Mo Britain
Doom Monger
This is the future. Ramsey's agent (and sorry to have to let you into a little secret) was banking on his client getting the benefit of staying on instead of the club having to find a replacement.
It's not only agents who are doing this, how many seasons have we now been told that the "war chest" includes wages? If Ramsey is replaced and his replacement is paid £120,000 a week then unless he costs less than £20 million we end up paying more than if we keep Ramsey.
That is the plain arithmetic of it, issues of "is he worth it" "should we not be keeping our long-serving players" are apart.
It's not only agents who are doing this, how many seasons have we now been told that the "war chest" includes wages? If Ramsey is replaced and his replacement is paid £120,000 a week then unless he costs less than £20 million we end up paying more than if we keep Ramsey.
That is the plain arithmetic of it, issues of "is he worth it" "should we not be keeping our long-serving players" are apart.