Inter want Eriksen’s wages to be paid in full

[Japhet]

I reckon if he were to come, he would no doubt put on a much humbler face. If, and it's a big if, he was to try and prove to us and the world how wrong we were about him we could end up with the Erisken of 3 years ago.
The money side is down to Levy, and I care little for it. This is a big decision for both the player and Inter.

I really don't think Eriksen has that in him any more. His abdominal injury coincided with his drop in form and that doesn't seem to have improved one bit with the new challenge he said he wanted. I don't think he was ever the type of player to not try his best (unlike many) and on his wages he'd be a huge gamble for us. We're already flushing 200k+ per week down the pan with Bale.

 

[sebo_sek]

I really don't think Eriksen has that in him any more. His abdominal injury coincided with his drop in form and that doesn't seem to have improved one bit with the new challenge he said he wanted. I don't think he was ever the type of player to not try his best (unlike many) and on his wages he'd be a huge gamble for us. We're already flushing 200k+ per week down the pan with Bale.

Just a thought

 

[he is you know!]

Agreed with that except the last sentence. Don't know if a humbled Eriksen with cap in hand and a Jose arm around his shoulder will be the creative piece we are so obviously missing. He is at the peak of his career, and might be a great buy. But yeah it can all go south but might be worth a short term gamble.

I reckon if he were to come, he would no doubt put on a much humbler face. If, and it's a big if, he was to try and prove to us and the world how wrong we were about him we could end up with the Erisken of 3 years ago.
The money side is down to Levy, and I care little for it. This is a big decision for both the player and Inter.

1) DL wants, and has told Inter, a loan and not a buy.
2)He wants Inter to cover (most of) CE's wages.

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I really don't think Eriksen has that in him any more. His abdominal injury coincided with his drop in form and that doesn't seem to have improved one bit with the new challenge he said he wanted. I don't think he was ever the type of player to not try his best (unlike many) and on his wages he'd be a huge gamble for us. We're already flushing 200k+ per week down the pan with Bale.

Trix has already confirmed Jose has no interest in him.

 

[whitesocks]

As long as inter were prepared to sell him back to us at cost in the summer, and Eriksen was prepared to take a 50% paycut as part of that deal, then 6 months of £300k is not so bad.
He played for us for a good 2 years at a very uncompetitive wage so this and any signing bonuses would part compensate that.

I think inter would bite our hand off to take him in the summer in the current market, and Eriksen wants to return to London/England for family reasons, so can't complain too much about a pay cut. He'd still be one of our top earners.

But we would need to see the old Eriksen during the loan.... That's the main concern.

 

[Col_M]

This is classic Levy territory. He has a price and he won’t shift. I assume Inter know it from previous dealings. The secret is never to backdown and be prepared to walk away.

Do we NEED him? No.
Would he be a good signing YES.

 

[Neon_Knight_]

Outrageous, why should we have to pay the player, in fact why aren’t Milan paying all our players, Levy’s missed a trick.

Subsidised wages are fairly common for top-flight loan deals.
Based on his form / contribution at his current club, it's difficult for any club to justify £300k p.w. It's a similar situation to us not paying all of Bale's wages (or Adebayour's in the past) and is often a barrier to clubs offloading highly-paid players who aren't justifying their wages. The last six months of Ozil's £350k contract were resolved by Arsenal partially paying him off and Fenerbahce paying him a seven-figure signing bonus.
Eriksen has 3.5 years left on his contract, so is due to earn circa £55m that Inter would prefer to invest on other players. Eriksen won't agree to a permanent move for significantly lower wages, meaning Inter will have to pay him off unless another club is willing to match his wages and contract term. If no one is offering a financially viable deal to sign him permanently and no one is willing to pay his full wages for a loan, Inter is left needing to either get some value out of him on the pitch or subsidise his exit.

 

[Neon_Knight_]

I see no reason for us to sign Eriksen, except the hope that he may suddenly and miraculously turn into the player he was with us three seasons ago. Not going to happen, is it, anymore than the hope that Bale may one day turn into the player he once resembled, a forlorn hope that is costing the club £250k each week.

Both Bale and Eriksen were once great players with us who thrilled and excited everyone, but they are no more. Let's send Bale back to RM and take no further action on Eriksen.

It would certainly be a significant financial risk to have both players on such high wages. Bale still has half a season to come good though and, even while underperforming, has already contributed decisive goals and assists at a superior rate to all but three of our players.

