"The Norwegian Wonderkid"- The Official Welcome Martin Ødegaard Thread

His salary will be an issue in the future when you decide to offload him.

 

Only type of midfielders we should worry about at this point in time are box to box or DMs, we have no need for Eriksen with Odegaard right around the corner.

 

What stands out about Eriksen to me is that despite no physical superhuman-ness or ability to anchor the game with steel, he has that mercurial brilliance and doesn't hesitate to turn a touch into an opportunity or take a shot from outside the box. Given James' injury record and Isco's general blah-ness, I don't see why not if for free.

 

That is the objective reality we have to face these days in the football transfer market - however, being transfer-fee-free is still a win relative compared to the alternatives and price gouging that other clubs have been pulling on us since the 1990's.

Having said that, this doesn't take away from the fact that I would still believe getting Eriksen is a net-win. What's to lose? I'd rather have something than nothing, and live on these false dawn's of players returning from injury as "new transfer's". That's just bullshit spin and hasn't done any good for us, ie. James coming back and then getting re-injured.

This is the Odegaard thread, now that I've realized too late, but I don't think that takes away from my firm position that we need someone in the winter as well as the coming summer. The existing team needs to be gradually phased out regardless. Sorry if I sound like a dick here but, I don't think waiting a year and a half

 

Signing bonuses and agent fees apply also for no-fee transfers. True, free transfers may ask higher fees, but that is just semantics.

 

Ok, maybe wrong choice of word. What I meant is that agent fees can be high even for non free transfers, think Riaola.

When we talk about transfers, we often discard agent fees from cost, but we now look at them for a free transfer.

High salary and how he fits in the squad given roster we have are valid reasons, but agent fees shouldn't be, hence, semantics

 

In this market, Eriksen would cost 100m if he had 2 years left in his contract. If we decided we needed and bought him, that would be 20m cost per year in a 5 year contract. And that is not counting agent and other fees

If we get him for free, it is gonna cost us what, max 20m total in fees and maybe 2-3 m extra per year on salaries?

I am not advocating we get him, because I am not sure what that will mean for odegard and Fede, but to say that we should not get him because he will come with high agent fees is wrong.

 

If we're letting go of Modric, James and Isco in the summer, then I think picking up Eriksen would be a good move for us. With MO coming back and hopefully a new CDM, we should be set in midfield.

 

No, we do need good back ups for Casemiro, Valverde and Kroos, but we lack creativity and goals from midfield. I’d say we would be much better with Ødegaard with us sooner.

 

My issue is what do you do with Eriksen when you bring Ødegaard back next season?

 

I'm not sure. It would be hard to pass up on Eriksen for free. We could think of Modric leaving next season and having midfield options of: Kroos, Casemiro, Valverde, Eriksen, Odegaard - which looks like a fantastic range of options. Balancing minutes would be tricky though. Plus we still need a back up for Casemiro.

 

You being in Eriksen, you're better off keeping Odegaard on loan.

I think it sends the wrong message. Selling Modric and bringing in Eriksen screams no faith in Odegaard. Especially since to be honest Modric isnt a starter anymore.

 

How so? Odegaard won't be starting immediately if he comes here next season and Eriksen will drastically increase our offensive output while being a world class CM too.

 

Casemiro, DM / CDM, Kroos, Eriksen, Valverde, Odegaard.

Sounds great to me.

 

On paper. When the minutes get distributed and Odegaard isn't playing enough or Eriksen isnt playing enough the problems start. I think you have to choose one or the other. Then you can bring in someone else once Kroos is out of the starting line up or retires.

 

James is a lot better than Eriksen.

 

Some things you read in here...

James is joke and spoiled brat.

 

I agree with your first statement. Your second is the proof.

 

Per your rhetoric, you can always expect problems considering in any case you will have 6 midfielders in the squad, all quality considering we are talking about Real Madrid.

Or do you suggest we pack the squad with 3 top tier quality players, while the other 3 are back-ups content with sitting on RM bench?

 

And you have a picture of Granero up there. Your view of James must be as outdated.