Club's Transfer "Comfort Zone"

[muppetman]

Isn't the issue less the price of the player and more the wages? It's my understanding that (for example) we could have managed the fee for João Moutinho but we couldn't match his wage demands and also that the rest of the squad would want parity and so drive our wage bill through the roof.

Young up and coming players don't expect north of £100K/week and by the time they can justify such wages we would be selling them to a club that can comfortably afford that.

 

[DaSpurs]

I think McKenzie is just a scout that uses more modern methods and perhaps imo the scout to replace David Magrone who served us well

Agreed, and I think Broomfield runs the legwork on the ground. I also wonder if McKenzie is involved in analyzing the youth prospects, or running the "talent spotters" as Levy referred to in the meeting with the Supporters' Trust. In the modern game, there are several capacities for multiple chief scouts to work alongside each other or even separately. As it seems we're trying to invest more in scouting rather than buying established quality, it would also make sense we'd have as optimized of a scouting network as possible.

 

[onthetwo]

regaring the (in)famous 7, 'beatles' or whatever they were known as (id have preferred 'mostly cr*p' given a choice), DL was always going to say he was backing the manager than rather than admitting that he was panicking about the fan furore that would ensue once Bale was sold.....

 

[jambreck]

regaring the (in)famous 7, 'beatles' or whatever they were known as (id have preferred 'mostly cr*p' given a choice), DL was always going to say he was backing the manager than rather than admitting that he was panicking about the fan furore that would ensue once Bale was sold.....

I don't think there was any panic.

Just bad choices.

 

[PLTuck]

Isn't the issue less the price of the player and more the wages? It's my understanding that (for example) we could have managed the fee for João Moutinho but we couldn't match his wage demands and also that the rest of the squad would want parity and so drive our wage bill through the roof.

Young up and coming players don't expect north of £100K/week and by the time they can justify such wages we would be selling them to a club that can comfortably afford that.

Unless you're Raheem Sterling.

 

[chinaman]

Now that it's official that we are in the 10-15 million pound zone, everyone can forget about Depay and Sneiderlin.

 

[jambreck]

Now that it's official that we are in the 10-15 million pound zone, everyone can forget about Depay and Sneiderlin.

It's not official.

It's just a general rule of thumb. Not an unbreakable rule.