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I see he scored for Dundee last night.
Including Caulker, we bought 2 players that were PL quality. The rest weren't, and our squad wasn't. Cornelius absolutely had to come off if we had any chance to survive, and we all know what happened there. Mackay signed Cornelius, Brayford, Moore, Caulker, Amondarain, KTC, Odemwingie and Medel in the Premier League season. Caulker was a drunk and Medel was asked to put out fires all over the pitch.
For £10m he was a dreadful buy.
Remember our manager at the time touted him as being able to score the goals that would keep us in the Prem, handed him the no 9 shirt... then in quick fashion downgraded him to "one for the future".
At £1m, lower wages he'd have been a non-issue and given more time.
Spot on - I still can’t see where we think 6m is a decent price.
Tan had his fingers burnt before, perhaps he’s agreed as he now has a get out if he fails to deliver.
That assumes the figure was £6m.
May well involve addons that could take it to that if the clauses are achieved.
I thought that when the dust had settled and the Bolton statement had been released we were left with a £5m fee (not the £6m that was touted earlier) that included performance add-ons but that Cardiff had agreed to pay the core fee (the part that excludes add-ons) immediately and not by annual instalments (over several years) which seems to be the normal practice. Still a high price but maybe not as OTT as some have suggested.