Ben Chilwell

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

5 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Mad that we've grabbed £260/270mill plus for Maguire, DD and Chilwell.  

How did you get to that total?? 

[The People's Hero]

Think it's about £70mn all in, if conditions are met.

 

£55mn up front and £15mn add ons.

 

Someone better informed might tell me otherwise?

[Bossman Blessed It]

1 hour ago, Stevosevic said:

190k a week - same as Maguire. 

 

And people wonder why we lose our players when the bigger clubs come knocking. We can't compete with that.

 

I agree and it will be a running theme for years to come until/if we can establish ourselves as regulars in the Champions League. The good thing about this, Maguire, Mahrez, Drinky, Kante etc, is that the exorbitant fees that we subsequently won't spend on just one player in replacement have allowed for a significant expansion of our club. New training ground, bigger stadium and a more rounded squad. Sustainable growth sounds good to me - Lampard is playing jeopardy at Chelsea - the weight of expectation on that squad will be enormous and could easily implode. God willing. 

[HighPeakFox]

1 minute ago, weller54 said:

Sums up our ambition doesn't it?...

No. It simply means we don't have to recruit someone else in that role. Money can be spent (I hope) on upgrades elsewhere.

[UniFox21]

4 minutes ago, ROB-THE-BLUE said:

How did you get to that total?? 

My bad slip of the thumb hit '2' instead of '1' 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

5 minutes ago, The People's Hero said:

Think it's about £70mn all in, if conditions are met.

 

£55mn up front and £15mn add ons.

 

Someone better informed might tell me otherwise?

More than happy with that if we can get the guy from Ajax whose name I can't spell for less than half that. 

[weller54]

Who's next?..

Maddison to United next season.

Ricardo to......

Ndidi to .........

Soyuncu to ...........

 

They could all be offered 'Chilwell like' contracts, 200k a week etc.

We've got no chance of holding on to these type of players.

[StriderHiryu]

7 minutes ago, Mehrez said:

Disgusting from a club that’s been laying off staff

Even more so when he's been spending his money on Chrome wrapping his collection of supercars!

 

 

I get that he's earned that money and it's up to him to spend it how he sees fit, but yeah when people have lost their livelihood to support that lifestyle, it fills you with despair. The world isn't right!

 

I can only imagine the horrendous clobber Chilwell will be spotted in over the next few years around London.

[The People's Hero]

Just now, Sol thewall Bamba said:

More than happy with that if we can get the guy from Ajax whose name I can't spell for less than half that. 

Tagliafoco? Or Tagliafico? Or something like that!

 

He's widely quoted as available for £20-£25million. Might cost a substantial signing on bonus in addition I reckon as I don't think he will be short of suitors!

[lgfualol]

Jesus 190 thousand squid a week. Mental.

 

I wouldnt be so bothered about him going if I knew we were going to sign a mental replacement. Got a feeling someone shite will come in last minute

[The People's Hero]

1 minute ago, lgfualol said:

Jesus 190 thousand squid a week. Mental.

 

I wouldnt be so bothered about him going if I knew we were going to sign a mental replacement. Got a feeling someone shite will come in last minute

Its.......

 

 

.... Alan Rodgers!

[NeilLCFC]

A little upset by this transfer. Not cos we’re loosing Chilwell, but because knowing Chelsea are paying him £190k a week is making me fall out of love with football

[StriderHiryu]

Just now, weller54 said:

Who's next?..

Maddison to United next season.

Ricardo to......

Ndidi to .........

Soyuncu to ...........

 

They could all be offered 'Chilwell like' contracts, 200k a week etc.

We've got no chance of holding on to these type of players.

I think over the next 3 seasons, all of those players will go. But we can't really stop it, we just have to identify a suitable replacement for each position and reinvest the money where possible. 

 

It might feel depressing but if we are astute we can use it to build a strong and competitive squad over time. And personally I would still rather support a club that is not funded by an Oligarch or state regime, even if it means selling our best players over time.

[Finnegan]

18 minutes ago, TheStig said:

We are turning into a feeder club for Chelsea....

 

By this logic Borrusia Dortmund are Bayern Munich's "feeder club."

 

In my lifetime alone they've won five league titles and been runners up six times. Won the German Cup three times and lost in four finals. Oh and they've won the Champions League once from two finals, and been to Europa League / UEFA Cup finals. 

 

There's always a bigger fish. Its not about who you sell, it's about how you replace. 

