If we got to the prem there was an agreed buy back fee, 15m I believe. Separately, Villa have a clause that allows them to match any accepted bid we receive.
My frustration is we should have replaced Greaves and Philogene before they leave. A lots said about the Brighton and Brentford model but that’s what they do. If we are having to sell 35/40 million pounds worth of players, our best players I may add, then the club isn’t run correctly. The same happened with Bowen, albeit a sinking ship at the time. It’s difficult to replace players in the same window unless it’s a short term situation. We are going to try and do that with 7/8 players. I hope Acun has learnt, and sticks with Walter as if he keeps changing his mind it’s going to cost the club and him a lot of money, but we will suffer the most. Also we’ve gone through a purple patch over the last 10/15 years of turning talent over especially homegrown talent.
So maybe the buy back / matching clause was pretty smart by Villa after all?! Issue for us is if it ends up delaying the sale, and maybe even delaying / complicating the Greaves sale. We need them done.
It’s honestly normal especially if we want to follow that model. Brighton had 19 players leave one summer, looking at their previous transfer windows it ranges between 12-19 players each summer.
I think posters rightly have concerns What would our first team look like now ? Today? looking at the first post 12 have left out of the first team squad from end of last season. While the players who are doing the training are learning Walter’s methods you would think not many are actually first team starters so Walter is up against it without a first team to coach and the season opener just over 4 weeks away And as I stated earlier in the thread A ready made excuse for any coach is they didn’t have a proper preseason!! We have time not much tbh but we need five in at least in the next few days to give our new coach a chance
I don’t think now it will delay anything. We now know definitely the money is coming and I think Ipswich will be happy just taking greaves. In this instance we should be ok
And I've just read somewhere that Villa want him back, and have matched the Ipswich offer but Villa get a 30% reduction, which was agreed at the time with City? First I've heard about any discount?
minus the £5m we paid for him that I assume is not fully paid off yet. we'll be lucky to get around £7-8m profit at the end of it all.
So sells on work as such. It could be the full fee which is 5.4 million. Or a sell fee on profit.m which could be 3.9 million. So for us it would be 12.6 million or 14.1 million. Minus the 5 million we spent on him and his wages, there’s about 6/8 million profit left. Going to be very complicated deal with sell ones etc if he goes back too Villa.
