One has to consider not only the transfer fee but the wages.The latter is often forgotten.

Whether £15m is a lot or not depends on what you are comparing it too. According to the media we are supposed to be asking £10m for Gayle and anywhere North of £40m for Bolasie. If the media quotes are correct then the £15m quoted for Remy seems to be very reasonable

I think that he may come on a loan with a buy clause at a fixed price like zaha. Another alternative will be a low price with a high amount of addons , goals scored, games played, not relegated etc

Think he was meant to have had some release clause in his contract that enabled Chelsea to get him for what they think was a bargain.

£15m is still a lot of money but the guy has proven repeatedly he can score goals at this level.

If the £80k a week wages and £15m doesn't scare of the owners, then I would obviously be very happy with the signing. Can't imagine Ba would be a much cheaper option in wages.

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Swansea and Newcastle are after Deeney for 15m. We can probably get Remy for 15m including addons (a la Zaha manure) who is a bloody good striker. It was his attitude that was a difficulty at QPR but no news of that recently. He's mellowed out at Chelsea and is still fukin magical to watch.

Lad can have barely a couple seconds on the ball and no space and smash it within inches of the post. We could do with a lad who buries them that tends to create a few for himself! Makes me think of Gayle a touch but he ain't found himself a proper position to relax into and create from.

I to like Rhodes but Remy has done it in the prem.

Do those structured payment plans work for the top players? I can understand Steve Parish wanting to structure a payment plan which reduces the cost if we get relegated but I can equally understand the selling club not wanting to suffer on grounds completely unrelated to the player they are selling.

We also have form for restricting the appearances of players if a further payment based on number of appearances is getting close

Where on earth are you getting these figures from ????

It's not putting up with bulls***; it's just the way the market works.

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I don't think its a case of 80k a week is to much, as we could afford it, it's a case of what would be the knock on effect of paying a player 80k a week with regards to the rest of the squad?

If he comes in and bosses it up top, and is a class above the rest of the squad I don't think many will mind, but if he comes in and doesn't really perform then other players will be pissed off he's picking up double their wages.

We really are stuck in a catch 22 situation, if we want to push forward as a club then remy & cabaye are the calibre of players we should be signing, if we want to tread water in mid table then let's bring in jordan Rhodes for 5m less and 30k a week less wages.

If we could get rid of chamakh & campbell that would more or less cover remys wages on a weekly basis.

On a final note...for years we have been bemoaning mid-table premier league clubs paying obscene wages & transfer fees to keep up with the jones & now it seems we are very close to joining that band of clubs.

Quite ironic really,

Edited by braunstoneagle (20 Jun 2015 10.30am)

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