[Paninistickers]

18 minutes ago, Lesta Legend said:

Laughing all the way to bank with Drinkwater. 

Not quite. We.managed to waste most of the monies on Silva.

 

The only team laughing was sporting Lisbon

[coolhandfox]

1 minute ago, Finnegan said:

 

By this logic Borrusia Dortmund are Bayern Munich's "feeder club."

 

In my lifetime alone they've won five league titles and been runners up six times. Won the German Cup three times and lost in four finals. Oh and they've won the Champions League once from two finals, and been to Europa League / UEFA Cup finals. 

 

There's always a bigger fish. Its not about who you sell, it's about how you replace. 

This 100%

 

 

[katieakita]

Some of us are very hard to please, two top 5 finishes in 5 years including winning it. A new training complex As good as any in the world and as established as we have ever been in The top flight in modern history. 3rd tier to European challenger in a decade. Best owners the club as ever had and Top just does not come across as just wanting to make up numbers. On our promotion did Vichai not say in 6 years we would be going for Europe and most just laughed it off. 

[Babylon]

5 minutes ago, weller54 said:

Who's next?..

Maddison to United next season.

Ricardo to......

Ndidi to .........

Soyuncu to ...........

 

They could all be offered 'Chilwell like' contracts, 200k a week etc.

We've got no chance of holding on to these type of players.

No we haven't, which is why it's important to keep investing in young talent. Selling these players is funding our off the field growth, with the end game being it eventually gets easier to keep a number of them for longer. 

[Ric Flair]

13 minutes ago, The People's Hero said:

Think it's about £70mn all in, if conditions are met.

 

£55mn up front and £15mn add ons.

 

Someone better informed might tell me otherwise?

John Percy says £50m up front with further in add ons and instalments. That suggests that even if he is absolutely heinous (more than possible) there's still guaranteed more monies to come. We've absolutely ripped them yet again.

[The People's Hero]

2 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

By this logic Borrusia Dortmund are Bayern Munich's "feeder club."

 

In my lifetime alone they've won five league titles and been runners up six times. Won the German Cup three times and lost in four finals. Oh and they've won the Champions League once from two finals, and been to Europa League / UEFA Cup finals. 

 

There's always a bigger fish. Its not about who you sell, it's about how you replace. 

Correct mate, and I think that's where the nervousness comes in.... but let's see what happens.

 

As an aside, we didn't just roll over when Chelsea came in and have rightly now got a reputation as hard negotiators. 

[Mike Oxlong]

26 minutes ago, TheStig said:

We are turning into a feeder club for Chelsea....

Progress then 

 

Wasn’t that long ago that the likes of Stoke could have had the pick of our best players 

[Paninistickers]

13 minutes ago, weller54 said:

Sums up our ambition doesn't it?...

Midtable mediocrity will be our aim.

Nothing to do with ambition. It's the food chain. 

 

When we go help ourselves to Maddison from Norwich, Wilf from Genk etc I hear no such complaints

[Lesta Legend]

2 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Not quite. We.managed to waste most of the monies on Silva.

 

The only team laughing was sporting Lisbon

Both true, my original point stands. 

[Ric Flair]

4 minutes ago, katieakita said:

Some of us are very hard to please, two top 5 finishes in 5 years including winning it. A new training complex As good as any in the world and as established as we have ever been in The top flight in modern history. 3rd tier to European challenger in a decade. Best owners the club as ever had and Top just does not come across as just wanting to make up numbers. On our promotion did Vichai not say in 6 years we would be going for Europe and most just laughed it off. 

You can't reason with some of our fans. They fail to compute the simple economics and yet at the same time demand new players to improve each season and that we keep rewarding our performing stars with long term contracts on big wages in order to protect ourselves whilst never ever selling a player unless we think they are crap and want them gone. All on a turnover of a 3rd of Man Utd whom in the last 5 years we have beaten them to a title (no title for them in 7 years), matched their best run in the CL for several years and inexplicably bottled beating them to the top 4 this season after having their kegs down on an £85m lorry.

[shen]

1 hour ago, Bert said:

£10m a year for the next 5 years. Not bad eh. 
 

Think we’ve been ripped off by Chelsea again. Sold Maguire for lots more, Chilwell younger, more potential.  

When have Chelsea ripped us off? They paid over the odds for Kanté and Drinkwater and I'd say by today's standards £50m is really not a small amount for someone of Chilwell's quality. I'd argue his worth to us is less than £50m - especially when you compare him to Ricardo, who is a far better player IMO.