Added to an existing squad of players that nobody would want, most of which are on very long contracts.
There's plenty of players that plenty of clubs would want.
I'm not saying we can command massive fees for them but that's irrelevant.
Then we have players on big contracts who are riding them out because they know they won't get bigger one's anywhere else for their quality or lack of it.
Unfortunately it's the nature of the beast that football authorities put into place and it comes back to bite clubs. the Bosman ruling was the final nail in that coffin.
That ruling forced clubs to offer silly long contracts for fear of losing players too early for nothing.
The problem was it offered players a set wage to sit on on the back of it.
20m on a striker with 3 goals in 20, nowhere near a good enough replacement for Wilson,
But perfect for a pairing with him.
But as a replacement, he's not a replacement for Wilson, he's a different type of striker than Wilson. He's an avenue we've been begging for as an end product, so it's all good assuming everything goes to plan.
and anchored to the club for at least 2.5 years too, his agent will have had Staveley's eyes out.
That's what agents do. Very few if any will sit there and negotiate a bad pay day for their player and themselves.
It's horse for courses.
Get a well run club on a budget and negotiate on that basis.
Get a moneybags club and you negotiate in a higher bracket.
That's football.
2.5 years is fine.
They aren't players being bought for sell on fees. They're players being b ought to do a job of keeping us up and adding a bit of squad depth if we do...or being more than fit for purpose if we don;t stay up, in terms of getting us back up quickly.
Looking at it from those points I'd say it's clever.
Burnley have offloaded a carthorse and for 25 million will no doubt replace him with a much better forward
He's hardly a cart horse. Have you seen him play?
