Hypothetical Scenario

[spids]

a Chinese club offers £300m for Alli and Kane. This would pay off the majority of the stadium. Would you take the money?

UPDATE - Not sure why people are disliking or disagreeing the opening post(!?) - it's a hypothetical question, not an opinion or statement.

 

[klink]

No.

 

[JimmyG2]

And what would we do with the money?
Splurge 100 million on players not as good.
Struggle to maintain our current position in the Prem.
Go back 5 yrs in team building
Replace the manager because I hope he would walk out
I'd rather keep Kane and Dele and stay at WHL.

Hypathetic question really

 

[Danners9]

I would. I could do a lot with 300m.

Spurs shouldn't, though.

 

[Shadydan]

Nope

 

[JimmyG2]

And what would we do with the money?
Splurge 100 million on players not as good.
Struggle to maintain our current position in the Prem.
Go back 5 yrs in team building
Replace the manager because I hope he would walk out
I'd rather keep Kane and Dele and stay at WHL.

Hypathetic question really

And neither Dele nor Harry would go anyway.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

I think the club would have to ask the players. If they wanted to go, forcing them to stay wouldn't end well.

 

[Japhet]

I wouldn't but I bet the shareholders would.

 

[slartibartfast]

We're moving into a new stadium soon. A BIG new stadium thats going to require lots of bums on seats.
I think thats why we're tieing up so many new contracts to key players.
We cannot go into the new stadium with a decimated team struggling mid table.
Always amazes me that the media never seem to make the connection that IF there were players as good as you've just sold available for the same or less money... why wouldnt the buying club fk off and get them instead? Because they're not as good or cheaper. Thats why I can never remember a situation where a club sold one of their best players and improved because of it.
No we wouldn't sell. Would be commercial suicide.

 

[Spurger King]

Sounds like we're managing the costs pretty well already.

 

[gushayes11]

Doesn't matter if we would. What would Levy do?

 

[widmerpool]

Transfer fee inflation has massively outpaced commercial lending rates over the last dew years, so paying off the stadium early isn't all that financially exciting. Replacing players in the £50-£80m range over the next couple of years is terribly risky by comparison.

£500m would do it, though.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I wouldn't take that.

Neither would Levy unless the players tried to force a move, that's the only time he's sold a key player.

 

[UpTownSpur]

We wouldn't sell them and neither would go, so bit of a silly question.

But I do think we should try and get our share of the Chinese dollar. Njie's a player on our books we could try and flog to them. Just make sure he doesn't see anything like this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world

I feel ill just looking at that. I'd rather go to Siberia personally.

 

[DIEHARD]

£300m each... Potentially but no way £300m combined. I'd sell my folks for £300m each so I'd take it if I was being offered £300m each for both Dele and Jane

 

[lol]

3billion. YESSSSSSSSSSSS

 

[chinaman]

£300m each... Potentially but no way £300m combined. I'd sell my folks for £300m each so I'd take it if I was being offered £300m each for both Dele and Jane

Lady Jane is not worth 300 million. Maybe Sir John Thomas.

 

[Phomesy]

Not for ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

We're moving into a new stadium soon. A BIG new stadium thats going to require lots of bums on seats.
I think thats why we're tieing up so many new contracts to key players.
We cannot go into the new stadium with a decimated team struggling mid table.
Always amazes me that the media never seem to make the connection that IF there were players as good as you've just sold available for the same or less money... why wouldnt the buying club fk off and get them instead? Because they're not as good or cheaper. Thats why I can never remember a situation where a club sold one of their best players and improved because of it.
No we wouldn't sell. Would be commercial suicide.

This ^^ I can see us suffering next season playing at Wembley. It's going to be a difficult year and we'll struggle to finish top 4. Keeping our best players for our first season at the new WHL is essential! We need to hit the ground running there and make it a fortress.

 

[StartingPrice]

Sounds like we're managing the costs pretty well already.

Literally the first thought that came to my mind when I read the OP: "Why, are we struggling to match the costs."

If Glorious Leader publicly stated "Look, we've had all of these grandiose plans and only have about a quarter costs covered...we are fooked!! We'll probably have to go back to a corner-missing WHL until we come up with £300 million." - then we might have to think about it. But to the best of my knowledge, it has actually been managed really well. In fact, I have a good laugh to myself whenever I see oppos fans trying to allay their fears, 'cos we are actually quite good now, by referencing ArseAnal's move and how we will be crippled in the transfer market for the next decade.

So the only point in doing it would be to get players at the same or higher level. United have already conceded defeat in their concerted media campaign of saying they would be prepared to pay £50 million for Kane. They've upped it to £70 mill they would be prepared to pay. And even that wouldn't be enough IMHO. Same with Dele. £50 million would be short changing afaiac. Wouldn't be any point in selling them just to replace with potential. So, already, we are talking about replacing two players with top of the range World Class attacking players at their peak. It would cost close to two thirds of that money to buy Dele and Kane if we were to sell them to one of the elite clubs we are hoping to rival. And probably as much to replace them. And then the players we bought in wouldn't have the feel for the club, or total fan love of Kane.

So, we would be taking a huge risk that the players we bought in would in actual fact be better and more suited than the two we sold, to have £100 million left over when we don't really have any pressing need for it to get the stadium done. We would also be reaffirming the mythology that we are a selling club. There's nowhere near as much in it for the club when you analyse it than sounds just saying £300 million IMHO.