No mention of an option to buy on the OS. I think there was with Nedeljkovic. So maybe that bit is bollocks? If it is, he was always likely to go on loan as we already have 2 left-sided centre backs in Mings and Torres so he wasn't going to get much game time.
A loan makes sense, a loan with an option to buy doesn't.
A loan with an option to buy would make sense depending on
1. The amount of the option to buy
2. The percentage of any sell-on clause that we'll undoubtedly negotiate.
3. Whether we insert a buy-back/matching price option into the sell to RSC Anderlecht.
Because we're being screwed by SCR and PSR rules, we've got to try and bring in money from anywhere and everywhere.
In 2023-24 home games brought in £28m.
Obviously it was a higher amount last season with ECL games - say £45m.
Add 10% to that this year ftom price increases/changes to price bands, and we're looking at c.£50m.
Everybody's moaning about ticket price rises.
Bringing in £25m a year on player trading would be the equivalent of increasing capacity by 50%, which if you add in the extra income from the extra 8,000 Witton End seats will (hopefully) mean that ticket prices won't have to go up so rapidly in the future.
The club's got to get money from somewhere.
Player trading is one part of the income equation and, much as it goes against traditional views - it's here to stay. Look at how Brentford, Brighton, Chelsea and Citeh make it work.
We can't ignore it, and we need to be better at it.
