People LOVE to jump on anything negative, Unconfirmed reports that the WMS lot all shot their loads at the same point and are scrambling for an emergency pod to tell us all how right they were
Can't think of another player at this level, making the impact he has (with good pedigree, which he has) going for 15 like. Seems odd. And I thought we were overpaid for Stewart, given the circumstances.
Maybe Jack didn't fancy living and working in London again which would restrict the amount of teams he could have signed for ?
We haven’t a ****ing clue if that’s the fee either. Wasn’t Ross reported as like £7-8 and folk spat their fannies out and it was a very palatable fee. Reliable as Romano is, absolute horseshit to suggest he nails everything and knows it all.
It was the highest fee any club wanted to pay ... ... and it looks like we may have players already lined up rather than now starting the process. The club probably knew since pre-season that Clarke would be away.
Rejected Lazio in January and Mark Douglas suggested that we have rejected bids from Southampton and Ipswich earlier this summer. Think people just like to make things up.
Was thinking, I bet it’s an all up front deal, not that I’m sure it’s £15m anyway. Pretty sure we were offered that before but I reckon there is a hefty sell on clause.
Jonathan Rowe - £14m rising to £17m Jaden Philogene - £16m Nathan Tella - £19m Clarke is just at the top of this bracket ability wise and the total fee with add-ons pretty much reflects that. Summerville is a higher calibre of player who had a far more successful time in the Premier League previously than Clarke has.
I haven’t seen the reaction elsewhere but I don’t think the club should be criticised for selling, we’ve held onto key players for a while now so it was due to happen for us to be able to start recruiting in a higher quality pool of players. I think the criticism will come from the reported fee, which when you look at other transfers for similar profile players £15m with potential to rise to £20m seems quite low coming off the season Clarke has had. Interested to see the next couple of weeks and who we bring in. Hopefully we add the quality across the squad to see us push the top 6
We could have got more imo - if not dont sell him similar to what leeds did with Gnonto If Simic - wilson and Mendy come in quickly then fair enough i think he was always going to be away but should have been a better price
Time to start the model yes we could’ve got more but wouldn’t have been able to spend. I’ll judge this fee once they’ve signed (or haven’t) players
Pingu has nailed it on twitter (sorry can’t paste). People are way too obsessed with transfer fees. Would rather we sold him now for £20m than deadline day for £25m
Leeds sold other players though, we've sold nobody. Praising Leeds for keeping Gnonto but selling others is like praising us for keeping Jobe while selling Clarke. Championship clubs have to sell.
Won’t do mate haha. Funny thing was about an hour ago I was going to post that I was weirdly relaxed about the window (start to the season has helped) and thought we were in a good place once the apparent imminent striker signings were coming in. This puts a bit more pressure on but still time to leave the squad strong
