¿Refused payrise?
Athletic accepted his offer... he DELAYED the SIGNING of the contract not the negotiation. He said several times that he was staying and that he'll signed soon. That shit lasted months...
The problem was when he asked money for his brother and manager. ¿can you imagine? He wanted his manager to ger 4 mil. euros for renewing his contract
that's crazy
He delayed that, two years ?
It seems to me you can see the difference between a buy-out clause and a price tag. I won't be taking transfer lessons from you, man.
The player IS NOT FOR SALE. You wanna go out you bring the money form your bouy-out clause. Period. That buy out clause is not a price is a deterrent. You should know the different.
Man i dont give two shits about how you think it should work. The market dictates how it does.
buyout clause. The selling team can hold out to the buyout clause, if they dont want to sell, the buyer can decide if its worth it or not. As long as the contract is longer as a year, this makes sense.
However, it is generally known, that you MUST renew the contract before he is in his last year, because no club will pay the full buyout. No one, unless its a bidding war.
Usually clubs will offer you some kind of fee, and the seller determines wether its good enough or not, but in the end they allways accept something, because its better then losing out on a player for free.
Juve put a good offer, Bilbao refused, telling that they wanted to get the buyout. Wel, the rest is history. The incompetence of the board led to your star leaving for free in june, instead of a year earlyer for a good price
I expected a profesional player hungry for playing and showing the world how mentally strong he is and how valuable for any team in the world he could be. I get a hybrid between a whiny bitch and a spoiled brat that loses his place in the pitch to a 31 year old striker.
He's a human, not a machine. Tell me one player that is constandly whistled and booed of the field by his own fans, in his last year, wanting to leave, that played well. you wont find one.
Athletic has 115 years of history man. In the most ferocius leage there is; where money has ran rampant. lots of "big" teams have come and go... We know our business... belive me... ask the germans.
Exactly, you are stuck in the past
good luck with the guy.... but I bet you won't be having as much patience as he had with a guy that needs something between 15 and 20 shots to score one goal.... I'm quite happy with Aduriz right now...
and if you think a 4 years 5 milion contract is "free"....
you'll have a hard time finding trying to get rid of him with that wages...
Our coach is competent and knows what he wants. We also know Llorente's main attribute isnt scoring, but with the much better feed he'll be getting here, its not really an issue