GT49er
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'Twist' as in 'stick or twist'?
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[Albion] Aleksandar Mitrovic
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'Twist' as in 'stick or twist'?
Agent reported to have pocketed 15 million.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
I read yesterday that it wasn't really a swap, both players were sold for £15m. Apparently they have to do it like that for accounting and tax reasons.
Mr Putdown
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You do realise that Sanchez’s agent pocketed £10 million from this transfer?
Is that what you consider to be marginalising agents and keeping finances within a club?
Perry Milkins
Just a quiet guy.
As in Chubby Checker...it is part of the gruelling fitness medical they undertake. Player has to twist for 30 mins non-stop. We cannot afford any fancy-dan medical equipment and this does the trick.
Brighton Mod
Its All Too Beautiful
Reread the post, no i'm not suggesting that.
Brighton Mod
Its All Too Beautiful
Oh OK, so the zero sum is that it cost no money to either club other than administration and buy out clauses. of course there will be costs attached, call it whatever, but it looks very much like a trade as in the NFL.
Brighton Mod
Its All Too Beautiful
Clubs will organise themselves, the game can't continually go moving money forno return.
Albion 4ever
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- Feb 26, 2009
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Buying an ex-Liverpool or Chelsea reserve is slightly different from buying a Newcastle reserve though isn't it?!
A Newcastle team that were in the same league as us last season. The same Newcastle team in which he was not first choice in. The Newcastle team that he only scored 4 goals in 25 appearances in (11 starts), despite being part of a squad that scored 85 goals in the season.
We had 4 players that scored more than him last season, all of which are still at the club. I find it difficult to believe that Glenn Murray, Tomer Hemed, Anthony Knockaert and Sam Baldock are all not at least as good as Mitrovic, if not better.
Johnny RoastBeef
These aren't the players you're looking for.
- Jan 11, 2016
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If you check out Mitrovic's profile on Wikipedia you will see he has massive potential, which he has not yet made the most of.
If Chris thinks there is a chance he can get the lad to fulfill even half of what was expected of him as a youth player, we will have a £50m+ player on our hands.
None of our players come close to that sort of untapped potential.
Gritt23
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I have done, and I still read :
It is a more savvy way of doing business and large amounts of cash are not lost in the process.
as referring to money leaking out of football to agents, which you believed would not have happened in this case. Ok, that's not what you meant, no big deal. As you were.
sussex_guy2k2
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- Jun 6, 2014
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You want me to check out Wikipedia as proof of a player's "massive potential"?
Did someone really just type that on a message board about football?
Cowfold Seagull
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He scored 9 in 21 starts as a 21 year old in first year of playing in premier league.
MASSIVE potential
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Mr Putdown
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The Sanchez transfer was a particularly poor example to choose to justify your assertion.
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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i bet there a lot of Geordies thinking - 'f*ck the airport i'll drive him doon tuh the syeuth coast me'sel
sussex_guy2k2
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Wikipedia tells me Francis Jeffers scored 18 goals in 49 games for Everton. Massive potential.
It also tells me Chuba Akpom plays for Arsenal and has 3 goals in 5 England U21 appearances. Even bigger potential.
Would you like me to go on?
James Bond's body double
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Yes please