Emerse Fae

[MELKSHAM HOOPS]

Just had the move made perm...
http://www.setanta.com/uk/Articles/Foot ... nid-31883/

[Thaumagurist*]

So, how much are they paying for him?

[rfcjoe]

One hundred million euros.

[Thaumagurist*]

Surely we're not letting them have him so cheaply?!?

[Ian Royal]

Anything over £1m will do. £2m would be ok. £2.5m is good. Anything more is excellent.

[rabidbee]

I hope they're paying in euros, not sterling!

[MELKSHAM HOOPS]

I would guess approx 1.5 Mil.
Hopefully we will use this on Ben Watson in Jan

[Ian Royal]

Isn't he a central midfielder? we have plenty of them already. Almost too many in fact.

[andrew1957]

We agreed a fee of 2.35M at the start of the season as part of the loan package so I doubt we have let him go for less. Also if the agreed fee was set to be paid in euros we may even have made a good profit as the pound has plunged against the euro.

[papereyes]

I'd have rather he came good and we got at least one decent game out of him, but them's the breaks.

[andrew1957]

Found the Sky sports link - it says 3M euros which is now about £2.9M. A nice little profit all being well.


http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 87,00.html

[Archie's penalty]

Found the Sky sports link - it says 3M euros which is now about £2.9M. A nice little profit all being well.


http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 87,00.html

Crazy that the value of 3m euros in pounds has gone up 500,000 pounds!

Just shows how much the exchange rate has changed.

[TheLawnMowerMan]

Just had the move made perm...
http://www.setanta.com/uk/Articles/Foot ... nid-31883/

Good to see that the OS is on the ball and has the news first.

[bottom left hand corner]

Shame i was hoping he was going to come back and fight for his place.

[rfcjoe]

Just had the move made perm...
http://www.setanta.com/uk/Articles/Foot ... nid-31883/

Good to see that the OS is on the ball and has the news first.

It usually means the deal isn't done yet - as was the case for the Sonko deal.

[Platypuss]

Found the Sky sports link - it says 3M euros which is now about £2.9M. A nice little profit all being well.

And if you factor in the wages we paid him for contributing absolutely sod all?

[Archie's penalty]

Found the Sky sports link - it says 3M euros which is now about £2.9M. A nice little profit all being well.

And if you factor in the wages we paid him for contributing absolutely sod all?

How long was Halford here? Think you can still say that we have done ok out of the Fae deal. Sure it didn't work out but at least we have recouped the money we paid for him and more.

[moo]

Good riddance.

Tosser.

[Millsy]

Fae and Halford were not awful signings. They were bad signings *for us*.

We sold Halford for a profit. We're selling Fae for a profit. (wages are irrelevant as we'd be paying anyone else we got instead wages too - that's just a given for having an extra player in the squad).

Both of these players are therefore not bad players. Just not good *for us*.

So we can't blame our scouts too much. Or at least it seems that scouts from other clubs are making the same mistakes.

Having never been a football manager or a scout I can't criticise as I'm sure it's all very difficult. In the case of Halford many people were after his signing and it was a case of winning the battle. And in the case of Fae we needed cover for Sidwell and were struggling as not many wanted to come to Reading. It's easy to criticise scouts etc but when you're battling against the clock, battling against other bigger teams for signatures, when no-one wants to come to your club, and when fans are crying out incessantly for big money signings, it must be very difficult to get someone who slots in perfectly straight away. We're not one of the big four so will always have this problem.

[hellopremiership]

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