[Albion] Carlos Baleba SINGS a 5-year deal

[The Fits]

MSN reporting positively, but no idea of credibility.

This was posted 9 hours ago. It looked like a done deal then.
As others have said, Crook is the one to trust here.

 

[FatSuperman]

Clubs have often signed our targets in the past. Chelsea signed Fofana - reportedly an Albion target - in January. He made 3 appearances and they've now packed him off to Union Berlin on loan. (perhaps he'll come good ) . A year ago they poached Zak Sturge from our academy. He's yet to get anywhere near the Chelsea first team - perhaps he'd be an Albion squad player by now ? . Would Caicedo have made as much progress with Man Utd (who were after him when we signed him) .

Its also how you develop them/work with them, coach them and your pathway to the first team

This is the point. Signing our targets is quite irrelevant if you don’t have the principles and processes in place to actually develop the talent into a useful player for your first team or sale.

Most of the clubs in the top half have no hope of signing our targets and replicating what we’ve been doing. Let them waste their money.

 

[southstandandy]

Exactly! Fair play to them I say. If we were Lille fans we'd be saying 'rinse the back end out of those money bags'.
We know that because we did that same thing a week ago.
Nobody is going to do us a favour. We are of the best and richest clubs in the world these days.

I get this, but wanting £25m for a player who's only played 20 league games in his career is mad.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

I get this, but wanting £25m for a player who's only played 20 league games in his career is mad.

You sound like a Chelsea fan circa 1 month ago. If they don't want to sell they can ask for however much they like for him.

 

[sparkie]

I get this, but wanting £25m for a player who's only played 20 league games in his career is mad.

It's not mad. It is the figure they want to make them happy to sell. Lol.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

How much of this delay is down to agents demanding fees as well? Caicedo's guy but £20m I believe

 

[Johnny RoastBeef]

How much of this delay is down to agents demanding fees as well? Caicedo's guy but £20m I believe

Under FIFA regulations, Agents are allowed to demand a fee of upto a maximum of 10% of the value of the transfer fee. Most will negotiate that the buying club pay this fee on top of the transfer fee.

This is standard practice and not unusual, so unlikely to come as a surprise to the club.

 

[Bozza]

Under FIFA regulations, Agents are allowed to demand a fee of upto a maximum of 10% of the value of the transfer fee. Most will negotiate that the buying club pay this fee on top of the transfer fee.

This is standard practice and not unusual, so unlikely to come as a surprise to the club.

Indeed. We paid £8.5m in agent fees from 1/2/22 to 31/1/23

 

[Mancgull]

I think the ‘stalling’ is due to Lille not accepting our latest bid which we probably thought was as far as we’d go for a player with Baleba’s level of experience.
It’s then made very public ( via our leak to Crook) that we are now looking at other options.
Lille are now in a position where they can hold out or decide to fold and accept the bid. They’d need to do the latter before we move in formally for Lokonga. I expect a timeframe would be given.
(This is completely my guesswork and I have no pretensions of knowing the truth)

 

[raymondo]

Under FIFA regulations, Agents are allowed to demand a fee of upto a maximum of 10% of the value of the transfer fee. Most will negotiate that the buying club pay this fee on top of the transfer fee.

This is standard practice and not unusual, so unlikely to come as a surprise to the club.

Wow, so much money sloshing around in football

 

[Springal]

Hold the nerve. It will happen

Indeed. We paid £8.5m in agent fees from 1/2/22 to 31/1/23

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I commented the other day - but quite impressive how Forest only paid out £4M given they signed 20 players or whatever

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I commented the other day - but quite impressive how Forest only paid out £4M given they signed 20 players or whatever

Bulk discount?

 

[nwgull]

I get this, but wanting £25m for a player who's only played 20 league games in his career is mad.

Ferguson has only played 22 league games (many of those as sub appearances). Imagine the meltdown if we were to sell him for 25m or less!

 

[227 BHA]

I get this, but wanting £25m for a player who's only played 20 league games in his career is mad.

We just got £115mill for a player who played 35 league games in his career!

 

[Colonel Mustard]

I get this, but wanting £25m for a player who's only played 20 league games in his career is mad.

Colwill is in that sort of category yet didn’t we offer £40m for him? (And even that valuation was rejected as being too low.)

 

[willalbion]

Indeed. We paid £8.5m in agent fees from 1/2/22 to 31/1/23

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Jesus - that’s a ridiculous amount of money - Man City £51 million.

 

[Van Cleef]

Indeed. We paid £8.5m in agent fees from 1/2/22 to 31/1/23

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Not sure how Man City managed to spend more on agents than Chelsea. Bit weird.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Indeed. We paid £8.5m in agent fees from 1/2/22 to 31/1/23

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That's a sickening amount of money leaving the game we love.

There are clubs which have been proudly representing their towns for 120 years + which are going to the wall for tiny fractions of that

 

[The Fits]

That's a sickening amount of money leaving the game we love.

There are clubs which have been proudly representing their towns for 120 years + which are going to the wall for tiny fractions of that

The actual towns those clubs are representing are going bust.

 

[maltaseagull]

Bulk discount?

B.O.G.O.F ??