In fairness, those rumours aren't coming from reputable sources. It's just random reaction to him being called up.
Interestingly, since falling form 3rd from bottom in Transfermarkt's PL squad value league, after the sale of Redders and loan of Jan, we've now shot up to a heady 13th. Due to Gavin, Romeo and Sekou values being dramatically hiked, along with the price Aribo, ABK, Che and Moussa steadily rising. Also comfortably the youngest squad in the league if you exclude Willy.
Were we really as low as third bottom? They did drastically undervalue pretty much all our new signings. And Redmond was bizarrely in at something like 16m which is odd to me because the site certainly seems to factor in time left on the contract How frequently do they even do updates? Is it at the end of transfer windows or more frequently ?
They had Jan and Nathan at combined value of £36m, losing that figure from our total automatically adjusted our squad's valuation below Forest two weeks ago. They seem to randomly miss out the contract length based valuation on some players. Player values are usually updated twice a year.
As it was John Fashanu's birthday yesterday I thought it might be opportune to watch this clip as he tried to get past Frannie Benali. Frannie gets a little stick for being all heart but little skill so watch how deftly he takes the ball from Fashanu's toes; Fashanu barely notices he's been dispossessed. Vin
Saturday 1 October SOU please log in to view this image 15:00 please log in to view this image EVE Referee: Andre Marriner. Assistants: Simon Long, Richard West. Fourth official: Sam Allison. VAR: Lee Mason. Assistant VAR: Marc Perry.
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