http://yellowsforum.co.uk/thread/25711/summer-transfer-rumour-thread-2017?page=52 Interesting reading oxfords fans opinion on johnson , some say hes not the best at leftback and alot better at left wing
Reported is the key word. It's bullshit and always was. Just the first drip in the drip drip drip to get Tymon out the door and stretford to get a fee. So take that out of it and Ye it's pretty ****ing **** for young people. And people in low paid work as not only is it low pay there's also no security with the job, no sick pay or pension.
Given the Oxford chairman stated on Wednesday night at a fans forum meeting it would take an 'Unbelievable offer'. I take that as being unbelievably good, not unbelievably **** - which £1m is unbelievably **** for a first team player with 2-3 years on his current contract who they paid £700k for. Since January he's been watched by Man City, Liverpool, Everton, Leicester, Birmingham, Leeds, Us etc
Our chairman (apparently) said we won't be selling any more players but I don't believe him. And as for who watched him that means a grand total of nothing, every top club will send a scout to every team in the country at some point. Plus scouts don't actually announce who they're watching you know? It's complete speculation why they're there.
RH sports bulletins have an interview with the Oxford chairman, where he says that only a ridiculous bid would see him leave, a bid so high he didn't think any Championship club could afford it. Considering there's been some £10-15m signings in the Championship this window, it's obviously bollocks, but it's certainly going to take a fair bit more than £1m.
If you're not performing to a consistently high level - week in week out, then you wouldn't have hordes of clubs coming to watch you, so with regards to 'not being important' again - you're wrong. It's well reported who has been to watch him play. Generally it's fairly obvious who they are going to see, news leaks. Scouts generally ask a clubs permission to come and watch certain players, don't question that as that is absolutely ****ing fact. I have had scouts watching some of my players this season - that's precisely how it works.
Without putting words in anybody's mouth, I don't think anyone thought a £1m bid would be successful.
I've been involved with scouting myself in professional football for the best part of a decade when they request tickets to attend matches. And that's it. They do not state who they are coming to watch. But of course you know this, what with your experience also being of professional football. And yes it has been reported. And of course all such reports are always entirely factual and they're never stories fed by agents, the clubs themselves when they're trying to drum up interest or just the journalist filling space as he files copy.
Not in this market. It's a cheeky bid to see if we can turn the lad's head. It's alright their chairman saying it would take an extraordinary bid but for the lad it's a huge move. I have no idea what he's on at Oxford but you'd have thought he would easily double, if not triple his wages by moving to us.
People seem to miss that football is the same as trying to acquire a product or service in any industry in the world, ever. Your first offer should never be accepted.
Just to put that bid into perspective Ollie Watkins cost Brentford £1.8m and he was the EFL young player of the year.
Here's Charlie, along to talk ****e. That's precisely what the chairman of Oxford United said at a fans forum meeting on Wednesday.
Well he is hardly going to say "he can go if a nice offer comes in" is he? He is playing politics, he knows how much the player is really worth (1-2 million ), to keep fans on side comes out with this "unbelievable offer" threat. In a week or so the player will leave for an "undisclosed fee" and the chairman will spout the "player power/head turned" quotes. As for scouts from other clubs been there, probably were, doesn't mean they are looking at him (at 26 I doubt a premiership club would be in for him). I know a scout at Arsenal, they looked at Tymon, spoke to people around him, never made him an offer. Same when we had Cooper and Cullen, top teams watched them regularly, neither got a big move
