| Liam Delap transfer value… 20:25 - Feb 18 with 6452 views | brazil1981 |
Read earlier that Man Utd paid an incredible £72 million for that Hojlund! Think it’s odds on we’ll lose Delap in the summer whichever League we’re, so we should be looking for a similar fee surely? Or will our hands be tied by this blessed ‘Buy-back’ clause? |  | | |  |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 09:45 - Feb 19 with 1324 views | HighgateBlue |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 09:33 - Feb 19 by Axeldalai_lama |
Gittens has played top flight football across 3 seasons, played champions league in each of those seasons scored goals in the champions league and played 90 odd games and scored 16 goals all at the highest level. Florian Wirtz has played 5 top flight seasons, multiple European appearances, and been capped 29 games for Germany.
Sorry for the statto trip, but come on they're not even comparable. Delap could have amazing stats one day, but he's currently had 2/3rds of one top flight season looking great. I definitely want a decent fee but £85million is a tad silly, and people overvaluing leads to annoyance down the line that we somehow got robbed or made mistakes. |
These are all fine points. Plus, the figure quoted is an (alleged) asking price rather than a price at which a deal has been agreed. |  | | |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 09:50 - Feb 19 with 1301 views | MaySixth |
If we survive he will go for £60m
if we go down he will go for £35m |  |
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| Liam Delap transfer value… on 11:01 - Feb 19 with 1233 views | pointofblue |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 09:36 - Feb 19 by PhilTWTD |
Indeed, and from what I've heard City aren't interested as it stands. |
If a buy back is in place, I'm amazed they're not interested - even from a Villa/Philogene angle. | |
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| Liam Delap transfer value… on 11:30 - Feb 19 with 1175 views | Rozz |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 09:33 - Feb 19 by Axeldalai_lama |
Gittens has played top flight football across 3 seasons, played champions league in each of those seasons scored goals in the champions league and played 90 odd games and scored 16 goals all at the highest level. Florian Wirtz has played 5 top flight seasons, multiple European appearances, and been capped 29 games for Germany.
Sorry for the statto trip, but come on they're not even comparable. Delap could have amazing stats one day, but he's currently had 2/3rds of one top flight season looking great. I definitely want a decent fee but £85million is a tad silly, and people overvaluing leads to annoyance down the line that we somehow got robbed or made mistakes. |
I was going to post similar about Hojland last night - before United he'd played seasons in Bundesliga, Serie A, had campaigns in Europa Conference, Champions League qualifiers and a load of full international caps at the Euro qualifiers. |  | | |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 13:11 - Feb 19 with 1093 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 11:30 - Feb 19 by Rozz |
I was going to post similar about Hojland last night - before United he'd played seasons in Bundesliga, Serie A, had campaigns in Europa Conference, Champions League qualifiers and a load of full international caps at the Euro qualifiers. |
And I certainly wouldn’t swap a Delap for Hojland [Post edited 19 Feb 13:11]
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| Liam Delap transfer value… on 13:19 - Feb 19 with 1075 views | Axeldalai_lama |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 11:01 - Feb 19 by pointofblue |
If a buy back is in place, I'm amazed they're not interested - even from a Villa/Philogene angle. |
It's not actually a dead cert though, depending on the small print. If it's a £40m clause, and we can maybe max out at guaranteed £50m, then it's £10m up for grabs, but they'd probably need to pay extra fees to persuade him to join them over others just to be sold on, and it's a risk in case of injury or whatever, and wages would have to be enough to persuade him but less than he'd get at his next club. Just a lot of faffing around and risk for maybe potentially less than £10million possibly as little as £5million. I'm just not sure it's as simple as 'buying him back and flogging him on'. Lots of factors and figures to juggle. |  | | |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 13:29 - Feb 19 with 1039 views | Coastalblue |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 13:19 - Feb 19 by Axeldalai_lama |
It's not actually a dead cert though, depending on the small print. If it's a £40m clause, and we can maybe max out at guaranteed £50m, then it's £10m up for grabs, but they'd probably need to pay extra fees to persuade him to join them over others just to be sold on, and it's a risk in case of injury or whatever, and wages would have to be enough to persuade him but less than he'd get at his next club. Just a lot of faffing around and risk for maybe potentially less than £10million possibly as little as £5million. I'm just not sure it's as simple as 'buying him back and flogging him on'. Lots of factors and figures to juggle. |
Yep and he's got to want to sign for them too, you get the feeling that Philogene was sold the dream and fancied backing himself to break into their first team squad, Delap however will know that he has several years of Haaland in front of him at best. |  |
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| Liam Delap transfer value… on 13:53 - Feb 19 with 1010 views | Axeldalai_lama |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 13:29 - Feb 19 by Coastalblue |
Yep and he's got to want to sign for them too, you get the feeling that Philogene was sold the dream and fancied backing himself to break into their first team squad, Delap however will know that he has several years of Haaland in front of him at best. |
He won't be bought to sit behind haaland, he'll be bought to sell, which in some ways will be a harder sell! So we're buying you but we don't want you, we want to pay you x but only until you get sold to y, who you could just move to directly. All for the sake of maybe a few million, and a risk of something going wrong and being trapped with someone they signed and never wanted. Not sure it's a straightforward inevitable transaction. | | | |
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| Liam Delap transfer value… on 14:18 - Feb 19 with 972 views | rickw |
I think Solanke is the best one to compare values with.
