Post by eaststand on Aug 7, 2012 13:18:39 GMT 1
Santa Cruz didn't sign for Real Betis because they couldn't afford the transfer fee, Adebayor didn't sign because after finally stumping up the agreed £8 million transfer fee after paying £4 million and 60% of his wages to loan him for a year that they refused to pay Adebayor the huge signing on fee he was looking for to compensate him for the drop in earnings.
We are facing the very real prospect of having both of these players, who earn close to a combined 220k a week, still at the club at the close of the window. I can appreciate that the owners paid a premium for these players but maybe it is just time to get them out and done with. I can see why they want a decent fee for Adebayor, he certainly is still a very good striker, as he proved at Madrid and Spurs last season and in reality there would be plenty of suitors for Adebayor if his wages weren't so high but they are and no body is going to want him on that kind of money as well as having to shell out £6-10 million in transfer fee. And if anyone saw RSC against either Oldham or Limerick they wouldn't touch him with a barge pole!
In reality it's these players wages that are holding us back in the market and not the need to wait for the income of any potential transfer fee we may get. I just can't understand why we are driving any form of hard bargain for these players, get rid and move on.
We are facing the very real prospect of having both of these players, who earn close to a combined 220k a week, still at the club at the close of the window. I can appreciate that the owners paid a premium for these players but maybe it is just time to get them out and done with. I can see why they want a decent fee for Adebayor, he certainly is still a very good striker, as he proved at Madrid and Spurs last season and in reality there would be plenty of suitors for Adebayor if his wages weren't so high but they are and no body is going to want him on that kind of money as well as having to shell out £6-10 million in transfer fee. And if anyone saw RSC against either Oldham or Limerick they wouldn't touch him with a barge pole!
In reality it's these players wages that are holding us back in the market and not the need to wait for the income of any potential transfer fee we may get. I just can't understand why we are driving any form of hard bargain for these players, get rid and move on.
