Newcastle Interest in Bryan.

I wouldn't be surprised either way with this one - yes, Mike Ashley has come out and said he can't compete financially with other clubs, but in comparison with the insane fees now being paid in the Premier League, £10m is arguably meagre. With Rafa Benitez unhappy and the fans on his side, there'll be pressure on him to fund transfers, so he might decide to approve a move like this and the option to move to a Premier League side might be too great for Bryan to resist. He's probably not high profile enough to satisfy them though.

 

Or maybe they're trying to get the price tag lower knowing that our fearless leader won't allow any inmates to escape on the cheap.

 

To the best of my knowledge, aside from Man Utd and Arsenal, Newcastle get bigger crowds than any other team in the country.

So while they may charge less than other clubs for Season and match day tickets, they will have received a huge pot of money for getting back into the Premiership, and are run by a very rich man indeed, so why cant they compete with other teams ?

 

Gate figures are not a barometer of success. If they were more clubs from Yorkshire would be in the EPL.

Newcastle's brand yields less income than a Chelsea, Spurs etc.

Mr Ashley is fabulously wealthy but not in football terms so cannot afford to lose as much money as others and cannot service (hide!) debt so creatively.

 

I didn't say that was a barometer for success, but in terms of gate receipts they must be making a hell of a lot of money.
Newcastle will never have the global image/brand like the Manchester teams, Liverpool, or most of the top London clubs, but poor they ain't.

 

Need a Geordie on here. Newcastle do make money but owe their owner large sums. Mr Ashley rightly or wrongly, wrongly in the view of many fans chooses to run the club at a profit. In EPL terms v the top six Newcastle are poor, because the top is so mammothly wealthy. The difference in income can be hundreds of millions. This may explain why they opt for lower cost French imports v English players.

 

Don't think they will get him for 2 million.

 

Give us five and we"ll bite your hand off - or will we?

 

For 50p and a packet of Love Hearts and they can have him

Joking...
In these days of inflated transfer fees, and given his age, he has to be worth £3m of anyones money.

 

I remember offering my first girl friend 5 bob and a packet of something and it worked, other than she didn't like the blue crisp - oh my goodness time moves on.

 

Heard his interview on the radio tonight and it sounds like he is on the move, judging by a few of his careful answers.
No way will he go for 2m would have thought 5m plus. Only other thing comes to mind is a cash plus player deal, probably a loan.

 

I didn't hear, what did he say?

I think even £5m wouldn't be accepted for Bryan. This summer, even more so than in previous transfer windows, the going rate for players has gone up dramatically, so whereas £5m might have seemed a decent fee for him perhaps even as recent as a year ago, now I think it'd need to be nearer £8m to even begin to interest us.

That he's an academy player, and everyone loves a local (except RR of course! ) probably makes us that much less willing to do business. I think Bryan's getting increasing attention and admiration from our rivals, but even so, our valuation of him is likely to be much higher than that of anyone else - bar perhaps a club throwing their weight around by splashing the cash, which at this moment in time doesn't include Newcastle. It might be hard for him to say no if this does come to pass though.

 

Funny how Newcastle are pleading poverty now they are back on the gravy train, yet last season they were paying crazy prices to outbid Championship rivals. They have the money and SL has shown he has the balls to play hard ball, if Newcastle want him they have to pony up or move on.

 

To be quite honest both Bryan and Reid have both struggled for consistency in their times with BCFC,as said glad they are showing improvements,but consistency is key.

 

I think at 23 and 24 respectively, they both have time on their side - certainly enough to not be moved on as you've suggested.

 

Nick at that age should be in their prime

 

HIGHLY debatable - every player will peak at different ages, but I'd say that most would agree that 28-31ish represents most players' peak.

It's one thing to have high standards, but I think you're far too critical and quite the revisionist - it's called 'hindsight bias', or the 'knew-it-all-along effect'. The whole time we're not Premier League and European Champions, you can say we'd have done better if the club did what you had said all along. You just keep looking at players who play in the same position at other clubs that are doing well and say that we ought to have signed them ourselves.

 

Physical peak is around 26, and many players peak performance which is a combination of variables is clearly past that.