Yep but why do that? I assumed we'd have got Acun come out with the news breaking about KLP. You need him to say why he's going and then hopefully fans will understand.
'cos corporate confidentiality is a thing. To be fair, he answered the question, just certain conditions would have had to be met before release. Think it would be fair to KLP to walk back into training on Monday whilst already being a headline?
It just seems a bit weird, because the story has broken and then Humberside have released a 2 day old interview when it's a bit unclear when this new bid was tabled and what the situation is now. If Baz is reporting that a deal is expecting to be done, it's because someone at the club, probably Tan, has told him
Think it was leaked to the sun by his agent or Brentford most likely. Think Tan knew it was inevitable in the coming days anyway or he'd have kept schtum. But he did say they would sit on the offer for now. Baz was also reporting somewhere it was a probability later in the window a day or two ago also.
The Seri being effectively done narrative was from a Turkish journalist who is fairly well known over there to be hit and miss at best. People assumed he was right because he’d got the Tufan news correct (jumped on it when it was already obvious) and he broke the news about Wright which Baz confirmed. Baz only ever reported facts which we knew to be true with Seri like he agreed to a wage decrease. The impression I had with Swift was that we’d moved on because we’d got wind of Twine being available rather than he turned us down?
I think what you have to take from these confirmed targets is that we are operating at a whole new level. We like any other club will have a list and work our way through it as the window progresses from the top down. Some we'll get, some we won't but days of fawning over Sunderland rejects and L1 'superstars' appear to be over for the time being and we can dare to dream again.
Ye, that Lue guy seemed alright but he did seem to jump the gun. I think Baz posted that about Swift but I included him anyway, as he did technically go elsewhere
Not really, he still got 9 this season but he does struggle for fitness. And back to KLP, there's no way he's ready for the PL. It seems an quite unBrentford move by Brentford
Last year we couldn't prise Josh Windass out of the massive. Now they can't offer for Wilks what Orient reportedly shelled out for Moncur by buying out his contract. .
I'd take the money if its 20m and there's no other bids, but they have a track record of developing talent and they are where they are by doing just that. Besides I think there'll possibly be others in as the widow progresses. Tan is an experienced agent. He'll do what's right for the club.
I don't think we'd have got that level of bid at this stage in the window if the Allam's were still here.
I think they'd be cautions of accepting a bid only to find 2 or 3 clubs matching it and offering terms this early in the widow. That Humberside excerpt suggests Tan is doing the same. We don't need to rush to sell. Will still get similar value in January and given Brentford have been in this last 3 windows, I doubt they'll go away.
Tactical leak from the club I reckon. Everton, West Ham pull your finger out if you don’t want to miss out on the next “Jarrod Bowen”… Nothing accepted yet so it could push the price/initial figure up a few million.
I definitely think the news has broken to try and attract more suitors. I'd be very surprised if Everton and West Ham both sat back and watched Brentford take him. Moyes especially has scouted him very closely. I reckon, £18m rising to £22m will get it done but it also depends on how achievable the add ons are.
Probably because the athletic is behind a paywall and Buckingham got banned for telling it like it was.
Probably protecting the boy as much as anything. And not wanting to appear eager to sell. I can see why they'd embargo it until. It broke elsewhere. I suspect his agent broke it to the sun.
The initial statement of saying he wouldn’t sell for £30m was daft, just think he gets rather excited as he is living his “dream” after all. I’m sure he’ll learn, at the end of the day if we pull £20m in for KLP because of that statement it’s done it’s job even though people will think he’s bottled it.
Absolutely. He was also in the process of making an offer to the lad when that statement was made. If its now clear he won't accept, then it's a process of getting best value. Acun is the figurehead, Tan is the brains, but don't think for a second Acun doesn't know exactly what he's doing in conjunction with Tan.
