I think it is. The guy did his best when needed. He isn’t the standard required, but letting him leave cut price is a gesture towards gratitude.
In the world of spending over £100 m on a player, holding out for an extra £3m for a good servant would be crass.
Given we are where we are it’s a good deal. Could have should have years ago.
£3m in the bank. Wages off the book.
Might as well be someone we can buy for the academy with that amount
We got an offer of 7 mil. for him and we demanded 10.
Maybe.
That’s what’s reported, but it may not have suited the club or player at that point.
Annyway…we differ on the issue.
I think he did all expected of him when needed. To me, that is enough. Best of luck to him.
In retrospect we likely should have accepted that offer of 7 mil back then but while this has backfired in this case, being tough negotiators has paid off overall for us.
Whatever the view on the above though. Good luck to Nat. I’m happy for him to get to move on now and hopefully do great with his new club.
This is not remotely how the rule works. The limit is 17 and that doesnt change regardless of the make up of the rest of your squad.
There are probably quite a few loan fees that can be added to the £3m we’re banking for him.
Was going to mention the loan fees. Not sure of the timing but I also recall wishing we had accepted the fees offered previously but if we’ve been chalking up a couple of mil per loan fee we may have done better this way.
I think you need to caveat in the Premier league, the rules are vastly different in Europe and this is the confusion people have.
There are differences in who gets to be counted as an U21 on the B list - UEFA requires the player to have also been at the club for 2 years. In neither set of rules are you allowed to keep topping up on non-homegrown players with the addition of homegrown players.
Knowing the club they would have included loads of add on.
Yeah, that’s right
Were you born a twonk or has it taken years of practice.
Sith probably got confused on where it states your squad is reduced if you don’t meet homegrown numbers in European football.
Why don’t we gazzump PSG and buy Zabarnyi the Bournemouth CH whom the supporters rate higher than Huisjin. They want 70M but we could get him for 60M as Paris have only offered 55M?
I don’t take anything limie says to heart. But what he said was correct. I misread the rules.
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1937584867128279050?t=Hc8Pg2p2rv-SUYLKcgT9JQ&s=19
Think that’s why we are after Fofana i guess and they sold Cherki on the cheap.
Yes please.
I would be very happy if we signed Fofana. Two footed. Fast as you like. Skills for days. Still raw, and the end product needs to improve, but his dribbling, running with the ball and crossing are all pretty good.
If we signed him he would be a useful squad man right away, and if he gets close to fulfilling his potential he could become a fixture in the side in a world where the likes of Salah and Diaz age out.
Still some way off until then, but it would be a good move, in my opinion.
It is Textor their owners fault as he didn’t sell his stake in Crystal Palace (€200M) early enough to be able to help Lyon to keep within PSR rules in France. All they needed was another €30M to escape relegation they are a lot more ruthless in France than our league where only the poorer teams got punished.