We turned down a E10m bid from Watford in the Summer and now we are considering a £5m to £7m bid, interesting.. Size of Watford bid revealed A bit more on the Massengo deal now, with Sky reporting that Watford's bid in the summer which was rejected was €10million (£8.3m). The difference between now and then, of course, is the 20-year-old's contract status as two years remaining gives you a greater bargaining positioning than 18 months.
said it a number of times 4 year contracts .. increasing wage structure[ based on performance / crowd attendance / ???? ] we have 6 players that could be a solid core all younger than 25, a couple 26 - 29 need tying down, thats 8 plus Goalie's! so need 2 or 3 @ 30 plus, on contracts that always give 2 seasons plus option until 33, to add experience and calmness ..
Here’s a player we’ve already signed on a 6 month loan. I got this from OTIB. It’s mentioned in the Jenneh post to Shrewsbury https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/janneh-joins-shrewsbury-town-on-loan/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Idehen
I agree with Frank, keeping the young promising players if we can and adding a few of quality, whilst offloading our more experienced, High wage flops is the way forward. Selling our jewels hasn’t worked so why not give it a go, actually trying to keep our best young players, and building a squad around them ?
I noticed this and checked the Transfers page ... nothing ... it was before Jan1 .... didnt think to check WIKI, but signed for us on day [close to] TOWLER coming back
I’m surprised we turned down an £8m bid considering our finances, but it if we did, then we could we’ll turn down a £6m bid now, maybe it was and is left to Han to decide because ultimately if a player wants to go it’s probably best to let him, so possibly not a financial decision at all, hopefully that’s the case and he decides to stay.
If we turned down £8m in this market for HNM, then somebody needs shooting as that would be far bigger financial mismanagement than we have seen before.
Has the penny finally dropped? About how amateurishly ****tily this club is run from the top? Turn down 8 mil, whilst another 6 months of his contract runs down and probably sell him for a maximum of 6mil, just yet another unbelievable decision, looks like Mcgregor and the evil post is right about exactly where the blame lies for our latest disastrous chapter of our history.
so who do we replace with? Are we a team planning for the future? or Are we a team that is going to go through the same process that led to stripping the cupboard bare, and removing at a cost of over £4m 2 managers and half a dozen coach's? They should now be , management of BCFC, getting players putting pen to paper.. it would be like signing a whole new team well 6 or 8 anyway!
I have always said the blame lies at the door of SL, he sets the tone and makes the big decisions, not MA, LJ, DH, NP etc. It was the same with Nicky Maynard.
HNM is not the first name on the team sheet, far from it, so why wouldn't we take the £8m now and buy 2 or 3 layers that would be in the starting 11 regularly?
WELL stop, take a deep breath and give it some thought! we sell a player worthy of being in the squad and is attracting attention for x amount at £8m deduct all the fee's and might be £6m in the pot and a saving of maybe £1m in wages over 2 years......... ! so now need to find a better player, has to be as good as one sold and likely over 2 years would cost more than £1.5m in wages plus say £1m in fee's so how much to pay? £5m likely not a player as good or better than 1 sold unless very young and actually does improve and stay injury free ... now this is assuming just 1 player bought ... you want 2 or 3 ! that would definetly not be "cheap " could only pay about £1m or less on them... pay them maybe £0.3m over 2 years for wages and be out of pocket.... of course the gamble might pay off 1 of 3 may be good enough to sell for £6m, other 2 write off's! .... its a minefield, we are in it already .... its like pontoon .... time to stick!
Exclusive: Bristol City offer Han-Noah Massengo new contract amid strong transfer interest Bundesliga club Freiburg are reportedly willing to pay up to £6m for the French midfielder, six months after Premier League Watford had a bid rejected https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-hannoah-massengo-transfer-6443964
Huddersfield, Reading and Birmingham join QPR in transfer race for Bristol City player https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/h...qpr-in-transfer-race-for-bristol-city-player/
Interesting. I think he would suit the way QPR play. If we get >£1m for KP and off our wage bill, that would be good business in this climate?
From sky transfer~ 2h ago 14:29 Huddersfield enter race for Kasey Palmer Huddersfield have expressed an interest in bringing Kasey Palmer back whilst a host of Championship clubs remain interested. Bristol City and QPR continue in talks and expect things to develop at the end of the week. QPR interest remains ongoing and remain favourites. A number of loan proposals have been declined by City as the player will only leave permanently in this window.
Birmingham City linked with 'swap' deal for Chelsea old boy Birmingham City are looking to strengthen their squad with the transfer window now open https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sp...ingham-city-transfers-chelsea-palmer-22658608
