1.5 million bid for second striker.

Well according to a lot of sources we offered £5million for Hooper. If we get this bloke City will have paid £1.5million for two strikers suggesting another £3.5 million is still in the kitty for either a third striker (I hope) or maybe a midfielder / winger.

Out of interest has anyone been adding up how much SB has spent so far considering the figure of £15million was being discussed after we were promoted?

 

Craig you've failed to take into account there that we will have paid a seven figure loan fee to Sunderland for graham.

 

I don't think we'll have paid anywhere near £1million to loan Graham unless it's part of a final fee we have agreed to.

 

I think the loan fee will be around 1-1.5 million, established players aren't loaned out cheap specially when they cost 5 million 6 months ago, but as you say it's probably in part of a TBUB deal where the loan fee will be knocked off the final price if we decide to make it permanent.

 

I think the reason we don't have him on a permanent is because Sunderland wanted more than we were prepared to pay. If he was available for anywhere close to £2 million I'm sure he'd be a fully time hull city player already.

 

Loan fee will be in the region of £500k I'd have thought. The only issue I see with loaning from another Prem club is he can't play against his parent club in 2 games. Games which I think would be winnable.

 

and if we're in a relegation battle with them and he's on form, they may recall him to weaken us.

 

wonder if he lives in a chateau

 

Correct me if I am wrong but if we pay a fee for loaning a player I was under the impression there could not be a clawback of the player and Bruce certainly mentioned the option was there in January.

 

Hope it aint that hutch_tiger off city independant looooll

 

Saying that he was bob on with the charlie austin failed medical

 

I bet this European striker business is just a smoke screen and Bruce is currently scouring the South American market for the next hidden gem as we speak

 

Why not both, no doubt sometime in the season we'll have to change system.

 

Loans are almost always split into 2 seperate 6 month deals with the fee being paid half here and half there so I'm told by a lad I know who plays in league 2 now.

 

To be honest, PDC has made it clear he doesn't feature in his plans for Sunderland, so I'd have thought that if he does well enough, we'd probably just buy him anyway.