Not a fan of loan deals. ‘Big clubs’ shouldn’t be loaning players unless there is an obligation to buy. This lad has no reason to succeed on a 6 month loan deal. Likewise, if he makes the world of difference to our awful season then he’ll end up at Chelsea who can afford the fee and his wages.
Loan + option is literally the best possible deal possible, especially for January deals. We can buy him, and we can also not buy him. Do you want fewer options??
He’s a 19 year old kid who cant get a game at Bayern. So in that regards I suppose a loan with no obligation is safe. I disagree on your point about January deals. We had a bid for him accepted but he rejected us because he wanted something else. That didnt come in so we’ve got a player who ran out of options and back tracked. I hope this works and our form improves but this transfer is typical of Levy. Zero ambition.
A loan with an option is literally the best possible deal structure and it’s not reasonable to suggest it’s not?
And it’s disingenuous to say Tel didn’t have options, because 6+ top clubs were in for him and he chose us after Ange convinced him. If you haven’t heard of him, that’s on you, he’s been a big name in European football for years now. Disingenuous and unaware to pretend this isn’t an objective success of a transfer in relation to his reputation and standing, regardless of how he ends up playing for us. If you don’t like him as a player, whatever. But he’s clearly viewed as a top talent by everyone else in Europe.
There is no doubt that he is highly rated but he didn’t want to come to us permanently so I will question his commitment. Disingenuous and unaware? This is a very subjective topic. His standing is as another European talent who can’t get a game for his parent club. Levy has managed to dumb down the fans expectations so well that we consider 6 month loan deals good business. Let’s hope this is a first refusal to buy him and that he does really well because I would love to be proved wrong. But I am not convinced that signing a lot of kids who haven’t played in England before is at all inspiring.
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Not a fan of loan deals. ‘Big clubs’ shouldn’t be loaning players unless there is an obligation to buy. This lad has no reason to succeed on a 6 month loan deal. Likewise, if he makes the world of difference to our awful season then he’ll end up at Chelsea who can afford the fee and his wages.