Summer Transfer Window

[SheepRanger]

My understanding is our percentage is on the profit not the goal - so we take £17 mill off what ever he is sold for and then get 20% of that

I may have got that wrong!

This was discussed a while back and generally accepted its going to be 20% of the sale price, not the profit. That may hav3 come from one of the fans forums, or the sports media who are familiar with these things.

[3London]

My understanding is our percentage is on the profit not the goal - so we take £17 mill off what ever he is sold for and then get 20% of that

I may have got that wrong!

[Dono77]

Saito is worth no more than 1.5m upfront..hes had one season here. 2 goals and 2 or 3 assists was it? Hardly setting the league on fire but I do really like the guy. Works his #### off and doesn't go missing. A very useful squad player but not sure hes worth anything close to what brum are happy to pay.

[Stanfan]

Saito surely isn’t £5m unless it’s from a load of add ons like promotion and international call ups etc. he’s not there yet.

[SheepRanger]

A poster on Fantasy is saying:-

´Just heard Chappers on BBC 5 Live that Eze "...is expected to sign for Spurs within the next 48 hours". Fingers crossed´

Yes, fingers crossed.

Talksport been saying, again, that the buy out clause expired Friday just gone. Whether that means Palace still wanted the £68m in the cause is anyone's guess. But the Arsenal rumours came to nothing, so without competition, I guess the fee would be around £50m. But still £10m for us in whatever chunks and timescales it takes to arrive in full is much needed. Hopefully, some of it will be spend on a few more players. But we need to ship some out too.....Madsen & Celar come to mind.

[cross it Dave]

A poster on Fantasy is saying:-

´Just heard Chappers on BBC 5 Live that Eze "...is expected to sign for Spurs within the next 48 hours". Fingers crossed´

Yes, fingers crossed.

[ragr]

For us to sign him for £5m he's got to be worth £10m-15m in 1-3 years. That's the nature of the project. I thought he was a very good prospect but I don't know if he's a guaranteed sale at that level going forward. I'm really struggling with this club versus project concept - I get both sides individually, I'm just not sure how, or if, they meld together.

[Sleeping Giants]

"It has emerged that Derby have agreed a deal with the Belgian side to sign Saito after meeting their valuation of around £5 million, as per Telegraph reporter Mike McGrath via X. McGrath states that the Rams are now in final talks with Lommel over a deal for the Japanese youth international, and are holding discussions with the player and his representatives".

I think we have other areas of squad to be spending our money on.

We clearly need a couple of full backs who are actually full backs.

[SheepRanger]

"It has emerged that Derby have agreed a deal with the Belgian side to sign Saito after meeting their valuation of around £5 million, as per Telegraph reporter Mike McGrath via X. McGrath states that the Rams are now in final talks with Lommel over a deal for the Japanese youth international, and are holding discussions with the player and his representatives".

I think we have other areas of squad to be spending our money on.

[Harrow QPR]

He is actually 2 inches taller than Paal, yes he is fairly slight but I wouldn’t say he is weak, he is feisty and actually decent in the air, has a good leap on him. But agree £5m is far too much, £1.5m sounds about right to me

Paal was also targeted by oppo because he was a bit small and weak defensively . I actually liked Paal as a player because he was composed on the ball and a decent technical player but he just was'nt brilliant at defending. I like Saito he's got a great attitude and determination , is skilful but we already have that type of player. We desperately need a proper left back , that is strong , aggressive and can defend first and foremost.

[djp]

He did ok when asked to cover at left back but no chance we are signing him for left back , he's too small and weak , would be targeted by the oppo every week.
Done ok for us and great attitude but no way will we be paying 5 mill for him.

He is actually 2 inches taller than Paal, yes he is fairly slight but I wouldn’t say he is weak, he is feisty and actually decent in the air, has a good leap on him. But agree £5m is far too much, £1.5m sounds about right to me

[Harrow QPR]

Is it possible that Saito might actually being targeted to resolve our left back issue? He had a couple of games there last season and I thought he looked really good.

He did ok when asked to cover at left back but no chance we are signing him for left back , he's too small and weak , would be targeted by the oppo every week.
Done ok for us and great attitude but no way will we be paying 5 mill for him.

[shaggy24]

Is it possible that Saito might actually being targeted to resolve our left back issue? He had a couple of games there last season and I thought he looked really good.

Possibly, he never let us down but think the lad esquardinha will probably get a run to close of window but I can see him and vale being asked to cover lb

[djp]

Is it possible that Saito might actually being targeted to resolve our left back issue? He had a couple of games there last season and I thought he looked really good.

[SheepRanger]

Never worth 5m. Not even half that. He won't even start if poku and dembele are fit. Plus we have Smyth. Very expensive sub to have at a club that needs to sell players. Love saito but hes not worth breaking the bank for.

We dont need to sell players!

Eze's off to Spurs......keep up ffs.