Well I wish him all the very best at Citeh, because he'll be needing it, How much actual game time he will get is anyone's guess, lets hope he does well, but not against us, all the best Bony lad!...................
Thank you Wilfried Bony You scored some goals for Swansea We went wild wild wild. Enjoyed watching him, hope he does superb for citeh. Just not looking forward to him wearing sky blue at The Liberty.
Somebody who claims to be in the know has put up the following article on the supposed details.... "By now you will know Swansea have agreed to sell striker Wilfried Bony to Champions League side Manchester City for around £28 million. This breaks the previous sale figure of Joe Allen to Liverpool for £15 million back in August 2012. The deal involves £25 million upfront with a further £3 million paid in performance-related add-ons. To achieve these add-ons Manchester City must have won the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in the next four years with Bony featuring in 60% of the total matches. It is reported his salary will rocket to £100,000 a week. However what you may not know is that a sell-on clause was inserted into Bony’s contract when Vitesse Arnhem sold him to Swansea. This means Vitesse will receive at least 7% as part on the sell-on clause. This could be up to £2 million for the Dutch side." If this were true we would be looking at £23m being the figure we would be most likely to receive....you can knock off a further £1m as this is what we apparently paid him to sign his new contract....so £22m = £10m profit. IF it were true!
So much for not moving on our 30m, still think we have had our arse smacked again on this. Looking at the clauses in the add ons we are not likely to get a penny over what we received up front. Why do we seem to fold, I know who won the battle for Bony in terms of a transfer fee and it wasnt Swansea.
Now that we're actually selling players for huge amounts of money, on top of the sell-on fee, anyone know how much tax we'll end up paying on the sum too? I guess it's going to be corporation tax on profits at the end of the tax year, but definitely something to keep in mind when we're just throwing around figures of how much we'll have to spend this month.
It's an easy thing to say. Negotiating must be extremely difficult (I'd be crap at it). There are numerous factors to take into account, not just saying it's £30 million or there's no deal. That might have been the optimum the club would have got in this or any future transfer window. Someone has to make the decision at a certain point in time and pray (guess) it was the right thing to do.
Man city said no more than 25m and thats exactly what they got. So if you call negotiating Mancity telling us they will pay 25m and us just accepting it then yes it must have been tough. They have paid exactly what they said they was their top figure and we have been short changed for a player who is the top PL scorer in 2014, exactly 3m less than Lukaku, who has great potential but done not a lot yet.
Bony can look forward to Man City being dumped out of the Champion's League fairly quickly as they're drawn against Barcelona next. Man City have struggled to qualify for the knock-out phase every season.
Can you all sense the fear and uneasiness?? To me that means no one knows where bony's potential stops which means he could hit it really really big.
I'm guessing this was the board's thinking too. Would be horrible, but he could break his leg in the African Nations and never be the same. I also think if we'd stood firm and told Man City to do one, we probably would have had a very unhappy and potentially disruptive Bony in the dressing room for the rest of the season. I'm pretty p1ssed off with what we got in the end, but them's the breaks.
I've done a fair bit of negotiating in my time, my first full time job was in purchasing (...on a tour of Thailand in my younger days this CV led to me being called upon to do the bartering as nobody else had a clue what we should be paying ). The only bit of negotiating which requires any skill is choosing the correct price point....which is merely a case of doing your market research and your research on the opposition in the deal, a monkey could do it, I did it If you look at the market history for proven Prem footballers' transfer value and compared Bony you could only conclude that he is worth £30m+ (I reckon nearer £40m). Prices are going up, season upon season. Then you look at the interested parties; Man City, Chelsea, Real Madrid etc. They're all good for it, they've all paid more money for footballers who have achieved less in the Prem...Bony being a striker with the goals scored should command a further premium. January move also = premium. You set the price for such a player in this market, a price you know the customer can afford....say £35m. The rest is poker. We've **** out again.
Thats not an arguement though as no one offered 25m for michu. yes it is a lot of money, who has had the better deal Man city all the way.
