Until Benteke leaves Liverpool (or they announce he is staying) none of us know what will happen. We can all speculate its a dead deal or its still alive but patience is the only thing any of us can use right now.
Personally? I don't think the deal is dead but having said that I am not overly bothered whether we get him or not as long as we do sign a decent striker.

I couldn't agree more. Benetke is never worth £30 mil anyway in my opinion

As I said before, Benteke is coming to SE25!

Just relax eh!

The costs associated with the acquisition of players' registrations are capitalised as intangible fixed assets in the club's balance sheet. The cost is then fully amortised (reduced) in equal annual instalments over the period of the player's contract because the player can walk away from the club on a free at the end of the contract in accordance with the Bosman ruling.

Benteke cost Liverpool £32.5m for a 5 year contract which equates to £6.5m per year. He has been with Liverpool for a year so his book value is now £26m. The longer he sits on the bench the lower his value will fall. I would guess that our opening bid of £27m was roughly based on his book value.

Which, of course, has sweet f*** all to do with how much a player will sell for. On that basis, Gayle sold for 10 times his 'book value; let's hope we don't pay that kind of multiple for Benteke eh?

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

What about players who sign 4 year contracts and are then sold for half of their value with 12 months left?

There are plenty of cases where the accounting principle did and didn't apply. It is a bidding market, just like an auction.

COYP