Truth about the Harley move??

[LammieLammieLammie]

Agree Malc, and I can understand all the fuss, as indeed can people around the club. It 's the fictional £400,000 figure in a see of factual information that's meant people are unhappy, I think.

People are reading the stories on the Club website, the Swans site, and their local paper, and because everything else is correct, they assume the £400,000 is too.

I'd suggest the amount offered was probably around a quarter that.

 

[IndoMike]

Agree Malc, and I can understand all the fuss, as indeed can people around the club. It 's the fictional £400,000 figure in a see of factual information that's meant people are unhappy, I think.

People are reading the stories on the Club website, the Swans site, and their local paper, and because everything else is correct, they assume the £400,000 is too.

I'd suggest the amount offered was probably around a quarter that.

So you're saying Swansea offered 100,000 quid or thereabouts, in which case I assume we accepted the offer. Thus there was indeed a transfer fee involved.

 

[LammieLammieLammie]

So you're saying Swansea offered 100,000 quid or thereabouts, in which case I assume we accepted the offer. Thus there was indeed a transfer fee involved.

No, I'm suggesting that I think the top offer we received in the window was probably in that region.

 

[LOG]

I'd suggest the amount offered was probably around a quarter that.

If it was anything much more than that, i'll eat your hat.

It also doesn't help that it's described as a free transfer. Obviously it is in that they haven't paid a fee, but they're paying wages instead and we get to keep him for a few months. What value can you put on that?

Questions will still be raised about whether he is going to play with any commitment and you can be sure that any missed pass or tackle or any perceived lack of effort over the coming games will be jumped on but i still think that it is, under the circumstances, not a bad deal.

 

[malcolms]

So you're saying Swansea offered 100,000 quid or thereabouts, in which case I assume we accepted the offer. Thus there was indeed a transfer fee involved.

I'm sure Lammie can speak for himself but I would guess that if we accepted the £100k then he wouldn't have come back to us...Personally, I would have seen this as the best option but I suspect PT saw it differently.

 

[LammieLammieLammie]

If it was anything much more than that, i'll eat your hat.

You can't eat what I haven't got, remember? You can have Swannys that he found on Crediton golf course.

 

[LammieLammieLammie]

I'm sure Lammie can speak for himself but I would guess that if we accepted the £100k then he wouldn't have come back to us...Personally, I would have seen this as the best option but I suspect PT saw it differently.

Exactly. Why pay money now and let him come back when you can get him for nothing in the summer?

 

[LOG]

You can't eat what I haven't got, remember? You can have Swannys that he found on Crediton golf course.

I've suddenly lost my appetite.

 

[Alistair20000]

No, I'm suggesting that I think the top offer we received in the window was probably in that region.

I would think your calculation/hunch is in the right area but maybe the Swansea deal add ons are more attractive for us than the Brighton offers; at least potentially.

Do your sources suggest we have paid anyone fees for the negotiations ?

 

[LaughinGrecian]

Questions will still be raised about whether he is going to play with any commitment and you can be sure that any missed pass or tackle or any perceived lack of effort over the coming games will be jumped on but i still think that it is, under the circumstances, not a bad deal.

people boo'ing a misplaced pass, never!! he still has to prove himself to swansea yet. perhaps we will get some sort of bonus payment at the end of the season depending on what league swansea are in? i would like to think we will get something but i'm not banking on it.