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McCormack desperate for Gray to stay...

Brentford’s Alan McCormack has said he is desperate for Andre Gray to stay at the club.

The striker is being tracked by West Ham United and Hull City with the Tigers already having three bids rejected. West Ham are currently deciding whether to sign Gray or QPR striker Charlie Austin.

But with Gray being a key player for the Bees, McCormack wants him to stay so him and the club can improve together.

Worried about Gray’s potential departure, McCormack told GetWestLondon: “He’s a talent and an unfinished talent. We’ve only cracked the surface with him.”

“The difference between last pre-season and this pre-season is unbelievable. He’s strong, quick and has an eye for a goal. I hope he doesn’t move any time soon.”

“Hull have a Premier League setup. Mo said the difference is unbelievable. He’s standing beside Tom Huddlestone and co. That’s the difference.

“We feel we can be better than Hull. If Andre goes there, he goes there. If he stays, we’re delighted.”

“I think, with the amount of years, he can make it at international. We’ve seen it with Dave Nugent, Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana. When we see Andre perform week in week out in the Premier League, he’ll get a taster.”

http://the92.com/championship/mccormack-desperate-for-gray-to-stay/
 
How did Norwich keep all their players when they went down bar Snoddy and Fer? Seems like they had none of this issue with release clauses.. did they just not cut wages, or did no one really come in for their players?

No relegation clauses by all accounts. Then again i dont think they had many if any on big wonga.

How about this new walking football?<laugh>

You have finally found something you can manage then eh ? ^^^^ this.
 
If I had any say in a release clause at a club for a player I would want to write in the release clause expires early in each transfer window. It's madness that a player can announce he's leaving in the last day of the window.

Agreed. Why dont City just put the players back onto there PL money who have these clauses (who we want to keep) and that way the buy outs are removed. Take the cost from the transfer kitty we have atm.
 
Not sure why everyone is losing their heads over these release clauses. The only two I can think that we've lost because of these release clauses are Chester - for 8m - and N'Doye, who we were resigned to losing anyway.

My belief is that for players like Hudd and Elmo, their release clauses will be very healthy, if Chester's is anything to go by.


Agreed. I wonder if Chester is already regretting jumping ship too soon ? As for the others other than UnAbel and Jelly do the others actually want to leave even if the buy outs are met ?

If they all stick together we can walk this league with the right additions and with the return of Snodgrass - Diame and Livermore at some point.
 
Maybe people are just disappointed he's not as good as we thought he was. It mean he's poor though. He's much better than we can afford to replace.


Nail on the ****ing head

He's underachieved and is grasping at the last straw labelled "best passer" but the fact is he's only still here because of his reputation and the concern that Bruce can't find a better replacement.
 
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Interesting...

McCormack desperate for Gray to stay...

Brentford’s Alan McCormack has said he is desperate for Andre Gray to stay at the club.

The striker is being tracked by West Ham United and Hull City with the Tigers already having three bids rejected. West Ham are currently deciding whether to sign Gray or QPR striker Charlie Austin.

But with Gray being a key player for the Bees, McCormack wants him to stay so him and the club can improve together.

Worried about Gray’s potential departure, McCormack told GetWestLondon: “He’s a talent and an unfinished talent. We’ve only cracked the surface with him.”

“The difference between last pre-season and this pre-season is unbelievable. He’s strong, quick and has an eye for a goal. I hope he doesn’t move any time soon.”

“Hull have a Premier League setup. Mo said the difference is unbelievable. He’s standing beside Tom Huddlestone and co. That’s the difference.

“We feel we can be better than Hull. If Andre goes there, he goes there. If he stays, we’re delighted.”

“I think, with the amount of years, he can make it at international. We’ve seen it with Dave Nugent, Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana. When we see Andre perform week in week out in the Premier League, he’ll get a taster.”

http://the92.com/championship/mccormack-desperate-for-gray-to-stay/


Not being biased and it's still early days but I feel we're far more likely to go up than Brentford this Season.
 
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He was carrying an injury and Livermore for most of last season.


Sorry, but that's just bollocks. He was ****e last season, he wasn't that goo the season before and he is average at best this season, so far. As for carrying Livermore, what a joke; I can remember the endless posts on here for Bruce to keep Livermore and drop Hudds - Livermore's bad rep came at season end (almost) with the drug revelation, before that it was generally accepted he was the only CMF earning his salt.
 
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