He was of that period when a lot of African players moved across to European clubs when their ages had been falsified
I’ve always had my doubts but I can be a bit of the non trusting cynical side of opinion
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I’ve always had my doubts but I can be a bit of the non trusting cynical side of opinion
With respect cancelling his contract means he will be compensated handsomely.
It will be a mutually agreed arrangement.
Theres no way he will take a pay cut. If we are cancelling his contract it means hes making a mockery of training. ie hes so bad now, its causing a distraction to the others. Bearing in mind he was going to go to Angers its no suprise. Thats a lower level champsionship club
Yup but cancelling his contract means that he's entitled to be paid in full his wages for the remainder of his contract - 18 months. Its thought he's on about £65k pw so 18 months of wages gives him £5m.
There would be negotiation around that between Spurs and Wanyama's people, so that's the upper amount.
But its certainly going to be a big settlement, probably with him signing on at another club on a lower wage, but in aggregate the compensation from Spurs plus the wages from the new club will probably exceed the £5m, but paid over a couple of years.
So he's going to be even better off than before -and remember he's been on the £65k (£3m pa) wage for about 3 years at Spurs,,,,,,,not to mention reasonable salaries at Southampton and Celtic before that, so he may well end up making £10m or so from his football career.
So sorry he may have to give up a job he enjoys earlier than he planned - but he'll have made more money than most people will see in their lifetimes......so am I feeling that sorry for him ?
Issues around keeping him is that if we need to register him it cuts down the number of overseas trained players we can have in our squad - and we always struggle to keep within that limit
So if he stays to coach (if he can do and these days you often need coaching badges) he'll be a coach paid more than anyone else other than coaching stars like Mourhino, Klopp et al.
I think there will e talks around terminating his contracts - making the point that he's had some decent offers (eg Club Bruges last summer) but declined to take them.
But terminating a contract without paying out all remaining wages requires co-operation from Wanyama and his advisors - but the fact they screwed up the Bruges offer is not a good omen.
Not EVERY African player is gonna be Obafemi 'Old Man' Martens y'know!
Nah he’s on his pension. Shame
Of course like I say I can be unhealthily cynical at times
I am clearly very sad that it went like this with big Vic.
And I would be estatic having prime-Wanyama in our team now!!
But he was never "close to perfect DM". With all the respect - he wasn't even in his prime close to quality of Kante in Leicester title season nor his 1st in Chelsea (for me, the latest example of perfect DM). He did everything that Wanyama did, but he was faster and more dynamic + better passing range.
Though I can totally agree that he was the best DM we have had in long-long time. Though Scotty, after arriving, was close to him in terms of quality.
Hope we manage to find solution regarding him. No real point of keeping him on books "just because". I see little problem with him trying to play somewhere in weaker league. If it does not work, id does not work. But the guy loves football, so I am cheering for him to make it somewhere.
Thanks for good memories and lot of spaghetti to you, big Vic!
The talk of canceling contracts is media BS.
"Regularly?" ....Never seen that levelled at him before.
There’s a lot out there about Vic and his age or Kenyans ‘age cheating ‘. I mean he represented the national team at 15 !! If pushed ... I’d doubt heavily Wanyama is 28
2 things:
For that peak season he was top draw. You're wrong.
If he loves football like you suggest; he'd have left by now having obviously been told he has no future here.
Again, seen nothing speculated since he's been here.
You said before
How much has continued since he’s been here I can’t say .... It’s not like I’m investigating the issue
I am talking of my opinion on what I’ve read and inferred from prior information that’s out there
I meant before your comment above.
You said of Vic it was regularly spoken of....
When?
It's not "opinion" to be saying something actually happens.
What "information" regarding Vic are you alluding to?
Well airfixx in this age of digital information at the ends of ones fingertips .... just type it in
voila you’ll have your answer
I hope you’re not seriously asking me to list and link anything I may have read over the past few years
you’re perfectly capable
voila you’ll have your answer
I hope you’re not seriously asking me to list and link anything I may have read over the past few years
you’re perfectly capable