He scored 19 in the PL last season and went for £65m
Delap is on course for a little less than that maybe 16 goals?
Both players were at big academy's and were in England youth set-ups, but Delap is likely to be sold at 22 - 4 years younger than Solanke was.
Unfortunately with every goal he scores now I think that'll just make the biggest club that bit more interested and us more unlikely to be able to keep him
So I think we should be looking for a price similar to Solanke's £65m, but that'll depend on how he and we do on now until the end of the season. (No more goals and we go down then 30-35m, he scores in every game, we stay up then it'll be 100m+) |  |
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| Liam Delap transfer value… on 14:23 - Feb 19 with 942 views | Len_Brennan |
With Harry Kane's injury last night & Solanke expected to be out for another few weeks, both must be doubtful for the England, aheas of the Albania & Latvia games in March. That would make Delap a very likely call up, which is a reasonable prospect even if they make it back.
Being a full England international, with a cap in a World Cup qualifier, would surely add a significant amount to his value, given the wat 'add ons' are often included for international caps in a contract. | | | |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 16:27 - Feb 19 with 852 views | One_Bobby_Petta |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 09:28 - Feb 19 by Chocorange |
Let’s face it , if there’s value to be had from a resale then City will come back in for whatever is in the contract and sell him on just the same as Villa did with Philogene.
Why would they allow us to earn an extra 10:or 20;million when they can have it .
All of these posts about what’s in the contract is pointless.. let’s give credit to Ashton and Mckenna, they knew how good he was and will have negotiated the best deal they could to get him here ..
If we can stay up Delap may choose to stay here another season and further his development as a young striker under KM.
If not then . We take what we can out of the deal and move on.
As others have said simply enjoy him while he is here in a Town shirt. |
The mind boggles, If we stay up he may choose to stay here!
He's in year one of a 4/5 year contract
This speculation is so un necessary and boring It's unreal - I think it was mentioned at the time of his purchase that they had a clause allowing City to match any bid, however nobody knows apart from Liam, has agent and his previous and current employers | | | |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 19:58 - Feb 19 with 781 views | mellowblue |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 20:56 - Feb 18 by baxterbasics |
Delap's going to be an Ipswich player until he is 34 at which point he goes to Saudi or China for a big final payoff. |
would be nice. To clarify, the days of China being a cosy retirement home for pro players has gone now. China clamped down. | | | |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 20:04 - Feb 19 with 771 views | Trequartista |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 11:01 - Feb 19 by pointofblue |
If a buy back is in place, I'm amazed they're not interested - even from a Villa/Philogene angle. |
Indeed, why would they have inserted a buy back clause if they are not interested in buying him back? Were they expecting him to have scored 20 goals so far this season? |  |
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| Liam Delap transfer value… on 20:10 - Feb 19 with 751 views | ibbleobble |
If we stay up, he’ll stay. If we go down, he’ll go. | | | |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 21:09 - Feb 19 with 702 views | PrideOfTheEast |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 09:17 - Feb 19 by pointofblue |
Because £40m or £80m is a huge difference when it comes to the club's future. As fans, we have very little control, but we still care. Similar to events outside of football. |
Huge? A difference to who we might sign, but why is 40m going to make a huge difference to the clubs future? If we go down and sell him for 40, we’ll spend 20 on a replacement. If we stay up we’ll probably spend 40 on a replacement regardless of what amount we get. Obviously a bigger amount would give us more headroom for PSR, which we would spend, but not convinced I’d describe the delta as likely to make a huge difference. | | | |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 21:14 - Feb 19 with 670 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 20:04 - Feb 19 by Trequartista |
Indeed, why would they have inserted a buy back clause if they are not interested in buying him back? Were they expecting him to have scored 20 goals so far this season? |
More likely they expected to enact it when he has proven himself in the future. Probably they recognised his potential but possible it was simply a "just in case". |  |
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| Liam Delap transfer value… on 21:19 - Feb 19 with 647 views | Axeldalai_lama |
| Liam Delap transfer value… on 20:04 - Feb 19 by Trequartista |
Indeed, why would they have inserted a buy back clause if they are not interested in buying him back? Were they expecting him to have scored 20 goals so far this season? |
It seems like it's becoming a relatively standard clause with the bigger clubs especially. Does no harm from their point of view, they don't lose anything by having one, but doesn't necessarily mean they had him pencilled in to come back on any level, and as I speculated before, for the sake of a few million not worth the risk and the hassle potentially. | | | |
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