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.
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.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!
Self interest for not caring where Gyokeres goes as long as the money is right?Personally I would like him to join the right club, develop and win stuff.
Your post sums up what is wrong with the world.
Self Interest!
I tried to take three days of vacation, I came back yesterday. I saw so much information and counter information that it is fair to come and explain the process. It starts last year, when the season ends and Sporting is national champion. During the market we saw that it was going to stay because there was no proposal. The agent spoke to us, to add some clauses. Hugo Viana, as he always did, and very well, managed the relationship with the agents. This relational space is made with the sports director. One of the agent's great concerns was whether we were going to demand the termination clause. Hugo Viana was negotiating with the agents, over several meetings, until the agent demanded the presence of the president. In this meeting, where the president, the agent and Viana were, Gyokeres was not present, he wanted to guarantee certain things. And what was closed? That Sporting was not going to require a termination clause now. For a reason: it was going to be 27 years old and no player leaves Portugal at the age of 27 for 100 or 90 million. In this same meeting the agent wanted to anchor the exit to a value. I said this sentence: 'It's not worth setting a value because I don't know what will happen in a year. I don't know if it will be 40, 60 or 80. What I can guarantee is that I will not demand 100 million euros. From here I never talked to the agent again, I never talked to the player about exits or values. Now I see in the press the agent debiting information. I want to make one thing clear: Sporting has common sense and has a word. Gyokeres scored 63 goals, 10 assists. Fantastic performance. Surely one of the best players who stepped on the Portuguese lawns. And Sporting will not demand the clause
One thing you should know about me is that threats, blackmail, insults don’t work with me. I can guarantee that Viktor Gyökeres will not leave for 60+10 because I never promised. This game that the agent is playing only makes the situation worse.
To this day, Sporting has not had an offer for Viktor Gyökeres, neither today nor last season
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.
I suspect it's probably like his move to Sporting, he already knows where he wants to go.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.
Anyone else getting flashbacks to Gyok saying we were charging too much and Doug responding on the radio that we decided the amountSlightly poorly translated comment from the President of Sporting CP, Frederico Varandas:
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.
Same agent isn’t it?Anyone else getting flashbacks to Gyok saying we were charging too much and Doug responding on the radio that we decided the amount
I assume soSame agent isn’t it?
Personally I would like him to join the right club, develop and win stuff.
Your post sums up what is wrong with the world.
Self Interest!
Ha yes, exactly!Anyone else getting flashbacks to Gyok saying we were charging too much and Doug responding on the radio that we decided the amount
Because he’s 27 and never actually played in one of the big leagues, and Sporting probably want £70m for him.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.
Yes - it definitely strikes me as the agent trying the same tactics as last timeAnyone else getting flashbacks to Gyok saying we were charging too much and Doug responding on the radio that we decided the amount
But likely not till the last few days of the window.I’m 90% sure he’s still moving, the noise now is just posturing to try and drive the fee up/down.
He obviously wants out and someone will pay up. Might even end up at man united after all.
I doubt there will be a bidding war. You get the impression there have been very few real enquiries.
Do you? I think there will be multiple clubs interested.I doubt there will be a bidding war. You get the impression there have been very few real enquiries.
Lots of false claims in there but it is talksport so...
What has? The article is inaccurate. We sold 5% of the sell on fee not the whole thingOh dear it all has come out in the wash King.
Yes it was sarcasmWhat has? The article is inaccurate. We sold 5% of the sell on fee not the whole thing
Maybe try harder thenYes it was sarcasm
Or just ignore it cos it’s clearly bollocks.King needs to come out and state it ain’t true, talk sport are normally full of shit
King needs to come out and state it ain’t true, talk sport are normally full of shit
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.I doubt there will be a bidding war. You get the impression there have been very few real enquiries.
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.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
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