The best thing to do here is accept our losses on certain players and do whats best in the long ter, players like Konchesky Isua El Zahr and Poulsen etc have virtually no resale value so there is no point in hoping for somebody to some in and offer us millions, players in that category should be offered a percentage of the remaining value of their contract to terminate the deal, so a player like Konchesky with 2 years left to run on a 2.5 mil a year deal is told he can have can have half the value of the contract if he leaves now or he will never play outside of the reserves again and his career will be over. Leaving the player as a free agent to negotiate a deal with another club from the much better position of not having to pay a transfer fee
The second group is made up of players like Agger Aqualani Jovanavic and Cole where there are potential buyers out there but they are put off by wages, the solution for this group is one of 2 options, either lower the transfer fee to a point where the players wages are balenced out by the compensated fee, or the club agrees to pay a percentage of the players wages at his new club. So if we valued Cole at 10 million and his wages were 5 mil a year any potential club looking at him would be forking out 25 mil to sign him on a 3 year deal, so we drop the fee to 6 million and that gives the buying club more room to manouvre, we lose 4 million off the transfer fee but save 5 million a year on the remaining 3 years of his contract
We might not bring in the same revenues we wanted in terms for transfer fees generated but we would save ourselves additional millions in wages,
Its a shit sandwich but any way you carve it up the club is gonna have to take a bite on this one
