My initial reaction to the possibility of losing Joe was negative. I do think he is best staying with us and developing rather than bench warming in the premier league. But having a good think about the situation, if there is genuine competition to sign him from the biggest clubs in the country, we could use this to our advantage. Jenkinson's sale to Arsenal was a key factor in giving us the funds to finance a massive change in personnel which culminated in us winning the League One title. Now the Championship will be harder, but if we could secure say @ £12 million and a season loan back and used that money wisely and for a push, it could make things interesting. Maybe a little less and a subsidised loan of a top midfielder - we know Man City will have a few spare for instance.
What I am saying is, an opportunity to have a bit of a punt next season on the back of Gomez is possibly there. Of course the big clubs may decide to wait and see a bit more, but if there is real competition, they may want to tie him up quickly. Players like him don't come around very often. Plan A is going to be difficult with FFP being a bit of a dud, but this plan B could work.
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Lee Bowyer sale... We brought Clive Mendonca.
Carl Jenkinson sale... We mainly brought in Free Transfers.
Joe Gomez sale for £10m means that clubs will know we've money to spend so will demand higher fees for their players (Bournemouth did just that when we eventually signed Rhoys Wiggins) and I dont believe you can win the Championship on Free Transfers alone
I remember Leeds selling Fabian Delph to Villa for around £8m, and our fans saying "Well, Jonjo Shelvey is worth more than that!".
In the end, Shelvey was sold for a lot less.
The owner and his advisers have a lot of experience in securing players at this level from Ligue 2 and elsewhere around Europe.
And a couple of loans from whoever secures Gomez wouldn't hurt either!
Hope I'm wrong
With how Poyet, Jenkinson, Shelvey and Randolph all went though I still feel like we are going to get fleeced.
All going well he should be worth even more in another year but with the right signings we could be challenging next season. If we wait we could lose JBG, Cousins and others and have an even bigger job to rebuild the squad, and Gomez himself would have one less year on his contract.
There would also be possibility of loaning him back for a second season, especially if we go up. He's only just turning 18 in a few weeks, whoever buys him probably wouldn't expect him to get anywhere near their team for at least a couple of years.
The one exception that comes to mind is the great Len Glover. I was devastated to see him go but we received a British record fee for a winger of £80,000 which must have made Mr Gliksten happy even if the fans were not.
I also, seriously, doubt that any club would buy him and lend him back to us.
The benefit of keeping him longer is that we might just get a decent fee for him when he goes. This is especially true if we can sell him when the new TV deal has started.
The reason the clubs are swarming now is that they think they can get him for less. Why would they pay £10m plus for a player that's played a few Championship games when they can get an experienced player that's played in the CL for the same money?
That's what I've always felt, we seem to bend over backwards to let our players go for a bit of a bargain, although usually, our financial position when we make these sales is a desperate one!
Hopefully, under Roland's ownership, we wont be so obliging to selling clubs these days.
If RD wants to take a punt on getting us into the EPL he will do it regardless of any specific income. I'd be very surprised if he does however.
Why do the top sides never pay serious money for young English players without Premier League experience?
When was the last time one of the top four signed a player with a few championship games for anything like £10m?
When have the top sides ever spent £10m for a player then lent him back to the club they signed him from?
It all makes sense to a Charlton fan but it makes no sense to the buying club. What makes sense is that they buy him cheap by dangling a loan deal in front of us, and that would normally not involve the player in question.
With all due respect anyone that thinks that a club is going to pay us £10m plus for a player and lend him back to us has very little appreciation of how these big clubs are run. Not to mention the chances of Joe being signed by a massive club and both he and his agent agreeing to go on loan back to Charlton or the implications that it would have on team moral with him earning more than most of the first team added together.
Sorry but I think it's nieve and the sort of logic that my ten year old would come up with.
Why don't we just sell him for £50m and sign a non-breakable ten year loan deal with the buying club paying all of his wages for the ten years we have him on loan and be done with it?
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain: £12m, wasn't it? And that was from League One. Admittedly he wasn't loaned back but with the way Premier League TV rights deals are going, £10m in the current footballing financial climate wouldn't be so unreasonable for Joe: and, of course, we're Charlton fans! Of course we want as much as possible for one of the brightest young talents in the game!
Anyway, maybe I'm wrong. But I don't think so.