FC Copenhagen have confirmed the club are close to agreeing a deal to re-sign striker Andreas Cornelius from Cardiff City. Cornelius has yet to score in 11 appearances for Cardiff, and has not started a Premier League game either, since joining from Copenhagen in a £7.5million deal last summer.
I bet the cheeky so and so's will offer a fraction of what we have paid though, although i would bet there are clauses in the contract for a buy back, as i would also assume that the payments to them will be in stage payments.
This is quite disgraceful, only just gone halfway through the season and we have to sell a record signing because he isn't good enough, things are becoming slightly clearer as to why Tan kicked up such a fuss.
Stand by for all the MM fans to defend these awful signings and awful mis-use of somebody else's money.
According to Danish media you're spot on... FC København pays 2,5 million (and don't get any of the sell on clauses) you pay 70% of the wages for the remainder of the contract...
Well maybe, stories like this change from one media to another. 5 million dkr a year is a very good salary in Danish football, but not a recordbreaker - or even close...
If this is true it would be like the great escape, hope we get this done before they change their minds. Can't believe we are getting 3-4 million and a drop off in wages.
very true jck, we were taken for mugs when we paid £7.5m, but if they are paying £4m or, £3m to get him back then they must have a screw loose too. if i were tan i'd be spitting feathers at the careless way money has been frittered away on useless tat like cornelius and brayford.
I'm concerned about our finances and even more about our off field management. The plan should be about avoiding relegation but I'm unconvinced that our actions so far suggest that that is our aim. If we go down we will be in an incredible mess. Bad buys, panic buys and buys for the future are not the ideal recipe for survival and this Cornelius loss demonstrates that the finances might still be out of control. What exactly is the plan? Is the transfer strategy to acquire and develop players for the future or is the plan to buy players that can make an immediate impact? The full loss on Cornelius amounts to £6.5m relating to paying up the contract and a £4.5m capital loss on the transfer. Overall an £11m loss is not that far away from the Langston debt which hung over the club for many years and now, at a stroke, we are saddled with this. If the plan is to buy players for the future, given the scale of the loss, then Cornelius should have been kept and loaned out for another year or so in the hope he will come good especially given his young age. Doesn't it strike anyone as being strange that we are buying young players for the future from Scandinavia and taking a huge loss on another one. Cornelius was never going to make an immediate impact and now seems to be the fall guy for our precarious position.
Credible concerns Whoops and well put. I think Jones and Fabio are more about stopping the rot as will be Zaha, if it happens - don't understand the ongoing delay once Tuesday's game was over. However, as far as Cornelius is concerned I suspect the transfer fee equates to what remained owing by us from the original deal. The contract pay up is the real sickener in this. As to his ability, just remember "you can't polish a turd".
