Hernandez, I feel, lost his mojo last season, but as you say his game is all about pace and movement, and I honestly think that if we can pair him up with at least one top quality creative central midfield that understands his game I think that he has the capacity to absolutely destroy Championship defences.
In 1964-65 would people have said that Ken Wagstaff, Ken Houghton and Ian Butler were worth £40,000 each before seeing them play for us?
I agree. Plus injury prone. N'Doye was always likely to be the easiest to sell. And I'd say Jelavic the hardest.
Why is it? They offered more money, simple as that. If we matched their bid and he picked them over us then we should probably be a little concerned but as it stands we aren't willing to be held to ransom by Brentford and they are.
I wonder if Grey is peeved off since I bet he tried to engineer a move to city and finishes up in Bristol ? Sideways move at best for him.
1. It is hardly busting the bank when it's at most a couple of million more than we have already offered. He could be the difference between getting us promoted and for that £2m the reward can be 120m plus. 2. We have bust the bank before on a lot more risky signings. Hernandez, Bullard, Prochwitz. So far this season Gray has played a bit part role and already got an assist and 2 goals. Last season scoring 18 and getting 8 assists.
We have the second highest profit this window after Soton at something like 17.5m. 8m for Gray is a lot less than that.
So where does the money come from? Who's paying for it? Who's going to cover his wages? Remember this all has to fall in line with FFP.
Not sure what's so stupid about the strategy since the main thing is to get Jelavic's wages off the books. His release is rumoured to be around 3-4m, so offering him to Norwich for something like 2m isn't a huge loss.
I'd suggest it's probably you who needs to read up on FFP, we're currently nowhere near being affected by it.
We've had installments to pay though from previous transfers. If it looks like Jela and Abel are staying do we really need another striker? We've also got a very good creative midfielder in Snodgrass coming back too
That is quoting the headline fees. There is a lot of that to offset, some of those fees will be addons, plenty goes elsewhere as mentioned in my post. Our wage bill must be enormous for a championship club. In order to play it safely money won't only hve to be put aside to cover this season's excess wages but until the high earners contracts expire. We have commitments to pay from transfer fees from the previous two seasons to take into account. I would assume a fair bit of Robbie Brady's fee will have written off what is owed on Snodgrass. It's not as simple as we have sold x amount in players so we hve that amount to spend. I also highly doubt Jelavic's release clause is 3 or 4 million. You don't sign a player for £7m when there's a very good chance he could walk for half that amount 6 months later. If it was so low, I've no doubt he'd be gone by now.
