Boubacar Kamara

[Toronto Villa]

Why is he bigger than the club for honouring his contract and seeing it through? He has every right to do that and in any contract situation both parties would be fully aware of the obligations each has. We’ve put a deal in front of him and he and representatives have the choice to sign or continue to evaluate or negotiate. We can decide to accept an offer if it comes in or keep the player.

[pauliewalnuts]

I know Kamara has previous on it but I think CL football and getting into the France team would surely trump running down his contract with us.

Why can't he do both?

Run his contract (which, let's not forget, still has two years on it) down AND play well and push to get into the French team?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Letting him go for free would today equal losing the equivalent of 14% of our turnover based on a sale of £50m. To put that in perspective, Heck's price increases of the Champions League games was said to have raised an additional total of £900k.

[Clampy]

There is no one on here who says, thinks or wants him to  go for free, no-one. They are saying he is entitled to run down his contract if he wishes. It really is that simple.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Thank you, Mr Logic.

[Clampy]

Well people have been saying that for the last four hours so i'm glad you've finally clicked.

It must be the heat.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Ha! It's stating the fucking obvious he has the right to run down his contract. Who is going to disagree with that? The question is are the club going to just sit there and let it happen or move heaven and hell to make sure he doesn't. You ignored the nonsense about he's done it before so we can have no complaints when he does it again as we got him for nothing.

You may not have noticed but we're in a bit of a hole financially, losing at Old Trafford will see an £80m - £100m shortfall in lost CL revenue but hey ho, all refs make mistakes, not to worry, we always lose there. Even selling the women's team does help with UEFA and here we are discussing losing not only probably our best player but also a tonne of money because "it's his right" and nobody gives a shit.

Say what you want about Liverpool but at least their fans saw Trent for what he is, a right snake. Decent Spanish though. Fortunately I don't see our owners been taken for fools and should Bouba or anybody else for that matter want to run their contract down, they'll have them out the door with a tasty cheque in return. It's a shame money now controls football but that's what it is. As a club we face so many restrictions on increasing our revenue player trading is our only real way to stay in the game for CL spots and even then it's a long shot.

So yes, he and every player has the right to run down their contract but if they do try an realise the damage they are indirectly doing to the club. Hopefully that won't be the case especially in the case of Bouba Kamara.

[PaulWinch again]

It’s not nonsense just because you don’t agree with it you know. It’s hardly a completely mad take to think that a player who has runs his contract down before might do it again. Doesn’t mean the club shouldn’t make every effort, but the point is he clearly views it as a viable thing to do.

[Toronto Villa]

The fact that the club have offered him a contract shows we want him to stay. He has to make the best decision for himself also. I’m sure if it came to a point where he clearly isn’t going to sign we would work out a deal to sell him. Or at least try to.

[Rigadon]

It’s not nonsense just because you don’t agree with it you know. It’s hardly a completely mad take to think that a player who has runs his contract down before might do it again. Doesn’t mean the club shouldn’t make every effort, but the point is he clearly views it as a viable thing to do.

I don't think his opinion is that far away from how a lot of fans feel about players doing this.  The club will just sell Kamara, maybe next summer, if he doesn't sign a new contract.  The risk is all on the player in these circumstances, because they are only ever a bad tackle away from being out for a year - no problem financially if you have 4 years of a contract left, but the opposite if it's a lot less.  He could sign and STILL get sold - such is modern football. 

[Rudy Can't Fail]

It’s not nonsense just because you don’t agree with it you know. It’s hardly a completely mad take to think that a player who has runs his contract down before might do it again. Doesn’t mean the club shouldn’t make every effort, but the point is he clearly views it as a viable thing to do.

My problem Paul is the part you've missed out, "We can’t really sign players who run down their contracts and then get annoyed if they do the same thing with us." Intelligent clubs will snatch up players going for free, reward them handsomely with a big signing on fee and wages to match. They then expect them to either be sold at a tidy profit or renew. Trent was an exception, what other top players have run their contract down to leave on a free transfer? My guess is less than 1%. Not everybody is a mercenary.

Let's put it another way, imagine his contract finished this season and instead of picked up £50m for his transfer he left on a free and we were forced to sell Ollie Watkins to Man U or Arsenal to budget in that missing £50m and to make matters worse, didn't have the cash to find a suitable replacement?

Everybody knows you'd piss off to Old Trafford or the Emirates. (Winky thing)

[Olneythelonely]

All in all, I’d prefer to keep him for two years and let him go for free than sell him for £50m this year. The accountants might feel differently though.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, I’m saying we’d be naive to overly rely on it and then take exception if he chose to see out his contract. That is entirely his prerogative.

[PeterWithesShin]

Club should force him to accept a transfer, like they did Duran and Martinez.

[RamboandBruno]

Just catching up with this thread and its clearly too hot with a lack of transfer activity.
With the lack of transfer activity probably likely to continue, we’ll need all our better players on it next season, Kamara is obviously one of those.
Get the most out of him now and sell him next summer if he’s not going to sign s contract. Bring Bogarde in more this season as hos potential replacement.