Southampton Football Club on Twitter: "Dani Osvaldo (@danistone25) has made a #deadlineday loan move to @juventusfc, @SouthamptonFC can confirm. #saintsfc" "Osvaldo initially joins Juventus on loan until 31st May, with an option for the Serie A side to purchase him in the summer. #saintsfc" DTLW
Bye. Seems like a decent guy to me, but with serious anger management issues. Gotta get that sorted or he won't find a club to put up with him long term.
Suppose if he didn't have the capacity to flick the dickhead switch inside his head at any instant, he'd never have come to us. Bye Dani, thanks for the City goal.
Never been so disappointed in a player (and I'm not even talking about his playing). At least Gaston made up for it with adorableness.
Shame it didn't work out, oh well. If the fee we get back is the reported £15.5m then it's a good deal for all parties.
So they're paying all his wages and we get a small fee (400k-ish?) for the loan, is that right? Given the situation that sounds about as good as we could have hoped for.
Statement on Juventus website states the following facts... - Osvaldo's loan has no 'loan fee' - Option to buy for €19m euros in the summer - €19m will be paid across three years They're picking up the tab for his wages.
And should he deck one of his new team-mates? Do we get him back and have to pay his wages? I wonder if you can get insurance against that?
Be interesting if he gets to the WC and looks at the England team and spots his ex-Saints team mates with an axe to grind.
Well at least we're not paying any of his wages. Hopefully he plays well, we get that â¬19m in the summer and bring in someone better.
Interview (with English subtitles) on the Juventus site: http://www.juventus.com/juve/en/video/3132361217001 Doesn't say much about us as you might have guessed!
BBC reporting now that Juventus are paying his wages, which seems like a coup for our new CEO. The supposed loan fee of €300k would have been worth more to us though! Just have to hope that they exercise that option to buy him and don't try and pull a fast one.
We weren't in a massively strong position...almost a forced sale. He wasn't going to play for us again, so needed to get him off the books. He also had to agree to go...we couldn't just off load him onto anyone. And time was short. All in all, a pretty good deal.
If Dani is on 40k p/w, his wages would translate to more than €400k over the remainder of the loan deal.