 

[Freddie]

People trying to rationalise why he'd suddenly become brilliant again if we signed him...I can think of many examples of great players who for whatever reason suddenly seemed to become average, and hardly any cases of them then rediscovering their ability. It's foolish to take a punt on someone because they were good 2 years ago. In this climate no top club will be signing a has-been on huge wages.

 

[Freddie]

It would certainly be a significant financial risk to have both players on such high wages. Bale still has half a season to come good though and, even while underperforming, has already contributed decisive goals and assists at a superior rate to all but three of our players.

Bale has been an unmitigated disaster of a signing and there is absolutely zero chance we'll see significant improvement, partly because he's played his way out of the first team picture. Scoring one notable goal doesn't mask that. If anything his signing would discourage us further in going for Eriksen (if indeed we had interest at all).

 

[teedee]

Bale has been an unmitigated disaster of a signing and there is absolutely zero chance we'll see significant improvement, partly because he's played his way out of the first team picture. Scoring one notable goal doesn't mask that. If anything his signing would discourage us further in going for Eriksen (if indeed we had interest at all).

Bale was content to sit on the bench at Real Madrid and even pretend to be asleep during one game. Whether or not ZZ pissed him off, he was being paid an enormous amount of money; his attitude there was appalling and should have served as a warning to DL not to bother acquiring him on loan.

 

[Neon_Knight_]

Bale has been an unmitigated disaster of a signing and there is absolutely zero chance we'll see significant improvement, partly because he's played his way out of the first team picture. Scoring one notable goal doesn't mask that. If anything his signing would discourage us further in going for Eriksen (if indeed we had interest at all).

His performances have been poor, yet he has still proportionately contributed as much / more than the player's he's competing with.

Which of his 3 goals in 11 games do you consider to be his one notable goal? (Or more to the point, which two weren't notable?)

• His late winner against Brighton earned us 2 league points (could prove decisive to the final standings)
• His goal against Stoke directly contributed to our progression in the Carabao Cup
• His goal against LASK directly contributed to our progression in the Europa League

Although not technically an assist, his saved 35-yard free-kick against Antwerp (rebound scored by Vinicius) directly contributed to our progression in the Europa League. Considering no one else could have hit that free-kick and we had been struggling to create chances, that was definitely "notable" too.

 

[Shadydan]

Bale was content to sit on the bench at Real Madrid and even pretend to be asleep during one game. Whether or not ZZ pissed him off, he was being paid an enormous amount of money; his attitude there was appalling and should have served as a warning to DL not to bother acquiring him on loan.

Sounds good in hindsight but the opportunity was to good to turn down.

 

[Metalhead]

People trying to rationalise why he'd suddenly become brilliant again if we signed him...I can think of many examples of great players who for whatever reason suddenly seemed to become average, and hardly any cases of them then rediscovering their ability. It's foolish to take a punt on someone because they were good 2 years ago. In this climate no top club will be signing a has-been on huge wages.

We've kind of just done that with Bale too. I'd like to think that he'll come good but so far, not so good.

 

[dontcallme]

People trying to rationalise why he'd suddenly become brilliant again if we signed him...I can think of many examples of great players who for whatever reason suddenly seemed to become average, and hardly any cases of them then rediscovering their ability. It's foolish to take a punt on someone because they were good 2 years ago. In this climate no top club will be signing a has-been on huge wages.

I guess it depends on why the player had a downturn in form.

Eriksen appeared to struggle for form after his stomach injury. Then once he was fit again he didn't get himself mentally up to perform to a level where an elite club wanted him. So he went to Inter, good club but not the Barca or Real Madrid Eriksen reportedly wanted.

Seems his time there hasn't gone well.

From what I know his issues aren't physical. He couldn't get his form up at the end of his time here and the fresh start hasn't done it for him either.

So my gut feeling is if he was to return he wouldn't get back up to level.

 

[teedee]

Sounds good in hindsight but the opportunity was to good to turn down.

It may have been hindsight for those wearing rose tinted specs.

 

[Shadydan]

It may have been hindsight for those wearing rose tinted specs.

Well seeing as Daniel Levy, Jose Mourinho, the media, the vast majority of the fanbase and rival fans all thought it would be a good idea and you didn't then I guess we all bow to your superior hindsight, sir.

 

[teedee]

Well seeing as Daniel Levy, Jose Mourinho, the media, the vast majority of the fanbase and rival fans all thought it would be a good idea and you didn't then I guess we all bow to your superior hindsight, sir.

