Eriksen For Sale
Eriksen For Sale
Hello folks, more Tottenham Tittle Tattle with a look at Christian Eriksen and an explanation of why Juventus are putting Aaron Ramsey up for sale for financial reasons.
That of course isn't all, we look at the right-back situation, the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and the Norwich City training sessions.
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CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN
Christian Eriksen has been at Inter since his £18m (€20.03m - AUS$32.87m - US$22.54m) move in January, but Neroazzurri boss Antonio Conte is thought to be putting him up for sale this summer.
The Danish international has only started 25% of the games he has been available for,playing 33% of the minutes and has a Serie A goal participation figure of ...zero, yep 0%.
(Article written yesterday before he scored direct from a corner after terrible defending from Napoli).
(Article written yesterday before he scored direct from a corner after terrible defending from Napoli).
Inter want to make a profit on his sale.
I have reported before that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a greater effect on football than the general fan has grasped.
Juventus are one of the clubs I have specifically spoken about and as a result of the pandemic they are having to cut costs.
To that end, Juventus want to get the 29-year-old's (30 in December) inflated £404,280-a-week (€450,000 - AUS$738,045 - US$506,340) off the books.
Why is this so high?
The Italians signed the Welsh midfielder on a free transfer from Arsenal just a year ago and not having to pay a transfer fee they pay him a signing on fee.
Now I haven't checked whether this is the same in Europe, but under Premier League rules, that signing on fee has to be paid equally over the life of the initial contract.
I have not checked what Aaron Ramsey's signing on fee was but the principle remains the same whatever the figure. I'll explain.
Thus, if a player receives a £10m (€11.12m - AUS$18.25m - US$12.52m) signing on fee (which Adrien Rabiot was demanding) and he signs a 5-year contract, he gets an extra £2m a year in his pay packed, which is roughly £38,462 per week (€42,797m - AUS$70,209m - US$48,154).
However, if he doesn't stay for the full 5 years, then the club do not have to pay the remainder of the signing on fee.
Aaron Ramsey and perhaps their other free signing from last summer 25-year-old (26 next March) French international midfielder Adrien Rabiot are therefore good players to put up for sale.
You get two high earners off the wage bill.
Rabiot was demanding £10m annual wages to sign as well as a £10m signing on fee.
What do Juventus save weekly if they manage to sell those two players?
€213,981 + (Rabiot possible weekly wage)
€42,797 + (Rabiot weekly signing on fee)
€450,000+ (Ramsey weekly wage and signing on fee)
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= €706,778 saving a week.
(£634,969 - AUS$1,158,187 - US$795,267)
In addition, they get in transfer fees, which don't have to be large to encourage others to buy.
Players of course will not want to take much of a pay cut so are only available to the few clubs who can afford the wages.
Or, we are then in the realms of loans and perhaps still having to pay some of their wages with no footballing benefit. Juventus would then have to buy and pay other players to replace them.
Clearly the better option is to sell for a lower fee.
I have reported before that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a greater effect on football than the general fan has grasped.
Juventus are one of the clubs I have specifically spoken about and as a result of the pandemic they are having to cut costs.
To that end, Juventus want to get the 29-year-old's (30 in December) inflated £404,280-a-week (€450,000 - AUS$738,045 - US$506,340) off the books.
Why is this so high?
The Italians signed the Welsh midfielder on a free transfer from Arsenal just a year ago and not having to pay a transfer fee they pay him a signing on fee.
Now I haven't checked whether this is the same in Europe, but under Premier League rules, that signing on fee has to be paid equally over the life of the initial contract.
I have not checked what Aaron Ramsey's signing on fee was but the principle remains the same whatever the figure. I'll explain.
Thus, if a player receives a £10m (€11.12m - AUS$18.25m - US$12.52m) signing on fee (which Adrien Rabiot was demanding) and he signs a 5-year contract, he gets an extra £2m a year in his pay packed, which is roughly £38,462 per week (€42,797m - AUS$70,209m - US$48,154).
