Like I said in my original post, it’s concerning that they retain interest - because these moves are rarely done without gauging prior interest from the player. I’d be drafting a new contract immediately as that’s the best way of putting teams off. Just sitting saying ‘not for sale’ and hoping they go away and that the player is happy rarely works. If he’s not for sale, we probably have to show him by increasing his salary.
Doesn’t seem the type at all to be honest. I’d say only way he doesn’t play would be if a bid is accepted prior.
He won’t sign a new contract now surely ? And not sure we could offer him a bumper deal given we are now a champ club
Give him whatever money he wants, give him whatever assurances he wants for next season! I think at this vantage point it's clear he won't be here next season, regardless of the division (barring a catastrophic injury or another global pandemic!), but just make sure he's here this season!
We'd probably have space to increase his terms if we weren't paying players like Rose, Pussetto and Penaranda to play for other clubs and party.
More than any other player in our squad, I'd be gutted if he went. At the end of the day though, he deserves to be with a Premier League team. Him staying will depend on him (for some reason) deciding to stay with us, in the Championship, with worse players, on less money, and with no guarantee we get promoted straight back up. Slim odds I'd say and I'm sure a club (Newcastle or other) would be willing to pay a sum that Gino will accept. It would be good money, and if it gets reinvested in more South American talent (where we do seem to have an edge) then maybe it's not too bad. If it gets syphoned out to our favourite superagent then not so much.
Mitrovic signed one for Fulham last summer. Sometimes you have to break the boundaries of what you’re willing to do.
Not sure I agree about next season if we were to go up. I suspect the plan has always been for 2 more years until he’s 22.
They've probably never heard of Kalu, lets do a switcheroo and send him instead. He looks about 20, right?
There are ways. One big one is working with him on a large (but not insane) release clause. Everybody wins there as he get a percentage of the transfer fee - plus whatever new wages both clubs offer. If he's near the end of his deal, the transfer fee is typically lower and as a result his percentage there would be smaller.
Exactly. Offer him a huge deal now, then he either goes next summer or we go up and the wage bill increases anyway.
But Fulham are mega rich and could afford to offer him an attractive enough deal to keep him. Doubt very much Pedro would sign a new deal with us unless he doubts his own ability to make it in the prem.
Mitrovic is on 100k a week isn’t he? Including the performance related stuff. I’ve no interest in footballers, who in a couple of years will be Deeneyesque yokes on the club, earning that sort of money. Pedro is a very good, but so far not top notch player. If the fee is right, let him go. Good for him and us. But let’s not chuck money at players in our current position. We simply don’t have it.
There was that thread in the summer of whose transfer was most devastating, and to be quite honest with you, with the possible exceptions of January sales like King and Young, every deal has felt pretty inevitable, but this one would probably top the lot for me considering he is supposed to be our main man
If Newcastle are after him now, I imagine interest in him will only grow, by the sounds of it we'll have a task on our hands to keep him this season, a storming Championsip season might be too much for us to hold on to him
Pozzo’s don’t do release clauses though as it goes against their model entirely. Their whole MO when selling big ticket players is to eek out every last penny. And they will be looking at Joao Pedro as the golden goose in that respect - far more likely they will just keep an unhappy player without a release clause.
I’m not advocating chucking money at him that we don’t have. He will have had his wage cut due to relegation anyway. I’m suggesting a new deal that reinstates his former wage with a bit on top - couple that with an agreement for the future when negotiating with certain levels of club and I think we’d have a chance of keeping him.
Think we restructured the deal at some point, paying certain add-ons before they were reached. Don't know if sell-on clause would have been adjusted then, but it was initially 10%.
Absolutely. Bleed them dry. £60mil upfront no installments, £20mil in very achievable add ons over 3 years, plus a 20% sell on fee of the overall fee not just the profit. Take it or leave Newcastle.
£150m upfront plus our choice of 3 of their players and Sir Eddie to perform a sex act with a cucumber. Back in the real world, if they offer £25-30m I’m sure we will sell.
You haven’t been paying attention to how Newcastle have been operating in the transfer market have you. They have money but aren’t idiots.
We won’t sell for that much. Add £10m on to those amounts and you’re right I would think. We have been told that we have said ‘not for sale’ when faced with a £23m bid (inc add-on’s) - I really doubt we will buckle over an extra couple of million. ‘Not for sale’ tells me we aren’t trying to get a few extra million at most.
Never, ever going to happen… But if we got £40m and that allowed us to: Sign Greaves, Keep Sarr, Sign Nandez Sign Matheus Martins …and pocket the rest of the money. I’d do it. But I just know that’s not how it would play out.
