[Albion] Where is Alexis going? (Liverpool - for an undisclosed fee...)

[Sheebo]

Rising to £55m with add-ons, which are presumably achievable.

I’d go as far as saying (as yesterday) the clause was £35m up front and we’d have negotiated nailed on clauses to get it to £45m and others that are likely ish for the other £10m. It’s £55m in my book anyway

 

[The Fits]

So when is Dahoud and Milner being announced?

Yesterday someone said the club can’t do that until 1 July , but that hasn’t stopped Liverpool unveiling Mac

Can be announced any time, but not formally completed until the window opens.
Might be the new shirt Is imminent so we waiting for that?

 

[Bold Seagull]

It might be because most folks were valuing Alexis at 70m a few weeks back. What has changed?

Nothing has changed other than folks don't know contract details. Neither do most of the press or media.

 

[jcdenton08]

So when is Dahoud and Milner being announced?

Yesterday someone said the club can’t do that until 1 July , but that hasn’t stopped Liverpool unveiling Mac

Whoever said that is wrong. Those are the dates for processing the paperwork, when they formally become employees of the club. You can announce earlier

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

It might be because most folks were valuing Alexis at 70m a few weeks back. What has changed?

Were any of those folks Tony Bloom, Paul Barber or anyone else with our recruitment team? If not whatever value they put on Alexis is totally immaterial.

 

[seagull_si]

I never said this @Bozza ??

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

I’d go as far as saying (as yesterday) the clause was £35m up front and we’d have negotiated nailed on clauses to get it to £45m and others that are likely ish for the other £10m. It’s £55m in my book anyway

This. The ‘mechanism’ that Naylor has spoken of must mean £35m upfront or talks don’t even begin. I suspect that’s why the market for Mac was so small as many of the ‘big teams’ like stretching the payments out for as long as possible.

 

[GT49er]

35m! Waiting for somebody on here to tell me that Bloom the poker playing wizard has pulled off another blinder!

It seemed fairly clear that Liverpool was Mac's dream move. We have to admit, I think, that the Mac Allister negotiating team played a blinder with that contract last autumn! The circumstances, with Mac off to the WC and contract running down etc. gave them a strong negotiating position of course - but it looks like they made the best of their chances. Fair enough - it's business.
Good luck from me for Mac at Liverpool - I hope he does well.

 

[GloryDays]

£35m seems cheap but I still think he has a lot to prove and Liv were careful not to pay Messi tax. We'll look back on his time with fondness. Hopefully he clicks at liverpool.

While he might look class he still has work to do to be as good as a lot of people are suggesting he is IMO. His goal and assists (10g 2a) wasn't great when you consider six of those goals were penalties. If he can add a bit of mezzala to his DMC / AMC versatility then they have a perfect replacement for Henderson.

£35m is better than a smack in the face and he leaves a relative legend. Can't complain.

 

[seagull_si]

They haven't gone ahead.

As was the case with Pedro to us, Liverpool have merely said "We have reached an agreement for the transfer of..."

They haven't gone ahead.

As was the case with Pedro to us, Liverpool have merely said "We have reached an agreement for the transfer of..."

Hi Bozza, Just making sure you see this. I did not post what Questions has quoted me as saying??

 

[brighton_tom]

£35m seems cheap but I still think he has a lot to prove and Liv were careful not to pay Messi tax. We'll look back on his time with fondness. Hopefully he clicks at liverpool.

While he might look class he still has work to do to be as good as a lot of people are suggesting he is IMO. His goal and assists (10g 2a) wasn't great when you consider six of those goals were penalties. If he can add a bit of mezzala to his DMC / AMC versatility then they have a perfect replacement for Henderson.

£35m is better than a smack in the face and he leaves a relative legend. Can't complain.

£35m would be cheap, but I’m sure the clauses for the additional £20m have been made totally achievable. I would have wanted more but £55m is totally fine really & few could have predicted his post World Cup rise in value since the contract was signed.

 

[Clive Walker]

Moises is worth 70m and anything less should be rejected. bookmarking this!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Whatever the fine print of the deal (and we'll probably never know) you can be absolutely certain that it's one that TB is quietly happy with. That's how he rolls, as everybody knows by now shirley?

 

[allystrat]

Macallister £35m plus add ons
Anthony Gordon £40m plus add ons

 

[brighton_tom]

Macallister £35m plus add ons
Anthony Gordon £40m plus add ons

Saudi’s being rinsed for money and paying a stupid fee. Unfortunately in the world of transfer fees one isn’t relevant to another.

 

[Acker79]

Hi Bozza, I totally said everything I'm accused of saying.

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It's not a glitch Bozza needs to address. It is very simple to edit the post you are quoting. If you click on the arrow next to the name in the quote, it takes you to the original post and you can see what was actually said.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

It might be because most folks were valuing Alexis at 70m a few weeks back. What has changed?

It turned out that 'most folks' didn't really have a clue? And they're not Tony Bloom/involved in the hierarchy of Brighton and Hove Albion?

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

He is the epitome of class. You can tell he’s written that himself, it’s not been written by a social media bod, and it comes from the heart.

Will always love Alexis and want him to do well.

Exactly what I was thinking, not a crafted goodbye, but written solely by him and not edited - no PR-person would allow the 'good luck except when I play against you!' line - which is one of my favourite parts really.

Au revoir dear Alexis

 

[Reinelt12]

Wow, we are a spoilt lot aren't we... and it isn't even our money we are talking about.

This club is one of the best run clubs in Europe, if not the best. Given the circumstances around MacAllister in November last year, knowing he wanted to go to Liverpool, PB/TB etc. would have done everything possible to maximise the amount we would get this summer, whilst still retaining the player for the push for Europe. Hence the contract that was put together... if that contract hadn't have been there, he would have had 1 yr left, and some of you lot would really be throwing the toys out of the pram at 20m or similar!

Blocking a move would have been stupid, he is a role model for all the other young South Americans, and shows any new prospective signings that we do things the right way - when you are ready, and the club is ready, then a deal will be done to make all parties happy.

We've made 48m profit on him in 4 years (add-ons notwithstanding but as others have said, I am sure they are all very achievable) - that is still outstanding business whichever way you look at it. The White (50m)/ Cucurella (62m) business was insane and not a yardstick to assume we can do that with everyone.

Now, if Caicedo goes for anything less than 70m then

 

[Greg Bobkin]

This whole '£35m' is such a load of nonsense. I can see why that dilbert Romano posted it because he's got a whole community on Twitter retweeting and believing it and essentially hanging off his every 'Here we go'. But, in reality, all that's happened is a contract has been drawn up that states there will be further payments – possibly up to £55m, we don't know. It's a bit like buying a £50,000 car on finance after putting down a 50% deposit and then telling people you got it for £25k!

Plus we don't know any details of any potentially lucrative sell-on clauses, etc, etc. But then I've read on here and on Twitter that the fee is a FLAT £35m and those people must be ITK to say something with such conviction, so we really have been royally screwed over.

Or maybe not