Experienced player to add to the squad in Carra's absence.
Not sure why some of you are so worried about his wages as FSG have proved they will not pay more than they think a player is worth and that fits into their structure.
Not so much worried as intrigued mate. My belief is that FSG will use Carra's retirement as another cost cutting exercise with:
Carra £100k+ gone
Skrtel £70k (guess) replaced with Papa for around the same
Coates sold £40k (guess) replaced with Kolo £60k / £70k reported
Therefore we're approximately £70k a week better off (now ignore my assumptions, they're not going to be so vastly wrong to change the point). When will we actually benefit from these savings? At the moment it feels a bit too much like a company setting itself up for a sale and I'm not comfortable with it.
The phrase pay peanuts and you get monkeys, while crude, does have some basis in foundation and we're continually cutting and only Luis seems to have been rewarded.
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