Youri Tielemans - Gone

[kippaxvilla2]

At least i'm not in a minority - any other club, home or (preferably) abroad, and i would be disappointed but thank him on his way out for some great service.

I really hope that without Emery's coaching, and the great support players he had around him, he resorts to the fat lazy git he was when he left leicester and started for us.

Question?  Would we be happy spending that on a 30year old and paying him £200k per week for 5 years? We know he can be great but that is financial madness*

*This is why the entitled wankers who "support" them think they still are a big club - they are just a magnet for greedy players and agents who know they pay stupid amounts of money with impunity.

Lets hope it not long they are calling into Goldstein and co moaning that he is a flop they are now stuck with

We did that for Given.

[Billy Walker]

Most footballers aspire to have a career. Then they aspire to play at the highest level they can. Then they aspire to play for the biggest most famous clubs (and sometimes for the biggest and best managers).

There's a handful that pretty much every footballer would want to play for in their career.

Real Madrid
Barcelona
Bayern Munich
Liverpool
Man Utd.

You could potentially add in Juventus and Milan but the football is a bit shit in Italy these days.

If you're offered a massive, lucrative and lengthy contract by one of them you'd be daft not to take it.

I think it's only Real Madrid and Barcelona, to be honest.  Any player at the other three clubs in your list would surely jump at the chance to play for either.

[PaulWinch again]

At least i'm not in a minority - any other club, home or (preferably) abroad, and i would be disappointed but thank him on his way out for some great service.

I really hope that without Emery's coaching, and the great support players he had around him, he resorts to the fat lazy git he was when he left leicester and started for us.

Question?  Would we be happy spending that on a 30year old and paying him £200k per week for 5 years? We know he can be great but that is financial madness*

*This is why the entitled wankers who "support" them think they still are a big club - they are just a magnet for greedy players and agents who know they pay stupid amounts of money with impunity.

Lets hope it not long they are calling into Goldstein and co moaning that he is a flop they are now stuck with

We did that for Given.

We did that when Given was 35 I think.

[john e]

I like everyone else thinks Tielemans is great and one of our best players over the last couple of seasons and difficult to replace

But if this man utd thing never happened and we announced he’d signed a new deal with us for 5 years at 200k a week I’d think we were bonkers

[Mister E]

I like everyone else thinks Tielemans is great and one of our best players over the last couple of seasons and difficult to replace

But if this man utd thing never happened and we announced he’d signed a new deal with us for 5 years at 200k a week I’d think we were bonkers

You speak sense, young man!

[eamonn]

Re the low transfer fee, saw a comment elsewhere suggesting his contract contained a downward sliding scale release clause. £80m after his first year at Villa, £50m last summer and now £35m.

[PeterWithesShin]

It's been said a bunch of times on here.

[eamonn]

So that's what you miss when you skip five pages 

[Brazilian Villain]

Re the low transfer fee, saw a comment elsewhere suggesting his contract contained a downward sliding scale release clause. £80m after his first year at Villa, £50m last summer and now £35m.

The fee quoted on iTV News last night was £36m, so this makes sense.

I heard something that he had a £72m release clause that decreased by £18m each season.

[Goldenballs]

I guess that's the kind of shit you have to do when you sign free transfers, they hold a lot of the power. Hopefully we've had his prime years.

[eamonn]

Wonder if Bouba has a similar clause but his injuries have kept suitors at bay each summer.

[Dogtanian]

Maybe, but I think Tielemans was in a stronger position, as he was already Premier League proven. Kamara was still mostly potential.

[paul_e]

Re the low transfer fee, saw a comment elsewhere suggesting his contract contained a downward sliding scale release clause. £80m after his first year at Villa, £50m last summer and now £35m.

The fee quoted on iTV News last night was £36m, so this makes sense.

I heard something that he had a £72m release clause that decreased by £18m each season.

It does, except 72 isn't a multiple of 18 so there would have to be a different size step in there somewhere.

[PeterWithesShin]

72, 54, 36.

[Duncan Shaw]

Plus Bouba has since signed a new deal