Foye wrote:
What's the upside of becoming the 3rd string striker for a young player? I don't see it.
He should've gone to a mid-table/pretender EPL/Bundesliga/La Liga team as striker number 1 or 2. It's not like Chelsea will pay a 3rd string striker more salary than other teams would offer Kramaric for a starting role either.
If that turned out well offers from big clubs will come sooner than later.
With the current situation player agents can demand basically everything from clubs. Getting a managable buyout clause in there wouldn't have been the problem. Prove yourself at a mid-table club in EPL --> You'll instantly get much better financial offers than if you come out of Croatia.
Even in the unlikely event that Kramaric proves himself at Chelsea...he is locked in a low budget contract for years.
I'd say Kramarics agent has done a relatively terrible job.
Chelsea obviously did great business.
Maybe the guy wants to improve to a better striker? Training with the likes of Costa, going up against Terry/Cahill and being coached by Mourinho could be good for his development. Whilst I agree that being loaned out would be a good idea for him and this is what I'm presuming is gonna happen.
After Drogba retires, him and Bamford will compete for the 3rd string/cup games. Loser gets loaned out, but I doubt they'd want to loan out Bamford again considering his progression in the last couple of years so most likely it's going to be Kramaric leaving next year. At the end of the day it's low risk/high reward for Chelsea (like you said).
