Zouma

[Palmeras]

Zouma going to stoke

[goodlordmurphy]

Not a bad thing.

[WBA53]

I told you that in my thread,

[soulman101]

Chelsea want £7 to £8m loan fee.Waste of money put towards buying a player.

[goodlordmurphy]

Chelsea want £7 to £8m loan fee.Waste of money put towards buying a player.

Totally agree.

Scandalous...paying to improve someone other team's player...no way.

[Albionic68]

Chelsea are making a very successful cottage industry out of their youth department.

One which handsomely 'rewards' it's employees/stock before moving them/it on.

If they stay and play while boosting the 'homegrown' quota then great.

When they leave and play elsewhere there's always another academy to raid and refill their pool of talent.

They are essentially acting as landlords.

Instead of renting out property before selling on when the market's right, they're renting out talent of varying degrees and cashing in on said talent's hopes and dreams when it suits them.

Great business model or morally corrupt?

Depends which side of the fence you happen to be standing.

Liverpool and to a lesser extent Manchester City have cottoned on and are following suit.

My only real surprise is that it took them all so long to exploit the 'system' to their collective advantage.

[Q165]

it is a scam and something that ought to be controlled in some way.

[SCOOP115]

Playing Devils advocate, but arn't we i doing the same thing to a lesser extent? Just heard on SSN that Zouma will go to Shtoke because they will pay all his wages

[baggiematt]

it is a scam and something that ought to be controlled in some way.

I don't see the problem with it. Essentially it's just a 1 year contract of a player. If you paid £20 million for him and £5 million a year in wages then over a 3 year deal you have paid £35 million for the bloke. Chelsea will want about £7 million which is the equivalent of 1 years fee plus wages. With buying him you hold the risk that he does his cruciate again and you are paying for nothing and his value drops dramatically. At least with a years loan, Chelsea are taking the risk that if his cruciate goes again then he's their player and they have lost the chance to sell him for £20-30 million and they have to continue paying his wages.

It suits clubs like albion/stoke as we can't afford to take huge calculated risks like paying 80k a week for 3-4 years and a £20 million transfer fee when the player is known to be suspect to injuries. It suits Chelsea as he can continue his development and they get the fee for the year.

I don't understand what the issue is?