[Link] Victor Wanyama

He away yet?

Thank * if he is.

 

Think he is a cracking player but no where near the finished article - still looks very immature at points. He probably is worth £12.5 million at the moment (maybe not in EPL land but definitely in the wider footballing landscape). For me, I believe he is replaceable, its not as if we are finding a new Messi or Ronaldo. Don't get me wrong it will be hard, however he is replaceable.

As many have said, the guy probably grew up in poverty stricken, squalor conditions. Nearly every African player we know, attempts to make as much money as possible, do you think these guys give a * if they are labelled 'mercenaries'? They may be, however they have to be, they have experienced poverty we will never know and obviously want to provide not just for them or even for just their partner and kids - they want to provide for every family member - extended and all!

Not to mention, a footballers career is limited - he could get injured at any point and have to retire, therefore guys like Wanyama want to earn as much as possible as soon as possible. He obviously doesn't have formal education and what would his chances be of being allowed to stay in the U.K. once he retires? Fact is, he needs to earn millions to secure his future and sustain the life that he has become accustomed to.

And....we all know how big a club like Celtic is, however Wanyama and the like won't, fact is, these guys probably only ever hear of Man United, Barca and Real, where they are from!

We are nothing more than a reference on his footballing C.V.

 

Shame he's gone but £12 million is very good business.

 

Southampton close to £12.5m deal for Celtic's Victor Wanyama

• Transfer will set a new Scottish record
• Midfielder likely to be unveiled on Friday





Southampton are putting the finishing touches to their £12.5m capture of Victor Wanyama from Celtic, which will represent a record transfer fee received by a Scottish club.
Wanyama, whom Celtic bought for £900,000 from the Belgian side Beerschot two years ago, had initially rebuffed the chance to move to St Mary's but speculated approaches from other Premier League sides never materialised.
Cardiff City were the only other club to lodge a bid for the Kenyan midfielder, which was rejected. Southampton plan to parade Wanyama as their latest capture on Friday after the player said his Celtic goodbyes on Thursday.
Wanyama had been removed from the Celtic squad for Tuesday night's 6-2 friendly loss to Greuther Fruth in Germany as he agreed the details of his long-term contract. The 22-year-old was one of Celtic's star performers as they reached the knockout phase of the Champions League last season but it was clear as soon as the campaign ended that Wanyama would move on.
Celtic could yet lose another of their most valuable playing assets, with Norwich City retaining a keen interest in the goalkeeper Fraser Forster. Should John Ruddy exit Norwich for Chelsea, Forster will feature prominently in the list of candidates to replace him.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jul/10/victory-wanyama-southampton-transfer-celtic

 

Thats a 1388% increase in valuation, which is a 1200% (or round about) profit for Celtic :icon_mrgreen::icon_mrgreen::icon_mrgreen:

Celtic are the real winner$ here. :smiley-laughing002:

 

Agree with this 1888% :icon_mrgreen::icon_mrgreen::icon_mrgreen:

 

:smiley-laughing002::smiley-laughing002: People need to see the bigger picture.

We have lost better players and moved on. Jesus, we recovered from losing Henrik, im sure we will survive without big Vic.

 

We will be laughing it all the way for years to come if we also invest this money wisely in some top signings to replace big vic and maybe hooper.

One would hope investment will take us to the group stage of the CL where we will get even more money. We can't lose wanyama and then think we have enough as it is.

 

Much of the 12-5 million will Celtic get ?

 

Agree, I really hope we can use at least £4 million of it and invest it into the team. I know we have spent round about that already, however if we spend that bit more, we are set up well. If we are smart, we only need to spend £10 million every couple of years anyway (sounds mental when English clubs spend this on diddy players) in order to set up a good team.

As long as we are smart with our signings....

 

Everyone is a winner here really, apart from maybe us fans, but thats yet to be seen.

Celtic get 12.5 million plus a percentage of next sale(hopefully). an £11.6 million profit.

Southampton get a potentially World Class midfielder for a decent price.

Wanyama, although missing out on CL, is stepping up in terms of League and finances.

Us fans? Well, it's yet to be seen whether we are winners from this. If we re-invest the money, then I'd say we're winners. But that's an If.

 

Will be interesting to watch him, see how much he improves playing against better players every week. He rapidly rose above anything he played against for us, in only about his 3rd game he played against Rennes mind and ripped the pish out of M'Vila who's manager had bummed him up to be Essien and Vieira rolled into one or some nonsence comment he made maybe he was talking about big Vic actually.

 

I'm guessing £4/5 million tops.

 

Agree with everyone saying that this is a great piece of business re the buying fee, then selling fee. It's just so annoying that all it will take is 1 clip of him holding off a couple of midfielders of a top-half EPL club on MOTD and he will be getting touted about as £20-£25 mil in no time.

This is just reality. I am often annoyed by reality! :icon_mrgreen:

 

I think he was meaning how much do we get after we give beerschot their cut.

 

beerschot went bust as far as i know, so we get the full whack

 

Annoys me mate, however the EPL is not reality, hence why European clubs never pay over the odds for EPL players because they know the real value of players.

Bet if Wanyama goes on to become a cracking player in England they will say it was down to Southampton and the EPL.

'Oh what a cracking player we have found' - i can hear it already. The arrogance and ignorance is nauseating.

 

good luck to the guy at Southampton always gave his all at Celtic