UncleBob
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Weird rant.We’re are the club that over the past several years acted irrationally and irresponsibly with respect to player’s wages. Our wage structure (imo) has been a total joke for some time now (given the actual payback). I know a lot of it has come as a by product of our desperation but a lot of the mistakes are simply a very poor judgement and are not down to any real pressure.
Asset protection strategy has been comical to say the least but the most painful calls are those that have no real analogous in the whole footballing world.
First Sanchez, and a few years later (you would think we would have learned by that point) we go out of our way and give evidently (off the back of the worst season with us) a declining GK unseen wages (3x the nearest best paid in the same position).
Question 1. Why was this sudden urge with no real motivating factor to give such a unimaginable contract?
Question 2. Would there be any realistic takers out there who wouldn’t be put off by such a salary? Even for free similar to Sanchez (at least he’s an outfield player).
Question 3. We’re hearing the reports about us closing in on securing Henderson’s signature, which reportedly would make him 2nd best paid GK in the world without him playing for us once. Why do we do that?
The motivating factor was rather simple, he either signs a new contract or he doesn't, and if he doesn't that means having to bring in a replacement at a time where we had other priorities, combine this with good goalkeepers not exactly being easily available or cheap and it's not exactly difficult to understand. Liverpool and Chelsea's record fees for goalkeepers the same summer, Kepa for £71mill, meant that you weren't getting any bargains.
So it's a calculated risk where you look at the alternatives and choose the least painful one.