Future proofing ourself with Buonanotte, Osman, Yalcouye, Barco, Cozier-Duberry, and others ready to join the team next year. The new contract as part of Buonanotte's loan clearly shows we want him back here.
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, the better he does in this division for a direct competitor, the more we shoot ourselves in the foot. Note to club: other leagues are available for loanees
Leicester took points off Bournemouth on Saturday, and it's the latter that's the likelier direct competitor than the former. The more points Facundo helps Leicester accrue, the more points taken off our direct competitors.At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, the better he does in this division for a direct competitor, the more we shoot ourselves in the foot. Note to club: other leagues are available for loanees
Well, unless you are worried that we are going to finish below Leicester (in which case a LOT more will have gone wrong than the decision to loan FB out) this actually isn't true at all.At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, the better he does in this division for a direct competitor, the more we shoot ourselves in the foot. Note to club: other leagues are available for loanees
I'm another one who disagrees with you I'm afraid.At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, the better he does in this division for a direct competitor, the more we shoot ourselves in the foot. Note to club: other leagues are available for loanees
Sloppy thinking. Who knows where Brighton/Leicester will end up at end of season. Doubtless won't be a relegation issue. Nor a likely European place issue. But looking beyond that, every single EPL finishing place is worth, dunno, £1.5m or something. Could end up being a costly totally avoidable mistake
It's not sloppy thinking. How on earth can this be a costly mistake? He can't play against us, so there is no way he is going to negatively influence our league position unless it turns out he is better than anyone we have in that position. The decision was made that we couldn't guarantee him a place in the side, yet we decided to keep him happy by loaning him to a "lesser" (for now) Premier league side. I can't see how it can possibly pan out badly for us.
It isn't sloppy thinking, at all. The club will have done serious thinking and analysis, before committing to this loan. They feel that the risk (of your suggested outcome) is far outweighed by the benefits (primarily the progression / development of Facundo Buonanotte as a footballer). Of course that development also has a financial aspect to it - even if a Facu-propelled Leicester did by some miracle push us down one PL place (that's worth £3.5m btw), his own value will have increased by multiples of that, so Bloom still wins.
If he does *that* well, he either comes back to slot into the first team, or gets sold to the highest bidder for a facking fortune (I'm looking at you, Chelsea Todd).
Unless Leicester really kick on and knock us out of a Champions League position. Have the club even considered this possibility?!?!?!
Leicester aren't a direct competitor yet.At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, the better he does in this division for a direct competitor, the more we shoot ourselves in the foot. Note to club: other leagues are available for loanees
Also factor in most/all wages being paid and possible loan fee
Why? Playing in the PL means he'll be more 'PL ready' if and when we take him back into our first team squad - and if he does well in the PL, his re-sale value will sky-rocket compared to what it would rise to if he was playing in a lower division.At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, the better he does in this division for a direct competitor, the more we shoot ourselves in the foot. Note to club: other leagues are available for loanees
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, the better he does in this division for a direct competitor, the more we shoot ourselves in the foot. Note to club: other leagues are available for loanees
Yep, if only we’d have known there were other leagues available when we loaned out Barco, Osman, Youlcaye, Scherpen, and Sima. Must do our research better.At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, the better he does in this division for a direct competitor, the more we shoot ourselves in the foot. Note to club: other leagues are available for loanees
Or, to satisfy THPP's paranoia -how about a simply clause in the loan deal, that says they have to pay an additional £3.5m fee if they finish above us?!
