Yes but does that factor in the 761 million West African CFA francs that we've been paid due to his appearances for Senegal? When you take this into account Sarr is a bargain compared to Gray.
I do try to see the positive and the best in people and I have always quite liked Sarr. However, that message just seems like a standard format player leaving message that is so over the top that i find it hard believe its sincerity He should have certainly tempered the bit about the amazing supports and their passion and cheers as no one is gonna believe that.
Glad to see the back of this shirker, sick to death of seeing him putting in 10% effort each week in a shirt every player should feel proud to wear. However he was very much mis-sold WFC, bought in at a time Duxbury was giving it the barry on talksport about how we are heading for the Champions League only to go down twice in 3 years either side of playing behind closed doors in the Championship. Must have been sh*te for anyone unlucky enough not to be sold. I don't have the highest hopes for Sarr in the rest of his career, he's too fragile minded to be a top player.
Seems to change each day. I suspect an agent wrote that goodbye message. Seems very open for someone who appeared very shy.
******* hell I absentmindedly thought I'd clicked on the Kabasele thread, reading this almost gave me a heart attack!
My sources say it's 11.7m swiss francs up front with add ons totalling 3.5m bulgarian lev based on appearances and other criteria.
I know we have the ongoing joke about the exchange rates used, but if you look at the actual schedule of payments from that Fifa document, and what The Athletic/The club price them at in GBP, then it’s a bit weird: The official (real) cost for the instalments was: €8m €8m €8m €6m €5m The Athletic/the club have it at: £6.6m £6.6m £6.6m £5m £4m Those are exchange rates of: 1.2121 1.2121 1.2121 1.21 1.25 At the time we bought Sarr the rate was 1.09, we hadn’t been near 1.20 since before the brexit vote 3 years prior, and we’ve barely got near those rates in the four years since, save for a couple of brief moments. We would obviously be paying Rennes in Euros as per the Fifa document, so it would be interesting to know how the club/the athletic arrive at the GBP cost. If you set aside the fact we buy and sell players in Euros, it would be impossible based on the timing. The only was it’s plausible is if we agreed the sale of a few players in Euros pre-brexit vote when the rate was 1.20 plus, but then received some of the instalments around when Sarr was bought at 1.09, so the club made an FX gain and are counting that towards the cost of the Euros to buy Sarr. I can’t be bothered to look up what Euro transfer income we might have been due around then, but given Sarr was our record transfer by quite some distance then it would seem unlikely we’d be able to benefit from such a fortuitous gain in FX conversions that somehow completely offset €35m of outgoing liability. It wouldn’t me if they just used a budget rate for FX (many companies do) to arrive at that figure, but the actually reality to the budget rate was almost certainly different and almost certainly worse. TL;DR: I don’t know what I bothered with all that because the Twitter imbeciles will still say he cost the club £22m. The reality is based on the actual exchange rate at the time he cost us at least £32m before any add ons and fines, so he really almost certainly did cost us at least £35m.
I'm sure someone on here posted the breakdown of all the add-ons, some of which we met the conditions for, and some we didn't by virtue of spending time in the Championship and not progressing in the cups
Glad he's gone so I never have to read another comment saying that he more than paid for himself by playing quite well for a few months in the Championship once and helping us get promoted.
Well he was our most effective attacker outlet under Munoz certainly. Of course the defensive performances helped and Hughes being fit .
But he more than paid for himself by playing quite well for a few months in the Championship once and helping us get promoted.
Our resident 'transfer expert' said the following on Twitter a couple of days ago so I'll be taking this with a pinch of salt:
The constant flow of some saps making countless excuses for him after every poor performance last season has now turned into a flood of weird "I'm sorry we failed you, Isma. Go well xxx" posts on Twitter.
30-second videos have become the predominant form of the medium on the internet these days, after all...
My favourite comms with Sarr... "Hughes, just about kept that in, Deeney... good ball...." "Here goes Sarr sprinting into the open space..." "Past Loveran, past Van Dyke..." "ISMAILA SARRRRR!!" "Watford two to the good!!!" "Liverpool's unbeaten record under real threat now..." "What have they got? What have they got?"
Just got round to reading the responses to that official thread. Some of our fans are SO weird. “we failed you. Now you can shine!” “It’s been a tough ride. Please think well of us” How do these snivelling idiots deal with real life!!??
