I think it’s been said to be around €80m this summer and around €60m next summer. So, in my head I’ve been treating this as a two season loan of sorts, given the relatively reasonable buyback fee in 2027 coincides with Virgil and Gomez possibly leaving.
Maybe a little far fetched, but a possibility.
Yeah, I think that this was the plan. Quansah must of course be convinced to come back, but it’s a possible way next summer.
I think the 60 million is for next summer. This summer there was a short period where his buyout clause was 80 million but that window has now closed.
Of course that wouldn’t stop someone coming in and making an offer in excess of 60 million. That someone could be us and that could be cheaper than buying Van de Ven or van Hecke.
I very much doubt if we’ll do that though.
True, although I think it was being reported that as part of the sale process he already agreed a contract with us to cover his return, so I’d assume it wouldn’t be too hard to persuade him to come back and play under a different manager to the one who froze him out and sold him.
It’s not so much the fee that puts me off but whether he is good enough at that price to command a starting place - and like you say, I’m not sure he would walk into the team ahead of Jacquet, so him coming back to sit on the bench would be a problem.
Also, I wonder if he would still fit our needs at CB with the way Andoni sets them up to press - with one pushing forward into midfield, leaving the other to cover more space at the back?
Only just dawned on me that the 2 year buy back deal would neatly overlap with Arne’s contract ending date…
Lol I think it was more to tie in with the end of Virgil’s contract, but you never know.
I thought something had happened… with 32 posts.
You are forgetting that both wanted more game time, which worked for one!
‘we should see the mainstream media pick up on this in the coming days’
quality. well played
‘fuck off… we’re the revolutionary party of socialists…’
Here we goooo! 
FIFY
And Quansah has a pre agreed contract.
The club are always going pelters whatever they do, but I have a suspicion this is planned.
The fact that he release clause drops to about £55m just when Virgil’s contract expires to me seems a massive red flag.
For £55m, is Quansah the best CB we can get (assuming we have enough home grown)?
If not, sentiment aside we should not be choosing the easiest option.
Good question. I don’t know much about the market for centre backs. I like Schlotterbeck and Lukeba, none of them are perfect, but I imagine they’ll go for similar fees to our buyback option for Quansah.
I had never heard of Jeremy Jacquet until we suddenly bought him though, so I’ve no idea who the possible alternatives could be.
There is that but then you have to have homegrown lads coming through to fill those spaces in the squad. You can’t always replace them with a non-homegrown option because of squad limits and good homegrown options are increasingly becoming prohibitively expensive.
Just seems mad to me that we’d let Quansah go only to then spend £80m on two non-homegrown options plus three young CBs for the academy. Maybe the two years experience will be worth the £25m premium to re-sign him next summer.
I just think the market for English players is hugely overblown. And then we go and lose Trent for nothing, Gomez probably goes for nothing, Elliott and Jones probably go for reduced fees due to their contract situations. And we’ve very few homegrown options coming through who are ready for regular first team football so we might be forced into spending something silly on Wharton or Scott to ensure we have the squad we need to compete.
I mean there has always been an “English premium” but lately it’s gotten ridiculous!
Indykaila?
As the saying goes, God loves a trier
Homegrown garbage that limits it to just English players, it really should include the UK countries after all England isn’t on a passport.