If we sold Soldado, Paulinho and Chiriches, how much money do you think we'd get back?

[Hoddle&Waddle]

2 in 2 actually is the best strike rate this season.
Oh wait

Worth every penny.

 

[SpursManChris]

If we sold Soldado, Paulinho and Chiriches, how much money do you think we'd get back?

A fiver?

 

[thinktank]

Paul'o/Chiri/Lennon/Townsend... £40-45mil = Scnhiderlin+JRod.

Done deal, where do I sign?

 

[panties]

£1.50

 

[jesh]

£1.50

Before or after discount?

 

[TwanYid]

Soldado will be 30 by August, so if his form doesn't improve I'd say 5 to 6 million.
Paulinho, 8 to 10 million.
Chiriches, 6 to 7 million.

So even being optimistic, these three players amount to an approximate 30 million Pound loss for our club.

 

[TwanYid]

However measly it was, the price just went down even further.

I literally cannot believe we spent over fifty million Pounds on these three players. We might never recover from this. We cannot afford that big of a write down; the insanity that was the buying of these three players has fucked our club for the foreseeable future.

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

Levy will be looking to sell these players at around the price we bought them for (or maybe a bit more). That will never happen, so I imagine all three of them will be kept to run down their contracts, a la Bentley.
I do think we might be able to shift Paulinho if Levy's prepared to take a small hit, as the whole 'Brazilian' kudos adds something to a player's value and until recently he was playing regularly for Brazil.

 

[stevenurse]

With Levy's notoriously hard bargaining and stubbornness I reckon he could get about 37p and a half used book of 2nd class stamps for Paulinho and Chiriches.

I'd keep Soldado. What do we expect when he only gets games where Townsend/Paulinho/Lennon are his providers? No wonder he looked suicidal when he came off. He's on a hiding to nothing

 

[stonecolddeanaustin]

Isn't something like half of Soldado's fee performance related? Something tells me those add-on clauses aren't going to be reached so I'd doubt we'd lose that much on him.

Paulinho and Vlad have obviously flopped but at the same time we could probably get £25mill for Eriksen, £15m for Chadli and about £10m for Dier (probably a lot more in a couple of years), which near enough cancels out the amount lost on those three. It's the nature of the game. Some transfers work out, others don't.

 

[spursboy2008]

Woolworths voucher!, if we are lucky.

 

[FinnYid]

Paul'o/Chiri/Lennon/Townsend... £40-45mil = Scnhiderlin+JRod.

Done deal, where do I sign?

£40-45mil for Schneiderlin+JRod.

I wanna cry.

 

[TwanYid]

It's the nature of the game. Some transfers work out, others don't.

This isn't "transfers not working out"- this is a situation whereby Levy and Baldini would have been better served amassing the fifty-three million Pounds in boxes of 50-Pound notes, which they could then use to wipe their collective asses in perpetuity.

At least then the club could save on the cost of toilet paper.

 

[prawnsandwich]

Didn't we only pay about 15m for Soldado in the end?

Still a bit much but not as bad.

It's probably nearer to £15 than £30 mill.
I would say we could get about £6-£10 mill from Spain for him. Maybe £8m for Paulinho and £5m plus for Chirpie.
However if these guys get a run in the side and hit a bit of form then their value will increase. That's why I think Levy will be taking a keen interest in MoPo's treatment of the three.

 

[prawnsandwich]

Soldado was actually not bought to make a profit, was even stated by ITK at the time (think it was JJ)

In that case he has been 100% successful.

 

[stonecolddeanaustin]

This isn't "transfers not working out"- this is a situation whereby Levy and Baldini would have been better served amassing the fifty-three million Pounds in boxes of 50-Pound notes, which they could then use to wipe their collective asses in perpetuity.

At least then the club could save on the cost of toilet paper.

Soldado is clearly a case of a transfer that hasn't worked out. Nobody could've been certain that he wasn't gonna produce the goods with his goal scoring record in Spain. Chiriches has all the attributes to be a decent player but appears to have far too many mistakes in him to make at this level. That wouldn't have been so apparent when he's playing for the best team in Romania so again I would say it's an example of a transfer that hasn't worked out. Paulinho, I'll give you. No idea what we saw in him but even in this case he has a decent goal scoring record and starts for Brazil.

 

[mano-obe]

Possibly 30m. I've stuck up for Soldado on numerous occasions and still hope he will come good, but near 30m on a player who hasn't produced when we need as much money on a new stadium is very frustrating. I think Paulinho would be the easiest of the 3 to sell. I'm still hoping they all come good, fingers crossed

 

[eddiebailey]

Levy will be looking to sell these players at around the price we bought them for (or maybe a bit more). That will never happen, so I imagine all three of them will be kept to run down their contracts, a la Bentley.
I do think we might be able to shift Paulinho if Levy's prepared to take a small hit, as the whole 'Brazilian' kudos adds something to a player's value and until recently he was playing regularly for Brazil.

I suspect the World Cup semi-final knocked about 20% off the price of every Brazilian.

 

[eddiebailey]

The Soldado purchase was a disaster because Levy will never again be persuaded to pay big bucks for a player with no sell-on value.