15 Aug 2013 09:00:35
Finally, bents having a medical I Fulham today :-) hopefully we get the full 6m for him.


Ruffall

1.) 15 Aug 2013
Any idea what the deal is anyone?

2.) 15 Aug 2013
5 million.

3.) 15 Aug 2013
Tv report offer nearer to £5m

4.) 15 Aug 2013
TV say 12 month loan deal covering most of his wages plus a 2m loan fee

5.) 15 Aug 2013
Sorry scrub that 5 million, its a season long loan with us still paying 20,000 pounds a week of his wages. also no option for Fulham to buy.
seems very strange this one, why not just take the 4 million they offered earlier and get him off the payroll. its not as if a season long loan is going to make him a better player for us next season.

6.) 15 Aug 2013
I thought it was a loan deal? Their paying us £1.5m for the season and are paying 100% of bents wages, that's what I heard, don't know how true that is.

>Scg87

7.) 15 Aug 2013
Can anyone clarify? tv say its a fee in the region of 5million but oher sites are saying its a season long loan?

8.) 15 Aug 2013
I'm hearing £2m loan fee plus wages but that's seems a bit extreme to me, if he's only worth £6m they may as well pay that and give him a 3 year contract which is £2m a year, what they are paying now. Also some people saying they are paying most of his wages plus a fee, why would they pay a fee but not cover the wages, if they give us money and 80% of his wages surely the money can cover the wages, making the added fee a complete waste of time!

9.) 15 Aug 2013
PL has confirmed that it is a season long loan, nothing about fee or how much of the wages is being covered by Fulham

10.) 15 Aug 2013
£2m loan fee with Fulham paying his full wages with no permanent buy option. Though its said that they will get first refusal on Bent if they pay an extra £3m.

11.) 15 Aug 2013
Fulham are keeping very quiet. My guess is its a year long loan with the majority of his wages paid for.
If he bags them 15 goals next season might encourage them (or someone else) to cough up the 6mill next year.

12.) 15 Aug 2013
EthAVFC, I completely agree, this is not really doing us any favours. I don't know why we didn't just accept the 4million they first offered and then he is at least off the books. Does anyone have anymore info on any last potential signings before the window closes apart from those already mentioned or further news on them?

13.) 15 Aug 2013
Bent gets what he wants and that is the opportunity to play 1st team football and a shop at the world cup which means he has to perform to achieve this. If he has the sort of season we all know he is capable of then his fee at the end of the season or after the world cup could be inflated again. Win-win and he won't be able to play against us this season either.

14.) 15 Aug 2013
If he scores a lot of goals I. e. world cup year, then it's good for us as he's still our player and we might get more for him next year. Remember no one matched our valuation which we thought was realistic because he hasn't played much last season. As for new incomings well truly no one really knows, it's all guess work. there might be some offers already in that might be accepted on deadline day. But they will be on Lamberts terms, remember Feyernord complaint about us over Vlaar deal saying we weren't professional. Also Bentekke at the eleventh hour because we weren't willing to match their valuation. I am not complaining just saying who ever may come in will be a bargain with everything to prove, no drama queens.

At this rate next year we will have probably the lowest wage bill in the Premier league. To sum up if any new signings are due then expect them late on deadline day as we have already done most of our shopping whilst others where still on holiday. As Holloway said some clubs don't need to buy so they can wait while others are trying to force it.

15.) 15 Aug 2013
I am confident to say on the Bent saga, its all wages paid for by Fulham and 2mil loan fee, no clause to buy after loan is complete. However, I believe there is 3mil buy add-on to have first refusal on Bent when loan deal expires. Also, in reference to VillaZac I am sure to say that PL see's a few signings a must before the window closes. We have, may have slipped the mind of many, also 5mil coming from Liverpool for final payment of Downing move. So that in conjunction with the Bent fee gives PL 8mil (ish) to play with. I have to say I think it will be a CAM and another CB/RB. Who I am unsure, but lots of names circulating.
Azza

16.) 15 Aug 2013
Tonny Vihenna and Gregory Wijnaldum are reported targets

17.) 15 Aug 2013
Very good business buy us in the end, that's IF he performs though. If he has an awful season and nobody wants him we're then stuck with him again. Either way i'm glad, we haven't got to pay his wages and we're making 2 million quid for loaning him for a year, I presume he only has 2 years left on his contract, might even only be 18 months so even if we do get stuck with him next season the loan fee will cover his wages until his contract runs out. Reckon he can get goals there and I wish him all the best, he's the only member of the bomb squad that couldn't really help being casted out and did still make an effort when played to some extent (baggies and wigan particularly)! Regarding signings, I hope we do get somebody else in, maybe 2 more but i'm growing less and less confident that it will happen if i'm honest!

18.) 16 Aug 2013
Brightest idea for us would have been a full wage loan until January, and then ig he is doing well he is for sale, 6m could turn into 9m if he bags 8-10 goals in that loan period.

19.) 16 Aug 2013
Gregory wijnaldum? think u mean either georginio or his younger, less well-known brother giuliano?

20.) 17 Aug 2013
Do you not think the money due from downing would already have been accounted for, bearing in mind the timing of payments would have be laid out in the original sale agreement. Doubt therefore that the sale to
WHU makes any difference to our budget {Ed007's Note - If a player is sold on all monies owed on his original fee must be paid in full.}

21.) 17 Aug 2013
Last I heard, Kop owed us £7m more from the £20m so they must have paid it off, surely which inflates Lambo's kitty.