If he stay and become our bench warmer for 1 year with these kind of damage to the club, I wonder what club will give him top salary next season
He will probably end up getting 4-5m per season net top. Probably club wont even give him high sign on fee either. If he can count and 12m(his current salary) + 4m x5 years +10m sign on fee = 42m for 6 years basically 7m per season. The difference he will receive 26m for 2 years and these money is the most important in his mind
But I think 7m per season for him, we should try to extend him on 7m per year net and get Randy for the same amount of salary, we basically put them to compete and I am sure we can give 3000 minutes each between them with all the competition, even between David too
To make it more enticing for him we can offer 3m sign on fee + 2m bonus for the first year if we qualify for UCL next season. So basically he still receive 12m in total for this season (7m net + 3m sign on fee + 2m bonus as performance bonus) in total package
If we extend him for 5 years (he is still 25 yo), we will reduce his current expense for total 42m in 1 year to become 26m for his first year( salary,bonus, sign on fee + amortization)
And this discrepancy we can use to get Kolo Muani if we freed some space with like Milik/ and Nico sale. With this in mind, we can give more playing time and responsibility to either Adzic even Miretti as AMC behind the striker. Nico will be a waste of playing time and space thus take minutes from both of them, so selling him and getting what we invest back should be our first target
The focus should be to regain his form, and to revive him, we should him as subs but give him at least 25-30 minutes per match. Lower his defense/pressing duty and use him as target striker with all support should be behind him for him to hit those opponent with tired leg. Play as a sniper goals will suit him better and give us variation especially against mid low club
This way instead we will still see him as an asset, so eventough he only get around 15 goals this season, we can sell him easily for around 20-25m and still on green in our financial report next year.
The only thing that can ruin this is, I think Vlahovic is eyeing these short term gain, even with my scenario he will gather 12m from us and 10m sign on fee + 4m salary. So total around 26m in these 2 years. And with these kind of money, 4m per year still adequate for him, or he can even just go to Saudi for his last paycheck before he reitre young (28-30), son of a bitch
It is about to find a middle ground that put us and him in both win win solution, I think should be the target of Comolli
But I hope to remove the headache, we can sell him for 20m without even paid a penny for his salary and he accept the move
I think in EPL club he still can get around 8m/year with some bonus to compensate.