Agreed, this is where the multi-club stuff clearly helps us out by getting at least some of his wages off our books. He'll be 31 and going into the last year of his contract next summer so we won't get much of a fee for him even if he has a great season. In fairness to Trabzonspor, Turkish clubs don't seem to pay particularly big fees and I've seen reports suggesting what they offered for Onuachu would have made him their club record signing. Their current record fee paid only seems to be about 7 million euros.
Point being that he will be at €6m in the books rather than €12m. The current offer would net a loss of at least €5m if not more (from a PSR perspective). It will be smaller next year. I’m sure it’s a bit more complicated give amortisation costs and wages that we account for when he stays but don’t if he was sold But suffice to say someone doing the sums presumably thinks it isn’t worth it to sell him for what we’ve been offered
The loss would be the same, it would just be split in each year rather than in this one year if we sold now. Plus we would have to pay his wages for another season (with a small Goztepe contribution). I still think we are hoping they come in with a bigger offer at the end of the window.
We’ll yeah that’s been obvious for a while I guess. We’ll see if he returns if there is no buy option, but does look like is time is up!
I think that's a decent result all round. Other than the possible language barrier this is quite similar to the Rangers deal that fell through. Lots of games where the team will mainly be attacking weaker opposition mixed in with some tougher European games.
I think he’ll find he can understand Belgians speaking English more than he will listening to Glasgow English.
Yeah I know, but for some reason I feel he has more potential. I don’t know why. He just looks quite tricky when he runs at defenders on the ball
