The closer it gets to a fee being known more will come to the table. The price will go up and this will be an auction. Great for us dint really care where he ends up.
Interest is not a bidding war. In fact some of the worlds top teams seem to have put a ceiling on what he is worth. Nobody seems to be saying we need to snap him up before someone else nicks him from under our nose.
I can't put my finger on it. But something is making the top clubs reticent about signing him. Especially when so many top teams are looking for a goal scorer.
It's a combination of age, the quality of the league he's playing in and perhaps the limited systems he would fit into at that level. Even at a price below the release clause, in a top tier league it's quite a risk, when for a bit more money you can get someone younger with sell-on potential and a higher ceiling to develop.
I say all of this as a huge fan of him!
I totally agree. Fans just look at players with their hearts without engaging their brains. Fans view players on a very one dimensional level, let alone squads.
Self interest for not caring where Gyokeres goes as long as the money is right?
It was excellent watching him turn into a world class player playing for us. But the money we receive is more important to us than how the rest of his career goes. Do you really think he lays in bed awake worrying about us?
The odds are we will never play against him. If we do I hope he has a proper stinker.
Slightly poorly translated comment from the President of Sporting CP, Frederico Varandas:
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Basically, they're saying the agent / media is talking bollocks about them reneging about the release clause. Seems pretty reasonable - they're saying they won't insist on the release clause but still want to get the best price they can. I suppose this implies they have rejected some interest (perhaps not officially an "offer") below "60+10" already and the agent is pissy about it.
Lovely drama for a boring post-season so far.
Further quotes:
Basically, they're saying the agent / media is talking bollocks about them reneging about the release clause. Seems pretty reasonable - they're saying they won't insist on the release clause but still want to get the best price they can. I suppose this implies they have rejected some interest (perhaps not officially an "offer") below "60+10" already and the agent is pissy about it.
Lovely drama for a boring post-season so far.
I doubt there will be a bidding war. You get the impression there have been very few real enquiries.
I suspect it's probably like his move to Sporting, he already knows where he wants to go.
Anyone else getting flashbacks to Gyok saying we were charging too much and Doug responding on the radio that we decided the amount
Ha yes, exactly!
You sort of have to expect this even though it's unpleasant. Every 1M off the sale price increases the size of the contract for Viktor & his agent, and lowers the total cost for the buying club. It's just negotiation. It's a shame it has to happen like this in public because it does kind of sour things for fans of the player/club but it is what it is.
Because he’s 27 and never actually played in one of the big leagues, and Sporting probably want £70m for him.
Clubs are probably looking at the likes of Darwin Nunez, Gonçalo Ramos, Joao Felix etc. who haven’t really justified the fees.
Yes - it definitely strikes me as the agent trying the same tactics as last time
Tell the whiny Swedish bastard to pipe down and go wherever the dollar signs are, he can make some more wisecracks about how Sporting were robbed if he actually makes a success of it afterwards. Just give us our money.
Its all about the fee, if it was known what would get it done, every club with that capacity to pay would look. Not saying they would buy but im sure enough are interested that someone is going to pull the trigger.
Do you? I think there will be multiple clubs interested.
What has? The article is inaccurate. We sold 5% of the sell on fee not the whole thing
King needs to come out and state it ain’t true, talk sport are normally full of shit
Or just ignore it cos it’s clearly bollocks.
This innacuratenreport might do us a favour. Clubs thinking we don't have as much money as we do might not try and hold us to ransom as much
Why would he do that. Better for our negotiating position if it's played down
Most of the stories have blatantly been planted by his agent under instruction from VG. I’d imagine the Man Utd interest is probably the only firm interest at this stage, apart from Saudi Arabia.
We will only get about 4m from his sale. That's peanuts these days. It can cost that much for a decent League 1 player.