Hypothetical £2m

[Gazwag]

A £2 million player who can get an extra 4,000 people through the turnstiles at Falmer at every match for a whole season would repay his transfer fee in one year.

Is LuaLua that player? Are there 4,000 people out there for whom LuaLua would make a difference as to whether they showed up or not?

Would 4,000 extra people come thought the turnstiles for one player, I think not. IF we get promoted will the current squad compete in the Championship. With £2M in January we would need to buy Championship quality players not a Championship quality player. Three or four players in January will have bedded down by August nicely ready for a mid table season.

A winning team will generate bums on seats not a losing team with one star.

 

[Da Man Clay]

Lua Lua wouldn't cost us that much though. He is out of contract in the summer. We'd probably only have to pay about 500k at tribunal so I reckon Newcastle would take £700k in January if Lua Lua kicked up a fuss.

I wouldn't pay £2m for Lua Lua. He's a good player but he's not worth anywhere near that much.

 

[Easy 10]

I tend to agree with the 3 players totalling £2m. However, do 3 salaries equal the salary of the £2m player? or in other words would Lua Lua get paid significantly more than anybody else in the squad if he signed perm?

This, for me, is the absolute CRUX.

A £2m player would be on a significant amount of money, far outside the current wage structure of the club. If KLL was signed for £2m, and was picking up (say) £25-£30k a week, then there would very quickly be a queue of players (with their agents) at the chairmans door looking to renegotiate their own contracts.

You can't have one "superstar" at the club who's wages far outstrip those of his teammates. If a club is making huge outlays on a transfer fee, then it has to be prepared to handle the fact that its wage structure will have to be significantly swelled to accomodate it.

And we've all seen where THAT road leads.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Lua Lua wouldn't cost us that much though. He is out of contract in the summer..

Is that definite?

 

[Da Man Clay]

Is that definite?

I remember when we signed him to start with it stated that his contract ran until Summer 2011. I haven't seen anything since and given how popular KLL is i'd have expected to have seen it somewhere on here if he'd signed a new deal....

 

[Wozza]

Probably not as it would need to be a 'name' to do that.

Yeah, like Edgar Davids.