Loyalty works both ways. For whatever reason Wiji has not signed a contract that has been on the table for a year now. The club is self sustaining we have established that it makes no sense to miss out on a good transfer fee especially in today's current climate. If he signs then great we get an excellent who still has a couple of years at a high level. This aint a player coming to the end of his career, Gini is in his prime and playing at the highest level. It makes zero sense to let him leave on a free, you cant say we have to follow this self sustaining model and then let top players that could fetch a good transfer leave for free. Makes zero sense.
Edit: also what has Gini done that is loyal. He is a player albeit a key one that is fulfilling his contract. The club has every right to sell him if he doesn't sign and Gini has every right to not sign and leave next year. The question was it doesnt fit the ethos of the clubs current model.
So much conjecture that appears to be based off your annoyance that player that's played a very important role for us may well be leaving over the next year.
If he won't extend now down to the club and himself being ways apart in how they both view his financial worth. as appears, at his age (although his reps are claiming they haven't been talking contrary to everything which I find hard to buy. I just think the prospect of Thiago has narked them off as they now have
NO position of strength to demand silly money with him linked every day), what in the World makes you think he'd agree to be sold now and not see his contract out for better financial gain? We can't force him to move
if he doesn't want to. And then you're presuming you'll get any sort of decent fee for him in this market that makes it more viable than what he'd give on the pitch next season to the club. We aren't the only club looking out for our own interests in the transfer market right now in this COVID mad World mate. Most EVERY club is having to. Thiago's a great example. Well arguably the best player in World football in his position, who wants to leave his current club (who are quite happy to let him go), on the market for a ridiculously low fee for a genuine world class superstar player. With
minimal interest right now outside of reportedly ourselves and PSG. Why is he not being courted by every major club out there at such a snip do you think? Exactly. So regardless of how consistently good Ginji has been for us, it's a great leap of faith to think you're going to get a fee you'd deem worth his value in such uncertain financial times.
For me, if he stays this season, whether a Thiago or anyone else is bought in midfield or not, it makes perfect sense as to where we are on this right now on a multitude of fronts. It will probably be way more financially viable, as discussed, to have a player of his calibre you know is going to give everything regardless, as he's far from unhappy here, to a very high level as he's always done, available to us as we seriously go for PL and CL riches again. When you weigh that up against getting, for argument's sake, a reduced £15/20 million now (even £25/30 million would be well under his value in a normal market), then it seems a complete no-brainer to me to let him see it out. It also strengthens the feeling within the changies that the club really does give a **** about you when they'll look out for such a loyal, well-liked player to show him, when you can't agree on an extension, that they'll let him have the opportunity to sort out one last major contract in his career, if that's what this is indeed all about, whilst he gives them a 5th year of everything he has. Knowing he'll play a big part in the upcoming season. Seems a complete win/win out of the situation to me. You've wanted to keep him and offered him an extension. That couldn't be agreed. COVID has thrown a spanner into the whole football World and changed clubs views on spending immeasurably as their finances go down massively. So now you've got a reciprocal situation that suits both parties.
There's a lot to be gained by doing the right thing by such a well-liked member of the changing roommate. It underpins Jürgen's ethis they've all bought into.
I don't get how you think that sends out the wrong message at all or detracts from how the superb way the club is run?
