Kion Etete - NEW SIGNING CONFIRMED

[IanD]

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Looking forward to Reading even more now. Welcome to the mad House.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Great news, we all know we needed a Striker, and Morison will know how to use him, fingers crossed he should be ready for Saturday!

[Rjk]

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pleased by this move - assuming we get it over the line. can see us bringing in an older experienced striker as well to help bring him through

[Ninja]

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Damn they quick on Wikipedia, someone already put on there that he plays for us :hehe:

[WJ99mobile]

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Got to be some jiggery pokery we can do to avoid the buy back

Sell to a sister club with a buy back?

Reminds me of the shithousery we did with the Gabbs and Collins double sale to avoid sell on fee IIRC

[Ninja]

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Got to be some jiggery pokery we can do to avoid the buy back

Sell to a sister club with a buy back?

Reminds me of the shithousery we did with the Gabbs and Collins double sale to avoid sell on fee IIRC

Hoping it's not stupidly low, good strikers usually cost a lot of money so even if it was 5 or 6 mil, that would still be low even if it is a healthy profit to some extent.

It feels more like a long-term loan than a purchase when unknown buy-back fees are involved!

[Rjk]

Re: Kion Etete- Spurs striker

Got to be some jiggery pokery we can do to avoid the buy back

Sell to a sister club with a buy back?

Reminds me of the shithousery we did with the Gabbs and Collins double sale to avoid sell on fee IIRC

I guess Etete would need to agree to being bought back, and considering he'd be miles off a starting spot for spurs it might not be in his interest to go back.

anyway, let's wait until we actually sign him first

[The Bloop]

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Does he only use his tete, or is he good with the ball at his feet aswell?

[Rjk]

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Hoping it's not stupidly low, good strikers usually cost a lot of money so even if it was 5 or 6 mil, that would still be low even if it is a healthy profit to some extent.

It feels more like a long-term loan than a purchase when unknown buy-back fees are involved!

I've seen it speculated previously that clubs might start to structure deals like this to get around the limits on numbers of loans

[Ninja]

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I've seen it speculated previously that clubs might start to structure deals like this to get around the limits on numbers of loans

That's a good point thinking about it, I guess it's a win for them, and hopefully us if the deal is a good one for us.

[xsnaggle]

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Didn't City try to do something similar a few years ago?
Buy a player on the cheap but agree with the selling club to play a full 'release' addition if we got promoted and sell back if we didn't.
I seem to remember VT threatening to go to court for restriction of trade or something when the league stopped it.

[KingOfSiamIAm]

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Didn't City try to do something similar a few years ago?
Buy a player on the cheap but agree with the selling club to play a full 'release' addition if we got promoted and sell back if we didn't.
I seem to remember VT threatening to go to court for restriction of trade or something when the league stopped it.

My memory is failing me, but I think it was in the very early Eighties we signed a guy (who’s name I forget), from an American club (I think it was… or maybe Canadian), for a club record fee of about £300,000 (or something like that).
He was very skilful (I do remember that 🤭), but we sold him back to the American/Canadian club for exactly the amount we paid for him (£300k?) after about a month (or 2), having played a handful of games.
Or I could be mistaken 🤣

[The Lone Gunman]

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pleased by this move - assuming we get it over the line.

Hopefully the club can get it over the line, get another body in the building and the player wants to be a part of it.

[The Lone Gunman]

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My memory is failing me, but I think it was in the very early Eighties we signed a guy (who’s name I forget), from an American club (I think it was… or maybe Canadian), for a club record fee of about £300,000 (or something like that).
He was very skilful (I do remember that 🤭), but we sold him back to the American/Canadian club for exactly the amount we paid for him (£300k?) after about a month (or 2), having played a handful of games.
Or I could be mistaken 🤣

Godfrey Ingram.

[Claude Blue]

Re: Kion Etete- Spurs striker

My memory is failing me, but I think it was in the very early Eighties we signed a guy (who’s name I forget), from an American club (I think it was… or maybe Canadian), for a club record fee of about £300,000 (or something like that).
He was very skilful (I do remember that ��), but we sold him back to the American/Canadian club for exactly the amount we paid for him (£300k?) after about a month (or 2), having played a handful of games.
Or I could be mistaken ��

Godfrey Ingram.