What are your thoughts on the Mangala signing at an initial £18m ,rising to £23m as an alternative to signing Sakho ??

Is this really a good alternative for us, given his reported £120,000 per week.
My own thoughts are that Sakho was tried and tested, but you never know.

Thank god not another thread. The jury is out until he plays.

But the £35k extra in wages to what Sakho's on now is £1.8 mil a year. I don't know of Sakho's wage demands but id be surprised if he was demanding £120k in his position.

COYP

Funnily enuff the odds on us signing Sakho just went from 3 / 1 on to 4 / 1 on and West Brom have gone out to 14 / 1.

I read somewhere that the Board might countenance expenditure over and above the budget on the basis that it's worth it if they can recoup the money at some point. So although a three-year deal with Sakho might be a sunk cost we might reasonably get our money back and maybe more on Mangala.

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That's just a bin dipper fan making assumptions.

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Much as one part of me would like to see us sign Sakho, it'll serve the bin dippers right if they get stuck with him.

They have thought all window they have us by the short and curlies from a supply and demand standpoint but at the end of the day they've not had huge interest elsewhere so maybe should have accepted a bid from us rather than bleeding more money through wages on a player that, at this point, is basically never going to play for them.

"Mangala had a heck of a game for Valencia against Barca last year though. Scored the opening goal, got a yellow card 10’ later, then a straight red 5’ later. He’s got discipline issues, but is pretty stable on the back and should improve Palace. Sahko just would have done it without the card issues."
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