Strange one this. Guaita wants to go so we have a keeper vacancy but RB, LW and ST are much bigger priorities for us. Thought we’d get a relatively cheap backup for Sam Johnstone (eg Iversen at Leicester or Alex McCarthy at Saints) and blow any budget we have elsewhere. Kinda suggests to me that this deal could be one of those ‘too good to pass up on’ deals, so probably not the kind of fee you‘re hoping for.
Dean Henderson | Sold to Palace
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Yeah somehow these oft criticized players turn out to solid PL quality when playing for a lesser team like Perreira.
Well we suck at selling so you probably got him for free
Please don’t say anything that could scupper this deal. Please just take him. We’ve been stung too many times with selling this transfer window.
Leaving his attitude etc completely to one side, he's just not a very good PL standard goalkeeper. He's good at saving penalties. He's average at dealing with crosses. He's absolutely crap at basically everything else.
From the PL keepers starting last season, I'd only have taken him ahead of Bazunu and Danny Ward.
I don't think he's great by any stretch of the imagination but he's good enough to be a Premier League goalkeeper somewhere and certainly better than the likes of Matt Turner.
He'll have a half decent Premier League career, just nowhere near the level of Manchester United.
What are you saying it diminishes? I'm not sure it's going to impact explosive agility, like you seem to be suggesting.
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The fact that it's a permanent deal rather than a loan is a positive. As is generally getting rid of a player who doesn't want to be here and is on silly wages.
He was actually allergic to grass if I remember correctly, that’s why he wore them
Busy summer for the Henderson twins. One is a supporter of human rights abuses and the other just got a move to Saudi.
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If it's now a permanent deal I would guess the initial fee isn't more than £10m and there will be lots of performance related addons.
That would help us with FFP and allow us to spend.
That would help us with FFP and allow us to spend.
Palace didn’t have any issues getting it sorted out in a few days.
Yes!
Hope it’s a decent fee and we can get Amrabat in before the deadline.
Hope it’s a decent fee and we can get Amrabat in before the deadline.
No mention of a fee. I presume that's a bad sign.
Sounds like we’re compromising on fee, replacing with someone for quite cheap and using the FFP profit generated to hopefully get a midfielder in.
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Maybe this makes a bit more sense from the Palace perspective now, Nixon from The Sun reckon Sam Johnstone is homesick and might be off to Wolves, Henderson is coming to Palace to replace him and Jose Sa will end up at Forest. That means we’ll probably add a back-up keeper as well.
That'll do, pig.
Not the worst fee after all of the delay in his exit.
Henderson has landed on his feet ending up at Palace instead of a relegation battle with Forest.
Good fee. Now we should get a CM in hopefully.
15 + 5 + sellon ? A lot better I expected.
Put that money towards signing Amrabat immediately!
Decent fee, hopefully we'll get something out of a sell on clause with Palace this time too.
Good deal for all concerned. Palace get a decent keeper and Henderson gets to leave before ETH sees his wanger in the showers and instantly turns irreversibly gay.
It is. Surely, would be madness not to.
Ok - with add-ons, we get to 20m + sell-on fee.
Not terrible.
Now wait for the numpties who wanted to let him go on a free complain about the transfer fee.
Yep, that's a lot more than I was expecting.
We really have no excuse now not to spend heavily in the next few days.
That £15m allows us to spend £75m.
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It's impressive that he's actively being a wanker in seemingly half the photos that exist of him.
Very good deal.
Good to be rid of him. Hope we invest the money in a midfielder
Still has to get past the medical.
Explain to me like I'm five years old.
Take Maguire with you, you bum
For FFP purposes transfer fees are spread over a players contract.
Standard contract now is 5 years so the £15m fee allows us to buy £75m worth of players as for FFP purposes it's only £15m each season over the next 5 years.
Amoritized fees. We can bank all of the 15M incoming in this years accounts and spread any spending over 5 years so 15M x 5 years is 75M potentially.
As long as you can find another £15m in additional revenue for the next 4 years too.
There's going to be feck all left in the coffers for any future transfer windows, if we go by this logic.
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