Suspect all you like - he is worth far more than £5M in spite of what you say & the club described Leicester's initial bid of £6.5M as 'considerably less than their valuation'. So I'd say you would actually be some way off agreeing a fee.
To your club he might be worth more because of his importance but what has he done to warrant a massive price tag. Nothing is the answer. Scoring goals in the championship doesn't make you a 6-11M striker regardless of whether it's McCormack, Ulloa or Deeney Inflated markets may suggest otherwise but it's ludacurus what championship players are considered to be worth nowadays
I don't disagree with that. Obviously the vast majority of us are going to say we think he'll do very well in the premiership but I do think the kind of fee being looked at represents a very big risk. Good luck for the season by the way - very impressed with you lot last season and hope you stay up.
That's the way markets tend to work... 'Inflated' is merely your opinion. To those financing the Championship clubs, however, and hoping to achieve EPL status, the ultimate prize is a minimum of £100m. It would be more ludicrous to believe that a regular goalscorer and playmaker who could go a long way towards helping achieve that wouldn't be worth a fee of that magnitude - that's the way the game is nowadays.
We're set to make another bid and Deeney's price tag is 10M Probably be able to get him on the same terms we did for Leonardo Ulloa which was 8M up front and 2M in add ones I would run a million from Deeney at them prices. At least double what he is worth IMO
How can you say what his price is? We don't know, can only speculate and most of the reports seen from up there are copying things from the Watford newspaper. Sometimes people who are in "the know" are simply guessing, which I suspect you are.
The price tag probably is guess work but we're coming back in for him. I really don't want us to though. He isn't better then what we already have
Again, that's simply your opinion - one that, if your claim that you're 'coming back in for him' is true, is obviously at odds with those who control the purse strings at Leicester City. Not to mention one that's wrong.
A striker who scores goals regularly is worth a fortune. If - big "if" - you signed him and he scored 25 goals for you in the Premiership and kept you up you would be saying that a price of £10m was a "snip" Well nobody knows how he will fare in a higher league - the same can be said of you own players from last year. What we do know is that he is prolific at this level and if you have paid £8 to £10m for Ulloa and McCormack went for £10m then Deeney's record is better than theirs and age is in his favour. Thaat would suggest a "market" price of £10m at least. If the Pozzos needed money or if Deeney was trying to get a move then that would reduce his fee - but neither of those is the case. Logic then says he will cost you £10m at least. By the way, if you do get him I would reassure your fans he is not the thug some fear he may be. He made - and acknowledged and paid for - a stupid drunken action a couple of years ago in defending his brother. Since his release from prison he has been a model footballer of the type a family club like Watford value. I hope we keep him but if you do get him my guess is you will have done really well.
Sannino hasn't said yet who is taking over the club captaincy since Almunia's departure, so I assume he's waiting to see whether Deeney stays. Anyone else think it might tip the balance in our favour if he was to name Deeney as captain now?
And has now been announced as Captain for the season today. That does not mean he won't go - but it is looking less likely.
Just throwing it out there but we're talking about Deeney, Ulloa and McCormack at around £10m, BBC says Athletico Madrid just offered £13m for Torres ?? Perhaps if Deeney goes we could put in a cheeky offer ?
It does seem that 10mil is the price on his head. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...id-for-Watfords-Troy-Deeney-to-10million.html I have a feeling that any improved offer from Leicester will be accepted now.
We should buy a player off Chelsea anyway - that way the Daily Mail can hold us entirely responsible for the Ukrainian crisis because we did business with a Russian.
