Christian Benteke

[redmike65]

Guardian story says Palace have offered 31.5 milion

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jul/04/crystal-palace-up-bid-christian-benteke-liverpool

No mention of the wages issue but nonetheless must be a sale ready to happen now.

[Phoenix07]

It's £27million plus add-ons, which include appearances, achievements, and Palace qualifying for European competition.

I said Palace will probably offer around the £27million mark. We should accept it.

[meffin]

If we can sell him for a £5m loss, id be delighted. I was expecting a £20m loss easily

[redmike65]

Ah he was never that bad. Someone was always going to spend decent money on him.

[vlahka]

You know he's going to be here next season.

[Chris]

Tell em to **** off, they'll go higher again.

Though I'm sure it was done ages ago and this is just the boring media games we get beforehand "they only want to pay...." "but x wants..." zzzzzz.

[redmike65]

[BigChief]

Surely he'll make the necessary appearances so that must be another £1-1.5m?

No way are we structuring Palace winning anything or getting into Europe for the remaining £4m.

[Rich]

Make it so. We've taken a small hit on Benteke. Draw a line and move on.

[Mark79]

Did Liverpool pay Villa the full £32m or was some of that add ons too?
If so can't see any or much of it being activated after the season he and Liverpool had.

[Slinky Skills]

Just ****ing sell him FFS!

[The_weatherman]

Make it so. We've taken a small hit on Benteke. Draw a line and move on.

After amortisation, has there even been any hit if we sell at 27m?

[Mark79]

Assuming the worst case and Liverpool paid the full £32m and the clauses in the Palace deal don't get activated. That's still only a 12% loss. Not bad considering we massively overpaid and he was out of favour for so much of last season.

[redmike65]

Assuming the worst case and Liverpool paid the full £32m and the clauses in the Palace deal don't get activated. That's still only a 12% loss. Not bad considering we massively overpaid and he was out of favour for so much of last season.

32.5m/5 = 6.5m write down for the year. 32.5 - 6.5 = 26 million. Book profit!

[The_weatherman]

After amortisation, has there even been any hit if we sell at 27m?

32.5m/5 = 6.5m write down for the year. 32.5 - 6.5 = 26 million. Book profit!

Top notch accounting.