Agreed. If we wait until a player is regularly banging them in before we sign them, they'll be 27, cost $25m, and be targeted by the Arsenals and Chelseas of the world!
Can't actually believe people were moaning about his goalscoring record before he came here. He's 19 FFS.
Dunno if he has a chant yet, but one that I thought might go alright: (To the tune of The Flintstones) Chuba, Chuba Akpom He's the greatest forward in the league, From a small club in London, He left to join the Ull City And he'll go down in historyyy
I think we'll save them for when Hells-Bells runs the next crossbar challenge! It will have been a long journey home for them all, wondering what the hell they were playing at. Fair does to Accrington Stanley, though. Do you think we will ever do things the easy way, Peter?
I'm sure Bruce was frustrated with the performance but I don't know what role he's having in the Gray transfer.
I think Brentfords resolve might be broken soon. Gray without asking for a transfer has alienated fans and frustrated management by his mentally not right stance. There are no other clubs in at the price we have offered & for the sake of 500k they may be about to blink first. Dangerous game to play though.
People have mentioned for the sake of 500k just get it done. It probably wouldn't even take that - another 250k upfront or in add-ons would allow Brentford to save face.
I bought some garden furniture for about £1,000 yesterday. Can you imagine what people would have thought if I'd spent weeks trying to get a £50 discount!?
Furniture equipment isn't a human being who there is some margin of error in terms of expected performance.
Also in play is the fact that Brentford will need to find a replacement. This could work both ways however; on one hand they will not want to miss out on their targets and on the other they may feel time is getting too short to find a replacement and hold on to Gray - I think the former is more likely.
A £9 million package is a lot of money and had made a lot of people sit up and take notice...a £9.5 million bid won't change the fact that it's a lot of money - but it will just get it done!
Presumably more, as the unreliable expected returns mean very different market values based on different perspectives.
But if our perspective was that expected returns were more than Brentford's perspective then there would be no need to haggle. We would think he was worth more than Brentford thought he was worth. Isn't that just as likely as vice versa?
