So they will sign him if doing so means they will make more than £13 million in a transfer fee or if the combined amount they can offset in wages plus the value of a loan fee is greater than £13 million.Fairly straightforward.I can't see any circumstance where he tears up the league that somebody wouldn't think he was worth paying more than £13 million for, whether it was Villa or someone else.
I woke up this morning with what was either a mild hangover, a mild cold, or a mix of both. I wasn't in the best of moods - I'd underslept, forgotten to set the alarm and only got up in time to get to work by the grace and precision of my laser-guided body clock, which unerringly pings me awake at the exact point for having both insufficient rest and insufficient time to both shower and have breakfast at home. It goes without saying that it was raining, and as I trudged to work through the early morning tourists and the commuters with their blank haunted faces, I thought of the forgiving example of our lord Jesus Christ, of the Buddha's exhortations to cultivate inner peace, of Confucius' reminding us to avoid hasty judgements.I then watched the highlights video of Jadon Sancho last season at Chelsea. Goals, skills, assists. Well there weren't a lot of the former, though what there was was good in that way that players against the Villa always seem to have (ping, the ball-missile, the roof of the net) and that Villa players never do (the bobble off the knee, the in-off-the-keeper). There were precious few of the latter too, though once again what was there indicated a guy who knows how to kick a football in the way you only tend to see in a Champions League game you've got on in the background while you pretend to read Beckett. But of skills there was abundance. Jinking both inside and outside (that's both sides), that thing where his legs go all wavy like like looking at a pencil in water, the other thing where he does a very tiny chip over the sliding defender at full speed, all that shit. And in my new spirit of wisdom and contemplation, I thought, well, I was dead against Rashford when he was arrived and he turned out...pretty good I guess, and you know, who cares if most of that dazzling footwork resulted in him passing square or even losing the ball, and actually let's not think about the fact that footage of him losing the ball made it into his personal highlights of the season.The point is, let's give him a chance. He looks happy enough in that photo, which as we know is the major indicator of a player's true level of motivation, so why not just sit back and hope it all works out. I'm off to download a mindfulness app.
It's Man United's option, not his. Isn't it?
Quote from: cdbearsfan on September 02, 2025, 12:23:26 PMIt's Man United's option, not his. Isn't it?They can extend his contract if they want to and agree to pay him another year of mental wages. They can't do that and then sell him to another club without his consent to move to that club. So he banks another year of wages, and moves where he wants for a crazy signing-on fee in summer 2027 instead of doing it in 2026. Particularly given that in this thought experiment, he's coming off a season in which he's lit up the Premier League, so probably isn't the "Chelsea paid to not have to sign him" misfit of recent times.
Heard this morning that Chelsea needed to exercise their buy option or pay the £5m by the end of June. That’s why they didn’t do it, it was all too hasty and they had other options. If true, that puts a slightly different slant on it than a simple, “he was so unimpressive they’d rather pay 5m than keep him”
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