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Johnson Contract Offer

Johnson Contract Offer

Let’s assume he is on 10k a week and he walks away at the end of the season on a free. What’s the loss there to the club in transfer fee if he was under contract? Realistically anywhere from £2m upwards? Plus the cost of any transfer fee for a replacement, say £1 - 2m ?

So now let’s assume the rumoured new offer is doubling his wage to £20k a week and say a 3 year deal. That’s an additional £10k a week in wages from now. Over 2 years that’s a smidge over £1m. If we were to sell him in 2 years time when he is still a decent age with a year left on his contract, what fee is he liable to attract? I’d say £2m would be easily attainable given his age and profile. That more than covers any wage increase offered now.

Therefore giving him the 20k wage now and tying him to a 3 year deal is actually considerably cheaper than allowing him to walk away for nothing at the end of this season.
 
keasden said:
Let’s assume he is on 10k a week and he walks away at the end of the season on a free. What’s the loss there to the club in transfer fee if he was under contract? Realistically anywhere from £2m upwards? Plus the cost of any transfer fee for a replacement, say £1 - 2m ?

So now let’s assume the rumoured new offer is doubling his wage to £20k a week and say a 3 year deal. That’s an additional £10k a week in wages from now. Over 2 years that’s a smidge over £1m. If we were to sell him in 2 years time when he is still a decent age with a year left on his contract, what fee is he liable to attract? I’d say £2m would be easily attainable given his age and profile. That more than covers any wage increase offered now.

Therefore giving him the 20k wage now and tying him to a 3 year deal is actually considerably cheaper than allowing him to walk away for nothing at the end of this season.
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I said this a couple of days ago on one of the threads.

Amazes me that the club didn't act upon this about 12 months ago.

What do we both know huh?...
 
keasden said:
Let’s assume he is on 10k a week and he walks away at the end of the season on a free. What’s the loss there to the club in transfer fee if he was under contract? Realistically anywhere from £2m upwards? Plus the cost of any transfer fee for a replacement, say £1 - 2m ?

So now let’s assume the rumoured new offer is doubling his wage to £20k a week and say a 3 year deal. That’s an additional £10k a week in wages from now. Over 2 years that’s a smidge over £1m. If we were to sell him in 2 years time when he is still a decent age with a year left on his contract, what fee is he liable to attract? I’d say £2m would be easily attainable given his age and profile. That more than covers any wage increase offered now.

Therefore giving him the 20k wage now and tying him to a 3 year deal is actually considerably cheaper than allowing him to walk away for nothing at the end of this season.
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The question is why would he sign a contract for under half a million (after taxes and NI) more over two years when he can sign a contract with a new club and earn substantially more than that with a signing on fee?
 
Jack Daniels said:
As an example using the alleged "£17k pw" that DJ has been offered, that is £884k per year X 3 years = £2.652m.

I think it fair to think that if we sold him after 2 years with 12 months left, we would quite easily recoup that £2.652m.

Same as with the other OoC players that we all want to keep.

Edit - If we sold him after just 2 years as I suggested above, we would only need to recoup £1.768m.
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The problem with that calculation is that DJ will be over 30 in two year's time. I can't see us getting over 2mil for a 30 year old who hasn't played above championship level. But you never know.
 
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