more real core players who play every week. Especially for a reasonable fee. That said, it's yet another extra player to add to the rebuild, and a player who scores goals too. As for Ohio, he was alright for us in the end, but does he really stand out ahead of your average bustling striker with a bit of pace? He was here on loan under a different manager, does it necessarily follow that he must be the right striker to sign under a new manager with a supposedly different style? If we signed him, I'd find it quite hard to believe that it's because Walter had coincidentally made him his preferred target as opposed to Acun and his boys going for someone familiar to them.
The thing I don’t get about selling Tufan for quite a low fee (£1.7 million) is that getting him off our wage isn’t going to improve our chances of keeping Greaves and Philogene. We probably need to sell Greaves and/or Philogene this summer for FFP purposes to reinvest in the squad across the board. Selling them two is inevitable, so why not keep Tufan? It’s going to cost almost as much if not more to replace him with someone just as good and it’s another player to replace on top of an already-massive rebuild. It’s just a weird transfer strategy. We’ve got two incredibly high-value sellable assets that are most probably going so why not hold onto one of our other better players that is important to the team in ways other than resale value? Getting someone like Ludovit Reis would certainly ease the pain of losing Tufan but you’re talking at least €5 million for him plus wages. Tufan had an option year didn’t he so in theory could’ve stayed until 2026? Come July 1st when Walter officially starts and the players begin pre-season training, it’s likely we would’ve sold three of our best players already and there will be a lot of uncertainty over who we replace them with and if they can be adequate replacements. If the last two years or so has proven anything, it’s that we could realistically end up with another Lewis-Potter > Sinik situation x3 which would be disastrous.
I hope that the simple answer is that it won't. We've apparently paid the likes of Seri, Traore, Tufan and Oscar wages significantly higher than others who've contributed more. I'd be curious to know what the likes of Ömür and Philogene are on since they're more recent deals we've done and are more regular players than any of the high earners bar Seri. If there is a coherent plan, I'd hope it's that we're going to sign more players of that level and get value from them as opposed to paying the Super Lig wage premium to get older players who are talented on paper but don't do as much.
if 18 goals in two seasons is not doing much, what is? and there is no coherent plan, that's been obvious for awhile
£1.6/1.7m has to be a ****ing joke, surely? He’s far better than that, and the only way we’re replacing him with that is if we unearth some proper hidden diamond. We signed him for £4m and he’s improved massively, his stock definitely is higher now than it was when he joined. Do not believe the figure quoted at all.
Well I didn't say not doing much, I said not doing as much as certain others. By that I mean the likes of Coyle, Greaves, Jones, Morton, Slater, Ömür, Philogene and Delap, who I suspect all cost us less in wages than any of the Super Lig gang and who are/were trusted to play more regularly. But yes, Tufan is certainly a goalscorer and his goals might be difficult to replace.
