goimis this time?

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swimaway said:
Far from it

If Ki and Pabs are on the rumoured £40k plus a week and bonuses, by the end of their contract they would cost much the same as Gomis

Is it a risk? Sure, but just the same as paying £10 mill for a player and then wages, but thats the price you pay for strikers, let alone a French international with over 100 L1 goals. If he bags 15+ goals this year, it will seem very shrewd business when clubs come knocking next year...by which time we would only need to recoup a signing on fee and 1 years wages.
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Ki and Pablo were both given 3 year contracts.
£40k a week = £2.1m a year
3 years = £6.3m
Transfer for both was around the £5-5.5m mark

Total deal for both = £11-12m (and we could have sold them easily as they were both in their early to mid twenties at any point and very near got our money back.
So I don't know how you conclude that they cost the same as Gomis who is a striker contracted for years 29-33 (for a striker that is considered past his peak).

Also the nature of the deal is such that, personally, Gomis earns millions more than those 2 players as he was on a "free".
This means he has less reason to be motivated.
What happened to Jenkins' rally call of returning to the "Swansea way" and signing young, hungry players.....all that tosh of "getting away from how we do things"?
 
But with some exceptions you can't build a whole team on young, hungry players. It requires a balance of experience and youth if that doesn't sound too cliched.
 
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