we lost Keane, regardless of what we gained financially we lost out.
We paid 6 million to Wolves and sold him to Inter for 13million after 1 season if I remember right. Don't think there were any losers in that deal. Do you ?
Yep. I think I posted the other day. Keane would have cost a wage while he was here, I'd guess in the region of £15k p/w for a year. We saw nothing of the transfer fee from Inter.
I am also not sure if we paid interest on the £6m that was put up for his transfer fee for that year. Who knows?
You must be referring to the........PALE ASP..
We paid 6 million to Wolves and sold him to Inter for 13million after 1 season if I remember right. Don't think there were any losers in that deal. Do you ?
Well strong rumours at the time were Inter were always going to buy him and we got the cash to "test him out" in the prem first. When he did so well they snapped him up. He was never our player. A bit like the Jarni deal to get around his ban on a transfer to Madrid. We were full of "creative" transfer techniques back then. Whelan was bought by a transfer speculator (director?) as well IIRC.
Problem was we still paid the wages.
A variation on my conspiracy :claping hands:
I'm struggling to remember who was rumoured to be the main "funder" of Keane, but he certainly wasn't Italian.
There were a few rumours, Wonga didn't exist then did they?
I thought that he was signed under Richardson's genius scheme whereby investors would loan the money for purchases in return for reaping any profits when they were sold on? Certainly the rumour at the time was that pressure was put on the club to cash in by said investors once they knew the money we could get for him. Dangerously close to 3rd party ownership of course, so I'm sure it didn't happen at all...Richardson, dodgy? No chance..
At the time Keane went did we not get a couple of Italian players on loan with a view to being a feeder club, testing ground, taking players on a regular basis, maybe wrong, vague memories! All done as part of the Keane deal?
Does SonofSnoz flip a coin to decide which persona to post as each thread?
No, I leave that for Grendal, he/she needs to go see a shrink quick time with all them multiple posters on here, talk about talking to ones self!
Yeah & like the Hondurans we had they were hopeless. #dodgydeals
That accusation keeps getting thrown at Grendel.
Who do you think are his multiple persona's
If you don't mind me asking?
Ask Grendel!
At least you spelt my name right this time. What are you droning on about now?
The keane scenario sounds identical to now.
An unknown investor pays the players wages when we sign him for free or a nominal fee.
If he does well he will be sold for a profit.
If its ok now why was it an issue back then.
When we were doing it in the big league.
We had the scottish mafia dealing with the italian back then
Who is Joey Crone?
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