Apparently Liverpool upped the offer to 18.5m If true what do we do turn it down or accept the bid IMO its to much money to resist
Liverpool and SAFC have stated that no offer has been made so how can thet "up" it . Anyway the opportunities at Liverpool are no better than ours. There are five teams far better. and three or four more that could be. both fans and board are living in the past.
As a newspaper and in particular the sports section this is just more diatribe from lazy journos who dont know their arse from their elbows. It should be ripped into smaller pieces with a string through it and hung next to the Andrex in case of emergencies.
Keep him for another year at least. This time next year we will have a much better idea of the player he is going to be.
Liverpool make new £18.5m bid for Sunderland starlet Published 23:05 05/06/11 By Alan Nixon Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish made a new £18.5 million bid for Sunderland's England under-21 midfielder Jordan Henderson on Sunday. Dalglish increased his opening offer from last week by almost £5 million as he goes for a quick deal, hoping to tie up Henderson as the Kop's first summer signing before the European finals start this weekend. Henderson is waiting on the call to head for Merseyside for talks and a medical - although Sunderland believe they may yet get more out of the Anfield club. Sunderland insiders are shocked by how quickly Liverpool have upped their offer. They were thinking of a £16 million sale, but now their negotiators reckon they may get even more. Henderson has been briefed about Liverpool's ongoing and increasing interest and it seems sure that he will take the move - despite his allegiances to the Black Cats. Liverpool are also willing to quadruple his salary to more than £60,000-a-week and that is bound to turn the head of the starlet who was in good form for Stuart Pearce's under-21s yesterday. Sunderland chief Steve Bruce - currently on holiday - is leaving the thrashing out of a fee to his money men but hopeful that his own transfer kitty may be swollen dramatically in the next day or two.
Given what happened with Kenwyne Jones leaving for HALF the fee we had been offered earlier by Spurs, I say take the money!!!
No doubt Henderson will be off now so we just need to milk Liverpool for most we can get. If they are offering £18.5 million then surely we could get £20 million. I dont want to see Henderson go and I think he will be a top player soon enough but I feel his head has well and truely been turned with the supposed 4 times his current salary of, which lets face it anyone of us would do in our own lives. Also our ambition as a club seems to have flattened out in the last 6 months and the lure of a top 4 challenge and possible Champions League football with Liverpool who certainly have ambition under Kenny, will be just too much for Jordan to say no.
From todays echo..... Liverpool up pursuit of Sunderland’s Henderson Jordan Henderson By Chris Young Published on Monday 6 June 2011 11:00 JORDAN Henderson is focused on securing a starting spot for England’s European Championships opener despite the speculation persisting over his future. The Echo understands Liverpool have now made an approach for Henderson and there have been talks between the two clubs. But Sunderland are determined to keep hold of Henderson and Liverpool will need to match the £20million-plus asking price if the Black Cats are to even consider offloading a player who has four years left on his contract. The two clubs are a long way apart in their valuations and there has been no contact between Merseyside and Henderson’s camp. With Black Cats boss Steve Bruce still on holiday and Henderson set to fly out to the championships on Wednesday, the saga looks set to rumble on throughout the summer. But Henderson’s focus remains on England, with Stuart Pearce’s U21 side facing favourites Spain in their opening European Championships group game on Sunday. The Sunderland midfielder played the opening 45 minutes of yesterday’s dress rehearsal for the tournament – helping England to a 2-0 victory against Norway at Southampton. “It’s important for everyone to give their best to get into that starting XI,” said Henderson.
I like Henderson - think he had a bad back end of the season but you can pick a lot of other players in that same mould. Might be worth testing the water for 30m (start high) and see what they say as we don't "need" the money as such
Keep Jordan, he is a star in the making. build our team with him in it. No doubt an England prospect. He is the best player I have seen Sunderland AFC produce. I do fear where we are going this season if we sell.
reading that echo article it seems things might not be as far along as the scousers are claiming with their talk of medicals etc. Maybe a chance we can hold onto him
Frankly our record of bringing on promising youngsters to be really top players is not great ! If the thieving scousers come up with a bid of £20 million I'd say take the money and spend it on 2-3 players (maybe from abroad) who would improve the squad. When we've managed to establish ourselves as regular top 10 or higher finishers maybe THEN it would be easier to hang on to our better players.
Whilst I think you're right, I hope you're not - he wouldn't be anywhere without SAFC as we have given him his platform But if we get 25m + the 24m for Bent is a healthy 49m - should be able to get a couple of additions for that I would think!!
What might worry me would be the prospect of making £45m from Bent and Hendo, and then Brucey having that £45m as his transfer budget. Whilst I recognise that he will have additions to the wage budget, this represents no additional investment in players from ES, which would worry me as it doesn't show the faith in SB and the urge to improve as a club that ES has so far shown from day one. What I would have been expecting from this summer was the 24m from DB, plus an extra (say) 20m or so invested by ES in the playing squad. If we're now in the position where selling our best players is where we get our transfer funds from, that will make it harder to progress. It also doesn't scream 'come to us' if players see us selling our star striker in January and our star midfielder in summer. Yes I know every player has his price and every club sells their stars (Utd sold Ronaldo yes, but we are not United)- but it will make it a bit more difficult for us to attract top quality, in my opinion.
