CESAR in car boot sale fiasco

[Rich]

£1.5m for Cesar and his wages off the books is good business. He doesn't want to play in the championship and by the time we get back up he will be nearly retired. By NOT accepting Arsenal's terms (if rumour is correct) we would be cutting off our nose to spite our face!

[Stanley]

£1.5m for Cesar and his wages off the books is good business. He doesn't want to play in the championship and by the time we get back up he will be nearly retired. By NOT accepting Arsenal's terms (if rumour is correct) we would be cutting off our nose to spite our face!

Doesn't it partly depend on what we paid for him...was he signed on a free? And he still has 3 more years to run on his contract.

[Rich]

Doesn't it partly depend on what we paid for him...was he signed on a free? And he still has 3 more years to run on his contract.

Not at all. The alternative is we keep him and he does a barton or bosingwa and just collects large sums of wages for those 3 years. The simple fact we were **** last season and got relegated highlights the club is being run badly so we have to change our tact. The signing of Simpson indicates we are heading in the right direction (young, english and free transfer for experienced prem player = good business). We must cut our cloth and get rid of the players who we don't need.

[Stanley]

Not at all. The alternative is we keep him and he does a barton or bosingwa and just collects large sums of wages for those 3 years. The simple fact we were **** last season and got relegated highlights the club is being run badly so we have to change our tact. The signing of Simpson indicates we are heading in the right direction (young, english and free transfer for experienced prem player = good business). We must cut our cloth and get rid of the players who we don't need.

Completely agree that he has to be sold. But certainly not to the first bidder, there appears to be plenty of interest both at home and abroad and we still have plenty of time to recoup as much as we possibly can.

[Rich]

Completely agree that he has to be sold. But certainly not to the first bidder, there appears to be plenty of interest both at home and abroad and we still have plenty of time to recoup as much as we possibly can.

Hope you're right but can't see too many queuing up for a 33 year old myself. I might be wrong but I think we need to take the money and run.

[yugohoop]

I wouldn't let him go for any less than 3.5 million and even then I'd have add ons for league finish and European qualification. It isn't time to panic just yet as we have parachute payments to sustain us for a season or two and we should take advantage of that fact.

[QPRDave]

£1.5m for Cesar and his wages off the books is good business. He doesn't want to play in the championship and by the time we get back up he will be nearly retired. By NOT accepting Arsenal's terms (if rumour is correct) we would be cutting off our nose to spite our face!

spot on .......get rid while we can

[skranger]

33 is not old for a goalkeeper....

[vblockranger]

£1.5m for Cesar and his wages off the books is good business. He doesn't want to play in the championship and by the time we get back up he will be nearly retired. By NOT accepting Arsenal's terms (if rumour is correct) we would be cutting off our nose to spite our face!

Yer but think of the marketing value by keeping him...............

[klonk]

...we're apparently paying him £80k a week while we wait for a better offer. i doubt it's going to be so much better and there's no guarantee he'd sign (if i had a choice of playing in the champions league with arsenal or, say, playing in paulo di canio's madhouse at sunderland, i know what i'd do...).

sell him and get him off the payroll as soon as.

[W12_Ranger]

3 years left on a contract on 50k a week

Can't see what isn't obvious here

[dogsrrs]

Personly I think 1.5 mil is a good price not a fair price but fairness doesn't come into it buying clubs know they have us over a barrel .
Keeping Green is another pain in the crutch 50k a week for a championship goalkeeper sickening , see if we can find someone to take him on a free but again they will know they have over the same barrel and want paying to take him

[casuallyqpr]

we HAVE to sell our players, everyone knows it so we wont get any good deals.

we gambled with out money, we lost. time to cut our losses and just get the wages off the books

[MYU]

Every club is looking for the best players for every position, it's not everyday you get a keeper like this on the market, you gotta take it otherwise another club will beat you to him.

[skranger]

Hope you're right but can't see too many queuing up for a 33 year old myself. I might be wrong but I think we need to take the money and run.

I disagree ... There are a number of clubs mentioned that are interested, particularly in Italy..

Add that to his good display in the confederations cup, his stock value can only be increased further.

As i said earlier 33 is not old for a goalkeeper..

Tell me what other world class (Brazil no 1) goalkeepers are out there for 1.5mill.

Answers on a postcard please ..