4M is pennies for a PL club. Theyll get their money back at worse if hr fails. Mind you, if he was such good value, I wonder why nobody else bothered bidding. Forget the stories about "interest" in him
But same instance, he is moving up to the PL If we were signing him from another Championship team,I don't think £4m would sit well with me.
If this was a few years ago then I can imagine the bids were there. From what I understand West Ham have have launched a cheeky bid and Villa are buzzing round. The thing is he's 22/23 and there are kids out there who graduating youth systems. He's at that make or break age. If he fails then he will drop down back in to the champ. He'll be Beckford mark 2 if you will
it's not too bad to be fair Coyle to RB Dallas/Carayol either wing and 4 million to pay off some of the 5.1 million we owe Macron
£4 million is pittance in this game TBH especially in England. If you think Darren Bent went from Sunderland to Villa for £30 million near enough and Cook is wanted by Bournemouth is wanted for £8 million, I think £4 million is a fair amount. If we were paying another Championship club that kid of money then yeah it would sit a bit awkward with me, however I think our ages makes us wince at the price. We/I can remember when Marcus Stewart moved to Ipswich for 2 million and that was a lot of money
But a Championship club paying 4m for a player is probably equivalent of a pl club paying 20m. Hard to compare
Point I am trying to make is, would anyone be happy if we signed Byram for £4m or would we think you can get better for that much. I agree with The-Don... Coyle is a better prospect at RB, Berardi is better at RB and Wootton has turned out to be adequate. Dallas is better on the right of midfield, now we have Carayol as well so good business?
Morning all. Didn't know we owed Macron, so that puts a dampener on the fee for Sam. I was going to say that investing the money in new player(s) in this transfer window would be dependent on the result agains the Wendies. Get a win and we have until 1st Feb to invest it and give us a push to the playoffs. Without a win it should be saved until summer (Macron aside). Was trying to think of other wingers after Revie era who good. Vaguely remember Vince Hilaire?, Terry Connor and would you class Rod Wallace as a winger? Of course there was Gradel too.
Evening ristac, Leeds have nurtured him as a player. He should have signed a years extension, but have an agreement that he could leave this transfer window for any offer over 6m
Evans says he's a big fan of Kike at @Boro (rumours of interest in him) but Karanka has made it plain he's not interested in selling him
Steve Evans says there's also been interest in Sol Bamba - from the Premier it seems - so add him to 'wanted' list
