1 hour ago, Gordon Bennett said:

Al-Ittihad have made a huge offer to Kepa apparently. He's not accepted yet as wants clarification on whether he has a future at Madrid, since Lunin is also in the last year of his contract.

Fingers crossed we get rid! 

I admire his delusion if he thinks he has a chance at Madrid.

Kepa isnt as bad as some make out. I dont think he has ever looked worth the money, and I think the price tag has messed him up - the pressure of it etc. But he is not awful. Just another mid-tier goalkeeper, who is a capable shot-stopper, a bit rubbish on crosses, ok with feet, and suspect at long shots.

I wonder how much of the mind boggling offer from Saudi is transfer fee? I assume not very much.

We need more than £10.2mill in transfer fee to book a FFP profit for him. 

21 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

Kepa isnt as bad as some make out. I dont think he has ever looked worth the money, and I think the price tag has messed him up - the pressure of it etc. But he is not awful. Just another mid-tier goalkeeper, who is a capable shot-stopper, a bit rubbish on crosses, ok with feet, and suspect at long shots.

I wonder how much of the mind boggling offer from Saudi is transfer fee? I assume not very much.

We need more than £10.2mill in transfer fee to book a FFP profit for him. 

I'd take a loss to get him gone. I'd honestly rather have Robert Sanchez starting over him and he's ass too.

23 hours ago, Nick05 said:

I admire his delusion if he thinks he has a chance at Madrid.

I guess he's hoping to get a chance to be back up if Lunin departs.

35 minutes ago, Gordon Bennett said:

I guess he's hoping to get a chance to be back up if Lunin departs.

I think that Real Madrid were looking at Diogo Costa so there's little hope they keep Kepa.

46 minutes ago, RMH said:

I think that Real Madrid were looking at Diogo Costa so there's little hope they keep Kepa.

Doubt Diogo Costa moves somewhere as a backup? There's the small matter of a fit-again "Snake" Courtois at Madrid.

1 hour ago, Gordon Bennett said:

Doubt Diogo Costa moves somewhere as a backup? There's the small matter of a fit-again "Snake" Courtois at Madrid.

According to the Portuguese and Spanish media, Jorge Mendes, who represents Costa, will present the name of the goal keeper to Real Madrid. Money talks, I guess, although this is probably just speculation.

1 hour ago, RMH said:

According to the Portuguese and Spanish media, Jorge Mendes, who represents Costa, will present the name of the goal keeper to Real Madrid. Money talks, I guess, although this is probably just speculation.

Just can't see Madrid paying £75m for a reserve keeper or Costa being happy as a reserve. Also can't see Courtois going anywhere - none of it makes sense.

1 hour ago, Gordon Bennett said:

Just can't see Madrid paying £75m for a reserve keeper or Costa being happy as a reserve. Also can't see Courtois going anywhere - none of it makes sense.

It was reported that the price at which he’d be offered to Madrid was much lower than the rescission clause. It’s all media talk, so it’s probably not true.

[Googling rescission clause]

25 minutes ago, Valerie said:

[Googling rescission clause]

If we do that though don't we effectively lose his remaining book value of ~£10m? Giving it's the Saudi's sniffing around I'd imagine such a paltry sum wouldn't deter them.

 

Wahay

Err, actually hang on a minute

 

 

Why the hell would we extend?? He'll never play for us again and no one in their right mind will pay any sort of transfer fee when they know we'll be desperate to ship him off on loan. Just let his contract run out and let's close this chapter.

1 minute ago, yaz said:

Why the hell would we extend?? He'll never play for us again and no one in their right mind will pay any sort of transfer fee when they know we'll be desperate to ship him off on loan. Just let his contract run out and let's close this chapter.

Precisely, surely Bournmouth can just start a new contract with him when his current one expires.

4 minutes ago, yaz said:

Why the hell would we extend?? He'll never play for us again and no one in their right mind will pay any sort of transfer fee when they know we'll be desperate to ship him off on loan. Just let his contract run out and let's close this chapter.

I would assume that we want this loan to be a buy obligation, so having him extend 1 more year will grant that vs having him leave on a free in 2025. 

Assume the contract extension will include a decrease in salary like with Lukaku?

Speak of the devil, has he gone yet as well?

44 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Assume the contract extension will include a decrease in salary like with Lukaku?

Speak of the devil, has he gone yet as well?

When did Lukaku decrease his salary?

1 minute ago, ducavis said:

When did Lukaku decrease his salary?

To facilitate the move to Roma.

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I would assume that we want this loan to be a buy obligation, so having him extend 1 more year will grant that vs having him leave on a free in 2025. 

Doesn’t make sense for Bournemouth to agree to that, and Kepa is holding all the cards here so makes zero sense to extend. He can sit around and pick up £150k/w till next summer and go sign as a free agent. 

3 minutes ago, dermott said:

To facilitate the move to Roma.

OK. And I assume that is for the period he is/was on loan at Roma

Just now, ducavis said:

OK. And I assume that is for the period he is/was on loan at Roma

It was a permanent reduction. £5m a season.

9 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Doesn’t make sense for Bournemouth to agree to that, and Kepa is holding all the cards here so makes zero sense to extend. He can sit around and pick up £150k/w till next summer and go sign as a free agent. 

Then there may be some technicalities with regards to loaning players with 1 year remaining. 

I think we are trying to do the same thing we did with Ziyech. 

Edited August 23, 20241 yr by Sconnie Blue

Athletic Football Club. . . maybe he thinks he will be staying in Madrid? Little does he know, he is being cherry picked for Bournemouth.

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Then there may be some technicalities with regards to loaning players with 1 year remaining. 

I think we are trying to do the same thing we did with Ziyech. 

You're right, it was doing my head in so I looked it up. You can't loan a player in the final year of his contract without extending him first. So that explains the extension. Probably not a good move, since Bournemouth can ship him back next season and we're back to square one.