Think we should push for a 10-15% sell-on clause for both wherever they end up this summer too. I can definitely see Greaves going for £70-80 million in a few years.
Gut feeling is we’ve leaked the story to try start a serious bidding war. We leaked that Leventhal before. If the interest isn’t there I suspect we may accept it
Not at all...but with any job...they will be looking for best options and wage security. I think they will wait for a team who will finish higher up..no point getting 1 year premier wages if you then have another 4 at champ wages. But im not a player or agent. Just presuming they are like the rest of us.
Interesting question when it comes to a joint bid, can we split it however we want to minimise sell on to Villa?
That is an excellent point! Obviously buy Greaves get a Philo free may look a little suspicious, but I think there may be a margin in the millions you could manipulate.
I very much doubt you can just shuffle it around like that. I'm sure both will have a defined value within any joint bid.
I think the other thing to consider is keeping relations strong, yes we could maybe weight things in a way to keeping an extra couple of million but do we then spoil some of the potential of doing deals like that in the first place.
Yes, but we have some input in to what goes down as their distinct values and there will be some margin in that. There is also a possibility that you can share some of the profit/saving indirectly with Ipswich depending on what the AV clause actually is so maybe they have some incentive too. ST was correct in pointing out that accepting a joint bid opens up some opportunities that don't exist if sold separately. Obviously there are limits to the opp, but there will be some margin.
I think a lot set out to, but don't stick to it. The idea of buying low and selling high sounds great, but when it comes down to sticking by the signings you've made and giving them time (and managers even moreso) lots of clubs think nah we'll just splash a bit more and get someone else instead. And then it becomes impossible to buy low and sell high.
