Sevco’s Transfer Activity Shows They Are Desperate For Cheap Deals Funded By Sales
Carlos Pena might look like a favour to Sevco, but in fact it’s simply part of Pedro Caixinha’s revenge. He has captured a Mexican international for no fee and minimal wages.
I don’t think he can get anything out of the player, but Sevco certainly won’t and the costs of that particular deal just mount up and up.
The majority of the transfer fee is yet to be paid for a start … so the club is still shovelling money at his former club although they now acknowledge that the player will not accomplish anything at Ibrox.
Today the Cruz Azul sporting director has slammed media reports here that suggested they were paying the full wages for the player. Those reports were transparent nonsense; such a deal was never in the offing.
This signing will be leeching them for years.
The same applies to their other summer signings, not one of whom is generating interest anywhere in spite of Sevco offering them everywhere.
They badly need these guys off the wage bill and nobody is biting.
Herrera and Pena will cost the club the better part of £8 million before the terms of their contracts are complete; neither will justify a fraction of that.
Attempts to get a transfer tug of war going over the hapless Josh Windass have ended in failure; the numbers involved are paltry.
Sevco would accept, gladly, an offer in the region of £600,000.
They are highly unlikely to get it.
Media reports of interest from Sunderland, Preston, Hull and other clubs have come to exactly nothing. Talk on the Sevco sites of them “holding out” for a fee in the millions are among the most ridiculous ever published.
The same applies to James Tavernier who they would let go in two seconds if a club showed the slightest interest; he signed a contract extension in 2016 but it expires next year.
They want him off the wage bill quickly before he gets to the point where he can talk to other clubs; they know his value – which was never high to begin with – reduces every day. They are desperate to sell him whilst they can. They would accept £500,000. They will not get it.
Part of the problem is that clubs know they are skint and desperate. Word about the Murphy deal has gone round the other clubs. Brighton themselves were momentarily interested in Windass; how does Sevco expect to get a decent fee for him, from them, now the club knows they are running on fumes?
Any half decent offer they might have had for a player would have halved the moment that farce ended in a loan deal on the shadiest terms imaginable. Sevco has no credibility south of the border. Clubs know they are doing business with a board desperate for every penny.
Forget “holding out.” They are simply unable to.
Even if their players were worth the ludicrous elevated sums their websites seem to believe there is zero chance of them getting anything close to their value … it’s a bust.
Part of the “business plan” involves buying players and selling them at a profit … yet in this window they’ve seen young Lewis Morgan sign for Celtic and Jamie Walker sign for Wigan, two players of enormous potential just starting out in their careers.
They’ve “secured” a loan move for a 28 year old who in the summer will cost them three times what those other two would have; indeed for the Murphy fee they could have had both, comfortably.
They were unable to afford the £300,000 that would have got either.
A club that does business like this is heading for the rocks.