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As in every pre season, the NON FFO auction rolled around and had the place buzzing with excitement.
After a false start, in where the FFO FA released an unfinished list only to make cuts just hours later, the auction was opened for bids to be sent to the auctioneer.
Some have made claims that due to the financial strain on PSG, that their manager Simon Clarke pulled some strings behind closed doors in order to remove certain high class players from the list of players available. These accusations are yet to be proven.
When the dust had settled and the bidding had come to an end, only 16 of the 23 players available received bids with the likes of D_Dalot, H_Barnes & C_Palmer going without a bid along with 4 other players.
After all the bids were revealed it was EFL 1 team Juventus who had egg on their face as their attempt to lowball bid backfired as the juggernaut PSG team welcomed defender M_Guehi to the club for a little over £105,000,000, outbidding Juventus’ bid by almost £75,000,000 in the process.
Not to worry as the 7 players who failed to receive a bid would go into round 2, where teams who weren’t successful in round 1 would have another chance to land a player.
11 teams bid on all but 1 of the remaining 7 players (H_Barnes) and some like Brighton & Hove Albion/Juventus were lucky to land a player unopposed while the likes of G_Restes & C_Palmer fetched multiple bids.
The Juventus bid is the one we’ll focus on for now as they stuck to their guns by bidding £30,600,000 for the second round in a row, this time on 19 year old Dutch tackling midfielder, S_Vos.
With no other bids on the teenager, Juventus claimed him for a pretty cheap price and instantly released news that he’d spend at least the next season in London with Gary Windebank’s Millwall.
We caught up with the Juventus manager regarding both rounds of the auction;
“It’s always an exciting time as there’s a batch of new shiny players for managers to fight over. Some over pay for their players while some get an absolute bargain which leads me onto our round 1 bid. Guehi would have been an excellent addition to our squad but having seen the state of the transfer market, especially the cash market we felt that it would be nearly impossible to get a good market price on the player that Guehi would have replaced so we decided to try to get ourselves a bargain and bid very low.
It almost worked as PSG were the only other team to bid. We expected either a few clubs to bid, or just us so we took a chance and it backfired.
It hurts to lose a player like Guehi but the auctions don’t stop so we’ll look to the next one and potentially land an even better player.
As for round 2, there wasn’t much on offer for us so we again looked to bid as little as we could do in order to secure a player that we’d develop away from the club and that’s exactly what we did. S_Vos will spend time at Millwall and come back a better player, what we’ll do with him then is yet to be seen but the worse case scenario is that we sell him and make a profit on our investment.
We had an interested club shortly after signing him but after we rejected the interest, they changed their attitude and claimed he’d never be good enough.”
After a false start, in where the FFO FA released an unfinished list only to make cuts just hours later, the auction was opened for bids to be sent to the auctioneer.
Some have made claims that due to the financial strain on PSG, that their manager Simon Clarke pulled some strings behind closed doors in order to remove certain high class players from the list of players available. These accusations are yet to be proven.
When the dust had settled and the bidding had come to an end, only 16 of the 23 players available received bids with the likes of D_Dalot, H_Barnes & C_Palmer going without a bid along with 4 other players.
After all the bids were revealed it was EFL 1 team Juventus who had egg on their face as their attempt to lowball bid backfired as the juggernaut PSG team welcomed defender M_Guehi to the club for a little over £105,000,000, outbidding Juventus’ bid by almost £75,000,000 in the process.
Not to worry as the 7 players who failed to receive a bid would go into round 2, where teams who weren’t successful in round 1 would have another chance to land a player.
11 teams bid on all but 1 of the remaining 7 players (H_Barnes) and some like Brighton & Hove Albion/Juventus were lucky to land a player unopposed while the likes of G_Restes & C_Palmer fetched multiple bids.
The Juventus bid is the one we’ll focus on for now as they stuck to their guns by bidding £30,600,000 for the second round in a row, this time on 19 year old Dutch tackling midfielder, S_Vos.
With no other bids on the teenager, Juventus claimed him for a pretty cheap price and instantly released news that he’d spend at least the next season in London with Gary Windebank’s Millwall.
We caught up with the Juventus manager regarding both rounds of the auction;
“It’s always an exciting time as there’s a batch of new shiny players for managers to fight over. Some over pay for their players while some get an absolute bargain which leads me onto our round 1 bid. Guehi would have been an excellent addition to our squad but having seen the state of the transfer market, especially the cash market we felt that it would be nearly impossible to get a good market price on the player that Guehi would have replaced so we decided to try to get ourselves a bargain and bid very low.
It almost worked as PSG were the only other team to bid. We expected either a few clubs to bid, or just us so we took a chance and it backfired.
It hurts to lose a player like Guehi but the auctions don’t stop so we’ll look to the next one and potentially land an even better player.
As for round 2, there wasn’t much on offer for us so we again looked to bid as little as we could do in order to secure a player that we’d develop away from the club and that’s exactly what we did. S_Vos will spend time at Millwall and come back a better player, what we’ll do with him then is yet to be seen but the worse case scenario is that we sell him and make a profit on our investment.
We had an interested club shortly after signing him but after we rejected the interest, they changed their attitude and claimed he’d never be good enough.”