Bilal El Khannouss (Stuttgart loan, official)

[Phenom]

17 minutes ago, KFS said:

He took it all away the minute he started acting a ****ing child 

Send his ass in the reserves all year and Watch him lose his AFCON and WC spot.

[CarolinaFox]

Honestly not bothered with him going. We're only talking about him because he's a flair player, but if we look at his stats he's nothing special. Its better for us to cut the losses here, get him off our books for PSR and open up some salary space in the budget for a late addition (if one is in the works) or for January. Do we think he was really going to knuckle down after wanting out and magically change into a proven goal machine and leader in the changing room? He certainly wasn't those things before. Let's see how he acts when Stuttgart finish mid to bottom table in the Bundesliga this year like they most often do. 

[Jattdogg]

Toodles bell end!

[fox_favourite]

To be honest, this spoilt baby  "I'm going to stamp my feet because Im not getting my way, so there" seems to spreading in football. Looks how are doing it this season, it's not just Bilal annoys me that the players have no respect for themselves nor their employer. 

 

It's not a good look. 

[Jattdogg]

11 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

To be honest, this spoilt baby  "I'm going to stamp my feet because Im not getting my way, so there" seems to spreading in football. Looks how are doing it this season, it's not just Bilal annoys me that the players have no respect for themselves nor their employer. 

 

It's not a good look. 

Loyalty died a long time ago. It’s rare you have true gems that will almost die for the shirt (vardy is one of the last of them).

 

It's all about who do we have for this season and worry about next season then.

[CornwallFox]

Get rid

[ACF]

Confirmed money in for PSR next year

[Jon the Hat]

Glad to see him gone after the last week or so.  Again if we buy players who throw their toys out of the pram to come to us, we cannot be surprised when they do the same to leave us.

[Bluearmyfox28]

13 minutes ago, ACF said:

Confirmed money in for PSR next year

Exactly this, I know it sounds like an awful deal based of the rumours we’ve heard regarding price recently, but I don’t think this deal is as bad as it seems. 
 

If Rob Dorsett was right regarding our PSR situation and we didn’t necessarily need to sell Bilal to do our recruitment then we’ve got a head start the following season which is vital if we don’t go up this year. Cashflow is going to be a bigger issue next season if that is the case. 

 

The £5m loan fee free’s up the PSR space for this season so doesn’t restrict this summer also. 
 

Finally, I would imagine the mandatory option will be based off amount of games played. We did similar with Yunus Akgun.

[Bluetintedspecs]

I see a few on here are exercising their mandatory option to be negative and moan about unsubstantiated reports.

Personally I see it as Marti and the club acting to get someone out of the club that clearly doesn't want to be here, irrespective of the deal good riddance and fair play in sorting it! 

 

 

[CornwallFox]

18 minutes ago, Bluetintedspecs said:

I see a few on here are exercising their mandatory option to be negative and moan about unsubstantiated reports.

Personally I see it as Marti and the club acting to get someone out of the club that clearly doesn't want to be here, irrespective of the deal good riddance and fair play in sorting it! 

 

 

TBF Rudkin and co have done a decent job shipping players out this summer

[STUHILL]

Same Rob from few days ago saying we would now only be accepting offers of £35+ million for Bilal? That Rob?? 

[Wigston2Canada]

What’s gonna make me lose my head is if we don’t replace Bilal, i’m not overly bothered about the structure of the deal as long as we do get paid, and the little scrote is gone.

 

This is my fear and you can smell it a mile off — we won’t sign a Bilal replacement. We will only sign this Argentinian chap up top, and then be told that we didn’t need to replace Bilal because Ayew, BDR & Page are “more than capable” of doing a job in the 10.

 

Makes me sick.

 

Hoping we get Jordan James in 🤞

(Even tho he’s not an out and out 10 he’s a baller who would be a real coup)

[Foxin_Mad]

We won’t be buying any players Rudderless is happy with the excellent quality squad he has constructed. 

[Verumex]

4 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

 

 

You were saying? 

1. My point was contingent on the qualifier that we didn't want to sell him. With him kicking up a fuss, and clearly being a disruptive influence, it's looking like that changed. 

 

2. If it's a loan deal, then we haven't sold him yet, so technically I'm not wrong! 

 

3. Shush 

[UniFox21]

Does the loan fee count as overall profit we'd need to give Genk a percentage of?

[Claudio Fannieri]

In this instance I back the club, clearly we had set our stall out that unless the terms of the release clause were met and once that expired our valuation was met, which seemed fair, he would not be sold on the cheap, clearly given his performance at PNE and subsequent absence from the squad, rumours of being disruptive in training, the club have somewhat had a gun held to there head by BEK and his advisors and have taken the decision to move him on in the best interests of squad harmony. 
 

This says a lot more about BEK than it is damning of Rudkin. At least the club have had the sense to shift him on rather than be stubborn dig there heals in and potential derail the season. 

[Ric Flair]

I just don't get this deal at all. Stuttgart are cash rich this summer. Don't see how a loan even with obligation benefits us and we're always desperate for cash flow.

[Sly]

1 minute ago, Ric Flair said:

I just don't get this deal at all. Stuttgart are cash rich this summer. Don't see how a loan even with obligation benefits us and we're always desperate for cash flow.

I’m in the same boat as you. 
 

It almost feels like we have decided we just need to get rid, no matter the financial implications in doing so. 

 

I’m hoping the reports are all wrong and it’s the club playing propaganda.  

[K789]

4 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I just don't get this deal at all. Stuttgart are cash rich this summer. Don't see how a loan even with obligation benefits us and we're always desperate for cash flow.

Just sounds like he's toxic. Prem clubs knew it and this was the offer

[ChrisFilter]

5 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I just don't get this deal at all. Stuttgart are cash rich this summer. Don't see how a loan even with obligation benefits us and we're always desperate for cash flow.

Can it be as simple as having sorted this season’s accounts so this just gives us a head start next season?

[Scotch]

2 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I just don't get this deal at all. Stuttgart are cash rich this summer. Don't see how a loan even with obligation benefits us and we're always desperate for cash flow.

I'm not 100% on how it all works but if it's too be believed that we are OK for PSR this season, the loan fee for this covers his book value for the season and gives us a jump on satisfying PSR next season when the £25m counts towards it. 

 

I don't think we DO need the cash flow right now because I don't think we plan on bringing anyone in, outside MAYBE a few loans. 

[VLC86]

2 hours ago, STUHILL said:

Same Rob from few days ago saying we would now only be accepting offers of £35+ million for Bilal? That Rob?? 

Do you recon the club might have fed him that to get a bigger offer?

[teblin]

11 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I just don't get this deal at all. Stuttgart are cash rich this summer. Don't see how a loan even with obligation benefits us and we're always desperate for cash flow.

All I can think is he must have really been causing issues?

[DJO-FOX]

6 minutes ago, ChrisFilter said:

Can it be as simple as having sorted this season’s accounts so this just gives us a head start next season?

Wouldn’t be surprised if we took a loan out against the obligation fee in January if we need to sign players