We had 2 options let him go and pay him his wages in full thus being a big hit on FFP or pay him over 2 years and take the hit on FFP over 2 years. I love what our board has become of late.
Why would you travel to Milan and have a medical, to then say nahhhhh? I reckon we've either come to some sort of agreement or he has dropped it and decided to go. Time will tell.
Us and Milan don't agree a severance deal. It has nothing to do with that deal. The severance is between us and Torres. If he's having a medical, everything with Milan has been agreed.
Stop double posting I get the point with 1 message I'm not....yet. When he retires he will earn a fraction of what he does now, footballers retire in their 30's thats a long time to go without huge wages. He's securing his future after football.
That's the way we see it, but the way he'll see it is he doesn't have to leave. If he leaves he's losing out on all this money. If he stays he gets all this money. Unfortunately he's in the driving seat there.
He still has 2 years left on his contract. He won't earn as much at AC Milan, so he want's a payment from us to cover the loss he will be making. If we don't pay he just sits here for 2 years and collects the money anyway. Win/win for him.
Only? For a 32 year old turning 33 in November. That's a lot of money, he'd no doubt be on £100k+ a week. Tiago would've been free and low wages. The deals aren't even comparable.