MM is on holiday, so I would hope any final decisions would be run past him in person and not on the phone!
OLM posted: Norway replied: Fair point, Norway. But that's for your general striker, I agree prices will be deflated. However promotion to Premier League was worth (so they say!) £90m which is greatly more than the reported (!) £50m it was for us in 2006. And DG is not a run of the mill striker. He was top scorer in his division. So I think there is greater demand placed on him for that reason. As I said a while ago, get the right cocktail of newly promoted (we've made it up, let's go **** or bust to stay up) clubs and newly relegated (too big for the Championship no names, no pack drill ) clubs bidding, and we could see him sold for more than £5m, it could happen. That said, I would settle for £5m. If Morison is linked with £3m move then DG is definitely £5m! (all IMHO etc etc )
Swansea seem to think he has a 3 million clause and the Beeb reckon we are thinking about the offer: http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/swans/swansnews/Hello/article-3624049-detail/article.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13635099.stm
It's crazy - if we were any other club w would give out a hands off - he isn ot going for anything less than £10m - that way it puts a different value into people's minds
Agreed Leo ,instead we have a chairman who says all offers for all players considered, sends exactly the wrong message to the world
We we woldn't get more than 5 million for DG. It seems that is the mind we'd take though and maybe waiting for other bids which are higher.
Long may this bidding war drag on!! QPR, Swansea, West Brom, and to a lesser extent Newcastle all seem to think that Graham is the player who will fire them to Premier League safety next season, and so all 4 teams are willing to battle for his signature. People are worrying about him going for £3m, but theres a strong chance we could be looking at closer to double that amount, simply because Graham's goals next season could be priceless to any of the afforementioned teams.
Any similarity between what the Sun prints and what subsequently happens is entirely coincidental. However, I do think Kev signing as a player-coach on ~£4k a week would make a lot of sense for him and for us, given that he wants to go into that side of the game.