However, if he doesn't stay for the full 5 years, then the club do not have to pay the remainder of the signing on fee.
Aaron Ramsey and perhaps their other free signing from last summer 25-year-old (26 next March) French international midfielder Adrien Rabiot are therefore good players to put up for sale.
You get two high earners off the wage bill.
Rabiot was demanding £10m annual wages to sign as well as a £10m signing on fee.
What do Juventus save weekly if they manage to sell those two players?
€213,981 + (Rabiot possible weekly wage)
€42,797 + (Rabiot weekly signing on fee)
€450,000+ (Ramsey weekly wage and signing on fee)
-----------
= €706,778 saving a week.
(£634,969 - AUS$1,158,187 - US$795,267)
In addition, they get in transfer fees, which don't have to be large to encourage others to buy.
Players of course will not want to take much of a pay cut so are only available to the few clubs who can afford the wages.
Or, we are then in the realms of loans and perhaps still having to pay some of their wages with no footballing benefit. Juventus would then have to buy and pay other players to replace them.
Clearly the better option is to sell for a lower fee.
THOMAS MEUNIER
Reports from Italy where Juventus are still trying to convince Thomas Meunier to sign, suggest Tottenham are the front runners to secure the right-backs signature.
As you all know, the 40 cap Belgian international is a free agent on 1st July when his 4-year contract at French champions PSG has finished.
As exclusively revealed, Tottenham are to sign 19-year-old (20 in September) West Ham United right-back Jeremy Ngakia on a free transfer when his contract ends so if everything goes to plan our two right-backs will be 28-year-old (29 in September) Meunier and youngster Ngakia, together with Serge Aurier.
Kyle Walker-Peters is surplus to requirements having not progressed to top four level.
We are interested in Max Aarons, but not at the £30 million (€33.38m - AUS$54.76m - US$37.56m) Norwich City are talking, we see him at half that price, as do Arsenal.
That would leave the future of Aurier as uncertain.
There are plenty of irons in the fire so we will have to see how things develop.
THE TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM
Daniel Levy has told the Government that the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium should be used as a testing platform for the reintegration of fans sport or live events.
The stadium has successfully been used as a maternity hospital, there has been the making of masks and now Levy wants Spurs at the forefront of a return to normality or a form of normality.
This once again shows we have a chairman on the ball.
For a club to be successful on the pitch on a regular basis, which is our aim, it must first be successful off the pitch, it doesn't happen the other way around as we have seen in the Premier League era with teams with more money than us winning virtually everything.
If Tottenham are used as the test bed it means we will start to get an income before others,much needed income I might add with the pandemic hitting us hard at a time when we have a new stadium to pay for.
The pandemic will hit different clubs in different ways and nobody knows the financial impact on the transfer market yet, which is basically all talk and speculation at the moment.
Big deals kick off chains (like a mortgage chain) but clubs don't have the money for such deals at the moment with Barcelona, Real Madrid, Juventus, Arsenal all struggling financially together with Southampton, Burnley, Bournemouth for instance.
That means being creative with payment structures but of course a structure has to be suitable for a selling club and help their business.
Loans with options to buy will figure heavily as will searching for players on free transfers or with a year left on their contracts like Ryan Fraser (Bournemouth winger), Thomas Meunier (PSG right-back), Jeremy Ngakia (West Ham right-back) and Southampton captain Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (central-midfield).
NORWICH CITY FRIENDLY
Plenty of people fretting about the Norwich City friendly for some reason.
There was due to be a game against Reading on Saturday which was cancelled so we played 4 X 30 minute sessions against Norwich to give everyone a run out.
When we had something like our 1st XI out we were winning 1-0. Erik Lamela scored the Spurs goal.
Then we changed things and introduced others including youngsters and Norwich scored twice during that time.
It was a training session to get everyone back in the swing of things. Spurs are currently trying to arrange another side to join us for another game on Monday.
BEN FOSTER
Ben Foster has signed a two-year contract with Premier League rivals Watford so ending any hopes Tottenham might have harboured about making him another homegrown backup player at Spurs.
COYS
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