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How dare Levy try and get the best deal for a quality player. What a shit chairman.
You must be joking. Levy has literally managed to engineer that we get the worst deal for this quality player.
How dare Levy try and get the best deal for a quality player. What a shit chairman.
Fine, if it’s peak Bale with a couple of years left on his contract. But look at the context. In less than six months, Eriksen walks anyway. And he’s not peak Bale, so isn’t going to impact significantly on our season in a positive way- if anything, he’s a hindrance.
Think of a house you own that’s got subsidence- which is impacting on your neighbours property and your liable for this- and your ownership of it expires in the summer. Why wouldn’t you get rid of it for something as quick as possible?
I think we do have leverage. Inter want him now, they are going for the title. They also don’t want to get into a wages and signing on fee auction with bigger clubs than themselves in the summer.You can haggle a deal when you have absolutely no leverage lol.
He’s a number in the squad, and he’s also wages.Inter want him NOW. This is just the negotiation process. They’ll come to an agreement eventually.
Who says Eriksen is impacting anything? Mourinho doesn’t have to play him and I don’t see how he affects us signing a striker?
You can haggle a deal when you have absolutely no leverage lol.
When was the best time to engineer a deal for him then?You must be joking. Levy has literally managed to engineer that we get the worst deal for this quality player.
He’s a number in the squad, and he’s also wages.
Supposing Inter get frustrated with Levy but strike up a very good deal with Eriksen and basically offer him a bit more if he signs in the summer? Then we have nothing and the two negatives above
I think what ever offer comes in will be rejected.
With the way Jose has spoken on his future already decided, I can only assume he has a deal lined up already.
So there is no point in us trying to push him out the door, he is happy to wait until the sumer to go.
You’re underestimating the power of DanielSeriously that scenario won’t happen. Conte has demanded more players this window to help them win the league. They are not gonna pass up this opportunity for a couple extra million. Relax.
When was the best time to engineer a deal for him then?
Are we back to selling him at his peak?
Fine, if it’s peak Bale with a couple of years left on his contract. But look at the context. In less than six months, Eriksen walks anyway. And he’s not peak Bale, so isn’t going to impact significantly on our season in a positive way- if anything, he’s a hindrance.
Think of a house you own that’s got subsidence- which is impacting on your neighbours property and your liable for this- and your ownership of it expires in the summer. Why wouldn’t you get rid of it for something as quick as possible?
Letting it get to where we are is an opportunity to bash Levy!The leverage is Inter wants him NOW. Conte has already moaned that Inter don’t have a big enough squad and this is clearly a player they want. They won’t walk away when Eriksen could make the difference between them winning the league or not. It’s pretty obvious. Not everything is an opportunity to bash Levy.
I dunno about that, I mean all we've heard up until the Inter story broke was that he was focused on the two giants in Spain and nothing else. There was the story about United and his rejection of them which means unless we had offers on the table he wasn't going anywhere ...A better time was any single other time than now. Surely?
In that case why don’t we wind down all our top players contracts to 6 months, see where that gets us.
PS: Also just noticed Arthur Russell in yr avatar ?
Its been total incompetence to let our squad get to the state where almost half your regular starting 11 are on the last year of their contract.
You must be joking. Levy has literally managed to engineer that we get the worst deal for this quality player.
You must be joking. Levy has literally managed to engineer that we get the worst deal for this quality player.
Lol can you imagine if our targets this January were Moses, Young, and Giroud? I bet Eriksen would be staying if we were showing that kind of ambition.
I've been harshly critical of Levy, am generally of the mind that our recruitment is absolutely fucking tragically inept and that he ought to have been relieved of any duties regarding transfers other than setting budgets years ago, but I don't think it's really fair to blame him for the Eriksen situation. The players have the power to run their contracts down to maximize leverage and clubs are completely powerless to stop them if they're determined to do so.
Perhaps the only positive of this whole situation is that Eriksen's decision to run his contract down has completely blown up in his face, providing a cautionary tale for others in the squad who might think about doing the same. I really don't see what we could have done aside from potentially trying to sell him in the summer of 2018, which would have been extraordinarily unpopular at the time though in hindsight we may have been better off. Even then he probably only would have accepted Barca or Madrid at that time and there's little indication that either would have been interested.