I've always wondered why we didn't offer Abel an extra year on his contract - with a £10k a week increase as a tempter to sign the contract - and put in a buyout clause of £7m. He would always get bought for that amount and we'd make £6m+ more than the current zero. I remember Swansea offered Bony £1m to sign a contract which increased his buy out clause to £25m - which Man City duly paid.
Why would he sign it? He's probably confident of getting another contract elsewhere and as a free agent he can attract a much larger signing on fee and probably wage than if a club has to fork out £7 million for his services.
Bruce wants Hernandez if Villa manage to get promoted. Newcastle are also after him. We haven't a prayer of keeping him, we'd have needed to extend his contract while in the Premier League to have kept him longer.
I would have agreed under normal circumstances, however don't be to certain to rubbish the source, personally I would be gutted if it does pan out
Can't imagine why a PL club would sign him given he's never really performed at that level. He's a great cherry on the cake for a strong team that controls games and makes lots of chances, but for a struggling PL club who spend most of the time in their own half, he's not the right kind of player at all.
Agreed. I can’t think of a single Premier League team that he’d improve, and i include all of those who can go up automatically. He’ll be on the bench as a desperate option if he does go to a PL club, and at his age I dont think he should be doing that. If I was him I’d go to a Genoa, Torina or the like or perhaps Parma or back to Palermo if they go up.
I'm of a similar mind, though I have often wondered if he had better players around him whether he would have got more goals in the EPL?
Am I alone in thinking Hernandez is definitely up to playing in the premier league? He's been there, shown it and done it on the odd occasion he's had the chance to. He spent 99% of his time chasing long balls catapulted from the defence and fighting for headers with 8' brutes. For any team that plays anything resembling modern football he will do well.
Unfortunately for Abel that's a big part of the game in this country. Only the top few PL sides can control a game enough to not need strikers who can help with the battle and get the ball up the pitch. And those clubs can get better than Hernandez anyway. Bottom 14 PL sides have to play on the counter, and having a striker who can compete for random hoofs up the pitch when the team is under pressure is the difference between being a counter-attacking threat and a team who just defends constant bombardment for 90 minutes.
The chances of him signing for Leeds are about the same % of us having a decent summer transfer window in which we spend good money and do business early
Agree , I actually thought Villa would come for him if they didn't go up . If they did can afford to look at better .
Still think he will come to glasgow . He would shine for celtic against the ****e teams up here. And euro footy too
