Simic gone

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Originally Posted by J R Hartley

The loan includes an obligation to buy so it’s unlikely to turn a profit as how he does this season is largely irrelevant. We may have put down caveats on the fee depending on how he does this season but this is Cardiff City so I’d guess thats was most unlikely. After the season he had last year it’s more likely to be another loss.

You’re talking like we are a premier league club with cash to burn and can just make signings with no intention of using them in our first team in the hope they will come good in the future and turn a profit.

We are a club that’s making losses year on year, who don’t spend a lot on transfer fees and so if we are going to be making 7 figure sum signings I don’t think it’s unfair for fans to expect these players to be ready for our first team, not some fanciful “investment” hope that we bugger off to Belgium and we keep burning our fingers on time and time again,

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I’ve heard the loan fee is substantially higher than what you would call poor business.

The option to buy would clear what we have currently paid ( €2m fee was based on significant add ons ) and give the club a nice profit.

Thankfully it’s not my business but this transfer makes a good chatter on social media.

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Originally Posted by Mr Ducie

I’ve heard the loan fee is substantially higher than what you would call poor business.

The option to buy would clear what we have currently paid ( €2m fee was based on significant add ons ) and give the club a nice profit.

Thankfully it’s not my business but this transfer makes a good chatter on social media.

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I find it very hard to believe we're going to make a profit on Simic, but, if we are then. credit to the club, as it will be a very rare case of them clearing up a mess of their own making.

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Originally Posted by Mr Ducie

I’ve heard the loan fee is substantially higher than what you would call poor business.

The option to buy would clear what we have currently paid ( €2m fee was based on significant add ons ) and give the club a nice profit.

Thankfully it’s not my business but this transfer makes a good chatter on social media.

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Sounds like the sort of rubbish that Dalman would feed Abbondanto. I’m sorry, but I don’t believe for one second we are making profit on a years long loan compared to what we signed him permanently for.

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Originally Posted by J R Hartley

Sounds like the sort of rubbish that Dalman would feed Abbondanto. I’m sorry, but I don’t believe for one second we are making profit on a years long loan compared to what we signed him permanently for.

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profit would be if he moves there permanently

Even if we do make a profit, we really needed a striker last season. That's what they should have spent their money on. We might even have stayed up and not taken the hit in revenue!

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Originally Posted by Rjk

you're obsessed with deboys :hehe: I think 90% of the time he's been mentioned on here it's in your posts.
in reality we don't know what's going on inside the club and where to apportion blame/credit for any signings.

as for Simic we bought him for €2m so what £1.75m? and the club obviously thought he had potential to increase in value. if we end up getting that much from the German club from a loan fee and future transfer fee then it would hardly have been a disaster. even if we end up eating a modest loss it's worth the gamble from time to time for the time that it comes off and you make a lot of money.

I'm not saying it's been a successful move btw it's more like a side investment that hasn't delivered any return yet. he was clearly never in our plans for the first team for this season.

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Surely you see how spending over a million on a "side investment" for a club in our situation is ridiculous though, right?

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Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland

Even if we do make a profit, we really needed a striker last season. That's what they should have spent their money on. We might even have stayed up and not taken the hit in revenue!

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This is the right answer. Even if we don't lose money on the deal (and I share the skepticism of many that is the case), we spent a significant chunk of our money on a solution to our biggest problem, who then never played for us and we went down.

It's another sign of a truly terribly run club, making our money back on his eventual exit won't change that.