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Allan Saint-Maximin (now playing for Fenerbahce, on loan from Al-Ahli)


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4 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

Quite like .com's little ode to him, which is overall just about bang on.

 

Was just coming here to say the same. 

 

I think there's probably more to this transfer than meets the eye - the Saudi connection, the dubiously low fee, the plausible suggestion that he was encouraged to leave - but it's definitely nice to see a "hero's" goodbye, so to speak, compared to the ugliness and anxiety associated with departures during the Ashley years. The coverage of this move is another reminder of how we've changed as a club. 

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21 minutes ago, Mattoon said:

 


Too easy. A lot of these players will be clamoring to come back immediately after the novelty of making 200 or 300 or whatever wears off. 

 

 

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28 minutes ago, cubaricho said:


Too easy. A lot of these players will be clamoring to come back immediately after the novelty of making 200 or 300 or whatever wears off. 

 

 

 

 

 

Would get dull as fuck making 200k-300k a week.

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40 minutes ago, cubaricho said:


Too easy. A lot of these players will be clamoring to come back immediately after the novelty of making 200 or 300 or whatever wears off. 

 

 

 

If they actually have to live in KSA rather than Dubai or Bahrain - that's when it will wear off

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10 minutes ago, McDog said:

 

 

Would get dull as fuck making 200k-300k a week.


I know what you mean but you’d hope that some of these dudes, especially the ones in the middle of their careers like Maxi, will accept the payday and then quickly be like fuck this. It’s literal pub league level quality stuff and it will bore them to death (you’d imagine anyway). 
 

A year, maybe two, for a lot of these dudes I’d bet. Then back amongst the actual competitive leagues again. 

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3 minutes ago, cubaricho said:


I know what you mean but you’d hope that some of these dudes, especially the ones in the middle of their careers like Maxi, will accept the payday and then quickly be like fuck this. It’s literal pub league level quality stuff and it will bore them to death (you’d imagine anyway). 
 

A year, maybe two, for a lot of these dudes I’d bet. Then back amongst the actual competitive leagues again. 

 

 

I totally understand that. Depends on how long you want to pad the bank account before bailing.  @TheBrownBottle is 100% right though. My top 10 places I never ever want to live in KSA is about 4th or 5th. How long could one stand that? That should factor in.

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Just now, TheBrownBottle said:

While I’m not saying that this was the case, does anyone really picture Howe coming out at slagging any player off who leaves?

 

Lying about dressing room liking him would be absolute freak and weirdo behaviour though.

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On 18/07/2023 at 17:08, HawK said:

Thank you Maxi, you got me through a dark season or two as the only bit of light in supporting this football club.

 

Hi Eddie, keep up the good work fella.

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7 hours ago, TaylorJ_01 said:

I've maybe missed it, why was the fee so low? 

A bizarre conversation on the Totally football podcast about this. On the one hand the implication was we have acted dodgy in securing enough to allow us to buy Barnes without a dent on FFP, on the other they seemed faux confused about why we have sold a 26 year old for such a low fee to another PIF owned club. Obviously their Spurs reporter was on hand to say ‘lots’ of PL clubs have ‘questions’. But I can’t work out what the questions would be related to, the first confident assertion, or the second equally confident (and entirely contradictory) assertion. In conclusion, I must stop listening to the Totally Football podcast.

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I’m sure there is a loophole in the PL tests that we will expose.

 

e.g. a 40% sell on fee which gets activated as ASM is awarded player of the season and moves to another Saudi club for £58m meaning that we pocket an additional £23m

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3 hours ago, Hovagod said:

A bizarre conversation on the Totally football podcast about this. On the one hand the implication was we have acted dodgy in securing enough to allow us to buy Barnes without a dent on FFP, on the other they seemed faux confused about why we have sold a 26 year old for such a low fee to another PIF owned club. Obviously their Spurs reporter was on hand to say ‘lots’ of PL clubs have ‘questions’. But I can’t work out what the questions would be related to, the first confident assertion, or the second equally confident (and entirely contradictory) assertion. In conclusion, I must stop listening to the Totally Football podcast.

 

I think I lasted one and a half episodes of that, aye, don't mind the daily Athletic one but that was so far up its arse it was untrue. Like an audio version of The Sunday Supplement.

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23 hours ago, Hovagod said:

A bizarre conversation on the Totally football podcast about this. On the one hand the implication was we have acted dodgy in securing enough to allow us to buy Barnes without a dent on FFP, on the other they seemed faux confused about why we have sold a 26 year old for such a low fee to another PIF owned club. Obviously their Spurs reporter was on hand to say ‘lots’ of PL clubs have ‘questions’. But I can’t work out what the questions would be related to, the first confident assertion, or the second equally confident (and entirely contradictory) assertion. In conclusion, I must stop listening to the Totally Football podcast.

God bless you for trying that podcast. I find James Richardson leaves a trail. 

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