Having been in France since 13, I'd have thought he'd have dual nationality, or is that me playing too much Championship Manager?
French sports' newspaper L'Équipe is saying it's a done deal according to their informations, he apparently agreed to a four year contract already. And that Villa, Lille and Gueye won't communicate anything about it until mid-July. But they mixed up pounds and euros in the article, saying it's a 9 million euros transfer whereas it is 9 million pounds we're talking about. ( ~12.7 million euros )They are also saying : " Gueye would be getting in the Premier League a gross salary of 250K euros a month, instead of the 90K euros a month he was on in France. " which after conversion would gravitate around a 45K pounds a week salary at Villa. http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Idrissa-gueye-4-ans-a-aston-villa/571643
Interesting if that's true about a mid-July announcement as that is when the muted exclusivity period of the takeover would be complete. So, with this and the other deals that have been talked about, are we trying to do a chunk of business before everybody knows we're flush with cash and start increasing their prices?
Quote from: OCD on July 04, 2015, 05:26:18 PMInteresting if that's true about a mid-July announcement as that is when the muted exclusivity period of the takeover would be complete. So, with this and the other deals that have been talked about, are we trying to do a chunk of business before everybody knows we're flush with cash and start increasing their prices?Good point OCD it might be something like that.
Quote from: Ron Manager on July 04, 2015, 05:29:11 PMQuote from: OCD on July 04, 2015, 05:26:18 PMInteresting if that's true about a mid-July announcement as that is when the muted exclusivity period of the takeover would be complete. So, with this and the other deals that have been talked about, are we trying to do a chunk of business before everybody knows we're flush with cash and start increasing their prices?Good point OCD it might be something like that.Where it falls down though is why Lille would bother to keep it quiet.If we're keeping it quiet so that selling clubs don't know that we're rich, it gives the game away somewhat if we go to this particular selling club and say "can we keep this deal hush-hush for a couple of weeks, we don't want clubs that we're buying players from to know how much money we.....oh, whoops".
Quote from: Dave on July 04, 2015, 06:17:54 PMQuote from: Ron Manager on July 04, 2015, 05:29:11 PMQuote from: OCD on July 04, 2015, 05:26:18 PMInteresting if that's true about a mid-July announcement as that is when the muted exclusivity period of the takeover would be complete. So, with this and the other deals that have been talked about, are we trying to do a chunk of business before everybody knows we're flush with cash and start increasing their prices?Good point OCD it might be something like that.Where it falls down though is why Lille would bother to keep it quiet.If we're keeping it quiet so that selling clubs don't know that we're rich, it gives the game away somewhat if we go to this particular selling club and say "can we keep this deal hush-hush for a couple of weeks, we don't want clubs that we're buying players from to know how much money we.....oh, whoops".You just make it a term of the offer.
I suspect the mid July thing is more around players holidays, then they can do a mid July proper announcement and PR player stretching shirt at BH etc.
Quote from: silhillvilla on July 04, 2015, 09:24:19 PMI suspect the mid July thing is more around players holidays, then they can do a mid July proper announcement and PR player stretching shirt at BH etc. Pre-season training starts on Monday.