Gutted to lose Clarke obviously but if we replace with Isidore, Simic, and Mendy that is fantastic business by the club and overall an upgrade to the squad.
for a player of Clarke’s ability its a low fee simple as that and no getting away from it if players come in quickly ie a replacement and x2 strikers - there will be no issues however the argument will be replacements for players rarely happen quickly for us (which the club has to take the blame)
Get these three forwards in and we can move onto my other concern: we’re unhealthily reliant on Cirkin and Hume. The drop off to whichever CB ends up galumphing about out there is ludicrous.
Can't help thinking if we'd kept him this could have been the season to go up. That's the rub, risk the debt (or unhappy player) to gamble on promotion. Glad I don't have to make these decisions. Think the ones singing new deals definitely have more upside though.
Judgement time now. If we sign the 3 then wow. If we sign 2 then decent. If we don’t get the right ones in now. Bedlam. Fee is low, but we don’t know terms. Maybe they pay the £15million in full and that opens up budget and all sorts, so we see. Wilson looks like his best work is from left so we see.
Some think that we should sign every player for £50m and every player we sell should be £100m minimum
This will move us into the next bracket of player. Simic for example is a player that 12months ago would've been unattainable in my opinion. I am positive that in the long run this will be seen as a good thing.
https://x.com/christoph_21/status/1826746407413579813?s=46&t=XIg9Hh834PQk5XsiYvDETw Getting that in early doors. Bellend.
If it’s a 25% sell on fee it could be a smart move because if he moves for 40-80 mil then we would get 10-20 mil extra at a later date. got to say it does seem low up front. Maybe it’s a clever way to gain us more money over time. 11.25 mil seems nowt in this market tho.
As one of the wànkers that came here from RTG five years ago I'd still like to see you stay you geet whinging fanny
Seeing a few people saying we’ve accepted the first bid. We don’t actually know that we have. We’ve just accepted the first bid to be public.