If Diame has one year to run on his deal, and we are offering him a three year deal, we are offering him two years of extra wages.
I know that. SydneyTiger said "We have the money to sign these players, we have the capacity to give them extra wages" He said "players" which is plural so I thought he was referring to Elmo and Huddlestone. He'll accuse me of being "pedantic" next!
After reading Phil Buckingham tweet regards Mo not being on the flight to the training camp in Austria, due to a court appearance the bit, that got my attention were "the club expect him to fly out on Wednesday" why would they EXPECT him to fly out, he's an employee of the club he's either flying on Wednesday or he isn't.
No they weren't, they signed new deals before their existing ones expired. Cue comments about pedantry and splitting hairs...
This is what I thought, it shouldn't be set too low, I don't see how you can stop the information getting out, and how can you even say for certain who leaked it out of the club. Diame may know the Hernandez release clause and leak that to those that ask. You should get a decent return for a player you brought in, and enough to cover a good enough replacement.
The problem is that when Diame's release clause was set it was quite high but now transfer fees have gone up dramatically it looks low.
I think £4.5m was always low but it had to be otherwise he never would've signed with the relegation wage cut as part of his contract.
Luer is a player that has been loaned around anyway so I don't know how much longer he'll be kept. I still don't think we have given some much of a sniff. We persevere with players who are inconsistent and then just run off anyway. At least stick someone on the bench to try at times.
They could have had different release clauses for different divisions which would have reflected the wages.
Surely these clauses became null and void once we secured promotion back to the PL and PL wages were re instated?
