City transfer thread

Really wish we'd gone for him.

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2015/08/06/unknown-luongo-out-make-his-mark-qpr-faithful

 

Are we doing a joint bid to screw over sell on fees on their behalf? Why else is it taking so long?

 

It's the only reason I can think of. Would mean we can get them for slightly less than we'd otherwise pay as Brentford wouldn't have to pass-on as much of the profit.

 

They both have similar sell on fees though. Think there is only 5% difference between the two. Can't see them fiddling enough to make a significant difference

 

It's a theory but it wouldn't explain it all. At least part of it just has to be a that we are still not agreeing on the total amount of the joint bid. They seem to want a couple mill more than we want to give.

 

If we're at 9 and they're holding out for 10.5, surely we can up our bid slightly, chuck in a loan (I think Lenihan was mooted) and basically get to an understanding.

Would just be an utter waste to go this far and then baulk.

 

one would think

 

I suppose applying rationality is never a safe thing to do with the Allams.

Then again it's not unique to us, Arsenal and Liverpool have squabbled over a couple of million and lost out on guys like Hazard and others.

 

I think it's called aimless conversation, folk join in to pass the time and be involved.

 

Exactly. But as we all know, the deal is done, the medical is done.. why are we waiting to announce it? We havnt waited to announce any other player so far this season..

 

We should forget Andre if this drags on and go after dwight gayle. I think he'd be easier to get from palace as they've got a few strikers now

 

Why don't we just pay them the bloody money? £7m for a goal return like he had last season is where I expected his price to be anyway.

We **** around so much I find it irritating. We could have done this earlier and had them in time ready to play this Saturday - now we won't have either and we seem hell bent on screwing up the chances of signing either.

The Brentford owner is a wealthy man and also a fan of the club, clearly he doesn't need to sell. The price for Gray is the price. Unlike most of our players, Gray still has a lot of time to run on his contract.

 

So, going by the above, we bid £3.5m for Odubajo and activated his release clause, completed a medical and he decided he wanted to come here. We then decide we want Gray as well, put in a joint bid in which we back-track from Odubajo's £3.5m release clause, valuing him at less for some reason. Brentford then reject that bid and we are back at square one?
It seems fairly public that Brentford want £10.5m for both, so that automatically values Gray at £7m (assuming they won't let Odubajo go for less than his £3.5m release clause). Unless there are a load of prohibitive add-ons, or they want too much of whole sum up-front, I can't imagine that this is too much of a surprise to anybody (ie they aren't exactly pricing Gray out of the market).
What I cannot really understand is in all this why we don't just get Odubajo in (given we obviously agreed a deal) and then start negotiating on the structure of the Gray deal separately- anyway, I guess this will all be sorted one way or the other by Friday.

 

We were looking for a BOGOF deal?

 

No idea why we don't just bid the 10.5, we've bid 9, it's not that much more.

 

I'm assuming no-ones seen the paper this morning.

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull...dubajo-Andre/story-27553124-detail/story.html

It's all about the 21 day clause

 

They waived it two days ago. Poor journalism.

 

No-one know's what is actually happening. There's a reason for the delay