Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

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Sorry I just can’t understand the reasoning behind paying a transfer fee for a player and only giving them a one-year contract. If he does very well and scores a decent amount of goals, he’ll have more suitors in the summer and he might not renew his contract and go for free somewhere else next summer. If he flops, we can’t even recoup some of the money we spent on him. It’s a lose-lose situation financially.
 
Sorry I just can’t understand the reasoning behind paying a transfer fee for a player and only giving them a one-year contract. If he does very well and scores a decent amount of goals, he’ll have more suitors in the summer and he might not renew his contract and go for free somewhere else next summer. If he flops, we can’t even recoup some of the money we spent on him. It’s a lose-lose situation financially.

I think you twist everything into a lose-lose. The first part is right, but if he doesn't perform then we're not getting a fee for reselling him, and so having him out of contract would be a good thing for us. That's presumably the reason for the contract. It may turn out to be a lose if he does well but no it's not a lose-lose.
 
Sorry I just can’t understand the reasoning behind paying a transfer fee for a player and only giving them a one-year contract. If he does very well and scores a decent amount of goals, he’ll have more suitors in the summer and he might not renew his contract and go for free somewhere else next summer. If he flops, we can’t even recoup some of the money we spent on him. It’s a lose-lose situation financially.
I'm missing an atricle mentioning fee and 1 year, but playing catchup after work. Was it Baz?
 
Sorry I just can’t understand the reasoning behind paying a transfer fee for a player and only giving them a one-year contract. If he does very well and scores a decent amount of goals, he’ll have more suitors in the summer and he might not renew his contract and go for free somewhere else next summer. If he flops, we can’t even recoup some of the money we spent on him. It’s a lose-lose situation financially.

Presumably Brighton had no intention of offering him a better deal, and preferred a fee.
Maybe the delay was us trying to get him on a loan instead.
 
1 year doesn't surprise me a huge amount but no option seems odd. That would suggest he didn't want to agree to an option year, but he was desperate to come so why wouldn't he? Odd one.
 
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I think you twist everything into a lose-lose. The first part is right, but if he doesn't perform then we're not getting a fee for reselling him, and so having him out of contract would be a good thing for us. That's presumably the reason for the contract. It may turn out to be a lose if he does well but no it's not a lose-lose.

Oh do **** off. If Ehab was still running things, people would be tearing their hair out and raging over this transfer. Paying a transfer fee for a 23-year-old and only giving him a one-year contract with no option is just money pissed down the drain. If he scores 15-20 goals and others are interested, he goes next summer for nowt. If he doesn’t do well, he goes next summer for nowt.
 
Oh do **** off. If Ehab was still running things, people would be tearing their hair out and raging over this transfer. Paying a transfer fee for a 23-year-old and only giving him a one-year contract with no option is just money pissed down the drain. If he scores 15-20 goals and others are interested, he goes next summer for nowt. If he doesn’t do well, he goes next summer for nowt.
Likely a clause if he plays a number of games for an automatic extension