Eden Hazard

[danperkins]

Blow for Arsenal as Lille slap £43m price tag on star Hazard

Arsenal have suffered a blow in their quest to sign Lille star Eden Hazard after the club slapped a £43million valuation on their prize asset.

Hazard is regarded among the hottest prospects in Europe, with Real Madrid and Inter Milan also monitoring the 20-year old.

Liverpool are also interested in Hazard and could use Joe Cole, who is currently on a season-long loan at the French club, as a bargaining tool.

Hazard has expressed his desire to leave Lille at the end of the season.

But the monster fee is likely to put off a host his pursers, with Real Madrid the only club likely to be able to meet the French club's valuation.

Lille president Michel Seydoux said: 'The price is €50m and this is clear in advance. We are at a time when the club is having a real discussion about what to do but it will depend on many factors.

'First, our economic potential and then it depends on the proposals we receive. Nobody is unsellable. You would be able to look for solutions in the market with the money we'd receive.'

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May be a problem for Arsenal but not so much for Real Madrid.

[Chrono]

Arn can argue all he wants regarding football but certainly in regards to business matters hes completely clueless

Are you implying he isn't clueless when it comes to football?

[Mostar]

That's incredibly high price tag and very few teams would be willing and able to ever spend that type of money on a single player.

Glad to see our name linked with him once again even though.

[DKdan]

He wont go for £43m. Thats just a starting point for negotiations. He has already triggered the first discount by saying he wants to leave after the season. When Lille reject the first bid from a club that interests Hazard, he will likely tell them to consider it again or he will hand in a request.

IMO he will end up somewhere for 24-29m. Unless its City or PSG. He's a great young player, but world class he is not.

And if we kan sign him for, say, 25m then that would be great business IMO. If he is what we need though, I dont know - depends on a lot of things. But he's got pace and flair in abundance - makes a good start!

[Lecter]

Maybe I should post in big letters so Lec will be able to read it. He is getting old so he sometimes miss important words.

But then you put comments like this

"I only said what they must do if they want us to be able to compete short term in the transfer market"

So you acknowledge that what you are suggesting is preposterous yet you insist they must do it

Wouldnt it be better just not bothering posting such nonsense

Arn business wise you have absolutely zero idea

Its been a theme with many of your posts that FSG must invest ludicrous amounts of money

FFS you wanted them invest £10 million per annum in our womens team

I also find it ****ing amusing that despite NUMEROUS other people slagging you off for your idiotic posts you always bite at mine :bird:

Seriously its ****ing mental reading some of your posts, no wonder the people of world are so heavily indebted when you read posts like yours

[Lecter]

Are you implying he isn't clueless when it comes to football?

[danperkins]

He wont go for £43m. Thats just a starting point for negotiations. He has already triggered the first discount by saying he wants to leave after the season. When Lille reject the first bid from a club that interests Hazard, he will likely tell them to consider it again or he will hand in a request.

IMO he will end up somewhere for 24-29m. Unless its City or PSG. He's a great young player, but world class he is not.

And if we kan sign him for, say, 25m then that would be great business IMO. If he is what we need though, I dont know - depends on a lot of things. But he's got pace and flair in abundance - makes a good start!

[Lecter]

If Lecter at least one time tried to read my posts about a subject, sometimes more than one then he would understand what I mean but as usual he don't bother to do it

As usual you are having a go at me what a surprise

I posted that they can't spend £40m a year of their own money but Lec totally ignore that and have a go at me.

I said that is what they must do to get us back to the top. I have also mentioned that they would get the money back through the CL money.

I may be old Arn but its no wonder I'm ****ing confused reading your posts

Reading your posts the only solution to our current situation is for FSG to do something that the rules prevent (take a £40 million plus loss per annum)

But they must do this in order for us to get back on top

FFS

Thats like advising the only way for me to become a millionaire is to rob a bank (which is illegal) but I must do it

[RedReet]

If Lecter at least one time tried to read my posts about a subject, sometimes more than one then he would understand what I mean but as usual he don't bother to do it

As usual you are having a go at me what a surprise

I posted that they can't spend £40m a year of their own money but Lec totally ignore that and have a go at me.

I said that is what they must do to get us back to the top. I have also mentioned that they would get the money back through the CL money.

Anyone else find this post strangely hypnotic?

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[Mostar]

He wont go for £43m. Thats just a starting point for negotiations. He has already triggered the first discount by saying he wants to leave after the season. When Lille reject the first bid from a club that interests Hazard, he will likely tell them to consider it again or he will hand in a request.

IMO he will end up somewhere for 24-29m. Unless its City or PSG. He's a great young player, but world class he is not.

And if we kan sign him for, say, 25m then that would be great business IMO. If he is what we need though, I dont know - depends on a lot of things. But he's got pace and flair in abundance - makes a good start!

Imo about right

[Lecter]

Imo about right

The thing is now with players earning such massive wages, transfer fees are only part of the equation to consider when buying a player

For instance Aguero will probably cost City twice as much in wages over the next 4 years as the fee they paid for him

It becomes a huge outlay

[Lee]

The thing is now with players earning such massive wages, transfer fees are only part of the equation to consider when buying a player

For instance Aguero will probably cost City twice as much in wages over the next 4 years as the fee they paid for him

It becomes a huge outlay

Our resident Football Managers here seem to forget such trivial matters.

But he's 83/100 on FM 2012, so we must give him £262,756,989 per week!!!1111

[Mostar]

The thing is now with players earning such massive wages, transfer fees are only part of the equation to consider when buying a player

For instance Aguero will probably cost City twice as much in wages over the next 4 years as the fee they paid for him

It becomes a huge outlay

Yes it does but those 2 things go hand in hand when you deal with quality players.

Bar few exceptions you cannot sign a first class player and pay high transfer fee and expect to pay disproportionally less in wages.

Those players will deliver, for the most part, and will justify the financial outlay but it is true that having a club like Cityh where money doesn't seem to be an issue certainly compounds the high wages problem in general.

The way around imo is to recruit the top notch young talent early enough and even though we may still pay fair amount in transfer fees, the wage bill should not be in line as they would be still unproven at the biggest stage.

[kev776]

The thing is now with players earning such massive wages, transfer fees are only part of the equation to consider when buying a player

For instance Aguero will probably cost City twice as much in wages over the next 4 years as the fee they paid for him

It becomes a huge outlay

This fact about wages is a huge factor and one often forgotten by armchair managers. The deal for Carroll/Torres was much more than just the 15m price tag difference, we probably saved about 50k per week in wages, over a 4 year contract this is quite a lot. That saving was probably given to Suarez who probably earns much more than Babbel, who he replaced.