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Sadiki to Chelsea (internet chat)

SAFC 2012 said:
Adam Wharton at this moment in time is a lot better than Sadiki though

He’s also English which means his value is massively inflated

Wharton plays a position which sadiki showed he can’t really play (yet) whilst xhaka was injured. Some of the comparisons on here for justifying how much we will charge etc are miles off like
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What a crap take. Totally diff types of players like comparing Carrick to Kante. You wouldn't want Sadiki doing Wharton role and vice versa.
 

REDM1ST said:
Wholly agree with this statement but if the club have identified a replacement for around the same money or above and make a profit from the deal that’s what we need to do as a club
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I agree but I can see him staying if we get in to Europe.
 
Kev75 said:
The difference being between us and the mags is we have a very well structured recruitment team in place as we have identified this is the area that is most important when it comes to being competitive whilst retaining sustainability.
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It’s delicate line to weave, a couple of bad windows and we could end up back where we started. Have faith in those behind the scenes and for the first time in probably my lifetime we have money and a plan just football as it is it’s cut throat.
 
Mackemansj1 said:
It’s delicate line to weave, a couple of bad windows and we could end up back where we started. Have faith in those behind the scenes and for the first time in probably my lifetime we have money and a plan just football as it is it’s cut throat.
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...and for the first time in my lifetime I believe the club has an excellent recruitment team. If you remember that little bald jock walked out on us because we wouldn't sign the players he wanted, that's a very good sign and obviously another good sign is the amount of quality we managed to get through the door on a budget this season. You can't bring in around 12 players with ten being really good signings on a fluke. I expect us to get stronger in every department at the football club , incrementally of course.
riffraff said:
No one is paying mad money for Sadiki atm. He’s a central midfielder with no goal threat. The best teams get goals from everywhere.
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That's fine he doesn't leave if a bid doesn't meet the club's valuation.
 
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Mowgli said:
You did. You said it was madness to think the club would turn down £35m for Sadiki.

Just total rubbish
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It’s just total rubbish you’re talking, if the club can recoup over double their initial investment in One player in less than a year are you telling me that’s bad business??? I’m not saying we as a club can’t get more but as the statement you’re referring too £35mill back minimum on £15 mill investment. GO
 
Foreigner said:
Same. Though I think there’s little to no chance of that. I think for the younger ones we have bought will have been on the promise not to stand in their way should a big team come in for them.
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I’d be absolutely gutted if Ballard left like he’s one of the best in the league for me.
 
REDM1ST said:
It’s just total rubbish you’re talking, if the club can recoup over double their initial investment in One player in less than a year are you telling me that’s bad business??? I’m not saying we as a club can’t get more but as the statement you’re referring too £35mill back minimum on £15 mill investment. GO
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If we sold Sadiki for £35m I would class that as a shocking bit of business, regardless that it’s 100% profit.
 
contrarian said:
But you’re looking at this from a fan’s perspective not a billionaire business owner whose family are steeped in football. Of course we want the club to either maximize the profit or keep the player.
50m would be almost à 250% profit ( based on 17m purchase cost). After 1 year. We are all aware of the model and I doubt KLD would turn such a profit down
Add in the lad getting his head turned and the almost certain tripling of least of his wage and the chance ( as a young rich man ) to live somewhere like London or Manchester…
If it were to transpire we just have to hope Ghisolfi has similar bargain priced gems in his little black book
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Indeed I am looking at this from a "fan's perspective". However, we are regularly informed by Louis-Dreyfus, or the people who speak for him (Speakman, Bruce/Burwell, Ghisolfi, etc.), that for example, the club is keen for "... the club is determined to maintain its connection with the fanbase as it transitions to being a Premier League business" (from a Sunderland Echo article this week on an interview with Tom Burwell, the Interim chief Executive Officer) and how important the fans are. So the fan's perspective is important (apparently).

The tangible short-term profit gained by selling Sadiki (or Roefs, or Brobbey, etc.) has to be offset against the risk of any replacement(s) brought in not being as good and the club suffering because of it - instead of considering the prospect of lucrative European football, to having to deal with the threat of possible relegation from the Premier League 'cash-cow'. For every Sadiki, there is the possibility of an Adingra; for every Mukiele there is a Masuaku.

I think that Sadiki (and others) need to be reminded that they willingly (and fairly recently) signed long-term contracts, with a reasonable expectation that the club would honour those contracts. It is similarly reasonable that the players honour their side of the deal too. Perhaps Sadiki and the others have, through their performances, earned the opportunity for new and more lucrative contracts with the club, rather than new and more lucrative contracts away from the club.

As for living in Manchester or London, as professional athletes one would expect them to have somewhat 'spartan' and 'monastic' lifestyles for much of the time, rather than indulging in fine dining and clubbing. I suspect that the proximity of the Imperial War Museum (Salford) or the National Gallery (London) are not major draws. And of course our own region has its own attractions for those who are 'culture vultures'.

Hoping that Ghisolfi has an inexhaustible supply of "bargain priced gems" available to him runs the ever-present risk of 'hope' not meeting 'actuality'. And why do we constantly need to be seeking out 'bargain prices' ? If we want to function as a major club in the Premier League, we need to start operating like the other 'big' clubs.
 
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