Yeah as I said when we signed him the problem with his extremely high wage and previous showing in the Premier League is that there is nowhere for him to go next which doesn’t involve us taking a big hit.
I have never understood this transfer from the very first link and if he was playing for a rival the people falling over themselves to praise him would be falling over themselves to mock him.
The signing was just not smart. It was drastically different move to our prior 2 seasons’ mostly sound strategy of signing young players with clear resale value. He was on mammoth wages even prior to signing, meaning it’s impossible to resell, and he had to be a big hit otherwise it’s a big squad building failure.
Where do we go from here, when other players and their agents see this dude is one of our top 3 earners? What a mess.
It was a gamble
Yeah as I said when we signed him the problem with his extremely high wage and previous showing in the Premier League is that there is nowhere for him to go next which doesn’t involve us taking a big hit.
I have never understood this transfer from the very first link and if he was playing for a rival the people falling over themselves to praise him would be falling over themselves to mock him.
The signing was just not smart. It was drastically different move to our prior 2 seasons’ mostly sound strategy of signing young players with clear resale value. He was on mammoth wages even prior to signing, meaning it’s impossible to resell, and he had to be a big hit otherwise it’s a big squad building failure.
Where do we go from here, when other players and their agents see this dude is one of our top 3 earners? What a mess.