You can't have done, it would make a complete mockery of Transfermarkt and everyone knows that's the transfer fee bible.
At the end of the day its probably less than that but its what Hull are telling people just to save face!
It's only being reported at your end, our local media haven't gone with this story at all yet, which means the club haven't told them anything.
Er, try again. It was reported by HITC, an independent news portal by their sports correspondent who seems to imply he got the information from Hull City and gives further information about what Bruce will supposedly accept...
Are you stalking our board? 5 minutes after Jungle Canary posted you negate the story. Too quiet on your own board?
As already mentioned, the major problem with transfermarkt and trying to predict the likely range of transfer negotiations based on the asset valuations listed is that it is often a couple of months out of date. Brady's valuation could well go up once updated (not necessarily by much) but that would paint a slightly different picture.
"HITC Sport understands from sources close to the club that Norwich City have tabled a fifth bid for Hull City 's Republic of Ireland international Robbie Brady." - That implies to you that they got the information from Hull City?
"HITC Sport understands from sources close to the club that Norwich City have tabled a fifth bid" You think that sentence is probably about a club other than Norwich? Seriously?
Nice selective quoting from you. Write out the full sentence, then you'll see it's ambiguous. The article then goes on to report on Hull's and Bruce's opinion, clearly implying that the club they are ITK about is Hull...
Yes - McNally has specifically said on several occasions that they won't release transfer info unless a deal has completed. The article is pretty clear about the source of the information (and indeed every bit of information we have received so far has been gracelessly and arrogantly released by Hull). It's pretty clear our club won't release a word. Ever since that BBC incident. Anyhow, the last I heard was that we'd submitted a £4.5m bid yesterday, but I cannot vouch for the source in the slightest, but if you follow the European style of including "add-ons" it might total c.£6m in the end, just not up front. All sounds like a load of old horseshit to me though. We'll pay a price and it will probably be undisclosed except by Hull after massaging the figures to the highest number in an attempt to placate their fans. I suspect after this deal is done, we won't be doing much business with Hull. Their attitude has been entirely unscrupulous and has shown a complete lack of good faith or commercial sense.
Of course it's ambiguous, that's why I was pointing out that your claim that the article implied that the info was from Hull was wrong.
