What was the actual figure Maja got offered per week?



Sounds like the wage wasn't the issue in the documentary it was the agent fee, which we more than likely paid triple or more for to get Grigg.

Obviously once we pissed about too long until January and the French came along and offered him the big cash then the wage become a massive road block.

But having seen the players in the documentary, Maja wasn't causing any issues and the rest of the team seemed to just be getting on with the season, really should have kept him and just let him go for free at the end of the season considering he didn't seem to be making any trouble about leaving and the fee we did get was pathetic.
 
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He wouldn't have gone for free, we would have got around 500k compensation due to his age.

We decided instead to cash in and then replace a 25 goal a season striker by spunking £3million on Grigg......Don has probably had many sleepless nights over this decision.
 
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Kenna said:
Sounds like the wage wasn't the issue in the documentary it was the agent fee, which we more than likely paid triple or more for to get Grigg.

Obviously once we pissed about too long until January and the French came along and offered him the big cash then the wage become a massive road block.

But having seen the players in the documentary, Maja wasn't causing any issues and the rest of the team seemed to just be getting on with the season, really should have kept him and just let him go for free at the end of the season considering he didn't seem to be making any trouble about leaving and the fee we did get was pathetic.
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Spot on..I said it at the time really disappointed in SD in Netflix 2 with his gambling over his head no money cheap owner attitude.....
 
Richie K said:
He wouldn't have gone for free, we would have got around 500k compensation due to his age.

We decided instead to cash in and then replace a 25 goal a season striker by spunking £3million on Grigg......Don has probably had many sleepless nights over this decision.
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I don't think we would have mate. Losing a player to an overseas club comes with no compensation iirc.

Willing to be proved wrong like
 
Richie K said:
He wouldn't have gone for free, we would have got around 500k compensation due to his age.

We decided instead to cash in and then replace a 25 goal a season striker by spunking £3million on Grigg......Don has probably had many sleepless nights over this decision.
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In hindsight it was wrong.
But SDs logic was, erm, logical.

If we kept Maja and he wasn't as prevelant, shyed away from challenges as didn't want to get injured to scupper his move to bordeaux that summer, and we didn't go up, then in hindsight we would be saying we should have sold him

SD thought that grigg was more or less a certainty to score goals at that level.
 
Maja and his agent both made the best decisions for themselves, he was one player we should have had better targets than any striker who'd scored goals in league one though, we pretty much bought wyke on the basis of 1 season in league one and paid nearly a million pounds for him.

What about player abroad, players in the conference or league 2.
 
Kenna said:
Sounds like the wage wasn't the issue in the documentary it was the agent fee, which we more than likely paid triple or more for to get Grigg.

Obviously once we pissed about too long until January and the French came along and offered him the big cash then the wage become a massive road block.

But having seen the players in the documentary, Maja wasn't causing any issues and the rest of the team seemed to just be getting on with the season, really should have kept him and just let him go for free at the end of the season considering he didn't seem to be making any trouble about leaving and the fee we did get was pathetic.
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safcpauluk said:
We would have been better off keeping him till the end of the season, if he went for free then so be it.
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It’s easy to say this in hindsight, looking back it’s worth the gamble. What we can’t say is, how effective he’d have been from January to May? This was a player that mysteriously disappeared with illnesses around Christmas/New Year, more than once before he did eventually move, who’s to say he’d consider himself fit to play, especially if there was an odd niggle here and there? Would he still perform if his mind was in Bordeaux? He’s a young lad, what would our supporters reaction to him be? Is he strong enough to cope with the vicious outlook football supporters have when they feel betrayed? Look at STID and Flannagan, a grown man giving him stick in the supermarket while he shopped with his family, because he didn’t think he played well.

There’s another argument to this. We kept him, he wasn’t As good, didn’t score the same amount of goals, Donald is a cheapskate who tried to do it all on the cheap. This is actually an accusation that has been thrown at him, alongside the contradiction that he was reckless and wasted money on Grigg. There’s a few on here deny it now, but the vast majority were happy we signed Grigg, we believed we were guaranteed goals. That could have been money well spent. It turned out to be wrong.

I’m not saying any of my post is right or wrong, it’s impossible to prove, what I am saying is it’s too easy to be confident in what should have happened after the event.
Richie K said:
He wouldn't have gone for free, we would have got around 500k compensation due to his age.

We decided instead to cash in and then replace a 25 goal a season striker by spunking £3million on Grigg......Don has probably had many sleepless nights over this decision.
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Not if he moved abroad.
 
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offmenut said:
In hindsight it was wrong.
But SDs logic was, erm, logical.

