It clearly did!! £18 million plus the potential of a further £7 million was good business for Bowen.....That's an opinion based on what I saw and how I rated him in monetary terms. Please don't tell me that every one posting on here looked at Robertson,McGuire and Bowen on a weekly basis and saw them as guaranteed certainties to prosper in the P.L? If you can answer yes to that then switch jobs fast...
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I look at the cost of selling Bowen to West Ham as I look at the upcoming fixtures at Fleetwood & Rochdale
How good Jarrod actually becomes is yet to be seen but as goalscorer with pace to burn and a cracking left peg he won’t ever go hungry.
Well, £8m for a young, British player who had had two very good PL seasons sounds like daylight robbery. Can you think of a reason why that figure was acceptable?
It was nearly £2m to Burnley if the manager at time had of got his way, likewise Maguire to Boro for a similar amount.
Maybe Robertson saw his career on a somewhat higher plain than the Championship after his second relegation with the Club?
I can remember Robertson getting slated at City. Comments like ‘He cannot defend’ or ‘He gets caught out of position’ regularly cropped up. At some clubs it’s not about money..it’s about turning potential into the finishing article.
True, which is confusing because at the time there were so many better prospects in their academy we should have taken.
Brentford always have 2-3 players identified for every position. So should they sell a player they have potential signings already identified that fit into their style of play. I can’t remember any Brentford player in recent times going for an inconsiderable amount. They always seem to get a fair fee.
Even if we had sold Bowen and kept Grosicki. We’d probably have had enough to stay up. £800k? I’d have happily kept him and let him go for free at the end of the season. Fine margins and calculated risk. The owners got this wrong.
But ask yourself this...Did Grosicki want to stay? He was huffy at the best of times,not knocking his talent,but keeping a player against his will is pointless? My understanding was that Grosicki wanted away?
We didn’t get a fair fee. We can go round and round the houses here. Jarrod was proven over 3 seasons in a relatively poor team playing on the wing. Watkins has had one good season at Brentford and there’s no way there should be that kind of price disparity. Time will prove who is the better PL prospect as they are now both plying their trade in the PL. my money is on Bowen.
