GENTLEMAN Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I just hope Benteke stays professional and does not start to play up, we deserve better than that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hope we get put out of our misery asap to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 He'll be at Man United by September. No he won't. Ohhhh yes he will! My post makes it look like I know something. I don't. I'll rephrase "If I was putting a bet on where he'd be in September, I'd choose Man Utd" And I think he'll be bloody good there too. Don't waste your money. Is this you pretending you know something? Or do you just disagree? Where do you think he will be in September? Liverpool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I think it's safe to say we won't see him in a villa shirt next season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeVillan Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 If he wants to go let him, same with Cleverly. It's been a very long time since we can hold onto the best players in our squad, and I don't see that changing any time soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_Villain Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hope wherever he goes... He does his cruciates in... and Kismet is in a car crash.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hope wherever he goes... He does his cruciates in... and Kismet is in a car crash.... It's a game mate. Just a game.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hope wherever he goes... He does his cruciates in... and Kismet is in a car crash.... Wow. Bit harsh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeps Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 It's embarrassing that the club released that story yesterday about 'moving forward' and 'we will be better'. After the last 16 hours id take it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hope wherever he goes... He does his cruciates in... and Kismet is in a car crash.... It's a game mate. Just a game.... Yep. After this season nothing hurts me anymore. I've come to accept we are just making up the numbers, loyalty is dead, the top four are what matters and anything else is just there to keep those teams afloat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hope wherever he goes... He does his cruciates in... and Kismet is in a car crash.... classy guy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntrimBlack Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hope wherever he goes... He does his cruciates in... and Kismet is in a car crash.... It's a game mate. Just a game.... Yep. After this season nothing hurts me anymore. I've come to accept we are just making up the numbers, loyalty is dead, the top four are what matters and anything else is just there to keep those teams afloat. Absolutely. The rest of us are only here in order that they can maintain a Premier League. And everything is skewed to make sure that they maintain their top positions. You will think it is the musings of an old guy, but oh for the good old days of a level playing field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hope wherever he goes... He does his cruciates in... and Kismet is in a car crash.... It's a game mate. Just a game.... Yep. After this season nothing hurts me anymore. I've come to accept we are just making up the numbers, loyalty is dead, the top four are what matters and anything else is just there to keep those teams afloat. Absolutely. The rest of us are only here in order that they can maintain a Premier League. And everything is skewed to make sure that they maintain their top positions. You will think it is the musings of an old guy, but oh for the good old days of a level playing field. but in the prem on any given day anyone can beat anyone, sky even said so... the illusion that we are all competing in the prem means that nothing will happen about it any time soon, the reality is we are every bit as bad as the likes of la liga, only a select few clubs can win the league, no different from spain, from about 7th down we're all just part of the happy to be here brigade, the surprising thing about it is that the likes of liverpool (cos its always their year) spurs (cos when they get their new stadium they'll be up there) southampton (cos they have an endless supply of good youngsters so selling 4 of them every summer wont matter) and then the stokes and swanseas of this world who see 8th as something great, really dont it for what it is, its a closed shop 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Also, on rebuilding, it's worth keeping in mind that Benteke isn't particularly well paid in Premier league terms - I've seen people saying "Sell him for £30m and get three £10m players in to improve the squad." Benteke sold for £32.5m plus the last two remaining years of his contract not spent would bring in about £37.5m. if we buy a player like Townsend from Spurs for say £10m, he's going to want the going rate for a four year contract - say £60k a week. That's £22m of that £37.5m spent on one £10m player. Except you're taking things a little wrong. Benteke out for 32.5m saves us say 2.5m in wages a year plus gets us 32.5m If we buy Townsend for 10m on a 4 year deal, and pay him 4m a year, that equates to 6.5m of the 32.5m of the benteke money spent in year one, same year 2, same year 3. if wages were all paid up front, and fees werent amortized, then your line of thinking would be correct, but it works differently to that. Any signings we make this year, we're only really concerned with the cost of the fee divided by length of the contract, plus one year's wage, since the benteke money would (should) be upfront given that it's a release clause, while player acquisitions are handled differently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyAnty Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Bentekes agent. Not signing a new contract by his reckoning. Surprised how people are so stupid. http://www.thesportbible.com/articles/benteke-s-agent-gives-away-transfer-info-to-prankster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfcwills10 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Bentekes agent. Not signing a new contract by his reckoning. Surprised how people are so stupid. http://www.thesportbible.com/articles/benteke-s-agent-gives-away-transfer-info-to-prankster Wow you're really ahead of the game with this mate...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarpie Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Does minium fee clause work like in FM that they have to pay the full amount at once, or can they structure it for longer time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isa Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 (edited) Does minium fee clause work like in FM that they have to pay the full amount at once, or can they structure it for longer time? I'd guess they have to pay it in one go. Because otherwise they could structure it where they pay £1 now and the other installments in five years time for example and we'd be obliged to accept it, which can't be right. Edited June 2, 2015 by Isa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Does minium fee clause work like in FM that they have to pay the full amount at once, or can they structure it for longer time? I'd hope so otherwise, as someone said earlier, they could offer 1p upfront and then structure it however they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikantcpell Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 One good thing about him leaving is we will be a more good looking team, he must be the ugliest player to have ever played in the PL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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