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You had a good education but you squander it with cheap rhetoric.But last summer I was really happy with our canny business in the transfer market and argued to anyone who would listen that Poch very clearly intended the idea of 'being brave' to be all about not spending any money and having the bravery to compete our rivals as they invested to improve their squads whilst we were allowing ours to be weakened? Surely I can't have been wrong?!
Yeah, to be fair, I am [genuinely] not very happy with that post. I think the underlying point (i.e. of course Poch wouldn't have been happy with our failure to do business in last summer's transfer market) stands, but I've couched it all in route-one sarcasm that just isn't very inventive or funny. It's quite literally the kind of post that @BringBack_leGin would have typed if there was a pro-Levy point to be made, and I'm not proud of that. Must be funnier.You had a good education but you squander it with cheap rhetoric.
I'm really happy he's come out and said this. Clear as day and his comments can't be interpreted any other way like the 'brave' comments from last year. Now's the time, if we don't start spending big and getting in our top choices we never will under Levy and co........and we will have wasted our chance with the best coach we've had in years.
We are likely going to need 6 new faces (RB, LB, CB, CMx2, AM/ATT)
Let’s be honest, is brave comments from last year really shouldn’t have been taken any other way. It’s only the Levy apologists that somehow spun it to mean that Poch was happy to buy nobody.
Toby seems to be making the right noises about staying.
Eriksen I think is probably leaving, and in honesty, I’m not that bothered. His season has been mediocre at best, and while I think he’s a great player to have around the club, if we can get £75M+ for him then we should take it.
Eriksen isn’t irreplaceable. Nor is Toby. Nor, in fairness, is anyone except Harry Kane.
May I remind you that we lost Luka Modric, Dimitar Berbatov and Gareth Bale - all arguably more important players than Eriksen - and lived to tell the tale. If he wants out then cash in and get the money spent wisely and quickly.
Sessegnon’s value must have dropped now. Think we’ll be in for a good shout if we seriously want him
JJ has already confirmed that he has release clause that is well below the reported £50m. Only issue is the chairman doesn’t like us so we have to find away around it. Player is desperate to join apparently.
If he's got a release clause, then it's nothing to do with the Fulham chairman, surely?
With player sales probably being around £100m (Toby £25m, Eriksen £50m, Wanyama £5m, Janssen £5m, Aurier £15m) I reckon if the club give us £50m on top of that, with shrewd investments it'll be a good return.
I honestly can't see the club going nuts and giving us more than £150m to spend, even if £100m of that is made up of money due to player sales
AFAIK we could meet the release clause but that doesn't stop the chairman waiting for another club to meet the clause too and then obviously selling to the other club.
However I think the final decision after the clause is met by any club, will be down to Sess, if he really wants to join us and we meet the clause there is nothing the chairman can do except for drag it out as I mentioned above.
I suppose it ultimately depends what's written in the contract.
But I always thought that the 'release clause' allowed a player to speak to another club and the parent club couldn't stop the sale. Otherwise, what's the point of a player putting a release clause in their contract?
Ryan Fraser? Links today.
Decent player, looks like he's coming up to his peak.
I suppose it ultimately depends what's written in the contract.
But I always thought that the 'release clause' allowed a player to speak to another club and the parent club couldn't stop the sale. Otherwise, what's the point of a player putting a release clause in their contract?
Legally speaking your are correct but I reckon their chairman will find any way possible to delay the deal if necessary. I know it sounds petty but that's probably the worst he can do. He cannot outright stop the deal going through which is a bonus for us.