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There was some weird stuff last summer, when the Lyon chairman tried to use twitter to force Gomis out of the club (not necessarily any reflection on Gomis's playing abilities):
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'The Bafétimbi Gomis saga is indicative of the club's predicament. The striker has been good for Lyon, hitting double figures in each of the past seven seasons, but the chairman Jean-Michel Aulas now wants him to leave because his salary of around £3m is a liability that Lyon can no longer afford, especially if they are to keep hold of the Argentina forward Lisandro López, as they are eager to do.
Not only are Lyon facing the same drop in television income and rise in taxes as all Ligue 1 clubs (except, of course, the financially enhanced Monaco), but construction of their new 58,000-capacity home is scheduled to begin later this summer after several delays. Given the need to belt-tighten, Aulas has been trying since last year to shift senior players who were given bumper contracts when the going was good and he succeeded with Kim Kallstrom, Anthony Réveillère and Aly Cissokho, as well as reluctantly accepting Tottenham's bid for Hugo Lloris, but striker Jimmy Briand rejected a move to Besiktas in January and now Gomis has become the focal point of Aulas's anxiety, which is becoming embarrassingly public.
Gomis's insistence on serving the remaining year of his contract unless something better comes along (apparently that does not include a move to Hull City) has led the chairman to regularly use Twitter to denounce him. The closer the transfer window draws, the louder the frustrated OL overlord calls for Gomis to go, especially with Schalke deciding against keeping another of the club's high-earners, Michel Bastos, after a year-long loan in the Bundesliga. Not even Aulas is expecting anyone to relieve him of the club's highest-paid player of all, the lingering flop that is Yoann Gourcuff.
Selling the centre-back Dejan Lovren to Southampton for a reported £6.8m seems a canny bit of business given the Croatian's disappointing displays last season but clearly it is not enough and the campaign to drive away Gomis seems to have led Aulas to try to turn supporters against the popular player. He has claimed Gomis's selfishness has forced the club to forego one of its top summer targets, the Sochaux defender Sébastien Corchia, and sell one of its hottest prospects, the exciting 17-year-old forward Anthony Martial, who was snapped up by Monaco. Instead of Corchia, Lyon made the underwhelming signing of Miguel Lopes on loan from Porto. Their only other recruit so far has been the 31-year-old midfielder Gaël Danic from Valenciennes.'
Surly if you get him instead of all those clubs that are in for him, you are gonna either be paying a high transfer fee or high wages. having said that, any striker who is worth perusing is most likely gonna have others interested in him and so at some point you will have to pay top some money out regardless of who you sign. If i was paying 10 million quid i would much rather go and get both McCormack and Rhodes who have over 200 goals between them since 2009
You guys just haven't learnt any lessons from last time... Shit £70k a week on a player who has no proven experience in the Premier League. ( I do think he can step up mind so not knocking his potential) But why not try to bring players in that want to play for YOUR club, buy into your future plans and not just on increasing their already massive bank accounts... I'm glad that figure is way out of our pay structure, as this guy is yet another example of the greedy pro footballer...
You guys just haven't learnt any lessons from last time... Shit £70k a week on a player who has no proven experience in the Premier League. ( I do think he can step up mind so not knocking his potential) But why not try to bring players in that want to play for YOUR club, buy into your future plans and not just on increasing their already massive bank accounts... I'm glad that figure is way out of our pay structure, as this guy is yet another example of the greedy pro footballer...
We have not signed him and I doubt we will. We are going to be linked with every cnt that has an agent, unfortunately for us even when the players/wages discussed have no truth attached to them it still compunds our 'image' of a big spending load of tw@ts.
Let's see what we ACTUALLY do before people start talking about us making the same mistakes.
We have not signed him and I doubt we will. We are going to be linked with every cnt that has an agent, unfortunately for us even when the players/wages discussed have no truth attached to them it still compunds our 'image' of a big spending load of tw@ts.
Let's see what we ACTUALLY do before people start talking about us making the same mistakes.
Which is not to say that we do not appreciate the attempts of Swansea fans to warn us about such greedy fellows. Now where did I put my friendship scarf?
Its all well and good saying, lets bring in championship strikers on low wages, but someone like Jordan Rhodes will cost at least 5 million and then be on 40k a week. That would put his total cost at 7 million for this first year.
Gomis would be 3,600,000 on 70k a week because he would have no transfer cost. So ask yourself would it not in fact be silly to bring in Jordan Rhodes, when he also has NO premier league experience either.
And for the bloke who says we should bring in premiership strikers! who does he mean? Darren Bent? It easy to say that we should go buy premiership strikers, but who is there to buy, and any big names that are available will want just as much as this Frenchy.
Also worth noting, that our last French acquisition didnt go too badly and we will have made a 4 million pound profit if he goes off to Arsenal or the Spuds for 10mill. Plus that Swansea bloke cant really talk seeing as they brought Michu and Boney who also had NO experience.
Why the hell do Swansea need Gomis when they have Bony?
Greedy cnts!
Because if they play together well enough the club can grow and Bony may not leave so soon, and if Bony does go they have a replacement ready so they don't have to go shopping with everyone knowing what they need, how badly they need it, and how much they have available to spend to get it.
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Gomis from Lyon? on 14:07 - Jun 29 with 4316 views
Didn't look good against us last week. Not quite sure what's happened to him as I thought he was a good player for Lyon. It will be interesting to see if he comes good while Bony is away or is shipped out quicker than you can say 'Michu'.
Didn't look good against us last week. Not quite sure what's happened to him as I thought he was a good player for Lyon. It will be interesting to see if he comes good while Bony is away or is shipped out quicker than you can say 'Michu'.
He wants away from Swansea now according to this...
Its all well and good saying, lets bring in championship strikers on low wages, but someone like Jordan Rhodes will cost at least 5 million and then be on 40k a week. That would put his total cost at 7 million for this first year.
Gomis would be 3,600,000 on 70k a week because he would have no transfer cost. So ask yourself would it not in fact be silly to bring in Jordan Rhodes, when he also has NO premier league experience either.
And for the bloke who says we should bring in premiership strikers! who does he mean? Darren Bent? It easy to say that we should go buy premiership strikers, but who is there to buy, and any big names that are available will want just as much as this Frenchy.
Also worth noting, that our last French acquisition didnt go too badly and we will have made a 4 million pound profit if he goes off to Arsenal or the Spuds for 10mill. Plus that Swansea bloke cant really talk seeing as they brought Michu and Boney who also had NO experience.
What's premier oeague experience got to do with anything? What does that guarantee? Hoilett, rio, zamora, park, bosingwa, SWP, anton etc etc all had the fabled 'premier league experience'. Austin had none. Neither did Costa. Or Torres. Or hundreds of other successful imports.
What's premier oeague experience got to do with anything? What does that guarantee? Hoilett, rio, zamora, park, bosingwa, SWP, anton etc etc all had the fabled 'premier league experience'. Austin had none. Neither did Costa. Or Torres. Or hundreds of other successful imports.
Remember most pundits agreeing Charlie Austin had no hope without "Premier League experience", too.
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