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Football is a business, so if someone offer you between 5 and 10x what you paid for something then it's good business. Just hope there is a decent replacement on the horizon.
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Happy with £5m for Adam Webster? on 17:34 - Jun 27 with 1196 views
Happy with £5m for Adam Webster? on 17:33 - Jun 27 by blue62
Football is a business, so if someone offer you between 5 and 10x what you paid for something then it's good business. Just hope there is a decent replacement on the horizon.
I think that simplistic business model breaks down for football clubs. Players aren’t products solely in their own right. The real value doesn’t lie in a player’s transfer fee, it’s in what the team can deliver including their contribution. Promotion would generate far more income than selling all our players ever would, for example, but is less likely to be achieved if you keep selling your better players.
I suppose what I’m saying is, selling may well not be a good business decision (even for a profit on fees paid) if it’s a business decision rather than done for footballing reasons. Could be a life saver for cash flow though.
Happy with £5m for Adam Webster? on 19:46 - Jun 27 by itfcjoe
At this moment in time the fee is a good fee.
But for me, had we held on to him for another year we'd have been in one of 3 positions:
1 - he puts it all together and is worth £8-10m
2 - he stays fit and has an average season - still worth £3-4m
3 - ANother injury hit season - worth a couple of million
I just don't see that now is a good time to sell him. If we are to sell him now it's a decent fee, just think holding on would have been a better plan
You have got to assume that there IS a plan of some sort because I would have thought that Adam Webster should have become a very important part of this (reportedly) bright new beginning. There might be further changes made that make sense of what has been done today but as of this moment I think that we have sold a very good player for a lot less than he is/will be worth.
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Happy with £5m for Adam Webster? on 20:23 - Jun 27 with 1045 views
Happy with £5m for Adam Webster? on 16:09 - Jun 27 by PhilTWTD
It always is reinvested, just that some seem to think going towards wages doesn't constitute reinvesting.
For the record, I think it's a very good fee for someone who has struggled to get fit for more than a handful of games in a row and, for all his attributes, could be blamed for a lot of goals during his time here.
My thoughts exactly. A lot of promise but actually, this is a really good bit of business for Town.
It's 106 miles to Portman Road, we've got a full tank of gas, half a round of Port Salut, it's dark... and we're wearing blue tinted sunglasses.
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