no it means EA wanted £10m for Snodgrass and he's presumably got £10m for Snodgrass - and bearing in mind the initial offer from West Ham was £3m , I think, he's presumably achieved what he set out to achieve - whether he could have got a little more is an entirely different matter, on the other hand he could have set his sights too high and people may have walked away and he ended up with no sale or even worse in his egotistical mind, asking for say £15m but selling for £10m would make it look like he had climbed down - this way he can walk away feeling that he played hard and they bowed down to his demands - remember you're dealing with a twat
I doubt MS wanted Jake or Snodders to leave, but I don't think he will feel it is a fatal move to his and our hopes of survival. Jake was good, but not irreplaceable. Snodders will be missed, but he doesn't like working back and defending, and MS seems to want to play this high energy pressing game, which really doesn't suit Snodders. At the end of the day with Jake and Snodders in the team we weren't getting the result needed, so maybe a completely new approach might turn out to be more effective. It will be interesting to see how things develop.
I agree - there's always two parts to a deal - first the two clubs have to agree a transfer fee and secondly the player has to agree personal terms as well as completing a medical - just like selling your house really - once you agree the selling price, the solicitor gets involved and you have a survey - theres still things that can go wrong - however in this case, Snodgrass is now in the driving seat - any extra money on the table to make Snodgrass choose one offer over another will go into his pocket not the clubs - ie if West Ham want to fork out another £1mill to make sure he chooses them over Burnley - they wont offer that to EA it will go straight into Snoddy's pocket as part of his personal terms
I think you may be right there, however I'm not sure there's enough time this season to implement a new approach and keep us up. It also needs support from the owners in terms of bringing new players in and who knows if that's there or not?
I guess we will know if the support is there once the window closes. Just read a SKY piece by the captain of Estoril when Silva was there, and Silva did turn their fortunes round very quickly. He seems to have this ability to get his methods across quickly and players buying into them, let's hope he can do it with us. http://www.skysports.com/football/n...-a-premier-league-success-says-steven-vitoria
Snodgrass has lifted his goals/game ratio this season to 9/24 (according to Wikipedia); it's his best in any season so far, so his agents might have advised him that it's a good time to secure a new contract. As a pro player he's flexible about where he goes to get that contract, and we could be awkward or use the opportunity to sell him at his current value. He's 30 in September so can't improve much. Bloody shame to lose his deadball skills though.
The BBC are saying we have accepted a £10million bid from West Ham for Snoddy. Slightly higher than Burnley's bid. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38755703
I'd much rather him go there then Burnley or Boro for obvious reasons, and I imagine they will be more likely to pay the wages he wants.
I think there'll be a couple more crosses to add before the window shuts. CityCalv is heading up our sales policy and he'll accept anything within 60-70% of actual market value.
I have to admit not my work, though I am starting to get the feeling the UK/Irish backbone of the team is being dismantled. We will be more like Watford soon.
Phil Buckingham(not usually far off the mark with his observations) on twitter claiming that by the time the window shuts MS will have brought 8/10 new players in, the most a PL team has ever brought in in the January window