It's my pleasure.

 

[Freddie]

His performances have been poor, yet he has still proportionately contributed as much / more than the player's he's competing with.

Which of his 3 goals in 11 games do you consider to be his one notable goal? (Or more to the point, which two weren't notable?)

• His late winner against Brighton earned us 2 league points (could prove decisive to the final standings)
• His goal against Stoke directly contributed to our progression in the Carabao Cup
• His goal against LASK directly contributed to our progression in the Europa League

Although not technically an assist, his saved 35-yard free-kick against Antwerp (rebound scored by Vinicius) directly contributed to our progression in the Europa League. Considering no one else could have hit that free-kick and we had been struggling to create chances, that was definitely "notable" too.

His league goal, the others are a reach. I still thought we'd qualify in the other 2, and Bale was a big part of the reason we didn't put far inferior teams away. It's hard to imagine a League One player not having at least the same return having played the minutes Bale has, and it's harder to imagine their all-round game being worse. The fact that you've resorted to mentioning a free kick that was spilled against Antwerp says a lot. He's on 600k a week. The guy is broken.

 

[Neon_Knight_]

His league goal, the others are a reach. I still thought we'd qualify in the other 2, and Bale was a big part of the reason we didn't put far inferior teams away. It's hard to imagine a League One player not having at least the same return having played the minutes Bale has, and it's harder to imagine their all-round game being worse. The fact that you've resorted to mentioning a free kick that was spilled against Antwerp says a lot. He's on 600k a week. The guy is broken.

Bale hasn't lived up to our hopes or expectations, but at least half of what you've stated in this thread simply isn't true and most of the rest is unsubstantiated opinion / doesn't really make sense.

I "resorted" to mentioning him creating a goal-scoring opportunity from a position that no one else in the squad is capable of, in a game where everyone else in our team was struggling to create anything. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought that's exactly the kind of thing we hope for / expect from players like Bale.

He's not on £600k per week - £500k per week, but only costing us £250k. Not as bad as the £300k Inter is paying Eriksen or the £350k Arsenal was paying Ozil.

"Broken", yet has a scoring rate of a goal every 178 minutes this season. If Bale is broken I'm not sure what word should be used to describe Mane, Firminho, Sterling, Aubameyang, Rashford, Zaha, Watkins or Wilson...who all have a worse scoring rate than Bale (yet are somehow all within the top 20 scorers in the PL).

"Zero chance we'll see significant improvement" yet his performances have been improving right in front of our eyes. Did you watch the game last night? He was accelerating past defenders for fun - he couldn't do that a few weeks ago, due to injury (not loss of form / motivation).

 

[Freddie]

Bale hasn't lived up to our hopes or expectations, but at least half of what you've stated in this thread simply isn't true and most of the rest is unsubstantiated opinion / doesn't really make sense.

I "resorted" to mentioning him creating a goal-scoring opportunity from a position that no one else in the squad is capable of, in a game where everyone else in our team was struggling to create anything. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought that's exactly the kind of thing we hope for / expect from players like Bale.

He's not on £600k per week - £500k per week, but only costing us £250k. Not as bad as the £300k Inter is paying Eriksen or the £350k Arsenal was paying Ozil.

"Broken", yet has a scoring rate of a goal every 178 minutes this season. If Bale is broken I'm not sure what word should be used to describe Mane, Firminho, Sterling, Aubameyang, Rashford, Zaha, Watkins or Wilson...who all have a worse scoring rate than Bale (yet are somehow all within the top 20 scorers in the PL).

"Zero chance we'll see significant improvement" yet his performances have been improving right in front of our eyes. Did you watch the game last night? He was accelerating past defenders for fun - he couldn't do that a few weeks ago, due to injury (not loss of form / motivation).

His free kicks on the whole (off the top of my head) have been poor. You're saying no one else in the team could take as many as he has and eventually hit one on target (which was central and poorly dealt with) leading to an assist? I'd say they probably could. Kane, and Dier could.

I remember 600k being quoted regularly when he signed that deal. Might be inaccurate but either way 250k is an amount reserved for the world's best, not for someone who should get applause for goals against Brighton, LASK and Stoke.

A goal every 178 minute...against who? Utterly ridiculous point. The others are all playing against actually decent opposition and making telling contributions in those games. Bale has 3 goals. The reason he's played hardly any games is because he hasn't even impressed against bad teams

All our games from now matter. I don't think he's done anything to stake a claim