I’m terms of accounting it’s good for this summer (which is necessary with the large outgoings we’ve had in the past year or so) but that’s semantics, best to look at it in real terms which is £40m for Neves is good with a year to go in my opinion but £70m for Fati is a massive risk for a club in our position unless we’ve got a big budget this summer.
It is in year 1, less so year two onwards.
With Neves only having 12 months left it sounds about right.
If arsenal want him..he will want to go...
I expect (and hope) that, if there's any truth in this, that the £30million is based of appearances, goals etc.
I’m not quite sure how Scott fits into our team? I’m guessing he’d play the sort of deep 10 role Moutinho sometimes does, but then what do you do with Cunha?
Scott can play left mid ...a similar role to what hwang Sarabia neto and what Nunes has been playing......it's predominantly where he plays for Bristol city....that's why they liken him to grealish....
Could be changing formation when Coady comes back 3-5-2 lmao
Zero chance coady kicks a ball for us again..
We won’t change back to a five to accommodate a player who isn’t good enough for a team about to get relegated and shipping goals….
Ah, ok, that makes sense.
He’d be a good buy for one of the promoted clubs.
A bad idea just got a whole lot worse…. We need to move on from Adama.
In the few times I've seen him play he has been more on the left of the 3.....not out wide solely but as I say where you would expect to see grealish....he is like grealish in the sense he is a creater of chances...more so than end product....
Julen disagrees.
But will we get much money for him. His stock has fallen.
£5m?
I would like to be entertained. I want to be successful. The second is way more important than the first. I really rather would not be next season's Norwich thanks.....
Now that would offer the entertainment people want for the stupid annual increase on prices we are paying for tickets
Yes!!
Hope so.
Not sure that's quite right. You're correct that Neves' book value is low (I'd guess no more than £2M or so) so the book value of Fati would be whatever cash we paid (£30M) plus Neves' book value.
Its not just about whether we've players for that position, but whether we can upgrade on them. Fati is a solid upgrade on all our current wingers, so in that regard, I can totally understand why we'd sign him. However I do agree that the price is steep, considering his recent injury history,
With his injury record we will also need a big upgrade on the medical team..
