Plymouth – The unfortunate victims of the Dan Gosling saga.
Posted on July 24th, 2010 | 96 Comments |
It represents a good deal for Newcastle as we have managed to acquire a player that is worth around £4 million currently, and even if he doesn’t improve we can sell him and still make a bit of cash. It’s a ‘win win’ for Newcastle.
Gosling began his career at Plymouth Argyle and was poached from them by Everton who continued to build on what he had learnt at Home Park. Now Gosling can try to improve further with us, but what about the clubs he has left behind, particularly the one where it all began, what benefit will they get now we have signed him?
Well as it stands currently, none. Plymouth would have been due a quarter of any fee recieved by Everton for the player, but as the fee has been set at £0 by a tribunal it unfortunately means that Plymouth will be missing out on a cash widfall that could have helped them out no end.
Everton were after a reported £4 million compensation fee, so if you do the maths, that is £1 million that could have gone to The Pilgrims to help them attempt to get back into The Championship.
That is the way the cookie crumbles though unfortunately, although it does seem very harsh on a club that is now my official second favourite team. I’m sure most of you will know why they are my second favourite team, but just in case you don’t it’s basically down to the superb hospitality they put on for us when we sealed the title at Home Park towards the back end of last season.
I am pretty sure that fans at Home Park wouldn’t have wanted to hear “We are the champions” belting out of the PA system shortly after seeing their team relegated, but they went along with it regardless. They were probably quite angry about it aswell, but they didn’t cause a scene. That is why they are now my second favourite team.
Perhaps that is also part of the reason why I would like to see Newcastle do something for them. They are in League 1 now and will be trying desperately to gain promotion at the first time of asking. Surely we have some youngsters who could go there on loan and help them to do just that? How about a friendly between the two sides, with all the money to be kept by Plymouth? Just something to say ‘thank-you’ to them.
I know it will never happen though, football isn’t like that, which is a shame for the clubs who are lower down the football pyramid. Forget about Everton, they cocked up so they should pay the price by losing out. The thing is though, their cock up has also cost another club a source of income, a source that would go down rather well in Devon right about now.
That is the harsh part of the deal.
P.S. I’m thinking of starting up a free to play fantasy football type league if anyone is interested?
“P.S. I’m thinking of starting up a free to play fantasy football type league if anyone is interested?”
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