There is, if you will, a concomitant risk in manufacturing industrial quantities of pish.
It happens when someone actually believes the spin and acts accordingly.
I’m told that the current circus around the inflated value of Señor Alfredo José Morelos Aviléz returned to bite the Sevco High Command in the basket of assets.
The Zen-like Colombian is now up there with Davis and Defoe in the highest earning bracket.
After all, if he is as valuable as the club states then he deserves better personal terms.
Apparently, the striker’s agent took the high-Level fantasy as gospel and got his client a better deal on the strength of it!
The rationale of the representative was unarguable.
If the South American was attracting the interest of big clubs and Sevco were holding out for £20m then he should be remunerated accordingly.
If my information is correct, then I think it is very fair that Sevco has inserted a buyout clause of only £10m.
Very decent of them.
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The January window can be a bad time to buy. Desperate clubs pay inflated prices for ordinary players. Available strikers who could maybe save a team from relegation, or push them into a European or play-off spot, are gold dust. It was common knowledge that sevco would have bitten the hand off ANYONE who offered £6m or £7m for El Buffoono, despite the reported £10m price tag. I’ve post previously that NO ONE offered the £10m price tag, or the acceptable £7m. Or even £5m, £3m or £1m. NO ONE even offered a fiddlers fart!!! Conclusions we can draw? NO ONE RATED HIM!!!
£20m? An inflated price tag for an inflated ego. HH
Scores against the same level of opposition as Kris Boyd and he was never worth 20m, pish.
I’ve just been advised that El Buffoonalo is worth 20m after all. Unfortunately it’s Hong Kong Dollars – and that comes in at just under 2m GBP
20 million rupees more likely 232k
Hmm… not sure pricing him in Hong Kong or Indian currency makes sense.
Surely, as a Colombian, it will be 20 million Colombian Pesos?
Actually, at £4,851.03 – that’s decent value. LOL – will maybe sign him myself…
Nah!! He’d kick you coming in the front gate and then throw himself to the ground clutching his face.
New contract, new terms, thats the way it works.
There is no doubt that El Buffoon has an eye for goal, but as shown tonight he needs a number of chances before he puts one away.
Those chances are few and far between in the big boys leagues.
Whilst there is great joy on the blue side that Morelos will bring in millions the fact that they have to replace him with another 25 plus goalscorer seems to have escaped them.
There is also the matter of loans from the board and others which have to be repaid.
Add in the latest Close Bros ‘overdraft’ and the Morelos monies will be gone.
No matter how questionable the 6 month interims look there is no doubt that the European run has significantly increased revenue, however that income has been included in the 6 monthly figures and consequently won’t be in the 2nd 6 months numbers.
What won’t change in the final 6 months is the high cost base. In fact this will increase with the inclusion of Davis, Defoe and of course El Buffoon’s wage increase.
The only possibility of the Ibrox club reporting a full year audited annual profit will be to sell Morelos for £10m before the financial year end boosting the revenue numbers.
Looking on the bright side, if his wages have increased then Sevco will save more money whenever he’s suspended.
Eh?? Aye right!! There’s no way on Ghods good green Earth he is worth anywhere near that amount.
Inflation in value = inflated wages to go with.
It’s fantastic that it has come back to bite them on the posterior.
After tonight’s draw at Easter Road,Celtic can really only now loose the title themselves.That is what I expected and I believe that gap will grow from this point forward,as that lot realise just how far in front CFC🍀 is in front of the ‘also rans’
And their spirit truly lacks with that very realisation.
HH🍀
Never where rans would be more appropriate