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i'd imagine we'd get around £3m for poulsen and konchesky, and around £8-10m for cole and jovanovic.
i'd be amazed if there isn't someone out there willing to pay £5m for cole. an aston villa, a newcastle, a sunderland, someone like that. if he goes, that is, which looks very likely if he isn't injured.
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The problem is everyone knows we are desperate to get rid so we'd probably end up paying part of their wages or reducing the transfer fees. That said desperate teams make desperate signings. If there was any truth in the Wolfsburg offer for Jova then anything is possible I guess. I'd be very happy to take anything between £5-10m for the lot though.
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who says we're desperate to get rid?
and you'd happily take £5m for cole, jovanovic, poulsen and konchesky? christ, i'm glad you're not part of our negotiating team. we'd have got about £20m and kerry dixon for Torres.
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Well aren't we? I mean those 4 hardly ever play so it doesn't really take a genius to work out they are not wanted.
I don't see the transfer fees and especially a difference of a couple of million the biggest issue here. These guys are on average of what, £65k/week? That's £13,5m in wages per year. So even if £5m is under their market value if we got rid of their wages in full I'd be happy. If we start holding out for the best possible price we might be left stuck with one or two of them for one more season and what's gained in better transfer fees is already lost and more.
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we don't have the depth of squad to just let 4 senior players leave with no replacements, though, so we'll never save all those wages.
i suppose i can see that £5m or so difference in valuation is not very material, but i thought we were talking about what we could get for them, and just on that narrow point i think £5m is a big undervaluation. for example, we got around £7m for nemeth, leto and san jose, who played about 3 first team games between them.