lexicon Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 7 minutes ago, Jas10 said: No change from last week then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 (edited) We already have a LB we paid 25m for and now were loaning him out with no fee coming the other way so we can sign another for 15m who is older with no resale value? He better be levels above what we currently have, i'm glad it's not my money... Edited August 22, 2023 by AshVilla 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Knutserov13 Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 21 minutes ago, Jas10 said: We will get there in the end. Its in everyones best interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 3 minutes ago, AshVilla said: We already have a LB we paid 25m for and now were loaning him out with no fee coming the other way so we can sign another for 15m who is older with no resale value? He better be levels above what we currently have, i'm glad it's not my money... Wild isn't it. Monchi did come into this party late so he gets a pass still, but this is far from sensible. I hope he has time when the window closes to have a good look at future planning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterSw Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 6 minutes ago, AshVilla said: We already have a LB we paid 25m for and now were loaning him out with no fee coming the other way so we can sign another for 15m who is older with no resale value? He better be levels above what we currently have, i'm glad it's not my money... I'd imagine/hope Nice will be taking on a chuck of the wages and will also be paying a loan fee which is better than nothing I guess. Obviously a permanent deal would have been better but doesn't look like the Saudi move is going to materialise for whatever reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 10 minutes ago, AshVilla said: We already have a LB we paid 25m for and now were loaning him out with no fee coming the other way so we can sign another for 15m who is older with no resale value? He better be levels above what we currently have, i'm glad it's not my money... £25m for 3.5 years is £7.1m amortisation per year. Wages are around £6.5m a year. So he's costing us £13.6 million a year. I don't have a point, we're screwed on this player whether we keep, loan or sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeypuzzle Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 21 minutes ago, ender4 said: £25m for 3.5 years is £7.1m amortisation per year. Wages are around £6.5m a year. So he's costing us £13.6 million a year. I don't have a point, we're screwed on this player whether we keep, loan or sell. Based on this we make a profit on him if we sell for £15 million this summer. £7.5 million next summer. We'd also save a fortune on wages. How are we screwed if any loan club has to cover his wages in full as suggested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 1 hour ago, HalfTimePost said: Think at this stage it's a fair bet both will go through on August 31st. Digne to play both european games and Burnley away and then leave. Acuna to start at Anfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 1 hour ago, Monkeypuzzle said: Based on this we make a profit on him if we sell for £15 million this summer. £7.5 million next summer. We'd also save a fortune on wages. How are we screwed if any loan club has to cover his wages in full as suggested? If a loan club takes him on full wages with no loan fee, then we save the £6.5m wages but he still costs us £7.1m amortisation for the year he's not at the club. Then next summer we have the same problem of what to do with his £13.6m annual cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeypuzzle Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 4 minutes ago, ender4 said: If a loan club takes him on full wages with no loan fee, then we save the £6.5m wages but he still costs us £7.1m amortisation for the year he's not at the club. Then next summer we have the same problem of what to do with his £13.6m annual cost. Gotcha! Thank you. So selling him this summer for £15 million would be a very small profit and free up huge wages. Loaning him for no fee but full wages covered, then selling him for £7.5 million next summer costs us £7 million in transfer fee but saves us £6.5 million in wages, so just about breaking even, followed by freeing up huge wages. I get your point, but I still think saying we're screwed is a bit extreme. We stand to break even on a guy we paid quite a lot for and put on huge wages, as he approached the latter part of his career. Meanwhile we have had plenty of good performances out of him and have just gone fore someone on lower wages, hopefully without a drop in quality. If Digne had virtually never played for us, then left on a free at the end of his contract I would agree fully. However he has played lots, often played very well and we don't need a ridiculous transfer fee to break even on him. It's just not the perfect transfer, but better than lots of others! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 2 hours ago, Monkeypuzzle said: Based on this we make a profit on him if we sell for £15 million this summer. £7.5 million next summer. We'd also save a fortune on wages. How are we screwed if any loan club has to cover his wages in full as suggested? He signed a 4.5y contract for £25m so he has £15.7m left amortization left. So next June he'll have £11.1m left So if we loan him for £4m and buy option at £12m it covers his full cost. If they cover his wages this season or he takes a small wage cut (Like Coutinho did). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 3 hours ago, PeterSw said: I'd imagine/hope Nice will be taking on a chuck of the wages and will also be paying a loan fee which is better than nothing I guess. Obviously a permanent deal would have been better but doesn't look like the Saudi move is going to materialise for whatever reason Could be that he didn't want to move to Saudi, or that someone reminded Al-Hilal, that we aren't one of the PL clubs with links to Saudi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post villan95 Posted August 22, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 22, 2023 2 minutes ago, IrishVilla10 said: Even getting linked to Villa leads to an injury now! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 So we keep Digne then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 20 minutes ago, IrishVilla10 said: Of course he has Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 Trying to push the fee too high has now shafted Sevilla. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
est1874 Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 We are **** cursed. We really are **** cursed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 When it rains it pours, ay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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