William Saliba (Out)

[jones]

The other two really talented ones, Gvardiol and Colwill are both left footed.

One of those three is not like the others.

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

One of those three is not like the others.

You tell him brother Jones

Top poster in my book

 

[NieThePiet]

I'm more worried about his back than about the contract atm

 

[HollandGooner]

Think Saliba is the best 21 CB you can get tbf we need him to sign at all costs.

 

[boonthegoon]

 

[Anders Harbo]

Reliable source?

 

[14Henry]

That sounds a lot more realistic than us offering him Eddie's wage plus the cost of his new gym a week.

From a career perspective it makes no sense for Saliba to leave the PL now after literally breaking out this year.

 

[boonthegoon]

Reliable source?

For us, yes.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

Same thing being said by this guy

 

[BigPoppaPump]

I'm more worried about his back than about the contract atm

Why do people keep mentioning his back? Is it that big of an issue? It’s just one injury.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

Fantastic post, I tip my hat to you good sir

The real Big Poppa

 

[Farzad Stoned]

Dude won more possession than any other defender in the PL, he is physically a beast, lightening quick and has successful passes into the final third that rank alongside some of the best midfielders.

The difference between 120k pw and 280k pw over a 4 year deal is about 30m.

The cost of replacing a player of Saliba's level and paying them is several times more than that. Edu please don't **** this up.

I will say this it isn’t just the difference in wages as employer you can’t give one guy way higher to a comparable talent for long without creating dissension. It isn’t just the difference in Saliba’s wages other agents will use his wages to get bigger contracts to. That being said pay the man 280k a week if it takes that. I said this before the wage bill was going to blow up with the young talent we had to resign regardless. But a certain manager’s fans said we should give him credit for a distorted snap shot in time.

 

[Farzad Stoned]

Why do people keep mentioning his back? Is it that big of an issue? It’s just one injury.

Arteta ruined him a disc injury in your 20s it usually never goes away completely. He will be missing games for years to come because of that idiot refusing to properly rotating for a nothing competition

 

[Goonger]

Arteta ruined him a disc injury in your 20s it usually never goes away completely. He will be missing games for years to come because of that idiot refusing to properly rotating for a nothing competition

I actually can't work out if your trolling or not at this stage, but feck me it's tiresome whatever.

 

[Kuroske]

I'm more worried about his back than about the contract atm

Or even worse. Big contract with a bad back

 

[dashsnow17]

If say he had 2-3 years on a deal how much would you have to pay to buy him? At least 70m, possibly up to 100m. That’s a marquee signing. So you gotta give him a marquee signing salary.

 

[Blood on the Tracks]

Seems like this is all run of the mill negotiations and leaks to the media.

It's not my money so I don't really care but I'd think he should be nearer to Martinelli than Saka wage wise. Saka has proven himself way more.

3/4's of a good first season and high potential, around £200k seems fair. Can always look at it again in 2 years if he keeps progressing.

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

The real Big Poppa

You are both fantastic posters in my book

 

[14Henry]

If say he had 2-3 years on a deal how much would you have to pay to buy him? At least 70m, possibly up to 100m. That’s a marquee signing. So you gotta give him a marquee signing salary.

Yeah but once you start doing that it's a domino effect. When Ødegaard goes to discuss his contract instead of it being 2 years added onto his current contract and an extra 30-40k a week it becomes 250k. Then White renews and he wants, while not the same as the others, a minimum of 150k.

Rice comes in on 250k as a marquee signing. Caicedo who is bought for almost the same as Rice wants 200k.

We need to be careful because we may have the big CL money this year but there's no guarantees.

We need to extend but do so in a controlled manner with basic rates being more modest with incentives boosting in by another 20-30%.

 

[dashsnow17]

Yeah but once you start doing that it's a domino effect. When Ødegaard goes to discuss his contract instead of it being 2 years added onto his current contract and an extra 30-40k a week it becomes 250k. Then White renews and he wants, while not the same as the others, a minimum of 150k.

Rice comes in on 250k as a marquee signing. Caicedo who is bought for almost the same as Rice wants 200k.

We need to be careful because we may have the big CL money this year but there's no guarantees.

We need to extend but do so in a controlled manner with basic rates being more modest with incentives boosting in by another 20-30%.

Yeah precisely I said this a while ago, there were some stats about how we’d a low wage bill and I made the point that we had a low wage bill cos we’d adjusted to being a EL club, if we wanna readjust to being a CL club you have to massively up the wage bill.

If we wanna balk at high wage demands and take the high road that’s fine but you’re never gonna finish top 4 regularly like that. Spuds have only clung into CL these past few years cos of Kane and Son (who they underpay), otherwise they’re a EL club.