This messageboard is for Adults 18 years and over.
If you are under this age please leave the board.
Luton Outlaws accepts no responsibility for the content of this messageboard nor any other
content posted on it.
Luton Outlaws disclaims all liability for such content to the fullest extent permitted by law.
What you read on here is 100% conjecture, fiction, lies, bullshit and complete bollocks.
If you want to be taken seriously, you are in the wrong place.
Any potentially libellous comments that might jeopardise the future of this messageboard will therefore be deleted, and the person posting them will receive a
ban.Enjoy.
Aasgaard transfer to be finalised Saturday
Posted by LTFC39 on 5/7/2025, 1:51:03
Shamelessly stolen from ORH on Twitter. If this is true, someone better have a bloody good explanation for it:
UPDATE | @Record_Sport are reporting that Thelo Aasgaard will finalise his move to @RangersFC tomorrow (Saturday), signing a four-year contract.
Aasgaard completed part of his medical in England today, and has since travelled to Glasgow to sign paperwork.
It is also reported that Luton will receive only £3m as the guaranteed fee, with a further £1m possible if certain targets are met.
The Hatters are believed to have paid @LaticsOfficial between £3m-£3.5m for Aasgaard back in January, and so appear to be making no profit and potentially even a loss in allowing Aasgaard to move to Ibrox.
FFD...Although Rangers maybe skint, to make or potentially lose that(before add ons) pretty fucking shit, I'm now struggling with our transfer policy, if if exists, we should be making a good and a really good profit on one of the best players of the last season or so.
Can only assume he has a relegation release clause. Otherwise selling for what seems to be a similar price that we paid doesn't make any sense, particularly without a replacement already in the building.
And this right here is why Undisclosed Fees are a nonsense. Let’s be clear: Undisclosed Fees aren’t the club’s fault. As someone (MG? Crumpsall?) pointed out recently, every EFL fee is now undisclosed. But it might be that we’re making a loss on a player who improved a lot during his time with us, playing at a higher standard. Equally, the rumour might not be true and we’re making a profit, as we should. If the club is serious about communication improving, it needs to include a line in the statement confirming Aasgaard’s sale, stating: “The fee is undisclosed, but we can confirm we made a profit on the fee we had paid to Wigan in January.” And if it is true we made a loss, then that needs explaining why. Either explain why in the transfer statement, or let it be known via someone like Mike Collings at Luton Today. Let him do a story with “club sources” explaining why the fuck we’ve made a loss on one of our only success stories of the past 18 months. Getting less than we paid for for Morris, Hashioka and Kaminski is totally understandable. But being stitched up for Aasgaard? That’s pathetic. If the rumours are true and there is a valid reason, let’s hear it.
Fees should have to be disclosed by all clubs for every transfer. It's another thing that makes modern football less interesting. Transfer fees are part of the pantomime, "10m for him, he's crap", "yeah but what about this other guy, he was 12m!" Etc, etc. --------------- Make burgers wider, not taller
Just a small point of order, everyone has been complaining about us being relegated and one of the reasons stated for that was our players having lower valuations as a result of being a League One club and we bought him in what was very much a seller's market in January . . . a significant profit would have been quite an achievement in that light.
The valuations of our players should be what we decide they are.If we don’t want to sell ( and imo selling him for £5m is shit ) then we shouldn’t sell him. If we signed him with a release clause in January when we were bottom of the table without a decent big number in that clause ie: £10m then not good business.
£5m would be a decent release clause in the circumstances. “Less than we paid for him” absolutely would not. There is, so far and with apologies to MG, zero reason I can see to sell him for less than we paid for him.
Although he did have a release clause at Wigan so " sellers market" probably doesn't apply in this instance. The general view was that the release clause was below market value
Totally agree with everything here. I sense though such sentence will include the add ons which would mean a “significant profit”. How do you define significant though?
I’d actually go further, but it would never happen. Every wage and payment is published online for every player through the FA. There is totally transparency, no guesswork. As I say, a pig will fly first.
I’m really disappointed by his departure although it seemed inevitable once the negative messaging from Solbakken became public.
If he doesn’t want to play for us we have no choice. Accepting a low fee may be due to multiple reasons. Eg, need to reduce the wage bill, a relegation clause in the contract, unwilling to play in League One. Even though he’s an excellent player, his attitude may have been affecting others in the dressing room. All speculative, of course, we just don’t know.
Hopefully we can find a replacement who does want to be here.
I've never understood how clubs get away with undisclosed fees,you'd think with the FAs reputation of handing out punishments for financial irregularities they'd insist on everything being out in the open. And surely the tax man needs to know exactly what's going on
Would it not just be communicated with HMRC through the annual accounts? Why would they need to know anything other than that. It would set a bit of a dangerous precedent and come across as anti-business.
HMRC don't really have the resource to get stuck in the weeds like this, unless they have reason to disbelieve the accounts or their quarterly VAT returns.
That can't be true surely. What I don't get is why we couldn't loan him to Rangers for the season with the option to buy if we don't go up. We don't need to money, it's all very odd.
The posts made on this board are the opinions of the people posting them and do not always reflect the opinion of the board
administration.
Luton Outlaws is a totally independent forum, paid for and run by supporters of Luton
Town and is not associated with Luton Town Football Club, lutontown.co.uk, lutonfc.com, Loyal Luton Supporters Club, Trust in Luton, Luton Town Supporters Club or
anyone else for that matter and is declared a 100% Tombola Free Zone.
Luton Outlaws accepts no responsibility for the content of this messageboard nor any
other content posted on it. Luton Outlaws disclaims all liability for such content to the fullest extent permitted by law.
What you read on here is 100% conjecture, fiction, lies, bullshit and complete bollocks. If you want to be taken seriously, you are in the wrong place.
Enjoy. Admin contact - dilligaf.outlaws@gmail.com.
on 5/7/2025, 1:51:03