If we kept Maja and he wasn't as prevelant, shyed away from challenges as didn't want to get injured to scupper his move to bordeaux that summer, and we didn't go up, then in hindsight we would be saying we should have sold him

SD thought that grigg was more or less a certainty to score goals at that level.
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Hindsight keeps getting thrown around as an excuse for this. There were plenty people saying both transfers were a mistake at the time.

Telling him to sign or be sold in January was the mistake. Issuing a deadline of mid month for that then allowing it to drag on was a other one. Donald messed up. Simple as that. No hindsight required.
 
Longy said:
It’s easy to say this in hindsight, looking back it’s worth the gamble. What we can’t say is, how effective he’d have been from January to May? This was a player that mysteriously disappeared with illnesses around Christmas/New Year, more than once before he did eventually move, who’s to say he’d consider himself fit to play, especially if there was an odd niggle here and there? Would he still perform if his mind was in Bordeaux? He’s a young lad, what would our supporters reaction to him be? Is he strong enough to cope with the vicious outlook football supporters have when they feel betrayed? Look at STID and Flannagan, a grown man giving him stick in the supermarket while he shopped with his family, because he didn’t think he played well.

There’s another argument to this. We kept him, he wasn’t As good, didn’t score the same amount of goals, Donald is a cheapskate who tried to do it all on the cheap. This is actually an accusation that has been thrown at him, alongside the contradiction that he was reckless and wasted money on Grigg. There’s a few on here deny it now, but the vast majority were happy we signed Grigg, we believed we were guaranteed goals. That could have been money well spent. It turned out to be wrong.

I’m not saying any of my post is right or wrong, it’s impossible to prove, what I am saying is it’s too easy to be confident in what should have happened after the event.

Not if he moved abroad.
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Spot on...
 
Longy said:
It’s easy to say this in hindsight, looking back it’s worth the gamble. What we can’t say is, how effective he’d have been from January to May? This was a player that mysteriously disappeared with illnesses around Christmas/New Year, more than once before he did eventually move, who’s to say he’d consider himself fit to play, especially if there was an odd niggle here and there? Would he still perform if his mind was in Bordeaux? He’s a young lad, what would our supporters reaction to him be? Is he strong enough to cope with the vicious outlook football supporters have when they feel betrayed? Look at STID and Flannagan, a grown man giving him stick in the supermarket while he shopped with his family, because he didn’t think he played well.

There’s another argument to this. We kept him, he wasn’t As good, didn’t score the same amount of goals, Donald is a cheapskate who tried to do it all on the cheap. This is actually an accusation that has been thrown at him, alongside the contradiction that he was reckless and wasted money on Grigg. There’s a few on here deny it now, but the vast majority were happy we signed Grigg, we believed we were guaranteed goals. That could have been money well spent. It turned out to be wrong.

I’m not saying any of my post is right or wrong, it’s impossible to prove, what I am saying is it’s too easy to be confident in what should have happened after the event.

Not if he moved abroad.
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Spot on.
The Rodwell behaviour stays fresh in all our memories, and Maja could well have gone on strike had we forced him to stay and the fans would then be complaining we didn't get Grigg. Ultimately the fee paid for Grigg was too high, but really it's small money in football terms - we may yet get a return on that investment if PP can make it work.
 
Kenna said:
Sounds like the wage wasn't the issue in the documentary it was the agent fee, which we more than likely paid triple or more for to get Grigg.

Obviously once we pissed about too long until January and the French came along and offered him the big cash then the wage become a massive road block.

But having seen the players in the documentary, Maja wasn't causing any issues and the rest of the team seemed to just be getting on with the season, really should have kept him and just let him go for free at the end of the season considering he didn't seem to be making any trouble about leaving and the fee we did get was pathetic.
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I think we blew it judging by STID. Donald comes across as an utter amateur over the whole issue whereas Jack Ross comes as quite measured and professional. However, I think Maja knew he was leaving and it was all about the agent get a pay off. Maja will be on the move again soon for another agent pay off.

Remember before he joined Sunderland Maja had failed at 2 clubs, albeit high profile clubs. We took him on and gave him his chance. In the summer before his breakthrough season no one thought Maja would be good enough for first choice. He basically had about 3 months of first team football, did very well and then, along with his agent, decided he was off. Maja comes out with no credit at all - he is all that is wrong with football - O'Nien represents what is good about football. Sunderland and Donald handled it bad but Maja has no conscience whatsoever and no real values. In life people like that eventually come a cropper - unfortunately football is different to real life.
 
The most stupid thing we did was sign Grigg in the end, Regardless of the money he was never going to fit in to our already established system, and never has.
 

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