Excellent post here from another forum:
Laughing at the comments saying WBA have f***** up here!
No they havent.
You can only sell to a buyer and they generally will only pay what they want to pay. A player is worth what a buyer values them at.
Those slating the club….. again…..
Ask yourself these questions:
Why were sporting happy to sell for pennies (in reality) - £8m
Why were WBA the only club willing to pay the £8m but only 12 months down the line IF we went up?
Why were other clubs not interested in taking him after a decent season in the Bundesliga?
Why were no other clubs interested in MP after a very good season in the premier league?
People in Football circles talk to each other - make no mistake. We took a gamble on him knowing that it was a minimal fee in relative terms offset against £8.7m transfer fee 12 months down the line.
We went up so another £4.5m top up to reach the £8.7m fee was easily done with promotion.
We earned circa £100m as a club getting promoted and with that secured the future of the club for a number of years, covered the losses of covid and are now on a sound financial footing.
1 year later the same player wants to leave.
1 year later we have a new manager with a different philosophy.
1 year later we are in the championship and flex down wages come into play…usually around 50% reduction.
We only receive 1 concrete offer of double the money we spent on this player only 1 year ago.
We have a manager who’s not that fussed on him.
We have a player who wants to go and earn £77k a week, near as damn it treble his earnings for the coming season.
I’d say the club hasn’t fu**** up one bit.
Agree with the argument in principle, but......................
IMO we haven't secured the future of the club for a number of years as a result of last year's promotion. Media rebates meant that we will have had less than £100 million, & in any case player wages will have taken care of most of that.
Pereria is allegedly being paid £135 k per week, not £77k per week.
Without doubt, we've been out maneuvered, but I wouldn't say the board have been negligent. They did make a profit on Pereria, compared to a loss of £13 million on Oliver Burke. Remains to be seen on the outcomes for Grant & Diangana.