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Not interesting.... funny! Serves him and his agent right.
Fábio Coentrão
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Misfit
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I suppose, considering AVB's pining for him, we will try again in the Jan or next summer but eh. Colour me apathetic about him joining. Not sure he's all that as a LB anyway but after making it clear he'd prefer to go elsewhere? Hardly the attitude AVB seems to be trying to instill in the rest of the group considering the Ade and Benny situations.
Yes he's injured, he got injured on international duty.
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If we actually made a solid approach for him and he didn't entertain us, then I'm disappointed with Coentrao's attitude. He could be playing every week for us in a very exciting team. it's not CL, but we'd match his wages and he'd at least be playing football in a top league.
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Yes. I'd have to think after the summer we had we made our interest known etc and all the noises were he wanted to stay at RM and fight for his place only to suddenly jump when Yanited came calling at the last minute. Obviously a guess on my part but that doesn't exactly sound like he was married to idea of staying at RM. More that he just wasn't interested in playing for us.
The suggestion was that he wanted silly wages too so all in all, if AVB does go after him again, that was either all bullshit or his so-called group ethic is a very malleable idea indeed.
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Yeah, but would we actually match his wages or what he wants? He'd be on just about top dollar at Spurs. I understand that it's also a vital part of any team, but to warrant being the top earner? No I don't think so.
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It would've cost us about £60k per week to match his wage at Madrid, which was about EUR2m net per annum apparently, so probably about the going rate really.
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I'm no expert, but have read that it was £2m not Euros. This is more in the range of £75k pw - there's online calculators.
All conjecture of course. He's not here. Of course I would have liked him in the squad, but that doesn't really matter now.
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I'm no expert, but have read that it was £2m not Euros. This is more in the range of £75k pw - there's online calculators.
All conjecture of course. He's not here. Of course I would have liked him in the squad, but that doesn't really matter now.
Nah, it is widely mentioned as Euros - Though if it was £2m per annum net we'd need to pay him in the region of £3,636,363 gross, so about £70k per week. Obviously this ignores NI and any potential tax sheltering that may be going on.
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Whatever, google is your friend (and foe)*. As I said it doesn't matter. I think if he was a reasonable target for the right price then we would have signed him. He was and is overpriced imo. Is he worth more than Lamela, Eriksen, Soldado et etc? Lunch time methinks.
*Type in Fabio Contrao wages and see what comes up and also take home pay calculators. The Standard says £100k per week, although they know jack....!
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I don't know what you mean about google. If you do type it in, everything says Euros including a big section at the top of the page that says:
2 million EUR (2012)
Fábio Coentrão, Salary
and terms such as "The proposal also sees Coentrao earn a net salary of €2 million per year"
I don't need a take home pay calculator, I know the tax rates for additional rate earners (45%), I know you don't get a personal allowance if you earn over £118,880 per annum and I know the exchange rate.
Like you say, it doesn't really matter, but I'm, sure we could/would've matched the wage so he wouldn't have been financially disadvantaged - other than London living costs being higher than Madrid!
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IMO. Would prefer Luke Shaw, huge potential,prem proven, 7 years younger,and English.
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and Luke Shaw wouldn't come here so it doesn't matter.
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http://www.caughtoffside.com/2013/0...-clear-he-wants-blues-move-during-twitter-qa/
He supports them. If they go in for him he'll go there. And for now he'll probably hold out for a move there.
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All that tells you is he is a Chelsea fan. Defoe was an Arsenal fan, Holtby an Everton fan, Parker a Spurs fan turned us down twice to go to Newcastle and then West Ham. Steven Gerrard, Michael Owen were Everton fans.
I'm not saying we will get him but if we were seen as a good team for his development, I believe he would sign (especially if Chelsea didn't bid).
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